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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysahli0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:15 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Richard J. Durbin (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Durbin, Reed, Shelby, and Murkowski. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY STATEMENT OF VICE ADMIRAL JAMES D. SYRING, DIRECTOR, UNITED STATES NAVY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD J. DURBIN Senator DURBIN. The subcommittee meets this morning to re- ceive testimony in the fiscal 2015 budget request for the Missile Defense Agency. I'm pleased to welcome the Director of the Missile Defense Agen- cy (MDA), Vice Admiral James Syring. Thank you for appearing be- fore the committee today. For fiscal year 2015, the President's budget requests $7.5 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, and you're planning on receiving $30.1 billion from fiscal year 2016 through 2019. As we all know, the Department's budget plan for fiscal years 2016 through 2019 exceeds the spending caps put in place by the Budget Control Act by over $115 billion. I hope to hear from you today on how you would meet sequestration levels in future years and what this would mean for MDA's ability to perform its mission of keeping America safe. We've discussed in the past the threats the United States faces around the world in the area of missile proliferation and programs in Iran and North Korea, to name a few. As we attempt to address these problems with a prudent combination of political, economic and military tools, we rely heavily on MDA's capabilities for re- gional and homeland defense. Given the threats we face, it's important to get missile defense right. This budget request includes a number of proposals to miti- gate problems with our fielded systems; most notably the Ground- Based Interceptor (GBI). These are design, engineering and reli-