mr. thornburg, congratulcongratul ations on successful certification of the falcon nine. in march mrs.hotwell testified in this committee that you have dcaa auditors doing from manufacturing audits right now and your cost and her have been audited. was that testimony correct? and kenny brickley describe the frequency and extent of the dcaa audit for combat spacex undergoes and the number of dcaa personnel resident at the spacex facilities? >> to your first question was her testimony correct, i believe the answer to that is just a quick approach to the questions about dcaa audit and frequency in my position within engineering and working vehicle development, i'm not familiar with the frequency of the visits. i can tell you that we are working very closely with the air force and the beauty. i'm happy to go collect that information in return for the record. >> i would really appreciate if you could get that back to us for the record. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. now recognize the gentleman from colorado. >> thank you, mr. chairman for having this very important he

mr. jeff thornburg senior director of propulsion engineering at spacex.hank all of you for participating in this hearing and providing your perspective on national security. i know it takes time and energy to prepare for these things and it's a real inconvenience to come up here, but it really helps us a lot in developing public policy, so i really appreciate your service. this is our second hearing. we've recently conducted on space. we are dedicating the time to this topic because of it's significant -- significance to our national security. without an effective space launch program we lose all the advantages we gain from space capabilities. losing space for our war fighters is not an option. there are key policy and acquisition questions regarding the future of national security space that need to be addressed. as we've said before, i'm committed to ending our reliance on russian rocket engines. i believe we must end our reliance in a manner that protects our military's assured access to space and not trading one monopoly for another. the house bill ac