committee in march, a subcommittee and we talked at length about the requirements and general o'shaughnessy and he noted there's a fuel requirement up there and i'm going to take a hard look at the study coming out that we owe you and i commit to working with you on the issue. >> you owe us in my view not a maybe, not a blow-off like the last time the pentagon looked at this, you owe us a commitment and i'm expecting that. >> you have my commitment. >> by the way, general shaughnessy is another strong advocate. let me make another-- the department of defense has numerous, what are called regional centers. you're probably aware of these. centers for strategic studies, we have one in germany na studies nato and our national security interests there. we have one in hawaii, the daniel inaway regional center for the dod in hawaii that studies the asia pacific. we have the william perry center, that's hemispheric, latin american and south american and here in d.c. the near east center, and these are dod regional centers. there's not one for the artic. i think to show the pentagon's commitment the