>> senate xharm, that's correct. it is my position, and as the commander responsible for the arctic in my area of responsibility, it would be very helpful to have a seat at the table as we begin the lengthy and i'm sure long process of determining continental shelf and all of the attributes to the arctic that competing nations will be competing in. >> do you support the current missile defense agency plan to conduct two flight tests on the gmd system to verify a fix to the xo atmospheric kill vehicle that failed in the last flight test before resume production or refurbishment of the ekvs? >> chairman, yes, i do. >> do you believe or do you agree with general o'reilly of the missile defense agency that it's essential to have operational prukdz quality kill vehicle hardware on the intercept flight test planned to gain confidence that the system will work properly and reliably in the future? >> yes, i do. i support general o'reilly's test program. >> there's suggestions by some in congress we could deploy a ground base