; test, fail, test, fail. And I look at what I did when I was a younger officer in the space business, that’s how you go fast. [Carl] Von Braun in the early days the rocket business, he had a 60 percent failure rate; maybe the greatest rocket scientist of all time. Can you imagine if [the Missile Defense Agency] had a 60 percent failure rate, what the—what the newspapers would say? . (3) General Hyten characterized the current irregular testing environment in the United States as the wrong kind of testing environment due to risk-aversion and fear of failure. (4) Regular missile defense testing, including ground testing and non-intercept tests, not only improves the missile defense system, but also gives the members of the Armed Forces experience with and confidence in their tactics, techniques, and procedures. (5) Section 1690 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 ( Public Law 115–91 ) states that Director of the Missile Defense Agency should continue to focus testing campaigns on delivering increased capabilities to the Armed Forces as quickly as possible and … should seek to establish a more prudent balance between risk mitigation and the more rapid testing pace needed to quickly develop and deliver new capabilities to the Armed Forces. . (6) Regarding a needed shift to a less-risk adverse missile defense testing culture, Under Secretary of Defense John Rood stated, I think in some ways when we look at our allies like Israel and their test regimen, they’re much more willing to go back out to the test range, begin a flight test regimen, work through their issues, understanding there are going to be bumps in the road … I certainly second the approach [of a less-risk adverse testing culture]. . (b) Sense of the Senate It is the sense of the Senate that— (1) tests carried out by the Missile Defense Agency, which do not achieve an intercept or the main objective, should not be considered failures if they contribute to the advancement of the capability