Biofuels and Security

At a congressional briefing today on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's aeronautics research and development, InsideDefense.com caught up with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver after her speech and asked about NASA's commitment to biofuels and how they apply to national security.

"We are looking right now at biofuels with a couple different centers, and one of them is the Navy, specifically," Garver said. "There is a lot of commonality . . . We have, as a federal agency, committed to reducing our fuel consumption and costs and so we have to invest in alternatives."

Garver spent 20 minutes speaking about the importance of aeronautics research and development to continued U.S. innovation and competitiveness. She said NASA aeronautics R&D is "the very fuel of our economy."