If the President is asking you to intervene or downplay--you may not have felt pressure, but if he is even asking, to me that is a very relevant piece of information.

Well, I thought you also said at SASC, if brought before the investigative committee, you would, quote, 'certainly provide them with what I know and what I don't know.' We are before that investigative committee.

My only request is to consider slowing the multiyear down maybe 6 months in order to start construction on the first Flight III before we buy 10 ships.

I hope when you are designing, testing, and developing the manufacturing that modularization is part of the concept so that we do not have to build new platforms as technology changes.

We do not want to be bringing marines ashore in a vulnerable vehicle given development of offensive capability.

That is exciting and something that we focus on a little bit in the Readiness Subcommittee too, and we will continue to ask questions about that.

If I could ask just one more question, Mr. Chair. Did the open systems architecture create security challenges of, you know, easier to hack?

It allows interoperability among a number of different platforms.

We have training ranges that we use heavily, Navy and Marines, in Virginia and North Carolina.

I am very much in favor of multiyear contracts for all the reasons you have stated: taxpayer savings, better for the industrial base.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

There is a lot of smoke. We have no smoking gun at this point, but there's a lot of smoke.

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