Donald Norcross actually said...

"Yet, here we are getting ready to curtail 36 Super Hornets because we are expecting, you know, the F/A-XX to come online."

"If you go back to the Cold War, we were generating most of the technology that found its way to the battlefield."

"We wanted to make sure we had no reduction in our ability to bring on fifth generation into the Air Force."

"But what was the mechanism that didn't work to stop this further back before they went all the way through the submission phase?"