In confronting this, diplomacy is enormously important, which means that the State Department is enormously important there.

We are barely on the playing field at this point.

We all thank Joe Courtney for that, by the way.

What acquisition reform doing to help us avoid, and we all have our favorite examples, but if we could go back to 1997, we would not build the F-35 the way we are currently building it.

I really encourage members to take an active interest in prototyping.

For all the acquisition reform, I mean, that is really what we have to do.

I think that is absolutely crucial, and the only way I can see us avoiding that because the reason we get into this trap is because of the briefings that come our way to say, okay, you are building this thing, but my gosh, the Russians are…

I think going at the F-35 would be a good way to do it.

I agree substantially with your remarks.

I am interested in how we can replicate that a little bit better in West Africa.

There is great promise, as it is a rapidly growing population and a rapidly growing economy.