After carefully evaluating Lockheed's proposals, we decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract. |
If we do not stay on track, we are dead meat. |
We decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract and bring the various players - industry, the acquisition and user communities, the Navy and Air Force - back to the drawing board. |
We learned a great deal in the early stages of this contract during the system's design maturation phase and we intend to take this knowledge forward. |
We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing. |