If we do not stay on track, we are dead meat.

The economy is strong but not too strong. The right thing for the Fed to do is stay on track and raise rates 25 basis points. Any deviation from the measured pace is a mistake.

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

After carefully evaluating Lockheed's proposals, we decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract.

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 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.