I meet on several occasions during the year with my counterparts in EU countries in a NATO forum, in the national armaments directors forum, and with the partners of the joint strike fighter program. I participate in the CEO meeting for the joint strike fighter program every six months, and we have very frank conversations about exactly these issues.
It's difficult to make exact comparisons. The European Union is a very cohesive organization, and its defence procurement often has a strong economic dimension of developing the technology in the European Union. The United States spends over $600 billion annually on defence technology development. They are capable of spending and are prepared to spend the money to develop complete new platforms, littoral combat ships, and unarmed combat UAVs to fly off navy ships and so on. Their world is so massive that it is a different world. My European counterparts have a somewhat different focus, but the procurement procedures, such as competitively going to performance-based specifications, etc., are on a common path. There's a lot of exchange.