Thanks very much, Mr. Chairperson.
I want to welcome each of you to committee, too, and as you can see by the questions from the opposition members on the committee, I think we all have some unease about the appearance of a sole-source contract, and I think all the questions are heading that way.
I have some specific questions about the C-17 and how this process has gone. I'm wondering when the change in lift size happened and exactly why, because for quite some time it was 43,000 pounds, and then suddenly it seemed to increase to more than double that.
I'm also curious about how high up in the chain was the involvement of the SOR, the statement of operational requirements, for the C-17. I wonder if you could answer that.
And my final question in that vein is this. Who initiated and who approved the national security exemption on this contract?
There might be a variety of people who can answer this question.