Very, very minimally, and that's probably exaggerating it. You have to understand that in this program your degree of influence is predicated on your degree of money. We were a level-three player in this. The only level-one player in this was the United Kingdom. They joined for $200 million in this first phase, when we paid $10 million. They paid $2 billion in the second phase; we paid $150 million. They contributed about 8% in the second phase, while ours was .06%, so to think that we would have any degree of influence doesn't really make any sense.
The fact is that on December 20, 1995, the U.K. signed the only level-one partnership agreement with the United States. In so doing, this agreement allowed them to be full partners in the development of the requirements and in the system design. No other player in this program has had that opportunity, so to suggest that we were anything more than what we signed up for in the first phase--i.e., as an observer--is greatly exaggerating any influence or input.
The other point to remember, of course, is that at that time we hadn't even developed requirement statements for our jets. This was nowhere on our radar, so there was nothing to compare and contrast what was going into the U.S. platforms with what we in fact needed. We were in it for one basic reason, and that is, as I've said, to give an opportunity to our industry to participate. As you've heard, they have done a magnificent job and have done really extraordinarily well. For that, they deserve a lot of credit--and by the way, so does a small group of people. I think you've met Michael Slack. He and a very, very small group of people were very aggressive at keeping the primes really focused on making sure that our industry knew the opportunities. He and his small team did a magnificent job and I think they should be applauded for that.