Yes, sir. In 2002 the program was just beginning to go under contract. In October 2001, the contract was awarded. The U.S. opened the door for any nations that wanted to participate in the development of the airplane. There was no commitment at that time to buy the airplane; it was just participate in the development.
Canada was the first to join in February of 2002 and Australia was the last to join in October of 2002. There were nine countries altogether. That set the framework for all the benefits of being a partner: participation in the joint program office, the recoupment fee, and the waiver of FMS. All those requirements I described earlier were set out in that MOU.
In 2006 the program was moving to the next phase. The first production lots were beginning to be executed and we needed to know, as a prime contractor, who was going to buy airplanes and on what timeline so we could plan the infrastructure for the industry to respond to that. All of our partner countries were involved in that, because the expansion of that capacity is very critical to the industrial benefits coming online.
So in 2006, a second MOU was signed. This one was multilateral; all nine nations signed the same MOU. At that point, all the nations became equal in that partnership, whereas before it was a series of bilateral agreements. That new MOU superseded or dissolved the first one. At that time, production profiles were provided to us, and we used those production profiles to plan the capacity expansion of industry, and that forms the backbone of our industrial plans with all the partners.