Thank you for appearing here today. I'm not normally a part of this committee, but I'm happy to be here and talk about some of these things.
I remember when drones first were talked about. I think that all of us were fascinated, but we live in a day and age where we're quickly bored with what we see. Although it is a marvel that they're able to do these things, much of the technology talked about has been around, at least in terms of today's technology, long enough that we're waiting for the next quantum leap.
Thinking about the technology that's involved here, the batteries and the different computers, what's on the horizon? The other day, I was reading about a new engine that's being developed—it's speculative at this point—a pulse jet engine or something. What's on the horizon for drones? What can we expect to see?
The second part of my question—in case this goes on a little longer than I expected—I remember in industry we were involved with MacDonald...I forget the name, the ones that did the satellites. Have we got companies, and I could refer to yourselves too, that have the capabilities to develop into something like that, where we would become world leaders and we would start to develop some of these new-generation technologies? Either one of you can take this.