Regarding the joint support ships, the ships themselves are based on a mature German design, the Berlin-class ship. We have acquired that design and brought it into the yard where we have a combined workforce. I have some people in the yard, engineers and others, working with a significant workforce in the yard and beyond, who are now looking at the design. The thing about a design, if you will, is that the blueprints and the build design have to be produced to the yard that is actually building, because their processes will be slightly different and their flow will be slightly different. That work is under way.
We're about to let the next fairly significant design and production engineering contract, as we call it, of over $200 million. Not only will it bring the design to a production-ready state, but we'll actually acquire all of the material and long lead items, as we call them, such that when we sign the build contract, there's no delay.
We're probably about 12 to 14 months away from the actual build contract, with the idea that in 2019 we start cutting steel. The idea is that the steel, the slow-speed diesel engines, and the systems are all there ready to be assembled. There's a fairly aggressive schedule to deliver the ships. The first ships would be delivered within about 36 months. We continue to be on track to deliver as planned.