Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I will just say a couple of things. When we worked with the Auditor General, or with his office, on this report, I think we all recognized that stepping back over 15 years, this truly was a unique program that allowed us, with nine other partners from the beginning of 1997, to spread the developmental risks, the technological risks, and the cost risks of development, where most of that was actually being absorbed by the United States.
Dan Ross has been intimately involved with the program and the MOUs and development costs since his tenure in that job. I'll turn to Dan for a minute just to talk about the unique nature and the benefits.