National Defence committee  Sir, we are active in numerous countries.

National Defence committee  I would name a couple here, then there are many others we are also in competition for, but they would prefer to remain anonymous at this point in time. Some of the public competitions are certainly the Indian competition for the MMRCA. That Super Hornet is the Boeing offering in

National Defence committee  I would respectfully go to you on that, but if you're looking at traditional coalition forces, the answer to that would probably be no, sir.

National Defence committee  Sir, each country has their own unique requirements and/or capability needs. Each country would make those decisions on their own. We've had numerous discussions with several of those countries, and those continue on an informal basis. What I think is important for this committ

National Defence committee  Sir, if I understand your question, there's a little bit of a misnomer there. The Super Hornet has never been in competition with the F-35 program. It was not evaluated as part of the initial joint strike fighter down-select program. That was a competition between the Boeing Comp

National Defence committee  Sir, in that discussion, I would go to the Royal Australian Air Force on what their specific requirements may or may not be.

National Defence committee  However, I would also submit to you, sir, that to my knowledge there has never been a competition in Australia between a Super Hornet and an F-35. You would have to speak with them on the specifics of their analysis that led them to their projected force structure. What I can o

National Defence committee  If you look at the program of record there, yes, sir.

National Defence committee  What the navy has provided you from an overall pricing and availability.... Sir, what I would ask there is I can go back and look in detail at everything that was provided there, to see if in fact there was any proprietary information. As you can assume, pricing data is typically

National Defence committee  Sir, I would request that you speak to the Royal Australian Air Force on the specifics of that question. In our discussions with them, they loved the Super Hornet. It's important to note that every one of the Super Hornets we have delivered to date has been ahead of schedule, a h

National Defence committee  Sir, I do not know offhand if that is public information. Again, I will make the response and make sure that what has been provided openly in the press is certainly available for the record. If there is any specific additional request for additional pricing and availability, or t

National Defence committee  Certainly any detailed discussion on performance would have security restrictions on a discussion like this today, to your question, sir. But what is important, I think, as opposed to drawing in this forum a very specific comparison, is I am highly confident in this weapon system

National Defence committee  I would say I think we're ideally suited to meet the requirements of the next-generation fighter.

National Defence committee  I'm confident in that, and it would not be appropriate for--

National Defence committee  Sir, I would refer that question. It would probably be better answered by the U.S. Navy and the United States government. But the information they were provided with was sufficient for them to make a determination to procure the Super Hornet.