a new market here may be opening up for lockheed martin in india.he government there may allow a direct investment into their india defense sector. it may try to reserve the right to control production. it could lead to better technological expertise in india. stock futures are a little bit higher. all three indexes fell from their 18 month high. there are some warnings about european debt again. specifically in portugal. we have to worry about their debt problems as well. ben bernanke will testify at a house hearing on have the defense plans to roll back its stimulus efforts from the economy and the treasury getting ready to unload its stake in citigroup. it will be a step closer to exiting the top program. americans will not buy a toyota. about 40%, after those massive toyota recalls. reporting for wbal-tv. >> thanks. the u.s. postal service is one step closer to ending saturday mail delivery. it is asking for an opinion on the matter. the plan would limit mail delivery to weekdays only for homes and businesses. congress must approve however of th

lockheed martin is clement support costs for the f-35 will be lower than those than the f- 16.an you set the record straight and what you expected operating costs to be in comparison to current fighters? >> i cannot as i sit here right now. you are pointing to the sustainment costs. it is the same kind of discrepancy of was mentioning earlier. there has been an assessment of the total ownership cost of the f-35. tourists and office estimate and these are for the out years. it seems in the distant future. we do not will determine how much we pay them and we owe it to the taxpayer to control those costs. we're having the same independent cost estimate now of the sustainment face as we have done and are doing for the production phase. so i cannot give you an answer now. i hope to give it a credible answer in the future. that is a lot of money out there to maintain a fleet. we owe it to you to control those costs. question do you want to add to that? >> we will be part of the review. we will have an estimate as soon as we finish of that. >> thank you. over the past several years, t

that is the reason why the secretary decided to withhold money for the lockheed martin contract. the second thing i will say before getting to the early production is that while is a constructive result of this jet process that we got 30 months down to 13 months, i just want to emphasize that these are still a estimates and reality gets a vote here. however good we are, and they are very good at estimating, reality gets a vote. the next two years will be critical. there will be a lot of activity. we have delivery of test at -- test aircrafts. completion an analysis of hundreds of test flights just this year. if we go on to 2011, that is when we will go on to have the first stovall training and sea trials aboard an actual ship. also, the completion of land base catapults. catapult and arrested landing testing. release of the block two software, which is a critical, software-related milestone. both 2010 and 2011 are event filled years. reality gets a vote. the current program plan, the current plan estimate as result -- as revised stands up and delivers production in 2012, 2013, an

we have enjoyed the participation of other people in lockheed martin and from other think tanks and regional experts, and nuclear arms control experts. we have tried to have a real conversation among different interest groups, different points of view on this question. we hope you feel this diversity. tom donnelly has had a number of think tank jobs and a good friend of mine and an impressive scholar who has done a lot to drive the defense debate. he is a real asset to this venture. keith payne has had a fresh and smarts thinking that i've learned from over the years. he has been part of the defense department and part of mr. rumsfeld's task force in the 1990's, a task force that has been vindicated that six weeks after it said would have to worry about long-range missile threats, it happened. and then steve pifer, a senior fellow. he is a fellow ambassador to ukraine and worked on nuclear issues and u.s.-russia issues for most of his career and has been writing on the topic including a brookings paper that i will promote here resetting relations. with that, we will hear from each of our pan

and i've got on my immediate right, norm augustine, the former chairman and ceo of lockheed martin. to my left, carla hills. she was hud secretary if memory serves and when i covered her, u.s. trade representative. and then to her left is fred birkson the president of the peterson institution ol international economics and former assistant secretary of the treasury and the carter administration. so david, if you would start. >> sure. thank you, carl. first, as president and ceo i want to say we were very pleased to be the primary sponsor of the strengthening america's. it was for a call of greatness issued in january of 2008. it's important that you understand that this is a non-partisan effort. we have republicans, democrats and independents. and in fact, a conscious decision was made to have a republican, democrat and independent co-chair. because we wanted to come up with non-partisan solution that is hopefully could achieve broad based, bipartisan support and i was pleased to serve. leon pi net that was going to be a co-chair but he was called to the cia and roy step in ably to

colleagues for cosponsoring this conference with us and also again to give special thanks to lockheed martin corporation for its generous support of our conference activity. yesterday after an important keynote address by mike, assistant secretary defense for special operations and a low intensity conflict we discussed and debated somewhat spiritedly how we should learn a from the past from the past conflicts and what we should or could have learned from counter insurgency and the imam. more than half a century ago marshall of the royal air force john schweitzer learned that if there's one attitude more dangerous than to assume a future war would be just like the last one its to imagine that there will be utterly different that we can afford to ignore the lessons of the last one to read today we have three expert panels whose members will explore specifically how the lessons of the vietnam have been transferred, ignored or adapted to contemporary conflict in iraq and afghanistan. lessons learned, lessons lost. let's see. our first panel of counter insurgency is chaired by dr. patrick of the