one of them, northrup grumman said i'm not going to bid on it for sure. how will this play out? >> there will be acquisition strategy that involves competition. this is not an administration that will accede to either competitors' attempts to corner the buyer. as necessary they may have to redot acquisition strategy, but they will do it that gets competition on this program because they recognize the value at stake is going to require competition. >> there is a broader question here. given the issue of major competitions now, the fact that the pentagon acquisition process is not nearly as good as it should be, can a major acquisition happen without a tremendous amount of delay and in the end protest. the stakes are so high and the, jooshgs the skillset question for you, do they have the capability to be able to run something so big and complex in a way -- >> it keeps getting worse and worse. people complain there was too much subjectivity last time. so now they're being so objective that the solicitation is so absurd. 773 mandatory requirements. that is absurd. and then on top o

the d-block, they would be motorola, at&t wireless, the harris corporation, verizon wireless and northrup grum mono. there are retchtives from each of these companies here today and we thank them for their support. ladies and gentlemen, a little other eight years ago we experienced 9/11. one of the biggest lessons we learned that day was that we as first responders did not have the ability to communicate with each other. . to remove the d-block broadband spectrum and reallocate it to public safety. in the aftermath of 9/11, it became obvious to all public safety officials that we needed a better way to share information between federal, state, local and tribal authorities. it's not just voice communication but the ability of local agencies to share information up the chain and the federal government to be able to share the information and have that cross issue going on. the 9/11 commission recommended that congress enact legislation to increase the assignment of additional radio spectrum for public safety purposes as well. however, we are profoundly disappointed that congress and the admi