recently, the perry schlessinger commission released its strategic posture review report and in it made the connection between deterrents and nonproliferation activities and emphasized that america's deterrent role is important to preventing other countries from proliferating nuclear weapons. some of the east asia allies have indicated that they are concerned about the credibility of america's deterrent force. so i'd like for you to give us an update on the follow-on projects, that you have for the ohio class and its systems and, also, whether the navy intends to pursue a t-lam end replacement. >> as you know we are in the process of doing the nuclear posture review currently as parts of the quadrennial defense review. the discussions that are taking place are not only on the strategic weapons, but also, on t-lam-n as well, and with regard to the replacement for the ohio class, in the budget that we submitted, and that is on the hill, is the beginning research and development for that submarine, so, we have committed the funds to do that. there are some who would look and say, gosh, are