i must say that raytheon -- i don't think they have been able to develop this capacity for -- the israelis have actually installed it on their tanks and it has been operational in the theater. >> when you know as an investigative reporter that they are about to kick back on you on this stuff? >> you can't assume they are going to kick back on you. in fact, on this one, the army was furious. the army insisted on coming to new york and meeting with all our top wrasse. brass.top york and to new arrived at 30 rock wearing their combat fatigues. these are all people who worked at the pentagon. they are mostly pr side. they came and sat down with us and told us we were all wrong. besides, there is no document that shows that the army ever did such a thing. withdam was sitting there -- >> your producer. >> he had a folder of documents. he pulled out a document and handed it to the general. that was the document. >> how many people from the army came? >> i would say a half dozen. >> you had to fly to new york to had that meeting with them? >> oh, sure. they tried to undercut our story first. invit

and we are pointing out that lockheed beat out raytheon for this contract. >> how have astronauts dealte junk in the past? old system. a very the air force system was installed in 1961. a representative from lockheed martin said, we're going to know a lot more about what is in space, what kind of debris we are talking about with this new system. the current system candidate the -- can detect debris size of a basketball. the new radar will be able to detect it the size of a baseball. we are talking about old satellites, rocket boosters, even old school bags, a spatula, all of it from earlier collisions. perspective,ore they have about 20,000 pieces of that debris catalog. this new system is expected to bring that number up to 200,000. they will have a lot more data. and nasa says something as small as a speck of paint can actually cause damage because of the velocity we are talking about. this is an important investment. >> why is a spatula floating around in space? >> well, you know, any kind of collision that you are talking , you have a satellite that explodes, everything on board wil

reportedly fully loaded including missiles by raytheon. lockheed says the iraqi orders will keep the f-16 assembly line alive through 2017. now, iraq has also agreed to buy billions of dollars worth of apache helicopters from boeing, hellfire missiles also made by lockheed. the same time reuters report ee earlier this year that iraq agreed to buy ammunition from iran. this concerns u.s. officials. analysts point out american-supplied equipment in mosul has fallen into the hands of gjihadists. quote, policymakers will be questioning the effectiveness of providing baghdad with even more military hardware, though it does expect to see more u.s. missile equipped drone activity, not necessarily, though, new drone purchases. defense shares all down today. more than the broader market. as we then look at the year to date of the defense index versus the s&p, a ubs note out yesterday expects, quote, more downside than upside for defense. mandy and brian? >> okay, thank you very much for that, jane. >>> we have more breaking news. i believe this tim

certainly, we see raytheon working together. very proud to serve on the board of directors of the talus ratheon structure. and we are the prime contractor on the nato-x program and the xtmd program. and certainly part of programs to lead nato systems engineering and integration effort. so in stepping back, the alliance really has come a long way. some substantial capabilities exist. and more are in the process of being put in place in the field. we had an interesting moment in the alliance where we're refocusing on large security threats. and i'll be interested to hear what our panels have to say. let me just turn to introductions of them. of course, to my right is bob bell who is the civilian representative of the secretary of defense in europe. and defense adviser at the u.s. mission to nato. of course, mr. bell is well-known to many in the audience as an expert in this field. before assuming his current position, he was a senior vice president at science applications international corporation, or saic. prior to joining saic,