here to tell us what to expect that america's biggest defense show is roger thompson.w the vice president of membership and the man responsible for pulling this giant act together. sir, you are expecting 35,000 people to be at the show this year. what are going to be the hottest topics? >> on the floor, the hottest topics are going to be the newest systems that will support an army or an army in a different kind of war than it's been in for quite some time. you will see some emphasis -- more emphasis on precision weapons. you will see a very big thing. there are a number of actions that are sort of pending and i think you're going to see some emphasis by the companies on those. >> combat vehicles? >> combat vehicles is a very prominent one. the armed reconnaissance helicopter, there's a new term for it. >> they call it arh. >> so do i. that's another one. there will be a lot of interest on that. a lot of network entry stuff. a lot of stuff has to do with command and control and communications in tactical operation center. > in terms of the conference. we talked a lot a

roger parkinson, i have two questions that are related. with the purchase or merger of thompson-reuters, is there something significantly different as a company than just an amalgamation of the parts and elimination of some staff? what is your strategy for competing successfully against bloomberg? do you have any competitive advantage against them? >> i will start with the second one. customers want choice, whether it is in financial or legal markets, what we do in health care or science. no customer wants to be reliant upon the sole source. innovation for the whole marketplace benefits from having tough competition. there is no question in my mind that the market division at thompson-reuters is a better company and competitor today than it would have otherwise been without the admirable in entry by bloomberg -- inj bloomberg. we should be thankful to have a strong competitor. i do not think british airways would be anywhere as the carrier today as they are now thanks to virgin. i have always found it miraculous that on asian routes, the american airlines can manage to do decent