for, you know, partners that we don't -- non-traditional partners k we call them, the malianes, the chatians, the indonesians and i wonder how the budget will impact those relationships. not quite sure what innovative partnerships means and my third set of concerns hinging on this word, reversibility. now it used to be envogue to use transformation, rebalancing. what does reversibility mean? when you're talking about early retirement, how do you unretire something? if you're talking about slowing procurement, i can maybe see trying to reenergize a production line but from an industrial perspective, what does reversibility mean? is it possible, did defense officials walk the factory of floors and go okay if we slow procurement and you have to slow down your production line, how fast can we revitalize it, if we need to? this was something we saw obviously with up-arming our humvees not too long ago and having members of congress go out and walk factory floors. bob simmons, the current staff director of the house armed services committee takes great pride in talking about really focusing the ex

partners -- nontraditional partners, the mullions, the champions, the indonesians -- the mahlians, the chatiansindonesians. mean?oes reverse abilitability when you're talking about retirement, how you unretire something? from an industrial perspective, what does reversability mean? is it possible? if you have to slow down your production line, how fast can you raise it? we had congress go out and walk factory floors. really focusing the executive branch on what it means to use the industrial base. i know secretary panetta mentioned protecting -- we will not use the word protecting -- working with the industrial base, to have a strong one. i am not sure what that means. i am not sure what they have done to ensure that that happens. wk, you turn a global ha how do terminated? -- how you terminate it and bring it back? >> is always a little daunting to come at the end, particularly when such conference and professional colleagues preceded you. the think tank is having concerns. my role of the think tank is to talk when it is my turn to talk. i will do that. one of the things that we constantly loo