“Well, the operating assumption is that those contracts are executed this year.”

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“U.S. and other places in Mid East. And we'll see as the munitions demand ramps up. That could be a combination of both direct commercial sales and foreign military sales. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Gautam Khanna with TD Cowen. Gautam Khanna: I wanted to follow up on Rich's question actually with respect to Marine. And I know you guys are in talks for 5 Columbia class and the next Virginia-class block. I wanted to get your expectations around timing and the form of that contract. Do you think you'll get all of them ordered at once? Or is it going to be incremental? -- maybe when? And if the contract terms might actually be a little more favorable with the government taking on a little more risk than they were willing to in the prior administration. Phebe Novakovic: Well, the operating assumption is that those contracts are executed this year. We're certainly not going to get into any particulars of those contracts. They'll be very large, highly complex contracts. And once we sign them, we can and will be a little bit as we have been in the past, transparent about what the incentives and obligations are in those contracts. But we've had and we'll continue to have and see even more working -- close working relationship between the government and us as we try to solve mutual problems, how do we get shipbuilding throughput increased and while maintaining the quality. So we remain optimistic that together as partners will drive a lot of that change and move these deliveries to the left. Kimberly Kuryea: And Eric, I think we have time for just one more question. Operator: Your final question comes from the line of Scott Mikus with M”