“Continue to do that as we move into next year and get back to the levels that we enjoyed of debt before executing that transaction.”

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“ts that might be ahead, especially on the defense side? Neil Mitchill: Yes. Thanks. I appreciate the question there. As it relates to -- I'm sorry, the first question was on GTF engines. As it relates to that, when we started the year, I talked about growth that was similar to last year, didn't put an exact number on it. As I sit here today, I think we're going to end up in the high double -- high single-digit rather, growth rate. So think about 8% to 10% kind of range. So that -- you can do the math on the fourth quarter there. Broader -- thinking about capital return, we were really pleased with the level of debt paydown that we've made year-to-date. As you all know, we did some buyback a number of years ago. We took some debt out. We've been repaying that over the last couple of years. Continue to do that as we move into next year and get back to the levels that we enjoyed of debt before executing that transaction. I think as we step back, we're prioritizing the dividend as we always have and we expect that to continue to grow with earnings over the next couple of years. And then making sure that we're making the right investments in the business for the future, research and development, capital. We've got a healthy level of CapEx invested -- expected this year, $2.5 billion to $2.7 billion, similar amounts of company-funded R&D throughout the business this year and I expect that to continue as we look forward. Chris? Christopher Calio: Yes. No, just to emphasize something that Neil said there, which -- he's spot on. And that's -- as the need for investment in defense potentially continues to grow, those are things that historically, we've been able to do in addition to our capital deployment and al”