The continued building of our virginia class at the rate of two a year at some point will child finally with the ohio replacement program. In my view, we need to continue building those two virginia class submarines every year. The New York Times story thats been mentioned to you in the course of this morning is only the latest evidence of the increased emphasize of our adversaries on undersea warfare capability, not just the russians but the chinese. I think in the course of that, article 1 of the comment from one of our military leaders was we are back to in a sense the cold war competition undersea. I would like to know your views and, general richardson, if you want to comment, youre welcome to, whether this program continuing our building of two virginia class submarines every year with the ohio replacement are important, in fact, vital to our national defense. Yes, senator. I defer the numbers et cetera to the services responsible for that. But i can say personally i think we hav