Randy Belote Quotations

Northrop Grumman remains fully committed to proceeding forward as we believe our offer is clearly superior and does not create a monopoly, and therefore has a greater probability of gaining regulatory approval.

Northrop Grumman is pleased to see the process moving forward and we welcome the opportunity to respond to the upcoming request for information and subsequent request for proposal.

We are obviously interested in any program that's put forward in this area.

This is going to be an American airplane built for the U.S. Air Force.

We welcome the decision as it represents an excellent step forward in making this program a reality.

Clearly Northrop Grumman has capabilities in that arena. That's a business area that we're very interested in.

We continue our discussions with Avondale. We want to reach a final agreement on that.

It has a great location that has a long history of educating the youth of Anne Arundel County. It has an opportunity to continue that long tradition and provide a real valuable service to the community through programs that will help educate and give a good strong direction for area youth.

This opportunity will directly and indirectly create thousands of new American jobs for decades, and billions in economic development across the United States.

We're not against the formation of this launch monopoly. But we are concerned that there may be some unintended consequences formed by this monopoly that may impede our ability to compete on a level playing field.