After carefully evaluating Lockheed's proposals, we decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract.

We decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract and bring the various players - industry, the acquisition and user communities, the Navy and Air Force - back to the drawing board.

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

If we do not stay on track, we are dead meat.

We learned a great deal in the early stages of this contract during the system's design maturation phase and we intend to take this knowledge forward.

We pursued this class action on our 250,000 members' behalf and are pleased with the tentative settlement. We have a fiduciary duty to the active and retired Ontario teachers for whom we invest to press the companies we invest in to deliver shareholder value. As this suit illustrates, we are prepared to act when necessary.