I was wondering, what role does intelligence service have in coordinating with the Air Force operations?
And also, another question I have is we were reading about the future space plane. Is it a dream or is it nearing a reality? GEN. JUMPER: Right. With regard to the use of the Predator, it’s not appropriate for me to talk about the many ways we’re using the Predator, so I can’t go into any detail there. But it is extensively used over there and it’s been very, very functional and profitable for us to take advantage of the full capability of the Predator UAV. As far as the space plane goes, there are several programs ongoing to explore the use of space for future types of delivery systems and methods. Certainly one of those is to explore — and we’ve had a program ongoing — actually, the National Aeronautics & Space Administration has had a program going for years to explore a space plane that can go up in orbit and then come down and perform missions. This is a strictly research project and it’s an extension of many of our old test programs from the past. But, yes, we’re very active an
