We need a 4.5. Call me back in five minutes. And eight minutes later, Pierrotin called back and said they'd do it for $1.5 billion. So we saved $200 million. And so When we negotiated our radar, the Congress gave us 1.8 billion... we got it down to 1.3 [billion dollars]. down select to two, and there we were at 1.3 billion. They came off. Everyone came off the 1.8. Everyone starts at 1.8 because that's how much Congress gave us. (17:40–17:53)
CLAIM
Asserts that the cost of a radar project was reduced from $1.8 billion to $1.3 billion.
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