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>> a quick question of iraq. the levels of violence in iraq in june have risen quite sharply. neither of i don't believe have been back to iraq since the withdrawal last year. and there was discussion of foll follow-on mission. what happened to that? is there a progress of a follow-on mission? will you plan to visit iraq any time this year? >> there's discussions with the iraqis with regards to the threat coming from aqi. we have seen increase violence as you have pointed out. we share the concern of the iraqis with regards to that increased violence. and i think we're going to conti...

plan to achieve that? are the roles and the decision making authority and the governance and oversight clear? in other words, are these clear between the two agencies? >> yes. in fact, i think that one -- since the separation between the defense and the civilian side for weather satellites, if you look at the overall performance that we, noaa and nasa, have been able to achieve first and foremost with maintaining that we would launch on time in the october 2011 time period, we maintain that schedule. when you look across the schedules associated with the jpss-one we are currently on ...