before Cheney had finished answering, another congressman jumped in with the next question. Wasn’t it clear that Japan would steal our technology? Didn’t the Japanese pose a threat to the supremacy of the American aeronautics industry? Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher answered that he too had been most concerned about that point so he had gone over everything more than once including the black boxing of the essential software. He assured his interlocutor that there was no need to worry. Other questions followed: 60 percent of the procurements were to be awarded to Japanese contractors and only 40 percent to Americans. If America supplied the technology, shouldn’t its share be 60 percent? The government’s reply was that the Japanese government was putting up all the money for the FSX. Under those circumstances, a 40-percent share for the United States was a “good deal.”
