Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Peter Skibitski with Credit Suisse.
Peter Skibitski – Credit Suisse
Hi, guys nice quarter.
William L. Ballhaus
Hi, Pete.
Peter Skibitski – Credit Suisse
Bill, I was just wondering if you had an initial view on fiscal 2010 just directionally revenue wise up down or flat?
William L. Ballhaus
Yeah. I will take that, and first of all I think it's a little premature given the environment for us to give specific guidance relative to fiscal 2010, but I will give you a sense for what we are thinking about and what we will be looking at over the next few months, while we are solidifying our view for 2010. Really looking at three areas. The first is what I characterize as our core business, which Mike described has grown this year so far at about 12% to 13%.
And so we will be looking to see if we think that's sustainable going forward, we do see a number of opportunities in the near future, in the stabilization and development area on programs like WPPS, ONM opportunities in the Middle East, LOGCAP. And in platform support we have some upside opportunities and some risk on CFT and we’re seeing another platform support opportunities in the not too distant future here in the U.S. And then of course across both of those markets, we’re seeing the potential for increased demand for our services in Afghanistan and we hope over the next few months to start to get some more insight into the ramp up for trainers and advisors for police training. The ramp up for airlift operations and personnel support and things like that in Afghanistan. So, the first area that we will be looking at over the next couple of months is just that core business and evaluating whether or not that 12% to 13% is sustainable going forward.
The second area that we’re looking at is GLS, and we’re seeing a number of factors happening all at once on GLS and INSCOM. The first is we’re seeing operational demand flat now and I think that was reflected in our third quarter where our linguists count, our revenue was essentially flat quarter-over-quarter in Q3. Second, beyond the number of linguists being fixed, we are seeing an increase in the skill mix and what I mean by increase is the demand for the higher end U.S. linguists that tend to have a higher salary per linguist tied to them.
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