Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Steve Levenson - Stifel Nicolaus.
Steve Levenson - Stifel Nicolaus
I know you’ve got some pretty aggressive plans for next year on R&D with all the other thermal vision systems sort of clustered in the area around Nashua. Do you think you’ll be able to hire everybody you need? Do you need cleared personal or is this something where they don’t have to security clearances and how is it going so far?
Scott Conner
We actually have done quite well on hiring lately. As is often the case, when your business is growing, the word spreads and we’ve actually recently had an easier time getting people then we had might have had a few years ago. So in fact we had quite a bit of success hiring highly qualified guys in the recent past and no, security requirements are not an important aspect of some of these hires, most of these hires.
Steve Levenson - Stifel Nicolaus
Is the sales growth in part related to or where does it most come from? Is it that the market is growing generally or are you taking share from your competitors or you see it as a combination?
Scott Conner
It’s hard for me to know the answer to that. Certainly the market itself is growing for sure and that’s broad based, but not just in the U.S, but it’s actually occurring worldwide. I do think that we are likely feeling market share, but it’s hard for me to really get a sense of that because I’m not inside their business and I can’t break it out in a way that would give you a clear answer to that question.
Steve Levenson - Stifel Nicolaus
Okay. There are few programs that are sort of up in the air now like reconnaissance helicopter, I guess there maybe a switch there and I know there is a contract out there for driver Vision Enhancers that’s likely to have more suppliers than the initial contract. Can you tell us what sort of out there? What’s on your wish-list for new stuff that you could be participating in?
Scott Conner
Right, so to some extend I want to be little vague, but I’ll only talk about those two that you asked about specifically. So DVE, we are on some of teams; we hope to participate to some degree. It depends on who wins that, who gets what share of that, but again we did not bid as a camera vendor, but we could be involved as a lens supplier. So, again it depends on who the win is on and I really don’t want to mention at this point who those vendors are.
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