Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen. (Operator Instructions). And your first question comes from the line of Peter Arment of Broadpoint. You may proceed.
Peter Arment - Broadpoint AmTech
Yeah, good morning Bill and Dave, congrats on another nice quarter.
Unidentified Company Representative
Thank you.
Peter Arment - Broadpoint AmTech
Will, could you -- it's always nice to get your perspective on the -- sort of, not so much the timing but I guess the overall flavor on the international contracts that you may be seeing out there and I know you, last quarter you gave a very good update on UAE, Saudi Arabia and some of the players out there. And maybe you could just give us where you think things stand at this point heading into 2010?
William Swanson
Yeah, let's all back track to what we said last quarter. I don't think I've seen any changes internationally, quarter-over-quarter. I think for us we see some things getting closer to the goal line now. As I mentioned in my remarks I still believe our pipeline is really strong, we are off to a good start as you heard what the percentage is, I was talking about, we expect bookings to be in the 25 to 30% range this year.
In fact it could be higher if things happen at the end of the year. The timing was right, but if not it would be right in the first quarter there. We still see opportunities in various countries, I'll run through those here in a second. And, we also see classified opportunities starting to pop-up in other countries. If I run through some of the big ones, so we are wrapping up final negotiations and everything on UAE.
Saudi Arabia, we are going through the process with them so maybe sometime early next year. Taiwan has put in a down payment for their systems into the U.S. systems. So probably late fourth quarter, early fourth quarter maybe for them.
Followed by Israel, who'll end up buying and then a little bit longer term after that would be Turkey, Kuwait and Qatar. So we feel good about all the activity and we've got people deployed in countries making sure that we answer all our customers' questions.
And of course, surface launching MRM has started with the first booking there in Finland and we expect other countries to follow there. Australia, we expect an announcement sometime late this year on another system for them. And then we've got a cost fight effort that we're hoping to bring in here in the fourth quarter. So a lot going on internationally and we feel pretty good about our efforts there, as you can see from the pipeline.
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