Those in the room chuckled.
“How"d it do?” Jackson asked.
“Perfect, sir,” Janet said, thinking, I must have misread my watch, or set it wrong.
Jackson lifted an orange folder from the table. “Excellent work, Thompson.” Her report on the lab testing, submitted just yesterday. “How soon to complete field-testing?”
“Three months max, sir,” Janet said, having suspected he might ask.
“Make it two. Coordinate with operations. Evan, get R&D whatever they need. Since this will require a large scale redeployment of resources, get me an estimate of how many doorports will go idle within the year. Include projections of where these idle ports might be redeployed—and think vertical, for godsakes! I hate those blasted elevators!” Jackson pounded the table. “Report on my desk in the morning, Evan!”
