 In October 2008 the US Navy publicly pre-solicited two more contracts with EMC2 the preferred supplier.These two tasks were to develop better instrumentation and to develop an ion injection gun.In December 2008, following many months of review by the expert review panel of the submission of the final WB-7 results, Nebel commented that "There's nothing in [the research] that suggests this will not work", but "That's a very different statement from saying that it will work."