we will start with you mr. fioreand we'll go down the line that way any closing comments that you would like to make without comment from us? >> i appreciate the opportunity to be here. and i appreciate the oversight and the transparency you're giving to the suspension of the debarrment process by having these hearings. >> thank you. >> i apologize to the commission if my explanation for the delay in filing the reports was taken is an excuse. i'm trying to explain a few facts of life with respect to life in the government now. i have committed and i will get the combined fiscal year '09, fiscal year '10 report by the end of march. >> thank you, sir, very much. >> i'd like to thank the commission for their report and i would welcome a detailed discussion about each of your recommendations so we can be sure that we can implement them. it's clear that for past performance we all need to do better. and we need to all work together to enhance the systems. we've got a good start there. but i would like make a plea since th

mr. fiore, and then we will take questions. >> chairman shays, chairman thibault, distinguished numbers of the commission, thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony before you here today on this important issue of contractor accountability. i served as the drug of soldier and family legal services from the office of the judge advocate general of the department of army. since october 2008 i also serve as the department of the army suspension and debarment official. the army follows a suspension and debarment regulatory processes set forth in the federal acquisition regulation, subpart 9.4. pursuant to the regulation, an agency may suspend, debar are otherwise declared ineligible certain contractors in order to protect the interests of the government on behalf of the public. suspension and debarment are prospected remedies in which past misconduct for unsatisfactory performance provides the context and insight to the contractors present and future responsibility. contractors are suspende