. >> what about recompeting contracts more frequently? >> well, i think the department's position writ large is we prefer shorter length periods of contract. but in all instances, it depends. what's the scenario i'm in? what's the frequency with which we want to turn over contracts? the express example i gave is as we were pulling out of iraq and we were looking at recompeting some task orders, the commander came in and said, i can focus on getting us out of iraq or i can focus on transitioning contractors, i'd much prefer focusing on getting us out of iraq, can you please leave the contractors in place? so we did that. >> wouldn't that be a waiver situation? isn't that envisioned with the waiver? i would think that would be custom-tailored for a waiver situation when you would endocument that there was an either/or here and moving people out was more important than recompeting at that particular juncture. >> so -- i think we've basically said, for all our contracts, particularly in those where the technology moves quickly, we don't want

. >> what about the three competing compaq's -- the recompeting contracts? >> it depends on what is the scenario. what is the frequency with which we want to turn over contracts. express example i gave was as we were pulling out of iraq and we were looking at to -- at recompeting some task orders, -- i would prefer to focus inside iraq. could you leave the contractors in place so we did that? >> would that not be a waiver situation? i would think that would be custom tailored for a waiver situation when you would document there was an either-or here and moving people out with -- was more important than recompeting at that juncture? >> we basically said for all our contracts, particularly where the the technology moves quickly, we do not want contracts that exceed three years. if we are in sole source contracts, we would like to find ways to get to competition. if i am in a scenario where i can i get the competition, i will have a lot of waivers. if i am in a situation, it will be sold source for an extended time, you would see a lot of waivers to do that. th