designed to, how to intervene in the industrial base and to support the industrial base whether it's dpa title 3 money or man tech money, but the problems that one faces in these are more near term than that. in other words, you're faced with how do i intervene? i've got a supplier that's going out of business. what do we need to do here? and where do you get the money? well, if it's a program, the program's going to deal, but if it cuts across a@ @ @ rbrbiarbrb it was very successful. some of that is, that consensus may be under threat at the current time. so this is a good time to ensure that those companies and those process and those barriers are maintained, and then obviously, there are a number of areas where there are still barriers to bringing in non-traditional contractors, which could help, help the base. and obviously looking at whatever incentives for future innovation again. with that, since jeff pretty much did all the rest of my topics, i will key it over for questions. >> all right. thank you, bill. let me give you an administrative announcement before we proceed into the

designed to, how to intervene in the industrial base and to support the industrial base whether it's dpare more near term than that. in other words, you're faced with how do i intervene? i've got a supplier that's going out of business. what do we need to do here? and where do you get the money? well, if it's a program, the program's going to deal, but if it cuts across a multitude of program, it's very difficult to get the resources to actually help to intervene there, and i think congress tried to set whaup was called the industrial innovation base intervention fund to do that, and the issue is whether that is the appropriate mechanism. something like that is probably needed. and then if you -- the department is going to continue to partner with the commercial industrial base. an industrial based policy needs to really look at the acquisition process and the acquisition system, and the incentives and disincentives to non-traditional commercial contractors, continuing to be in the industrial base. and this is a long history, acquisition reform of the mid-90s essentially tried to bring t