mr. kendall. i said, how long have you been in your job? what kind of turnover do you get? he said my predecessor left 15 months before i got here. i don't know how good we are at connecting the dots but when you have one of the top two people in the department of defense responsible for riding herd on the defense industry, all of these contracts, when you have a vacancy for 18 months in one administration, the next administration, a vacancy for 15 months. that is no good. that is an invitation for disaster. when we see the major weapon system cost overruns go from $42 billion in 2000 to over $400 billion in 2010, i would suggest because this confirmation proficiency the vetting process and the biggest problem of all is the administration -- the administration -- it takes for every to identify people to go in these positions, to vet these positions and actually give us a name. there are no silver bullets in solving this problem. we need a lot of silver bb's. the legislation provides a lost very helpful tools to expedite the process. this administration and even the next adm