mr. mosher an opportunity to respond. one follow up question to that. both of you can answer.i'll reserve the rest of my questions for the second round. given what you know now, is it the intention of the state department to terminate this contract? what do you have to do, essentially, in order to get the state department to terminate a contract like this under these circumstances? >> mr. kennedy already pointed out we do want to look at the results of the investigation. we try not to take arbitrary action in any case and we do want to go through that. and i will say this to you, a public hearing is not really necessarily the place that we need to have a discussion about the future contract ual actions. members of the commissioners that met with me last week, we're actively discussing our alternatives in this situation. and it is not with a great deal of seriousness that we approach it. and, in fact, one of my contracts, the head contracting officer that has this contract met with armor group, mr. brinkly on friday night. and we are trying to engage with him constantly in our