ms. bellhavbelva martin? >> members of the subcommittee, mr. chairman, thank you for the opportunity to appear are before to you discuss gao's work at arlington. our reviews found that arlington has taken significant actions to address its problems and that the path forward as you stated, chairman wilson, is for arlington to sustain progress through improved management and oversight. my colleague, mr. lepore, will discuss gao's work on management issues. on the contracting side, gao identified 56 active contracts over $100,000 that supported cemetery operations, construction and facility maintenance and new efforts to enhance i.t. systems for the automation of burial operations. arlington does not have its own contracting authority but relies on relationships with contracting offices to award and manage its contracts. these contracting authorities obligated roughlies $35.2 million in support of the 56 contracts that were included in our review. as the i.g. noted, the army has taken a number of positive steps since june 2010 at different levels