joining us from capital hill to talk about this and nor news of the day, rob whitman good to see you thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> let's start with that, we have a grab bag of things we want to talk about let's start with yesterday's caucuses and the primary and rick santorum's surprising win in all three, your thoughts about that. >> sure, i believe it shows that it is a very dynamic race nothing preorder terrapinned as far as outcome -- pre determined as far as outcome. i thick it is good ideas are being exchanged all candidates are getting a full vetting each of these states has a different vision about what they would like to see in the candidate that is selected i think this process is a good thing and obviously it shows how dynamic it is i believe it goes all the way to the convention at that time i believe the republican party will determine who the candidate will be. >> you actually thing it will get to the convention before we know who the nominee will be. >> i do i think with it being this dynamic i think it gets to the convention before we determine, a cand

we proceed now to chairman rob whitman of virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. martin, i want to begin with you. i find it interesting in the report you talk about, contract management and deficiencies there with arlington with contract management, specifically in the area of i.t. it appears as though that $5 million spent in i.t. contracts that appear to be wasteful and that haven't produced any results. on page 9 of the report you've said that the i.t. contract management system is not guided by a modernization blueprint and it's duplicative, and costly to maintain. from that b stastandpoint, why u believe that was occurring as well as what are the current efforts to overcome those deficiencies? where are they in this modernization effort to make th there is not duplication? >> thank you, mr. chairman, for the question. and it actually spans both of the reports. we -- the external reviews found that over 5 million that had been spent to try to modernize the i.t. systems really didn't get us very much. and there were a number of reasons, starting from some basi

representative susan davis, the ranking member of the military personnel committee, and chairman rob whitman of the oversight investigation subcommittee and mr. jim cooper, the ranking member of the oversight investigation subcommittee for any opening remarks they might wish to make. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the hearing today. general vangiel, i wanted to welcome you. inds you recently took over from general mccoy as the army inspector general. ms. martin and mr. lepore, i look forward to hearing the government accountability assessment of the army's efforts with respect to arlington and ms. condon, welcome back. we've got a chance to see each other quite a bit, and i really appreciate your efforts. arlington national cemetery as we all know is one of the most hallowed grounds of this nation and we must hold it to the highest standards of performance. members of the subcommittee of military personnel in conjunction with the oversight investigation subcommittee are interested in the actions taken by the army to improve its accountable of arlington national cemetery since our h