. >> so expressly with timini and in my opening oral statement, the legislation at the nda gave us in 2012 that grants us an overseas environment for access to subcontractor records where they refuse to provide records, that legislation should open the door for us to be able to go and demand those records and get them. task force 2010, which is really the group that's trying to follow the money and get there, they really wanted that legislation and we very meche appreciate the senate's help in providing that to us. i'm hopeful we will not face tamimi again, that that legislation's now given us the authority to go get it. >> what about recompeting contracts more frequently? >> well, i think the department's position writ large is we prefer shorter length periods of contract. but in all instances, it depends. what's the scenario i'm in? what's the frequency with which we want to turn over contracts? the express example i gave is as we were pulling out of iraq and we were looking at recompeting some task orders, the commander came in and said, i can focus on getting us out of iraq or i c