We've been working on total-asset visibility and reducing response times for several years. We've made a big improvement since operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. We have well over 90 percent total-asset visibility in Navy systems, and we're improving our visibility of repair items that are in transit. Particularly in a coalition environment, however, it's difficult because there are many different logistics systems, and some of them don't work well together. I don't think we're at the stage yet where total-asset visibility is possible in a joint operation.
Funding is always a problem.
The service's systems, however, are unique systems. So, where you have independent systems, you're going to have problems. Until 2005, we're expected to achieve hundreds of millions in savings through our budget from outsourcing, re-engineering and contractor efficiencies. So far, we've done 13 Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 studies out of a total of 36 we want to do. FMSO is the central design agency for our organic systems, which include logistics, transportation, finance, accounting and inventory math modeling.