You're supposed to be concerned about management and policy. But also the workforce itself. We face our next real challenge there. Up to 50 percent of the IT workforce in the federal government is eligible to retire in the next three to five years. And the prospect of having to replace that number of employees is a daunting one.
Pay is certainly an issue.
We're working closely with the Office of Personnel Management and the National Academy of Public Administration on a study in this arena. And we're trying to follow up on what works in terms of recruitment and retention of IT professionals. I think a whole lot of job openings in the federal government and certainly in the private sector companies that do a good bit of work with the federal government. Because obviously one solution, although it's not the only solution, is a greater amount of partnering and contracting out with those private sector firms. And of course you need even brighter people to manage and oversee those contractors to ensure that both they.