No, not pure research. We have to support them with our overhead and our markup.
There are exceptions; some firms have successfully developed patents because there was a particularly unique project. Most of the innovation takes place in the context of working for private clients, though, who are prepared to make that investment because they have the luxury of being able to say that they can defer seeing any return on the investment for four or five years. In the reality of government, that's a much trickier proposition.