Let me just add from the perspective of a department that the Auditor General said has a number of specific data practices on contract management are in the positive ledger.
I would say that program data—and I agree entirely with what Mr. Ferguson just said—has been developed in departments over many years, typically for each program. The kind of culture we've had in the past has neglected to build in the retrospective data analysis that would then allow program managers and auditors to seek what they seek, which is assurance.
It's the assurance, then—how did you know that the right things were happening?—that has been missing in our program data. Program data systems have been designed to run programs effectively but not to do that last piece, of providing auditors and program managers with assurance.
That's one of the things we've done with our new contract data tool, which asks the kinds of questions needed for monitoring on a comprehensive basis. We now have it implemented as of September—last month—to provide assurance. It is, though, an enormous task to go back over all of the program data systems, retool them, and add that last piece.