Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to try to take a different tack here in terms of the contract management and how we move forward, because pay will continually be changing and there will continually be small aspects of the system.... Maybe a new operating system will come on board. Maybe a completely new bargaining unit might come into existence. The more we can modularize, the more we can circumscribe each individual problem and deal with it specifically, the more robust the system can be and the better able the department will be to outsource and get competitive bids on smaller individual projects. It's something we talked about in our government operations and estimates committee as well—taking an agile approach to change management.
One of the things that might impede that is the existing contract. I was just wondering with the current contract in place with IBM and PeopleSoft for the software, who owns the customizations made to implement all the different specialized rules within the federal government's pay system? Does the federal government own that IP?