I do think the lack of infrastructure and the lack of infrastructure spending and proactive spending did slow departments down, and it made it more difficult for them to modernize. However, we did need to dig ourselves a bit out of the hole we were in in terms of an infrastructure deficit and to rebuild lots of pieces. There was significant progress made, particularly around networking, which is what the government cybersecurity relies on. The investments tended to go towards networking, cybersecurity, and the pieces that provided that kind of perimeter around the government to protect it, as the cyber-threat changed drastically from 2010 to today.
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