The NRC is not a granting agency; that's not our role. We do take very seriously our role in using our expertise and our facilities to be able to provide excellent training opportunities for students.
Back in 2017, there was a new post-doctoral fellowship program introduced within the NRC itself. Since that time, we've ramped up to funding about.... Well, in 2021-22, it was 31 post-doctoral fellows, so we went from zero to 31.
What we've seen is that it's very good for the fellows, and it's equally good for the NRC. It brings new ideas and brings a cross-pollination of ideas from the universities into the federal laboratories. It also provides us with opportunities to be able to also create other linkages back to those academic institutions to try to find, as Dr. Vats was mentioning, opportunities to create synergies between our network of 9,000 small and medium-sized businesses, academics and federal researchers. This will help them to all work together to get to that next level of taking technology out of the lab and into the business world.