Twenty years ago there were very few organizations that were actually in this space. Universities didn't have science outreach offices. Flash forward now and there are hundreds and hundreds of organizations. Only a few have a national perspective, but there are literally hundreds of organizations. Because of the lack of funding in the sector, it's very difficult. You would think it would drive consolidation or drive efficiencies. It's actually having the opposite effect of, “Oh, my God, I'm too busy trying to find my own money, I don't have time to be strategic in creating partnerships.”
Some of the opportunities that FedDev has, with some level of basic funding available for some of the bigger players, started to cause partnerships to form because we weren't so stressed. You could sit back and think a little bit more strategically about what communities we should be going into, because FIRST is maybe here but we'll go over there, and whatnot. Some of those synergies can actually be driven with an incentive model, and not a negative incentive model.