David Bennett: Well, requirements is always a problem because any time you provide joint solution enterprise solution everybody has their unique set of requirements. Requirements are probably more important than next person said the requirements. So requirements is always an issue that we have to work through collectively. The other pieces, most of the capabilities we are focusing on providing right now such as the mobility programme, unified capability that we are starting to work on now, as well as, enterprise email and our portal services. Most of those are leveraging commercial technologies and a lot of those capabilities probably were not designed for 4 and a half million users as one collective offering. So the scalability of enterprise email was something we had to put a lot of focus on and worked quite heavily with Microsoft on at the very outset to make sure that that capability could scale to the level that we needed and be performed at those levels so the individual at the desk top at the installation had the same performance as somebody sitting at the Pentagon. The other piece that I am focused on since I provide all the data centers, as a part of data consolidation for the agency is that consolidation of applications and capabilities into the data centers. When you look across DOD and look at the number of applications that need to be moving to the court data centers that is a huge undertaking in terms of just sure volume alone.
JIm Flyzik: Sure.
David Bennett: So figuring out how to bring all of those capabilities in between now and FO18 against the current plan is going to take everybody providing a significant push to make that happen. And we have a lot of momentum moving in that direction today. And then tied with that is that the systems that are out there today are not all optimized and structured to really be enterprise level capabilities and so as we consolidate these capabilities within the court data centers a lot of focus needs to be put on optimizing and improving the technical approach so that we could virtualize those capabilities and move them into the infrastructure on those standardized platforms that we are talking about a mill cloud.
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