Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm looking at paragraphs 4.52 and 4.53, about the director general of integrated technical services, who apparently reported, “Many of the catastrophic failures that have occurred over the past several years were avoidable.” He goes on to say, “while the recapitalization of any asset base is critical, the various failures have not been caused by age alone, but by the lack of even the most fundamental materiel management system.”
The next paragraph says that the coast guard is going to have this all fixed up by March 31, 2007, which of course begs the question, has it been done?