I am intrigued by other nations that are hacking into our system.

I think the bill is exactly right. It creates leadership. It moves to better metrics.

For that nation to be so anxious to be able to infiltrate our systems and, potentially, to undermine our systems.

Thank you. Mr. Paller, before you answer, let me just say, in our business, as Senator Collins and Senator Burris know, we are always reminded to be on message.

FISMA is not working very well now, and any steps along the lines of the legislation that can focus the effort to improve security on real threats rather than moving paper would be useful.

This has to be a team effort, so I think there are many agencies.

We are moving to a more competitive international environment.

There is a lot of money at stake here and they have the ability to do it without going into a bank and robbing the bank.

OK. I understand another person was recently appointed as the Federal Government's first ever Chief Technology Officer.

Some of these ideas can be seen in the new Recovery.gov website that was recently set up and will be tracking stimulus funds down to the local level.

He was Twittering while I was asking questions. He is pretty good.