We made that a priority. As soon as you walked in the door, the deputy and myself went to work from day one. And you immediately started seeing grants start flowing again. The biggest thing we had to do was raise that threshold from where my predecessor had at 100,000. We raised it significantly higher than that so we could empower those that we have in those positions to make those decisions. How about contracts with companies that work with DHS agencies? (01:40–01:45)
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