>> My name is Brad Fisher and I work for Deloitte Consulting in Arlington, Virginia.
At Deloitte, I work with I guess the federal government and we provide services
around enterprise transformation.
So what we do is try and optimize ways
to identify how they can best spend limited taxpayer resources.
My client is within the Department of Defense and as we sort of scale
down our operations overseas, one of the core questions I have is how can they continue--
or how can they do more and you know, continue that same service level that they're able
to provide or were able to provide with significantly less resources.
So we try and optimize and identify opportunities
to do that for our federal clients.
Our engagements typically last between three and six months, sometimes longer but typically sort
of in that duration and we're tasked with identifying sort of go in and meet
with our clients and understand some of the business problems that they're faced with
and some of the opportunities that maybe we can use and sort of leverage our experience
to identify sort of opportunities to either reduce the overall sort of cost picture,
all right, let's take a look into the procurement process, identify ways to sort of,
you know, reduce the resources consumed or potentially the price of resources
that we received through, you know, contract or negotiations and other areas of improvement.