After discovering specific problems, he didn't immediately take action but rather introduced computer networks to The Department of Defense and announced that all financial work and internal affairs within the department needed to be handled by computers. This addition made it more difficult for the military to falsify records, and since both computerized and paper-based ledgers coexisted, any fraudulent activity required manipulation twice. In under a year, he managed to uncover the network of corruption in The Department of Defense and quietly compiled a list of names and evidence. Instead of taking credit, he handed everything over to President Ford, leaving it to the President to decide how to proceed.