"What is DOD doing to assist in this effort?"
"I understand that the military Services are having trouble recruiting, retaining, testing, and evaluating personnel..."
"Our Nation's commitment to science and technology (S&T) is spurred on not only by a sense of urgency to remain technologically dominant in areas of high priority to national security, but also through..."
"Secretary Lemnios, what measures are being used to assess the effectiveness of your efforts?"
"With the current budget cuts that the President has proposed to DOD, how do you see it affecting our competitive advantage in S&T?"
"Secretary Lemnios, how does DOD intend to overcome those challenges?"
"I understand that the Services are proposing to change their original acquisition workforce goals."
"We need to create incentives for these people (after appropriate security checks) to want to remain in the United States."
"Firms (small and large) would be interested in doing national security work if they were rewarded with sales and profits."
"Mr. Odeen, a report recently published by your group, the Defense Business Board, recommended that DOD open a dialogue with defense industry companies to improve understanding between what DOD wants, ..."
"If these loan guarantees don't come through, it means the loss of thousands of jobs in Ohio."
"Thank you for helping us on the energy efficiency bill."
"A lot of it comes out of the work that Senator Bingaman and Senator Murkowski have done over the years."
"It seems to me that we need to know more."
"I know I personally wish I could meet every single one of them and apologize for what happened over the course of these years."
"So none of these were Dayton----"
"I believe that the VA is acting more as an obstacle than they are of help to resolve this."
"Instead of embracing this relationship and working together to solve an obvious problem, the VA has very lethargically and reluctantly responded to our request."
