So how many facilities do you have, 33,000?

If the Department of Defense can't perform this task, there probably wouldn't be any Postal Service or Department of Energy or budget process.

I understand that the power purchase agreements allow the private sector to economically make use of military land to build solar-powered generators.

Many would argue that nothing should get in the way of this mission or make it harder for the Department to achieve it.

That is a good sign. Thank you.

We probably can learn from what other countries have done in that regard.

I have always been intrigued by how do we harness financial incentives in order to drive good public policy behavior.

There are those kinds of unanticipated consequences we just need to be mindful of.

I believe knowing the financial ramifications could be very helpful.

Well, that is great to hear.

I commend you very much, as I did the Postmaster General yesterday, for working as diligently as you are on so many fronts to rein in costs, control your expenses, and also to look for other ways to develop new sources of revenue, and I…

The good news is--and this goes back, again, to the test bed concept--where I think the Defense Department can really make a contribution is using its procurement power as an early technology adopter.

But there are some who are supportive of giving you that kind of flexibility.

Am I missing something? Do you think Federal agencies should adopt advanced metering as a technology with a relatively quick payback period?

By making greenhouse gas reductions, the integrating metric for performance, the Executive Order encourages whole systems thinking.

Well, we have a $300 billion tax gap, so this maybe will help.

Yesterday, I got to drive the Chevrolet Volt. I call it the most advertised car in the world that has never been built.

Given your business model and all those vehicles you have, is there any potential for not just saving money, but actually making some money through a vehicle-to-grid approach using your 200-and-some-thousand vehicles for that purpose?

We all know that it could also pose a security threat by the second and third generation nationals who have been radicalized.

You have excellent reputations, and nothing you have said or done here today serves to demean those reputations.

I believe that relying too closely or too narrowly on just one layer over another has the potential for opening the doors to future intelligence failures.

I am told that you have airport security officials who try to identify and prevent bad guys from getting on airplanes and causing trouble.

I want to certainly welcome Senator Brown. I am delighted you are with us and we are going to take one of those congressional delegations (CODELs) and go to Afghanistan and Pakistan next month.

We have to have a group with robust powers to be a counterbalance to the argument for security.

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