I want to thank you very much for taking the time to testify today and thank you for your service to our country as well.

What will ODNI do to make sure it has a robust acquisition workforce, including adequately trained and empowered employees?

I look forward to working with the Administration and my colleagues in the Senate to ensure that the IC's total workforce is properly balanced to further its important mission.

I believe that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has been especially active in this area of looking at contracts.

I think that your commitment will be tested in the months to come because there are those who, I think in a myopic way, focus on reducing the size of the Federal Government and what they really mean is reducing the size of the Federal…

If the contractors want to pay their executives millions of dollars, they are free to do that.

Despite these challenges, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) last published an IC Strategic Human Capital Plan in 2006.

I am concerned that 10 years later the IC remains too heavily dependent on contractors.

Our oversight is intended to help ODNI focus on finding an appropriate balance of contractors and Federal workers across the IC.

Would you elaborate on the line of concerns and corrective actions that should be implemented?

Mr. Haugland, the Inspector General's report finds that ODNI is not managing its acquisition personnel.