what can this committee do to support efforts to improve the quality of STEM education being provided to military children?

If we want to influence the workforce 15 to 20 years from now, we really need to have that outreach in our K through 12 programs.

I'd like you to address that and then tell me what you can see as a possibility, how we, everybody in this room, can work together to have a focus on our military children in school.

I want to really look at how we can use STEM activities in education for our military children.

One of the things about this hearing that is exceptional is the fact that before us we have three highly qualified and distinguished women leading large and important technical organizations on behalf of the Nation.

I worry that we're not doing enough to foster diversity within the overall DOD STEM workforce.

I think we need to do more in making our workforce as diverse as possible, as representative of America as possible.

Given our diversity and technical hiring challenges, this is disturbing.

I think we owe it to the children, we owe it to their parents, to provide the best STEM opportunities possible.

It seems like as we reduce basic research, though, we're really hurting ourselves in the long-term.

I want on this subcommittee to do everything we can to support DARPA's efforts at investing in those high-risk, high payoffs.