"What I hope we are going to hear today is how DNDO's mission can be better defined."
"Customs and Border Patrol officers working at our Nation's ports of entry have an extremely complex and difficult job."
"But we need to know more about their R&D activities, their resource requests, and their asset allocations."
"It has been said before, the enormous devastation that would result if terrorists use a nuclear weapon or nuclear materials successfully, requires us to do all we can to prevent them from entering or ..."
"Today's hearing will allow the subcommittee to hear from witnesses about the Federal Protective Service's progress in improving its ability to provide adequate protection to the Federal Government's m..."
"We need a more clear explanation of the implementation and utility of the modern infrastructure survey tool, or MIST, and how it compares, hopefully surpasses, the failed risk assessment and managemen..."
"It seems to me that as the landlord for most Federal buildings, the General Services Administration benefits from these security assessments."
"I look forward to the release of that report and hope that we are able to revisit this subject at that time."
"The protection of Federal facilities may be significantly hampered if FPS's law enforcement security officers do not receive training on the Modified Infrastructure Survey Tool (MIST)."
"The subcommittee must be assured that after investing approximately $35 million RAMP without yielding any demonstrable outcomes FPS is indeed expending its resources effectively and scaling up MIST."
"I find this whole topic quite fascinating."