Be i talked about the revolutionary war. He waited a few minutes and said, did we win it . I realized i had a lot of work to do with this kid. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum and the roosevelt reading festival for 2016. I want to welcome those joining us now for what should be a wonderful lecture. This is exactly the sort of program that franklin expel nor roosevelt wanted to have happen here. They wanted this to be a center for the discussion of the roosevelt every rah and for people era and for people to visit this particular location because to understand Franklin Roosevelt, you really have to come here to hyde park. It influenced him in so many ways. The roosevelt reading festivals been going on for many years, and it really is an opportunity for us to bring in authors from all over the country and create an opportunity for people to hear these stories and for the researchers who have come here and spent time ma
Join the discussion. On thursday, voters in the United Kingdom will decide if their country should stay or leave the european union. British Prime Minister David Cameron and Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn want the uk to to remain a member of the e. U. But some members of the party are part of the breck it is push, advocating for the uk to split from the european union. Watch the simulcast on cspan 2 and cspan. Org. Smithsonian institution secretary david skorten briefed legislators on plans to renovate the national air and space museum. He explained that at least half of the museum will remain open while the work is in progress. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour. I now all call to order the committee on House Administration for todays hearing on the Smithsonian Institutions National air and space museum revitalization. A quorum is present so we may proceed. I welcome our two witnesses, the secretary of the smithsonian and the undersecretary for finance and
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn want the uk to to remain a member of the e. U. But some members of the party are part of the breck it is push, advocating for the uk to split from the european union. Watch the simulcast on cspan 2 and cspan. Org. Smithsonian institution secretary david skorten briefed legislators on plans to renovate the national air and space museum. He explained that at least half of the museum will remain open while the work is in progress. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour. I now all call to order the committee on House Administration for todays hearing on the Smithsonian Institutions National air and space museum revitalization. A quorum is present so we may proceed. I welcome our two witnesses, the secretary of the smithsonian and the undersecretary for finance and administration and chief Financial Officer for smithsonian, albert or vath. This is the first appearance of secretary skorton. He has
But i know its still hard sometimes and frustrating. Lets go back to the earlier question i asked. What do you find to be some of the biggest hurdles for your success . And are there policies that either your governments could be pursuing or the United States in conjunction with your governments could be pursuing that would really make this process if not easy, then at least a little smoother . And are there questions or concerns that you have in terms of how more established businesses like facebook, how they might be able to interact with startups like yours . So why dont we well go in reverse order this time. I think theres been many challenges along the way and in our case, we tried to disrupt many preconceptions. In the beginning, people were like, how are you going to train them, how will you get a young woman who went to a Public High School who isnt very good, to become competitive in the labor market. I think weve overcome those and weve proved that you can learn in months ins
We are integrated in with the private sector well. Were going to continue to grow that, whether its through the Defense Innovation unit, experimental out in Silicon Valley, that secretary carter stood up. How we lerchlveraged the skills that the National Guard and sources bring and we leverage those skills as integrating those folks into the Cyber Mission force or continue to work with the private sector in response to Cyber Attacks through exercises such as cyber guard. So, we already are working with the private sector pretty well, i think. Were going to get better at that. And were leveraging the skills of the National Guard and reserve folks as part of the Cyber Mission force. But you dont see anything in the works like what israel did, for instance, where there would be an actual consolidation into one location . That is a much smaller country, obviously. Right. I would say that i dont see that. No, sir. I think we have good coordination and collaboration through the department of