[voiceover] the Us Ambassador to libya and three Embassy Staffers have been killed in an attack on the us consulate in the libyan city of benghazi. [kathleen] ive seen firsthand the sacrifice of Foreign Service families. My father was a consular officer and my mother worked right alongside him. Its done because people love the concept of serving their country and they love the idea of taking american ideals abroad, taking our values and trying to promote them in various places and also in doing so, helping to protect the interests of our country at home. [kathleen] from Benjamin Franklin, americas first diplomat, to todays professional Foreign Service, these are the foot soldiers on the front lines of americas Foreign Policy. These are americas diplomats. [voiceover] great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association, in association with thomson reuters. Funding for great decisions is provided by the nelson b. Delavan foundation, pricewaterhouse coopers, llp, and the Una Cha
Today which is the heart of what we all talk about, Public Diplomacy. And you can go back a century to the beginning of the u. S. Governments First Official formal messaging, world war i, john brown did a program about that last year. After world war ii and during the cold war we had education on cultural exchanges very much on the floor and today one of president obamas signature efforts, the Young African Leaders Initiative is bringing hundreds of African Leaders to washington to meet with the president and others today and tomorrow. And then there is the social and digital revolution and media. And that is something which continues to unfold. We have an announcement most recently, i believe thursday is the latest iteration of the innovation in u. S. Messaging this time to attempts to head off recruiting by isis and other terrorists groups appealing to emotion. You may have seen that in the friday the New York Times and other papers. This is a quickly changing field and we have someb
From the Houston Institute in washington starting at 12 15 p. M. Eastern. Recently our campaign 2016 made a visit to pennsylvania during the primary stop in a growth city college, slippery rock, university, washington Washington College and Jefferson College where students, professors and local officials officials learned about our resources covering the campaign trail. Visitors were able to share their thoughts about the upcoming election. Are best ended the week in warrington, pennsylvania where this it a middle school. A special thanks to our cable partners, comcast and armstrong cable for their help and coordinating the community visits. You can view that when he documentaries at cam. Org. Coming up next on cspan 2, a conversation on smart homes, homes that have lighting, heating and appliances controlled remotely by phone or computer. We will hear about the benefits of smart home since privacy and Security Risk from the Atlantic Council in washington. This is about 90 minutes. [in
The continued building of our virginia class at the rate of two a year at some point will child finally with the ohio replacement program. In my view, we need to continue building those two virginia class submarines every year. The New York Times story thats been mentioned to you in the course of this morning is only the latest evidence of the increased emphasize of our adversaries on undersea warfare capability, not just the russians but the chinese. I think in the course of that, article 1 of the comment from one of our military leaders was we are back to in a sense the cold war competition undersea. I would like to know your views and, general richardson, if you want to comment, youre welcome to, whether this program continuing our building of two virginia class submarines every year with the ohio replacement are important, in fact, vital to our national defense. Yes, senator. I defer the numbers et cetera to the services responsible for that. But i can say personally i think we hav
Derivative. So we spend 668,000 but it is as close as we have but then we have a modified Design Excellence with moderate at a cost of 900,000 but the two under construction now at one point a Million Dollars per desk . That is 191 million to build something that 154 million. How you explain that . By the way 154 million if you do that mathis 88 desks how do we afford to do that a round of worldwide is in a massive job of the expense can they go to personnel guard forces . Why so much expense . I acknowledge your concern and it is my obligation as a Career State Department employee meet employee that we are serving concerns but over time the Security Standards in Building Quality has increased if we adapt to circumstances and it is very hard to look for the building is located what we try to accomplish and put on a desk by desk basis. What other metric would you use . It takes a more accounting approach to look at the imports. That is costing tens of millions of dollars more and is tak