All right. Better late than never, the meeting will come to order. Sorry. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. I will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you whd past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i know you will a
Now to a hearing on diversity and inclusion in the Intelligence Community. Witnesses included three officials from military and civilian Intelligence Agency who talked about recruitment efforts to include more women and people of color into the workforce. The committee will come to order. Before we begin i want to remind you we are in open session and as such we will discuss unclassified matters only without objection, the chair may declare a recess at anytime. I welcome our members and witnesses to todays hearing. Im grateful you joined us today to discuss the mission imperative in the Intelligence Community, significant improvement of Diversity Inclusion at all levels entrylevel to Senior Leadership and within all disciplines. There has been some improvement in recent years the demographic profile of the workforce still does not mirror of the Wider Population is lighting and attracting the best and brightest from all walks of life. Only taking advantage of the diverse and correct inn
Hosted this event. The committee will come to order. Before we get our termite all members we are in an open session and as such will discuss unclassified matters only. Without objection, the chair may declare in recess at any time. I welcome our members and witnesses to todays hearing. Im grateful you have joined us today to discuss admission imperative in the Intelligence Community, significant improvement of diversity and inclusion at all levels, from entrylevel to Senior Leadership and within all disciplines. While there has been some improvement in recent years, the demographic profile of the ic workforce still does not mirror that of the Wider Population and is lagging in attracting the best and the brightest from all walks of life. Fully taking advantage of the diverse intellect, innovation, and experiences here at home better prepares the ic, and our nation, to address tomorrows most pressing challenges and analyze an increasingly complicated and integrated world. In holding th
Order. ,etter late than never sorry, everybody. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The hearing is titled fostering the next generation of leaders setting members up for success. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Take the case, i will not five minutes, because we are doing Something Different today. This committee sometimes likes to shake things up. Today, we are looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our community. We figured the best way to showcase the next generation of leaders were to feature this committees freshmen members actively participating in the work of this committee. We have all benefited from their unique perspectives as freshmen members, and representative timmons always gets here early, and his enduring patience has not gone unnoticed. Today, i yield to representative scanlon and representative timmons today. We like to finish up any opening rema
Not a signed Lease Agreement. But it is something that you guys are working on it and it is doable and very intend to pursue it. I dont think we will have any time of any kind of Lease Agreement any time soon, but we do have the specs, which was a wish list for what they want. Within priced it out, we have a study, and the next section will be engagement with a catchment designer and going over the next level of detail. I dont know in terms of timing. We are planning on pursuing that next step. Again, i think that in between what you described, there is a spectrum of possibilities. They have been around and been doing this for a long time. They have done tenant improvements and build outs and other places. They do know both what is doable and what their funding is and what they can take on. Commissioner richards . I guess, i looked on the last couple pages of the revised motion. A talked about what was actually going to be given because of the state density bonus, but it does not quote