Today to discuss employee morale at the department of Homeland Security. Concerns about morale transcend party, nearly eight years ago my republican colleagues on this Committee Held a hearing on the same subject. Today, the subject of the hearing coincided with a recently released best places to work in the government rankings released by the partnership for public service. Unfortunately, the results indicate a strong need for improvement. This, year as has been the case since 2012, the dhs ranked last out of all large federal agencies. They also rank last out of the seven National Security agencies. I am particularly concerned by the fact that after a few years of minor improvements and government raul, in 2019, employee morale at the dhs decreased again. Given the Critical Mission of the department, i fear the consequences should the department not take urgent. And drastic action to improve employee morale, well have greater challenge to face. I also worry about this environment aff
Im recommending we will lever the last few minutes of the state of the state speech from idaho and remind you you can watch it online. Well take you now to capitol hill for a look at a recent report on low morale and Employee Satisfaction at the department of Homeland Security. Youre watching live coverage of this subcommittee hearing on cspan 3. Unfortunately, the results indicate a strong need for improvement. This here, as has been the case since 2012, dhs ranked last out of all large federal agencies. It also ranked last out of the 7 agencies. Im concerned by the fact after a few years of minor improvements in overall morale, in 2019 employee morale decreased again. Given the Critical Mission of the department, i fear the consequences should the department not take urgent and drastic action to improve employee morale, well have greater challenge to face. I also worry about this environment affects the well being of the more than 200,000 hard working dhs employees from Border Patrol
That already technology is a major part of our lives. Its a utility we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future and that we are deficient in our use of energy and it enables our society to be far more productive than our 20th century Industrial Age so we are looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected and what are smart cities caucus does is it looks at four different areas of how communities are connected. One is connectivity and the other principal being sustainability and the other being mobility and then the workforce. How all of those components Work Together to make sure that in the 21st century our Civil Society is given the opportunity to reach its full potential utilizing the technological advantages that we have had in this age. Your first to it as a utility and do you see it as a utility like plumbing or electricity and streets . Guest it is something we use but its more an infrastructure. I think for ma
Well bring our next panelists here. Thank you again for keeping your conversations a little bit more quiet on the outside by the booths so we can listen to our panelists. So this next panel is very interesting called new models of public, private cyber collaboration. The moderator is mr. Will ash. He is a senior director of Security Sales used Public Sector global Security Sales for cisco. Joining him on the panel is Major General ed wilson, United States air force retired, secretary of defense, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy in the office of the undersecretary of defense. Also joining us is claire caroma from the Defense Digital Service. Also Lieutenant General stephen fogarty, commanding general, United States army Cyber Command. Also ms. Tonya ugoretz, a Deputy Assistant director cyber readiness, outreach and Intelligence Branch for the fbi. And last, miss Jennifer Walsmith, sector Vice President and general manager cyber and Intelligence Solutions division, Northro
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