Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
And a lot or provision restricting access to information applies to the inspectors general of less than a lot expressly so states that in such unrestricted access extends to all records available to the agency regardless of location. I will handle this question to ms. Bryan. You have been handling accountability but in that time we have the importance of watch dog sitter truly independent wedding is the practical result Going Forward if we dont fix it legislatively . Thank you but as you may recall a project on procurement originally founded by fitzgerald to get to the point of a the biggest concern for whistleblowers are the people who are reporting to a the igs steadily have legitimate concerns as they do but this will amplify that problem but it will also amplifies the protection of those whistleblowers moving forward so we see this unnecessary in some sense but it is it is wrong just withdraw rather than congress having to change of lot. Though lot but the agencies can take advanta
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Well, you know, i think it is if trust is kind of the Gold Standard of what it takes to be a real leader in the military, then i think responsibility and its kissing cousin, accountability, are probably right there as well. And, you know, weve had a few missteps here recently that were trying to overcome missteps that i attribute to 10 years of frenetic activity. We forgot about how we balance character and confidence. And i think we forgot a little about how we balance character and competence. We began to value competence. By the way, you cant have either or, actually. You know, you dont want a leader in a combat zone whos really a man of great character but cant fight his way out of a paper bag, but nor do you want, you know, the ultimate warrior god who isnt a man of character. So these are ceos of enterprises, of businesses. The military leads people into harms way. But putting that distinction aside, are the attributes of a good leader roughly the same, or different between the m