Strong partnership between labor and management that has driven performance significantly where they are producing the work they are doing on our submarine attack fleet on schedule, under budget. A takeaway from the hearing some of the best practices being put in place that we need a better mechanism to share those among the shipyards to ensure that we can learn from each other to make sure that that Strong Partnership is there for excellent performance between labor and management and i know that the naval Systems Command in Partnership Forum is an important start in that effort but there can be more done based on the hearing we had yesterday. I wanted to ask about your commitment to make sure we institutionalize best practices among our work forces and relationships between labor and management among all the four shipyards. Admiral richardson they are a Magnificent Team in portsmouth and our public yards are strategic tools. Even in my current job as director of naval reactors, very
There is no more fair place on the planet than in the military. We embrace every race, every ethnic group, every religion. We are literally generalists and becoming even more so. It is genuinely a place where an irish immigrant can become the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Thats all ive got for you. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey youre welcome. Before we came here this week, we were all asked to decide on a defining moment that changes into we are to do and who we will eventually become. And i would like to know if you have a defining moment or moments that kind of major the man u are today. Gen. Dempsey well, thats a profound question, young lady. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey a good question actually. You know, a defining moment is tough to pin down, but i will fill you this. For about the first on when i we talked about this often. I went to west point because my mother wanted me to go. I had no interest. The mother wanted me to go. I got there and it let my fire and i got enthusiastic a
What weve realized is we can try very hard to keep lead of the hackers but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information on to web sites. Right now there are legal prohibitions from the private sector what we want to do is allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threat signatures very narrowly defined so very technical type of information. But for example of the various act that is have taken place, if we could broadly share that information then when one hack occurs one place hopefully at Network Speed we can widely share that vulnerability and so more broadly protect everyone. Tonight at 8 00 eastern. On thursday members of the house agriculture subcommittee heard testimony from federal and state agriculture officials on their agencys response to the 20142015 flu outbreak that killed an estimated 48 million edible fowl in the u. S. The witnesses said an outbreak could be as bad or worse than
At the age of 91. This oral history is from the voices of the Manhattan Project, created by the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the los alamos historical society. Val i was born on a cattle ranch in northwest nebraska, 1923. Ranch. Ually born on a this is about five miles from a thele town of merriman, in sandhills of nebraska. You probably do not know anything, but they occupy 1 5th of the state. Its cattle raising country. They call it sandhills because the terrain is made out of sand. Hills are the dune. That is almost uprpure sand. Buthills are the the only thinge grown there without destroying the terrain is something that lives off the native grasses, and that is cattle. You try turning the soil lower, and is simply blows away. So, thats the sandhills dedicated to growing cattle. Purebreds. Raced upre was too smalls to support a family on raising beef cattle. He raised breeding stock. That was the enterprise i was born into. Have an older brother and sister. Both of them now dead.
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