I just want to take a moment to recognize that dd cannot join us tonight to talks leadership in the cia and the careers at the agency and one was even recruited out of high school we will hear about that. And please make sure you are listening to beverly kurt. Also if you are tweeting tonight please use the. The fire alarm goes off i will be here to escort you were to go. Now i will handed over to the executive Vice President for global government and then to help to amplify the voices with the International Business and development. [applause] thank you kathleen for joining us tonight for the smart women in smart power series. We are so excited weve had some really great panels. But i think this will be one of the best ones we have tonight. We are proud to call ourselves a and with the distinctive lines of business that gives us a unique Vantage Point of political climates around the world. So as we confront those challenges we do so in a way that enables us to provide Financial Servi
I just want to take a moment to recognize that dd cannot join us tonight to talks leadership in the cia and the careers at the agency and one was even recruited out of high school we will hear about that. And please make sure you are listening to beverly kurt. Also if you are tweeting tonight please use the. The fire alarm goes off i will be here to escort you were to go. Now i will handed over to the executive Vice President for global government and then to help to amplify the voices with the International Business and development. [applause] thank you kathleen for joining us tonight for the smart women in smart power series. We are so excited weve had some really great panels. But i think this will be one of the best ones we have tonight. We are proud to call ourselves a and with the distinctive lines of business that gives us a unique Vantage Point of political climates around the world. So as we confront those challenges we do so in a way that enables us to provide Financial Servi
A diary of a slave written in arabic. Up next, a collection of documents bearing the name of omar ibn said. Ms. Deeb i am mary jane deeb, chief of the african middle east division here at the library of congress. Im here to tell you about this fantastic acquisition the library has made in 2017. It is only now available to the public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has b
Public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has been well known. For the last almost 200 years, its existence has not been known. It is not a mystery. It has been passed on from hand to hand. It has been at certain times owned by people and disappeared from everyones of you and then it reappears. The latest owner was an africanamerican collector of africana and historic docu
Under secretary. And the civilian officials from the army. Air force and navy. They discussed military readiness and modernization efforts. This is about two hours. [ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for research and development. Acquisition reform is wup of the most important frustrating topics we address. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technology advantage. I hope you have seen the work on this topic. That is why the department of defense needs acquisition reform. Not just for efficiency or save money. Simply put, we will not be able to address threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I wan