Either just trying to hire the next engineer or highskilled immigrants or to a laptop give away. We have actually built a Strong Coalition of some of the Top Tech Companies thinking longterm investing in Elementary School education which will not pay them back dividends but the country. To give you a sense, we may be one of the only non profits, collectively participating not on small levels delivering video lectures. These are all longterm investments in changing the system. These Companies Want to form a Publicprivate Partnership to bring Computer Science to all of american schools. Thank you, and i yield back my time. You did not have any time. So i would like to thank all of the witnesses. And also, we did not talk about it much today, but i think that the retention issue of students that do initially go into s. T. E. M. Is a big deal. I am a big glad well fan. In his most recent book he talks about the fact that the mismatch between the student and a school, which school that they
And there are so many other things that go into what quality of life really means, how often do you move and your spouse get a job, that sort of thing. In terms of quality of service, were hearing more and more from our people that theyre sort of surprised by all this. What really matters to them more than keeping this high rate of growth is they want to fight in a modern and ready force. They want to go to work every day, and they want to have parts in the bin where they can repair the thing that they are entrusted with, they want to be able to drive it or fly it or sail it and feel confident that they are on a winning team. That matters. Its an intangible, but it makes a tremendous difference for our people, and we have to look after that as well as the quality of life piece. Secretary fox . Senator, i would just add that i think admiral winnefeld laid it out beautifully. I these intangibles, i think, are important as we look at any changes to retirement, for example, Going Forward.