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Release Date: February 14, 2007
Good Morning Chairman Langevin, Ranking Member McCaul, and distinguished Members of the Committee. It is an honor to appear before you today to update you on the progress of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T Directorate) and discuss how the President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2008 will position us to develop and transition technology to protect the Nation from catastrophic events. Also invited to testify and joining me today is Mr. Richard Williams, Chief Financial Officer and Director of the S&T Strategy, Programming and Budget Division. Mr. Williams will testify about improvements to S&T's financial management processes.
The S&T Directorate is committed to serving our customers, the components that comprise the Department of Homeland Security — and their customers — the hardworking men and women on the front lines of homeland security, especially the first responders, who need ready access to technology and information to perform their jobs more efficiently and safely. I am honored and privileged to serve with the talented scientists, engineers and other professionals who support these dedicated Americans in our shared mission to secure our homeland and defend our freedoms.
First and foremost, I am very appreciative of the leadership of the Congress in its support of the S&T Directorate, and of me personally, as I assumed the role of Under Secretary for Science and Technology last August. The informed counsel of Committee Members with homeland security oversight, and that of their staffs, has been invaluable to my efforts to position the S&T Directorate for accountability, tangible results and success, both for today and in the future.
Also, thank you for your vote of confidence in the Directorate, evidenced by the decision to appropriate $848 million in FY 2007. This has been enormously helpful in my efforts to better align people with our mission to develop a robust science and technology capability to protect the Nation as Congress envisioned in the enabling legislation for the Department. We look forward to working with the 110th Congress in a bipartisan and non-partisan manner to use science to better secure the Nation.
I am also grateful for the leadership of the President and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and for the vision and guidance that the Secretary and Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson have contributed to the realignment process.
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