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Traditional and in some ways Old Fashioned area of technology, yet one of very rapid and ongoing innovation. Very central to the performance of our military forces as well. And were going to talk about software and the ways in which systems, electronic systems, countermeasure systems that have heavy electronics and i. T. Component have to be thought about today, have to be improved. All of this relates clearly to some big themes in defense, budgeting, Defense Strategy, to what extent is Technology Changing so fast that we need to emphasize pursuit of a revolution of military affairs perhaps ev...

Think of me and us as a resource to help navigate that. What i brought today for the purposes of an introduction, im glad to answer any questions about our body of work but i highlights pages to two testimonies and theyre on the table over there. One was a testimony in may of 2010 before this committee, and it was based on a report that came out in july of 2009. And we were asked to look out how much progress had sba made in implementing the Small Business Disaster Response and improvement act of 2008. Its a mouthful. Ill now call it the 2008 act. Very important piece of legislation. It was a ...

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This is way back when when i was a graduate student at the university of california berkeley where secretary napolitano runs these days, we learned about wedge issues. Wedge issues were those things that really divided the electorate, got everyone excited, everyone had an opinion about. Well, immigration has become a wedge issue. Wedge issues kind of come and go, and depending upon the year, and clearly since 2015 when President Trump started to run for office, immigration has been at the forefront in terms of one of the wedge issues. It divides not just democrats and republicans, it divides r...

At the brookings institution. Thank you for coming out on a friday morning to talk about this incredibly important issue. We have a great panel for you. We have a cspan audience, live webcast. Anyone who would like to tweet, Us Immigration and hope to have a good discussion both here and online. This way back when, when i was a graduate student at the university of california berkeley where secretary Janet Napolitano runs these days, we learned about wedge issues, those things that really divided the electorate, got everybody excited. Everyone had an opinion about. Immigration has become a wed...