mr. berteau, your comments about the use of technology. if you can give -- i'll start with you and at least start through our industry colleagues, other specific examples on how, on a technology basis, we can improve this process that, again, candidly, hasn't been significantly updated since the 1950s. mr. berteau, do you want to start and then we'll go down, specific technology examples. >> i think that the entities that are involved in both the front end, the scheduling process, the investigation process, and the adjudication process have all identified a number of places where they can bring that technology to bear. the greatest advantage, i think, we can take is to have integrated data across the government so that, in fact, we've got access to everything everywhere. the intelligence community has made more progress here than much of the rest of the government has had, but they also have the advantage of scale. the scale is smaller, and they've got the funding and resources and the motivation to do that. i think we can give you a list

mr. berteau? >> thank you vice chairman, members of the committee, we appreciate youhaving this hearing today. i would ask my written statements be incorporated into the record and i'll make a few key points here. you heard the description of the problems in the process , solutions, the four ones. one application, one adjudication and one clearance. it highlights i think the fact that this is a whole government problem and just look at the panel you have following us, you don't have a whole government representation on their as vice chairman warner pointed out. the government plays a key role in performance accountability and in the fundamental process across the board. in the end, this is a set of processes that exercises judgment . it makes the decision of where to place trust and in that decision is a calculus of how much risk are we willing to accept? if it's zero, we will never issue a clearance. there's a whole level of dynamic back have to go on there and the four ones health you get there.

mr. kevin phillips, miss jane ch and mr.of raytheon, berteau, and miss brenda, the government accountability office. thank you and thank you for the thousands of employees you represent who work every day to support the whole of u.s. government. nation's most sensitive programs and operations would not be possible without your work. i look forward to how your respective companies review the prospective security process and affects operations, hiring, and repetitiveness. -- and competitiveness. i would also like to look at ideas of reform. our second panel includes members of the executive branch. of nationalnbar, intelligence and security center, mr. gary reed, director of security intelligence -- and mr. dan payne, at the department of defense. bill provided the government's perspective on this issue and update on their efforts to improve -- they will provide the government's perspective on this issue and update efforts. the point of this security is to grant clearance to top-level personnel and consider better ways forward. the government's method of issuing nationals 30 clearance is virtu