today, following the money with david schlendorf. mr. schlendorf, let's begin with your title and what you do. guest: the resource planning office helps to direct with everything from thinking about the strategy and tracking data to assess how we are doing against the strategy. we helped to run the fbi like a business. obviously our mission is not to make money, but we have a 35,000-person organization and we have strategic and training challenges. our job is to get the most out of all resources, finding efficiency, internal consultants, and other things like corporate policy. our place in to know what is permissible and what is not. we basically provide data and informed decision making. host: with a lot of talk focused on debt and deficit, how did your job, bob? guest: the director, -- , about? the director realize we need to run the company more like a business. our analysts that worked at the forefront of combating the threats come out we need to make sure the have the best technology, best use of resources, so we have more agents on

and a look at the fbi budget with david schlendorf of the fbi resource planning offices.ournal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern time on c- span. >> defense secretary leon panetta and hillary clinton spoke earlier about the federal budget and how it affects farm policy and national security. also discuss cooperation between the defense and state departments on u.s. policy in countries like iraq and somalia appeared from the national defense university in washington, this is just over an hour. >> we are indeed extraordinarily privileged and honored to have the inaugural distinguished leader program speakers be our secretaries of defense and state, and their very distinguished francs as of. -- frank sesno. please give a warm welcome to these great leaders. [applause] [applause] >> good morning, everybody. it is a great pleasure and privilege to be here with the

host: david schlendorf, thank you for being here. the f.b.i. series continues tomorrow with cyber security, and then friday, crime labs and forensics. when last story before we go. a senior official tells the associated press the president barack obama will give them major speech on jobs in early september, on bail and his ideas for speeding up job growth and helping the struggling poor and middle class. that is the ap reporting that, as we end today's "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> president obama takes his bus motorcade into illinois today as he wraps up a three-state tour. the president will hold to its town hall meetings today in illinois. there will be live on c-span.org this afternoon. the president will begin his vacation on thursday. several live events to tell you about today. john pistole will talk about aviation security. mitigating security risks. here on c-span, live coverage about whether the congres

a look that the fbi budget with david schlendorf of the fbi resource planning office. "washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern time on c- span. >> watch more video of the candidates. see what political reporters are saying. try to let as campaign contributions with our website for campaign 2012. easy to use, it helps you navigate the political landscape with twitter feed and facebook updates from the campaigns, candidate clios, plus links to media partners in the early primary and caucus states. all at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> if leon panetta and hillary clinton spoke earlier about the federal budget and how it affects foreign-policy and national-security. they the defense and state departments on u.s. policy in countries like iraq and somalia. from the national defense university in washington, this is just over an hour. >> good morning. a live audience today. welcome to ndu. this is education, knowledge, conversation, dialogue, and discussion. we are extraordinarily privilege and honor to have the inaugural distinguished leader program speakers be our secr

following the money with david schlendorf, he's the assistance director for resource planning. let's just begin with your title and what you do. what does it mean? >> sure, the resource planning office is essentially the corporate office for the director and senior executive team. we help with everything from thinking about his strategy, he sets the strategy, but we have the team that personnel to help him track the data to assess how are we doing? people don't think of the fbi as a business. obviously our mission is not to make money. we're here to protect the country. $9 billion budget. we have all of the challenges that a large business has, financial challenges, human resources, training, strategic challenges, and so our job is to help the director get the most. we have groups to help find efficiency, internal consultants that help look, and get the data, director, and senior executive and other teams like corporate director policy. what's permissible, what's not? it provides data. >> host: in the town, talking about debt and deficit, how did your job come back? >> guest: w