this great audience from across the government, but also with my former colleague and good friend, david shedd. just to elaborate on the introduction about david, it is rare to find an individual who has worked at so many different places at the senior levels -- white house, military intelligence, civilian intelligence, and at the top of the community, working with dni. david bianco experience is quite invest here. -- david's experience is quite fast. david -- the first question, let me just make three points. i think that what you think about intelligence depends a little bit on how you think about intelligence. i actually do not use the word "reform." i talk about it having been transformed, rather than reformed. my experience -- let me put it this way. i look at it in the long term, historically, and a major point i would make to you his intelligence as a discipline of national security is relatively new in the united states compared to other countries. look at china, for example. their military strategist was writing about all the things we talked about here in very sophisticated ways in t

david shedd was named deputy director of the defense intelligence agency in august 2010. he helps manage a workforce of 16,500 military civilian employees worldwide and leads what is called the defense intelligence enterprise as the defense, all of the defense intelligence community organizations within the department of defense. i heard him describe his career as follows. just to sum it up. 27 years with the cia officer. 4.5 years on the national security council staff and, and then a period of years at the very top of the odi. office of director of national intelligence, helping to shape that institution before moving to his current posting at dia. these little bios subject to correction by you gentlemen after but he served as, from may 2007 to august 2010 as the director of national intelligence for policy, deputy director for policy plans, requirements. responsible for overseeing formulation, implementation of major intelligence community policies across the full spectrum of issues from information-sharing and intelligence community authorities to analytic standards a