so when dr. hamre says there's broad consensus, absolutely. who could really argue with any of those things? in fact, if you go back to the bush administration's first qdr, it said pretty much the same things, but as we know that qdr lasted roughly eight to nine months before the global strategic environment caused huge shiftsz. this is back in 2001, and so what i'm wondering i budget information that we've gotten talks about reversibility. it talks about key partnerships. it talks about the kinds of wars that we're going to be facing or rather the conflicts that we're going to be face facing in the near future and i have some concerns because i'm in a think tank and that's what we do, we have concerns. [ laughter ] first, it appears to me from yesterday's announcements that e scario is a high-tech war. if you look at where they're placing their investments, what they're getting rid of, they are not contemplating kind of the low intensity conflict, stability operations environment in which we've been operating for the last few years and so i h

>> thank you, dr. hamre. i'm dan, i work for i.b.m., we are happy to be part of this conference with csis. today's conference is an important step to continue this dialogue, the conference is focused on information sharing, adapted and expanded information sharing environment. since the intelligence sharing environment was started, we have come a long way, in predicting events not simply studying it after the fact. today's program aligns with i.b.m.'s long standing commitment to support our nation's effort to strengthen information sharing and improve global security. many members of the i.b.m. team are going to be participating in events throughout the course of the day and we appreciate the opportunity to engage in these discussions. now it's my honor to tell you a little more than what dr. hamre did about our keynote speaker today, director of national intelligence james clapper. he was sworn in as the fourth d.n.i. in august of 2010. he leads the united states intelligence community and served as principa

dr. kay hamre date. director of national intelligence, james clapper was sworn in as. director of national intelligence, james clapper was sworn in as. director of national intelligence, james clapper was sworn in as community and serves as the, james clapper was sworn in as community and serves as the pretense of old advisor for the president. he is long and distinguished career in the u.s. armed forces beginning of the rifleman in the u.s. marine corps reserve and culminating with lieutenant general in the u.s. air force and director of the defense intelligence agency. over 32 years in uniform service company also helped the russian chief of staff or intelligence to the u.s. air force headquarters during operation desert shield and desert storm and director of intelligence for three were fighting command, u.s. forces in korea. i've know, he also served two combat tours during the stage of conflict and core mission over laos and cambodia. he first retired in 1995 and worked in industry for 16 years as an executive on three companies with business focus on intelligence