dr. ochoa, you testified and it seems the panel agrees foreign language skills are critically important to the national security. however, the department's only k-12 initiative, which is a foreign language assistance program could lose out on funding by competing with other subjects and funding for the title six programs have been significantly reduced since fy 11 my question is how do you support the department's international strategy to develop and globally, and students in light of these budget cuts? >> thank you for that question. it's true we have ruled that money into a lump sum funding for k-12 to provide more flexibility and efficiency in the management of the programs, but we also have -- we are placing an emphasis on the development of the confidence. the fundamental message that we are transmitting is that in order to achieve the objectives of the president's 2020 goal, we have to have the kind of quality education that includes those as a part of it, so we are coming as we move bey

dr. ochoa, you testified that foreign language skills are critically important to our national security. 12 anepartment's only k- eshoo tip -- the initiative, could lose out on finding by competing with other subjects and funding for the title sixth language programs. they have been significantly reduced since fiscal year 2011. how will you support the department's national strategy to develop globally competent students in light of these budget cuts. >> we have rolled that money into lump sum funding for k-12 to provide more flexibility and more management in those programs. we are placing an emphasis on the development of global compotencies. its message we are transmiting is, in order to achieve -- the message we are transmiting is, in order to achieve the goals, we have to have a program to achieve those goals. as we move beyond the focus on map and english language competency to include other subjects, this will be -- on that and english language competency to include other subjects, this

dr. ellen ochoa. [applause] >> thank you very much. well, thank you. it is my pleasure to be with you this morning and be speaking to you. i have been real fortunate in my career. i was selected as an astronaut at a time when the space shuttle was flying quite regularly, during the 1990's, and had the opportunity to be on four. space shuttle missions. two of them are atmospheric research flights, and we were studying the problem of the ozone hole and ozone creation and depletion in our atmosphere. the second two were part of the assembly of the international space station. my last flight was exactly 10 years ago, in april 2002. it was part of the assembly of the space station. we took a piece of the structure, which was 350 feet long, and that was the structure that the huge solar rays hang off of. after i talk, i will show you a video from that flight as well as some of the current views of the international space station and some of things that are calling on the day -- that are going on today. i wanted to talk about the leadership things i've done s

dr. davidson, please proceed with your statement. >> thank you very much, senator ochoa. it's been my pleasure to serve for the last four years. the u.s. is in a strong position to address the needs that have been so articulately and eloquently spoken today by our colleagues from dod, odni, state, justice, education, the foreign affairs community, and american business. if we are to meet the demands of keeping the peace around the globe that's called for by secretary a net that of engaging audiences and institutions around the world and not just their english-speaking elites as envisioned by president obama and secretary clinton. and also detecting the intentions and preventing the actions of those who would do us harm as nsa director has stated. then what is needed is a citizenry and government workforce that includes substantial numbers of persons professionally fluent and culturally literal. research shows that professional level knowledge of language is highly sensitive to cultural signals and cues of understanding not only what people say but also how they use langua