a critical part of what we do, but he also comes and as brought to the department that post goldwater nicholls sense, the importance of the sense of unity of effort. so those of you at the dod know this, about four years after the department of defense was created, the department passed goldwater nicholls legislation to bring greater unity of purpose to the department of defense. i remind them that it too aout 40 years for the department of defense to get where they needed to get to begin to get where they needed to get on unity of effort. we don't have 40 years to get this right at the department of homeland security. but it does help you to keep in mind how young we are, as a department. but secretary johnson has come with a sense of you are generality, to bring the legs sons learned from the department of defense with regard to bringing that unity of effort across those elements of dhs, a very important part of what he's doing. and it is perfectly consistent with what i have been doing, trying to do at mpbd since i came in october of 2011. to bring that unity of effort that i taked about ea

a critical part of what we do, but he also comes and as brought to the department that post goldwater nichollsimportance of the sense of unity of effort. so those of you at the dod know this, about four years after the department of defense was created, the department passed goldwater nicholls legislation to bring greater unity of purpose to the department of defense. i remind them that it took about 40 years for the department of defense to get where they needed to get to begin to get where they needed to get on unity of effort. we don't have 40 years to get this right at the department of homeland security. but it does help you to keep in mind how young we are, as a department. but secretary johnson has come with a sense of you are generality, to bring the legs sons learned from the department of defense with regard to bringing that unity of effort across those elements of dhs, a very important part of what he's doing. and it is perfectly consistent with what i have been doing, trying to do at mpbd since i came in october of 2011. to bring that unity of effort that i taked about earlier, acr

a critical part of what we do, but he also comes and as brought to the department that post goldwater nichollsense, the importance of the sense of unity of effort. so those of you at the dod know this, about four years after the department of defense was created, the department passed goldwater nicholls legislation to bring greater unity of purpose to the department of defense. i remind them that it took about 40 years for the department of defense to get where they needed to get to begin to get where they needed to get on unity of effort. we don't have 40 years to get this right at the department of homeland security. but it does help you to keep in mind how young we are, as a department. but secretary johnson has come with a sense of you are generality, to bring the legs sons learned from the department of defense with regard to bringing that unity of effort across those elements of dhs, a very important part of what he's doing. and it is perfectly consistent with what i have been doing, trying to do at mpbd since i came in october of 2011. to bring that unity of effort that i taked about ea

a significant example which is the goldwater-nichols act of 1986 which reorganize the department of defenseo give us what give us a way of today i have a capable joint fighting force with the model used to create the pandemic will hazard preparedness act. it may reflect in some ways my military background but it has reflected if you will a coherent means to effectively work across the interagency and the federal government the department of veterans affairs health and human services who have major medical assets as well as state and local activities that really are the front-line fighters. the point was to create someone in charge which was the secretary of her preparedness and response in the other thing was to create an entity or activity that would give us a chance to develop medical countermeasures we would need to fight outbreaks like a bowl with the therapeutics and diagnostics that were necessary. in that case it was circumstance where it was recognized that there was no commercial injury in a vaccine like this until something happened and it was way too late even if it takes 10 year