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what we're talking about today is an amazing program funded by google, the kauffman foundation, help from her on, and others, and received an accelerator for civic start-ups. by that, we mean companies that work in the government space that will disrupt, in a healthy way, the government ecosystem, and provide a new set of vendors and provide new and innovative ways for citizens to access government services. we are very excited to be partnering with san francisco on this. i am grateful for everyone here in the room, especially mayor lee, ron conaway, a andjay, who we have seen -- and jay, who we have seen as an innovative leader in this area. we are also blessed with the cedar accelerated to have so many other similar programs in the bay area that we can learn from. we will be following in the footsteps of organizations like -- learning what they do. code of america has a specific purpose, on specific start-ups, bring those wonderful on the printer is in error to think about businesses that do not just change the consumer experience, but change the citizen experience. lastly, we are

congressman kauffman is looking at making accountability at all ranks.is the sulture of accountability growing in the pentagon or what has to be done? >> in my experience, financial accountability is stronger when you face difficult budgetary times. we clearly do. i think people are paying a good deal of attention right now. there are also equally probably more concerned and should be in accomplishing the mission, so there's a balance to be struck here, but i believe the pentagon will improve its financial accountability. >> sir, thanks very much. coming up >>> among the many program changes in the obama administration's 2013 defense budget request, two stand out as wasteful, the cancellations of the block 30 global hawk, unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and the c-27j transport plane. only the pentagon would spend $4.6 billion on new systems and decide they weren't needed after all. clearly tough choices were needed to cut $487 billion over the coming decade, but retiring such new aircraft without using them is ridiculous. the block 30 global hawk cost $

kauffman, a lot of his remarks with regard to positioning of our forces. but what i would like to explore here in the next few minutes is nesting of operational concepts, interested to know to what degree we use modelling and simulation as we went through the strategic review and particularly here at the joint operational concept that drive the army operational concept because so much leads to requirements and the need for structure and procurement, leader development and everything and in that regard. last time the army operational concept was published in 2009 very aware of how all the ins and outs to make that happen. have no expectation there's a new document on the treet. but in your nhat you took as you went through the process of the strategic review, if you can share with me the notable points with regard to the '09 document that you think may need to be readdressed in the current process of operational concept and then other deductions and risks that you see in the force in relation to what we think we're going to need? >> as we've looked at first

kauffman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for your service, general odierno, and mr. secretary. i'm concerned about -- i agree with you in the bottom line cuts. i believe cuts can be made to the department of defense. i don't believe, i believe the sequester goes way over board. there's no disagreement in that in this committee on either side. but let me just say, express to you some areas that i think i would like you to look at because i'm concerned they were cutting capability and by cutting capability we're increase risk to our national security. one is i just think that there's a nature to our military across the board. if we look at the ratio of flag officers or general officers to the number of soldiers and this is in every branch of service, i believe, it's just -- we're too top heavy. we really need to look at slimming that down. next, i know there's talk about that we ought to slow down pay increases. moving forward as a cost savings measure. i disagree with that. let me give you another area that i would like to you look at. they are slowing our promotion s

. >> jane kauffman from mount pleasant, south carolina submitted this photo. picked a better spot to sit. that's her great dane. his name is moose. her friend took that picture. how funny. it's the biggest dogs that think they are small. >> she's so tiny. it seems photo shopped. >> can you imagine watching tv around him. >> oh, my gosh. >> we have a big dog and she can't get close enough to you. >> they don't realize. i have chihuahuas. i don't have that problem. we have a photo from virginia. would you guys drink that? it does have the magic word wine in it. >> special kind of wine. >> even i wouldn't drink that. >> might overlook it. depends how bad the day was. >> kate from mount pleasant, michigan sent us this photo. i know a good deal when i see it. clearance. it was zero but now 1.99. it's that club membership that gets you the perks. >> finally gail submitted this photo. i don't know how i feel about these two being in the same place. >> emergencies welcomed. >> okay. >> if you have a photo please send it to our website. let us know about it. >>> up nex

you know, our friends at the kauffman foundation proved that all new job growth over time comes fromoup of passionate individuals who are committed to making their dreams happen. and most importantly they're willing to take risks. they're willing to try something which is a crazy idea and i'm fond of saying the day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea. >> thank you for the great conversation. i'm ali velshi with this week's fortune brain form. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> video is surfacing of what is being called whitney houston's last performance. it is from just last thursday night. just t

our friends at the kauffman foundation proved that statistically all new job growth over time comes fromups are a small group of extraordinarily passionate individuals who are committed to making their dreams happen. and most importantly they're willing to take risks. they're willing to try something which is a crazy idea. and i'm fond of saying the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. in society today, especially in large corporations and governments, they're not willing to take huge risks because they're worried about their stock price plummeting or congressional investigation, and consequently most progress is incremental. but we really need to be taking the risks that are going to drive true breakthroughs. that's what created silicon valley and drove it forward and our economy is really driven more than anyone really realizes by the innovations coming out of silicon valley. >> so i know peter works very, very hard and sometimes i work alongside him on this in trying to drum up the funds for these competitions to do it. where should the money come from? is

the kauffman foundation put out a report on mit and they extended the network. the engineering and science and technology faculties that are involved there and the university as a whole, that would be a good model to look at. m.i.t. has done a very good job and that is the internal culture, they said up cross collaboration across departments and side of the university. that is something that should be encouraged. stanford has championed a big initiative on that in the past four or five years as well. get your faculty to talk to each other. not only do they not talk to the regional players, they don't even talk to each other. so, changing the culture inside of the university is very difficult to do but there are some models and i would point to the mit sample as the one that works. >> well, i respect stanford and mit, they are incredible institutions. many they aren't necessarily on the cutting edge of technology, but they do that people start businesses. you have to make connections at those community college levels that could engender business growth without ne

i also want to thank the kauffman foundation for their financial and intellectual support. we're pleased to have this a broad support, because it is indicative of our work that we need a partnership with the business community and others who are committed to job creation, prosperity, and economic competitiveness. now, to kick this off, it is my pleasure to introduce a good friend, a gallup chairman and ceo, james clifton, who says "what everyone in the world wants is a good job." in his latest book, he describes how this undeniable fact will affect all leadership decisions as country's wage war to produce the best jobs. since 1988, jim has served as ceo of gallup, a leader in organizational consulting and public opinion research. his most recent innovation, the gallup world pole, is designed to give the world 6 billion pesetas since the voice in virtually all key global issues. under his leadership, gallup has expanded from a predominantly u.s.-based company to a worldwide organization with 40 offices in 30 countries and regions. jim is also the creator of the gallup path,

. >> you mentioned the kauffman foundation. they are located in kansas city, missouri. >> thank you, governor. my question is for amy. could you expend on your web mentor matching? do you know of any examples? >> there is an initiative, it is one year old, and it is targeted towards energy. there is not a whole lot of data it to lead us know if it is working or not. that is a model that the federal level government has just stood up for the same thing. that is the best model i know about of the government level. there are plenty of models through alumni associations. i would be looking to emulate university alumni that does produce solid mentoring. >> on the sports analogy, i cannot remember if it was last year, one of our speakers was the president of mit. she really made the same point. she was talking about the importance of celebrating the inventors and the like. and she mentioned the robotics program. there are others. my son participates in something called odyssey of the mind. you go to the world competition, 10,000 kids

one is the kauffman foundation. -- two great advertisements. the other one i really enjoyed was the clint eastwood advertisement where basically it said it is halftime america and the second half is about to start. was a very moving advertised it. it was about what we could do more broadly, and i think it was the key driver in the first half in need to make sure it is the key driver in the second half. [applause] >> i would like to quickly open up the room for questions to our distinguished panel if you would like. and >> thank you all, very much. it has been an excellent discussion. i am peter reagan with the baltimore consulting group. our competitor has been mentioned a few times, which is mackenzie. we had great news from a recent study we had based on client work. i wanted to comment and give you some thoughts. we found the economics are driving manufacturing back to the u.s. from china to serve as the u.s. market. this is driven by increases in that china. they have increased to a rate that now actually matters. this is very beneficial to