mr. cuellar? >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. the department of homeland inspector general and i think the professional reinforcement group have come up with different recommendations. i know you implemented some of them, but have you implemented all of them or are they still missing? what still needs to be done on those recommendations? >> to protect the mission? >> yes. >> the longer term projects for example you mentioned earlier, the training facility. out at our belsville training facility. the mock white house. mockup of the white house. we feel that's important. right now we use a -- we train on a parking lot basically. we put up a make fence -- makeshift fence and walk off the distance between the fence at the white house and the actual house itself. and we don't have on that parking lot, we don't have the bushes, we don't have the fountains, we don't get a realistic look at the white house. even our canine. they're responding on hard surfaces rather than grass. we think it's important to have a true replica of what the w

mr. cuellar? rep. cuellar: thank you, mr. chairman. the department of homeland inspector general and i think the professional reinforcement working group have come up with different recommendations. i know you up lamented some of them but have you unlimited all -- implemented all of them or are there still some missing? what still needs to be done on those recommendations? director clancy: the longer-term projects. for example, you mentioned earlier the training facility. the mock white house, we feel that is important. right now, we use, we train on a parking lot. we put up a makeshift fence and walk off the distance between the fence of the white house and the house itself. we don't have enough parking lot, the bushes, the fountains we don't get a realistic look at the white house. we think it is important to have a true replica of what the white house is so we can do a better job of integrated training. i think special forces before they go out to do an operation. typically, they have a model first and that is where we would like to

mr. chairman. rep. cuellar: thank you, mr. chairman. the department of homeland inspector general and i think the professional reinforcement working group have come up with different recommendations. i know you up lamented some of them but have you unlimited all of them or are there still some missing? what still needs to be done on those recommendations? director clancy: the longer-term projects for example, you mentioned earlier the training facility. the mock white house, we feel that is important. right now, we use, we train on a parking lot. we put up a makeshift fence and walkoff the distance between the fence of the white house and the house itself. we don't have enough parking lot, the bushes, the fountains we don't get a realistic look at the white house. even our canines are responding on hard surfaces rather than grass. we feel it is important to have a true replica of what the white house is so we can do a better job of integrated training. one image and tactical teams, i think special forces before they go out to do an oper

mr. cuellar? it gives you a clear picture and gives us a clear picture of how the agency is functioning. i like the idea. i hope you do well. >> thank you. we're constantly looking at the emerging threats. as we talked in your office about the uass and how we address the emerging threats. that's how we deal with this budget process. >> just quickly, i'd like to follow up on the zero-based budget. can you tell me what the timeline is for completing that kind of analysis? >> initially we were hoping that we might get into -- my chief financial officer just gave me an answer here. 2017 you can expect a mission-driven programs to identify the budget. so by 2017, we will be well on our way to zero-based budgeting. >> great. what are the one of the central recommendations of the mission panel was to hire 200 more officers. the panel described this new hiring as an interim step. while the agency does the necessary work to recognize initial needs. i also recognize they have struggled in recent years to ke