thank you so much, marlene, and to nafsa for having us here this evening. it is just a great pleasure to be here for our first partnership particularly with one of our institutional members. we really appreciate that. and we are very much looking forward to this author series even with professor allison stanger, director of the written center for international affairs and middleware college and author of the new and very timely book "one nation under contract the outsourcing of american power and the future of foreign policy." i just wanted to mention in addition i will introduce our speaker a little bit more in a few minutes, but i just wanted to mention something very timely. she has recently briefed the senior leadership of the state department and aid including secretary clinton on this very issue that we will be discussing tonight. so i think that that is quite exciting. i also wanted to welcome thank you team members, nafsa members and alums from middlebury college, and i think we have quite a number of them here. and our author series is one of our r

and so organizations like nafsa and the women's foreign policy group matter. in conclusion, the outsourcing of american power ultimately means we need a brand-new template for thinking about how government and the private sector should interact in the digital age. the key players, however, are not washington and wall street. but each and every one of us. i think i'll stop there. and see what sort of questions you have. i welcome them. thank you for your attention. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> so we'll open it up to q & a. and i am going to take the moderator's prerogative to ask the first question following up on what you were just talking about. since outsourcing and the public/private partnerships are here to stay, can you give us a little more sense of how you envision how things are accountable and transparent. you gave a few examples and efficient. and also you talked about attracting new talent to government. in the most practical sense contractor firms pay so much more for all the different things, services, that they offer. so how can the gove