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Yeah .

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Mhm ,

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mm .

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Good morning everyone . It's so good to

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be here with actual bodies and faces

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with no masks . That's a good thing .

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Um But thank you all for coming those

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of you that are here physically and

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with your presence and then everyone

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who's in virtual land uh Tuning in

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today . It's really a wonderful

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opportunity for me . four weeks into

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the job to meet with everyone and share

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my thoughts . Um they're quite dynamic

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as you can imagine within four weeks .

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So um it's just really a wonderful

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opportunity . And I wanted to take this

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opportunity earlier rather than later

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um just because I wanted to make sure

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everyone was very clear on , you know ,

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my purposes for being here , what my

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thoughts are and while I'm here , um

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and what my focus will be during the

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period I am here . Um I understand

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there was a town hall last fall

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sometimes , so um we're all coming

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together for uh an update , um some

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recognitions . Um and then just again ,

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just some clarification on some current

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issues that are underway and where we

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play as an organization and um that

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set um just so everyone knows uh the

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deputy called me and asked me if I

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could lead this organization until a

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permanent director is found and

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appointed . I told her that I would try

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my best . This is a big organization ,

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very complex . Um lots of moving parts ,

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lots of intersecting uh content and

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mission areas , not only within the

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organization itself but with a lot of

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external partners and stakeholders . So ,

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um I'm hoping that my background in

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organizational policy will benefit me

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when I tried to in a real time um

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work with you executing our missions

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where they do have interfacing equities

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with some of the other outside

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organizations . WHS is not new to me .

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Um I came to uh actually my after

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spending two years as a presidential

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fellow Back in 1971 to

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1981 , I was asked by Dr Cook who was

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then the D . N . M . And that position ,

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of course at that time was dual hatted

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as the director . WHS I was asked by Mr

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Cook to come to W . H . S . And I don't

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know whether many people know that and

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um Laura Devlin , if you're out there

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in virtual land . I worked in the

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executive and political personnel

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office back then For about 17 months .

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And then after that , I was asked by

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our tailors and Howard Becker to come

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up to the OSD side of the d . n . m .

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And work in what was then known as

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organizational management and planning .

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And I've been there ever since and all

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of its iterations . So I'm old as dirt .

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I'm getting gray . Um but I'm hopeful

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that my tenure during that time will

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serve me well as I help everyone work a

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lot of big problems and issues that

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face us as an organization . Um , I

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am familiar again with the mission .

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I'm familiar with the authorities that

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the WHS director exercises and

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executes back uh in the

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mid two thousands . I um served

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actually as the acting D . D . A . And

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M . At that point , which was accruing

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a lot of paperwork because of dual hat

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was still in place . So I was serving

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as the deputy director effectively of

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in that hat when Howard Becker was

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serving as the acting D . A . M . So

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I'm familiar with the throughput , I'm

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familiar with the fact that your pen

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runs out a lot because you're signing a

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lot of things and um your thoughts and

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inputs and of course your authorities

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are , are required in a lot of actions

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for that . I'm looking to jOHn to keep

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me straight um which is really a job

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jOHn to keep me straight . Um But

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again , I am very appreciative of the

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critical mission that WHS has , I've

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watched it grow over the years . Um and

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I was uh involved in a number of

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organizational actions that brought me

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front and center with the mission sets

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of , Not the least of which was 9

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11 when we examined

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the placement then of the defense

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Protective service , which at that

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point was inside of and um so

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I was the deputy secretaries lead for

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the stand up of PFP A which naturally

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brought us to what are the functions

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inside of WHS that need to be stripped

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out and aligned under this new

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organisation for law enforcement and

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security enforce protection . Um when

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you go through an organizational action

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like that , you learn a lot um you

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learn about obviously the very basic

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things like functions and resources and

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authorities but you really get to know

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where the rubber meets the road in the

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organization and for that with that

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exercise . Um It was very informing to

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me um and of course it just underscored

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again um the critical mission that WHS

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performed then and of course has grown

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into even in a large way now . Um

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but uh so I'm really really happy to be

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here . I'm really hoping again to draw

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in a lot of my knowledge and skills and

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abilities but there's no way there is

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just no way I'll be able to do this job

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um without all of you helping me um

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leading me teaching me and then of

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course executing what we do and we do

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so critically and . Oh by the way so

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well um the deputy just

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for full of information when the deputy

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asked me to do this , um she asked me

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to assist with leading the organization

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until a permanent leader is identified .

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Um I told her certainly um Madam Deputy ,

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I will do whatever you need me to do .

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Um and part of her charge to me

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was to focus on VHS because as we

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know in the last several years there's

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been a lot of blending and just it's

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just been a dynamic environment ,

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that's all I can say . Um but W . H . S .

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Deserves and needs its critical focus .

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It's an absolutely critical

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organization and so the deputy asked me

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to give my exclusive focus to WHS .

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Um just as in a little aside though ,

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Mr Donnelly is kind of putting a

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competition on that focus because I

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actually still maintain my position of

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record as director , organizational

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policy and decision support . And

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although that organization is in the

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great hands of Jeff means um , Mr

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Donnelly keeps pulling me into a lot of

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that , so , um I keep reminding him ,

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Mr Donnelly , I'm here for wh as you

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know , so , um but the deputy sensing

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the criticality of this mission um

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specifically asked me , Gina focus on

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VHS , look at it , examine it , see

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what it's doing , how it's doing , how

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the leadership is doing , how the

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general organization , large is doing

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the staffs in each of the directorate's

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and um take a pulse and take a

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temperature and see where my assistance

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can be provided and uh inserted um

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for again for however long I am here .

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Um but she , I would say probably

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three times in my conversation with her .

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I mean , my conversation actually with

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her was quite long considering all the

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things on her plate . Um but she

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mentioned three times the important and

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critical mission of WHS uh Again , not

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only what it means for the secretary

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and herself , but also the osd writ

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large and then of course the partners

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that we have in the larger D . O . D .

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Components and the external community ,

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um I told her that I would

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be meeting regularly with all the

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directors . Of course the

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work that's coming through the pipeline

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is getting me ever more familiar daily

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with where I think my assistance could

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be provided . Um And um

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part of that is also looking at the key

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leadership vacancies where they are um

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and getting some history on , you know

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why they've been vacant and and what

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the best um advised path is going

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forward . So again , I'm here as a

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resource for the directors and the

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staff's um I will apply the best of my

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energies and my intellect . Um

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I'm I have a big network just from

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being here for 40 years . Again old as

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dirt . So if we can't solve

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something together , uh if we think

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that there's a critical linkage or a

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critical partner that we can reach out

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to , we will get them involved in the

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mix . Um It's so critical as we solve

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our problems , particularly given the

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nature of of WHS um as a major

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component of the department . Again ,

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that exercises substantial authorities

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for the uh leadership of the Department

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of Defense and the headquarters . Um so

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I am yours , I'm your resource . Um

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Again , I will do my best .

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I , you know , I'm humbled actually by

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this experience , I've watched WHS for

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a long time , 40 years and

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um I've watched it , it's like watching

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one of my kids grow up , you know ,

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because it's grown and it's morphed and

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it's changed and the people have

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changed . Um But the constant is always

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there , that we have a really important

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mission in a great mission when you

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think of coming to work and doing

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something every day . Um And uh I just

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want you all to be reassured that we're

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all in this together and I will give

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you everything I can give you for the

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time I'm here . So with that

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I think we're going to transition to a

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dimension of the program that I

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understand was put in place by Miss

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West Gate and that is the Director's

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Award um which I think we are

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celebrating the fourth quarter awards

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um for those who are being

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recognized . Uh And there's four

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today . Um There's two from a . D .

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Dave , you should be proud . There's

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one paul from F . S . D . And Darren ,

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there's one from es de um The first is

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Elizabeth Fuller . She's a branch chief

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of Research within acquisition and

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she's shown a lot of her leadership ,

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particularly in the cost contract that

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implemented a lot of the cybersecurity

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model certification framework . She

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set the standard Dave , I'm sure that

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you're pretty feeling good about that .

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Um And she has uh essentially , through

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her work reassured all of us , not the

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least of which is dave um that we are

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certainly putting in place practices

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and process that protect our sensitive

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classified information . So , Dave one

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of the stars on your team , congrats ,

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Paul , one of your master wood

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crafters . Dustin Hague would crafter

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from FST . Um and he essentially was

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at the Pointy end of the sphere for

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designing the COVID-19 enclosures . Um

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Taking out a big step of having to go

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to the manufacturer , which would have

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taken time time . That of course , in

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these last 14 months of extraordinary

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set of circumstances that we didn't

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have . Um so not only did he save time ,

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but of course for us as our resources

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are precious , it saved a lot of money .

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Um and um certainly uh

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it expedited processing for cat cards

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to work safely in the covid mitigated

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environment . So paul congrats on

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Dustin's efforts .

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Okay ,

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Hugh McGloin , You know what's funny ?

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I q if you're out there , I knew I

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McGloin growing up , so I don't know

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whether you're related , so I'll have

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to ask you later . Yeah , you know ,

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it's funny how you're around a long

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time and you hear all these names , but

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uh it's it's really , really of

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coincidence , but anyways Hugh um is a

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program manager for the Transportation

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management Office . Uh he implemented

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strategies for incorporating

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health safety wellness options for uh ,

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commuting um and had with the regular

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coordinative point with meetings with

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our regional transportation partners um

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and uh , to ensure that those that were

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coming and those that would be coming

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to both the pentagon and the Mark

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Center um that the health and safety

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plans were incorporated into the

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transportation pieces . So congrats on

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that hue and Darren

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and last is Andrea Montgomery back to

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you , Dave another one of your

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superstars contract specialist , um and

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she worked on the contracts that

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provided some of our solutions uh , for

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the health and human services , uh ,

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work that we were doing , um , and

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actually was stopping and that we had

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to pivot to . So a lot of her efforts

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provided for a seamless continuation of

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that um , work . And not only

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was it a continuation of the work , but

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it was of course ahead of schedule and

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the time was reduced , which is a big

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thing I know for you dave in terms of

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your production and procurement

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timelines . So congrats to you

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again .

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Okay . I think that's a really cool

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award by the way because there's so

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much stuff that's going on day to day

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weekend , week out , month and month

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out quarterly that your staffs are

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making happen and uh we need to put the

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emphasis and the recognition where it's

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deserved the people that are making it

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happen at the pointy end of the sphere .

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So it's a wonderful , it's a wonderful

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award and I encourage all the

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supervisors to bring forward your

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nominations regularly be very

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thoughtful about who's who's making

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these contributions in these important

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areas , both supervisors and non

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supervisors , wage grade and Gs um

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because together they're all making it

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happen . So um I encourage robust

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utilization and nomination of the of

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the award . So now we're going to talk

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about people who've been here a long

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time . Um , today we are actually

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giving five length of service awards .

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Um Uh starting

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with Sylvia Dudley , who is receiving

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her 30 year pen ,

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James , Dylan , who's been here 25

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years , Christine Pain , 15

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years And Daniel Cosgrove 10

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years . That

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totality of time is indicative of when

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people get to WHS or

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uh , they stay , they want to be here

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both as public servants , but they want

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to be involved in a mission that

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matters . And as we have all known

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because we've been in this for many

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years ourselves . Public service brings

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its own special rewards . And from that

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perspective , I applaud those that have

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enlisted themselves in the service of

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the nation and I'm so glad that we have

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these individuals serving with us um

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because it's important . Um and when

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you think about long serving 10ures ,

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those are long For sure . We do have

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one other individual who has been here

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40 years . I think everybody knows

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Kathy Ziegenfuss

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and

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Kathy is the only one after a 12 hour

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day . You can still see her going down

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the hall with this hop inner step ,

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just power walking down the down the

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corridor , smiling no matter how big

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her burdens are and we know what

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graphics division does in terms of the

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nonstop pipeline of requests that are

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always there . But Kathy is

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We are recognizing Kathy's 40 years of

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dedicated service . So for that Kathy ,

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thank you as well . But to all of the

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long serving um servants , I thank you .

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Um because we are public servants . Um

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and I am so glad that you're a part of

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this organization because you've

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obviously not only made a difference to

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the department but to this organization .

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So thank you . Thank you .

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Okay . All right ,

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well you guys see on the screen , Mr

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Donnelly . Um Mr Donnelly and not ,

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well , Mr Donnelly is back as the

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Director of administration and

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Management . And when I say he's back ,

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that's what I really mean . He's back

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because as everyone knows , he served

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as the DNM from 2000 and 5 to 2000 and

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eight . Um and then in 2008 he was

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plucked out to go and serve as the 22nd

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Secretary of the Air Force . Um But Mr

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Donnelly um is so excited to be back .

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I have known Mr Donnelly . Uh I knew

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him before 2000 and five . Um So our

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relationship professional relationship

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goes back to around 1995 . So I

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know him well . Um He's a power

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intellect . Get ready , everyone . Um

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But he's in it , which is a really cool

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thing because someone who's in it

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uh that's a certain kind of

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sponsorship and advocacy that's very

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special when they're in it with you as

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opposed to kind of benign content that

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just kind of sits out there . And um

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he's a very knowledgeable individual

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having obviously served as the DNM

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Prior , he's very familiar with the D .

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N . M . Enterprise . Um the all the

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above the line activity that happens in

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the OSD side of the organization . And

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of course the s and of course papa PF

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Pa was in its infancy when he arrived

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because we've established that in 2003 .

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But um he's very very familiar .

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Um And and that's a good thing because

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when we're talking to Mr Donnelly ,

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when I've been talking to him in the

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last two weeks of my four weeks , um I

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enter into a conversation up here which

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is quite rewarding . Um And that isn't

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a criticism of others is just that you

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save time and you get into the grist of

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the issues um And he is into the detail ,

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I'm just telling everybody maybe that's

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a warning but he is in the detail , he

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asked a lot of questions and um he will

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evolve his thinking with our advisories

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quickly um which is uh

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rewarding in itself but it can be a

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very productive environment that we're

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working in because he'll move the

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content along , he'll want to know what

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his decision spaces uh and he will

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exercise it , trust me . Um So I am

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so happy that he's back . I feel like

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um in some ways my big brother's back

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kind of the way I used to feel about

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Howard Becker when howard was here but

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I think his role as the D . N . M . And

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my role is the acting director WHS

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well interface very well in terms of

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what we know , um of course we don't

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know everything and that's why you guys

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are here . Um but I will do my best to

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bring him the information from you

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forward so he can be very expedited

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in his leadership of the entire D . A .

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And M . Enterprise as you know , DNM

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exercises authority , direction control

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over . Uh so um

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he wants to know what's going on . He's

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very fond of this organization , Trust

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me , he's very fond of it

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and so and part of the fondness is that

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he understands that it's a cannot fail

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zone . Um but he knows all the hard

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work that this big organization does .

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So we have an advocate , we have a

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sponsor and we have an intellect , wow ,

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what greater combination can you ask

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for as we're confronting our challenges ?

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So um I have just so you all know every

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Tuesday morning I sit and talk to Mr

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Donnelly about WHS matters . I have to

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tell Gary and George and Mark McNair

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that that's only on the calendar for

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like 30 minutes in the last week , it

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was an hour and 10 minutes and he

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doesn't have anything booked behind him .

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But I do . So I've learned now that you

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know the 30 minute conversation with Mr

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Donnelly is 60 right out of the gate

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unless the deputy and secretary are

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calling him , I tell you that one

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because he's going to be a regular

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inter actor um and very involved and

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leaning on me to bring his the best

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advice from the work that we do here .

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Um but he asked a lot of questions ,

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You know a 30 minute meeting going to

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60 minutes or 70 minutes is indicative

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of someone who's just not checking the

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block . He's educating himself along

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the way . Um So I just want you to know

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that I'll be talking to him regularly ,

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the directors , you all know that

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that's my rhythm right now with him .

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So I really need your inputs for

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what's burning and what's on the plate

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and you know , at the same time , you

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know , we can get overwhelmed by the

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crisis de jure , but Mr Donnelly is

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also a long term planner . He you'll

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hear him use the phrase if you're ever

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sitting with him today , we're doing

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what's today , but we need to lead ,

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turn into the long term planning ,

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that's his phrase . So he's a very

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interesting intellect because he's in

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the current such set of circumstances ,

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but he's always looking out on the

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horizon , which is a great gift that he

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brings with his leadership to the

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organization , so , but I will be

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meeting regularly with him um and um I

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will rely on the inputs of the

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directors to make sure I'm sensitizing

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him to the right things um When I get

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to the back end I'll talk about one of

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the initiatives that are critically

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important to him um as I focus on what

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he wants to focus on , because that's

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my job , so um but I'm really happy

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that he's back and I I have a very ,

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very strong relationship with him ,

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both intellectually and professionally ,

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so that's a good thing . So

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I wanted to just marry your down front ,

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I want to just Re welcome Mary .

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Um I know everyone has been interacting

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with Mary on a lot of fronts already .

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She came in January of 2020 um

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as the senior adviser for human

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resources operations and her

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task at that time was to bring forward

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a design build implementation framework

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strategy um for a

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contact center and the pieces that

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contribute to kind of a shared service

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environment , but with particular focus

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on human resources operations and I

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know mary's been interacting with a lot

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of people regularly , um like happens

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to all of us , um people leave and then

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we're called to do more stuff and

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everyone saw on May 10th I issued the

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memo and mary is now um the acting

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director , H . R . D . I think Cappie

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had said his farewells to many of the

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staffs that he worked for . So long .

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Cappie is on leave now um and he will

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exit . Uh his last day I think is May

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31st . So mary is in addition to her

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set of duties as senior advisor for the

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design bill , that the contact center

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and all the shared service related

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initiatives . She has the big job too

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and we know it's a monstrosity job to

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serve as the acting director . Um hrd

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so mary , thank you for stepping up

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giving your energies . I know it's a

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big task to be a juggler . I keep

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saying that all of us in WHS leadership

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and in the staffs um we have

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middle names of either juggler

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firefighter , you know , master of

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multiple things , master , you know ,

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dual tasker , whatever , that's what we

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do and that's why we're good at what we

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do because we know how to roll our

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priorities and interface with those

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issues that need our attention today

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tomorrow next week . So , but mary ,

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thank you and if you need me well you

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already are showing me you need me by

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my email . So um anyways , um

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I wanted to just transition quickly

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to talking about a few priorities that

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are on my plate and again my

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priorities are now Mr Donnelly's

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priorities or the deputy secretaries ,

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priorities . Um as I said earlier , the

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deputy asked me to step in and lead

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with a discreet and earnest and robust

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focus on the organization um that

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includes again taking stock of every

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director at seeing what we're doing ,

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how we're doing it and if there's any

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ways that I can assist with um making

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our day to day execution more

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productive easier for you guys ,

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whatever it is . Um So that is my focus .

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WHS even though I keep telling Mr

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Donnelly go to Jeff means for that one ,

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go to Jeff means for that one with its

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an OPI MDSD issue um

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related lee my priority is to also

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look as I mentioned and for shattered

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earlier the key leadership positions

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that have remained vacant for a period

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of time . Um I have very

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strong views on leadership and

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leadership . Active leadership and

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empowered leadership and permanent

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leadership . Um We need

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to get on with it and you

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know this is an important organization

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and there are several organizations

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that have been working under acting

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situations and um the deputy has

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asked me to look at those . Mr Donnelly

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has asked me to look at those as well .

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Um and I hope him a plan like yesterday

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on kind of what the profile looks like

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and what is the strategy for moving

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ahead . Um The work is too

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important in this organization to ask

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people consistently to step up on an

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acting basis . Um Acting's are hard .

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I'm one right now and it's that sweet

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spots finding the sweet spot between

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not looking over presumptive because

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you're acting . But the door keeps

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flinging open every hour and you have

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to make decisions and your people want

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to need answers and direction and

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information . So

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being enacting I'm very sensitive to

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the particular demands who've been on

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those of you who have been acting . Um

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And I have I will be talking Mr

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Donnelly about this tomorrow at my

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morning meeting . It's on the top of my

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list . So that is another one of the

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priorities . And together with him we

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will set the strategy for the key

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leadership recruitment going forward ,

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the last priority . Um And I don't mean

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the last meeting . It's a finite list .

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It's just the things that are front and

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center and eating me for lunch either

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with the deputy or Mr Donnelly um Is

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the CMO reorganization I think everyone

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knows by virtue of last year's agenda ,

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the position of CMO was disestablished .

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And so since that time there has been a

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lot of activity looking at the

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decomposition of the CMO organization .

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Um and in so looking at the CMO reward ,

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it's almost like doing a mini

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reorganization of OSD because when

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we're thinking about this it's

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disillusioned and the redistribution of

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functions , we are literally affecting

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four possibly five osd pizza

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organizations . So it has

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a pervasive effects across the OSD

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staff , the structural elements of OSD

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and the authorities and

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responsibilities that accrue to the

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PSAs um concurrent with

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that is the contemplation of the D . N .

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M . Now the DNA was established by

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virtue of memo in january um of this

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past year by the then Deputy Secretary

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Northwest . So we have been affirmative

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that there is A D . N . M . But we are

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working deliberately and diligently to

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look at the decomposition of the CMO to

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see where those functions upon

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redistribution would continue to accrue

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to the DNM or proceed to another PSA .

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Um So there's this concurrency going on

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of the CMO decomposition and then the

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rebuild of the discrete enhanced

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elements based on the recipient

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organizations and the functions that

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they get . Um Mr Donnelly is going to

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be very deliberate about the D . A .

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And M . In terms of

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looking at the entirety of the CMO

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portfolio but looking at that portfolio

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vis a vis the definitional basis for

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why functions are moving , where

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they're moving . Um I know that the

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deputy is looking to him to bring

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forward a recommendation on an enhanced

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DNM just by virtue of what the

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environment is all about now . Uh So he

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is going to be very thoughtful about um

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the functions and responsibilities that

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accrue to the D . N . M . And so doing

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that , you cannot talk about the

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functions of the D . N . M . And the

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roles and responsibilities of the DNM

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without thinking about the operational

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arms that make it go W . H . S . And P .

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F . P . A . So he asked the question

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about a responsibility and authority

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that accrues to the DNM but he says

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okay , how do I get that done ? Well ,

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we get it done through Sir dan Walsh's

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organization , PFP A . So he is

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thinking in a very integrated model

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framework of functions and

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responsibilities and what that means

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for the execution arms that will

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support him . So every time we have a D .

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N . M . Conversation by virtue of

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what what and how he thinks we're

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having a concurrent discussion of the

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functions and roles of VHS . So

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he just as a timeline , the deputy

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has asked for a plan

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soon too soon , I don't mean it that

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way but it's bearing down on us quickly .

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Um he was given 30 days when he got

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here to bring forward a complete plan

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for the decomposition of the CMA . It's

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a pretty tall order because there

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are 215 functions

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that heretofore were performed by the

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CMO and we have to figure out where

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they're all going now . Some of them

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are related but that , you know , the

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deliberate decomposition of a very

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important portfolio , like the CMO um

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is hard work and it's complex work .

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And again , as I said , we have

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multiple PSAs involved , we've got

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controller involved , we've got the CIA

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involved , we've got Cape involved ,

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we've got DNM involved . Of course ,

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we've got the G . C . Involved for

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legal advisories and we've got other

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components like WHS that could be

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involved , meaning there may be things

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that are going on inside of WHS on the

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execution side , that if there is a

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function that's going to move somewhere

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else , you've got to pull it along , we

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don't know what those are yet , but we

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are working very quickly . I sat in

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hours and hours of briefings with Mr

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Donnelly last week talking to the

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stakeholders on the decomposition , um

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but as a timeline , Mr Donnelly owes

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something in a couple of weeks and it's

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going to be a full plan by the way , um

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that's what he expects and that's what

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he's going to get . Um so , um but it's

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going to account for all the

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decomposition of the CMO and where all

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functions are going here to four .

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Everyone knows that while we've had

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some conceptual memos laid out there ,

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there have been no resources moved , no

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functions move , no resources , move ,

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no people move nothing . Um That's

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going to be a heavy lift . J for you

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mary for you Dave for you . I mean

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we're all going to be space , you know ,

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it's going to it's going to have this

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whole long implementation tail , but it

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has to start and has to emanate from a

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well thought out , well integrated ,

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well coordinated , legally sufficient

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plant and that's what we're doing now

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and thats goodness , that's really good

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stuff . Um the OPI MDSD

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staff will be , the other reason it's

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important is because we owe the Hill ,

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the Hill is chirping in our ear about

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how you doing this , where is

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everything going ? There's a

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congressional report that's due Where

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we have to account for 100 of the

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functions that move somewhere upon the

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disestablishment . Oh Pnds will be the

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lead for that report , just as we were

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for the NLD composition . So , um , but

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you can see that this cannot be done in

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a short shrift way . It's got to be

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done deliberately diligently and with

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the cooperation and collaboration with

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the players that are affected , this is

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very complex stuff . And the deputy is

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expecting a very well integrated

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framework for us to be able to tell a

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story on why we did what we did and can

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we visualize where things went And

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so we're in good hands with Mr Donnelly

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because he did this for a living for

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well in the midst of all of his other

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assignments , but he did this for a

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living and oh by the way ,

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interestingly , he worked on a report

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with Now Secretary Deputy Secretary

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Hicks on multiple aspects of OsD .

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So they're both quite in it as

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intellects and understand the intricacy

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of OSD and how it is a very complex

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machine that needs to be regarded as

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such . So um that is my other priority .

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Uh and it's a priority of mine because

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it's gonna be affecting us here in WHS

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as we reset um the operational arms

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that support whatever the deputy

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decides of the new functions and

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responsibilities that accrue um to uh

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D . N . M . Um All of this is

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done being done in an environment ,

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An extraordinary environment in the

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last 14 months , a covid

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mitigated environment that has all of

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us distributed and working

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from home and from wherever we're

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working . Many of you have had to be

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here just by the virtue of the

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criticality of the mission and the

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presence required to do that . Um and

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others have worked over the last 14

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months um refining and and

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regularizing and fine tuning a tele

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work and offsite work arrangement ,

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but it has been a very , very complex

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dynamic time . Um And of

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course we've been appropriately

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stepping to the national plan that

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comes out of the White House as advised

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by the CDC's and um and then all the

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executive while the U . S . Government

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at large pivots and aligns with the

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White House and the C . D . C .

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Um so the last 14 months and I

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haven't been involved in that part of

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it Darren you paul . Everybody out here

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has been involved in some you know day

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to day pivot make it work , figured out

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bringing me another process . Bring me

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another update . Um It's just been an

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incredibly complex environment . Um

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Hopefully where we're heading will get

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us back to kind of what we all like to

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refer to as normalcy . But this of

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course is going to be a new normal

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somewhere along the line here . Um But

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um as everyone knows last week , the

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Deputy secretary signed her memo on

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updated mass guidelines for the

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vaccinated population . Um which is a

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nice thing to be sitting here with

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everyone with no masks on because we've

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all been vaccinated um at least two

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weeks . But um I

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encourage everyone to ,

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you know , partake in the availability

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of vaccine vaccine wherever it is ,

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whether it's here um in our clinic

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or whether I think a lot of people are

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using external resources in their local

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areas when you go with your families or

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whatever . But I just encourage that um

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it's for uh it's available for sure and

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um it helps us kind of interact more

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normal way maybe , hopefully . But

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those are personal choices . I

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understand but give it some thought .

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But given the dynamics of the

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environment and the fact that some

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people are here is some people are out ,

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you know , messaging in and out . And I

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really wanted to make sure that we're

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all baseline . So I've asked Darren to

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step up here or wherever you're going

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to stand Darren and just tell everybody

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what's going on around here . Um Darren

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and paul are in this every day . Um

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but I thought everyone would benefit

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just from hearing what is going on . So

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Darren over to you .

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Does it work ? How about that ? Here

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you go . Thanks . Thanks miss manners .

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I'm Daryn turbine the acting director

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of executive services and for the past

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15 months been helping the director of

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WHS with Covid along with a bunch of

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other folks . Why are you waving me

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over here ? Oh yeah

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yeah so as MS Minor said last

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thursday Secretary put out uh well

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first the C . D . C . Put out guidance

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on masking . Um

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And if you're fully vaccinated fully

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vaccinated meeting , you had the second

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vaccination or the Johnson and Johnson

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Plus two weeks . Then you're considered

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fully vaccinated . If you're fully

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vaccinated you no longer wear either

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wear your mask indoors or outdoors . Uh

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And if you're not fully vaccinated

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nothing changes . You should continue

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your considered at high risk and you

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should consider to continue to wear

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your mask both indoors . And I think

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outdoors they kind of DX that one a

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little bit . But anyway so that came

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out about 14.30 . The president came

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out and reiterated About 1800 that

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night . Deputy surprises with that memo

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for the entire department saying you

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don't need to wear your mask on the

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property indoors or outdoors . So

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friday we jumped around and that's a

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good thing because now we can look

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around and see how pretty everybody is

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because it's been a long time since

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we've seen your smiling faces . So

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that's that's all the good thing . So

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what really changes and I will tell you

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nothing other than we have modified HP

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con bravo plus by one aspect and that

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is indoors outdoors , you don't need to

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wear your masks . Everything else

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remains the same gatherings indoors 25 .

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We want you to continue to social

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distance until we go to HP con bravo ,

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which will change a little bit will go

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up to 50 will have a few more visitors

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in the building . Um but the big thing

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was the mask . So how are we measuring

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get into hp com bravo . The measurement

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that we're using right now is new cases

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per 100,000 Over a seven day average .

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And we do that on a 30 to 50 mile

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radius around the pentagon reservation .

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We figured that captures the majority

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of the work force and so by rolling

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those numbers , that's what gives us

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our number Bravo plus is 16

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cases to 30 . We're now below

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16 . Right below were at the 15

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mark , we've put the package together

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to go to HP con bravo . Um and I think

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we're shooting for a date of Tuesday ,

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one June , which would be the day back

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from Memorial Day weekend . But again ,

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the deputy kind of through a few things

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into the mix for us with that memo last

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week . So P and R . And the covid task

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Force are reworking the guidance that

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they're putting out . We expect a memo

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today tomorrow maybe Wednesday co

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signed by the deputy and by the vice

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chairman that urges you to get your

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vaccination . We expect new

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mass guidance uh from the

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Secretary and Force Health Protection

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number 17 , which is an update that was

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ready to go to print on friday . But

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that changed a little bit . So those

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are being reworked this week as well ,

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so again it was a little bit of uh a

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surprise so but so so you know , we are

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remaining it for HP con bravo plus

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with the addition or the change of the

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masking guidance that came out from the

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deputy

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Over the last 3 4 months . Regina

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Grant and her great team have been

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responsible for vaccinations here at

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the pentagon reservation and I think

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they have done a fantastic job . We've

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provided over 40001st and second doses

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vaccinations here , uh working with tom

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Rogers dr tom Rogers uh at the Di

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Lorenzo Clinic . Um those have been

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provided that I hope most of you know ,

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over at the PLC library . Uh the flow

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of that was something to really work

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out . We were we were planning for up

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to 2000 day . Uh I think we may have

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hit 1200 at one point where we had come

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through and again those were 1st and

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2nd doses but managing that flow ,

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managing the people , the allocations .

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Initially we did it all by allocations .

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We finally got our reservation system

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up and online for the uh Phase two

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all the Phase two personnel . And that

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made things a lot easier . Although we

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did lose track of data at that point .

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Um But a huge effort went into that and

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I think that's turned out well , I will

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tell you now that Where I was telling

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you demand up to 1200 A day , we're

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down to a below about 100 requests for

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first vaccinations a week . The

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vaccine the vaccine is available if you

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want it . I urge you your folks that if

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you need to vaccinate still need the

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vaccination to get , it's here . It's

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available uh , and it's readily

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available . But I think that's the case

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everywhere . So we've seen a huge drop

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off just like you're seeing everywhere

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else uh , in the news on that . What

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does that mean to the reservation ? Uh ,

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the pack continues to operate at a

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reduced rate through the reservation

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system today . In fact , we've opened

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up the Mark center and the pope taylor

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annexes again . We close those a few

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months back primarily due to demand or

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lack of demand . So we've opened those

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backup today . We think the demand will

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be there . Uh , We hope that demand

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will be there . Uh , And so those

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are our reopened today . When we go to

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Bravo right now , we're doing

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150 550

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persons per two hour session . That

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will go up to 255 and those numbers

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will continue to go up as things

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continue to improve around here ,

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parking will not change as we move into

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H . P . Con bravo . When we move into

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bravo , it will still be an open

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parking . Uh You can extend that

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through the parking office and if you

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have any questions feel free to call

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the parking office and discuss with

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them . But we've had pretty much an

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open parking on the reservation due to

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people not wanting to ride mass transit

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and we kind of forced them in . If

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you're going to come to the building ,

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you're probably gonna drive , we don't

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want you to slug , we don't want you to

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take the metro . Obviously all that's

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starting to open up a little bit but

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that's why we have the open parking

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that we do right now here and at the

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Mark center overflow At the pentagon

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resurrect . So 97 98% on any given day

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in south parking and about 85 86 87% in

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north parking . So we're full , the

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house is full and the overflow is the

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Mark center . And if you're allowed to

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park here , you'll be allowed to park

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at the Mark center . Um So that's

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that's parking . Uh but you will be

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coming back to the uh so so what does

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that mean here ? Here's the bit the

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most common question and we get right

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now with respect to covid , Hey , uh

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the mass restrictions are lifted .

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People are vaccinated . Can I come back

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to the building ? No , come into the

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building is not based on being

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vaccinated . Coming back to the

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building is not being based on Mass

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Square . Coming back to the buildings

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based on the HP con status and what

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your supervisor or supervisors need to

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accomplish the mission . Right now

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we're working at a set number of 40 in

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the building . We haven't reached that

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And quite some time we've been closer

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to 60% . But then the deputy or the

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secretary put out his memo a month ago

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and it wasn't a goal . It was a

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directive with some exceptions .

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Uh And so right now we're we're only

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supposed to have 40% of the workforce

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in the pentagon March center . Uh D O D

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N C R spaces . uh and when we go to

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Bravo that will just go up to 50 and

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like I said , we're exceeding that to

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the large extent right now . So do I

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come back into the building now based

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on all this good news baseball's going

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on . People are down in Miami partying

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on the beaches and stuff . Do I cannot

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come back to the building . No it does

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not change until your supervisor asked

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for you to return . Will it happen in

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the very near future ? Even when we go

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to bravo and we're getting there quick .

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It is it's dropped off significantly in

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the last couple of weeks . Um but when

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we go to Bravo it doesn't change when

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we go to alpha . I think our number

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then goes up to 100 based on the New HP

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Con framework but we'll get there we're

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just not there yet . So man that's all

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I have daring thing because there's a

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lot of moving parts as everyone can see .

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And um of course the directors will

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have to be involved both with your

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staffs and then of course with me Mr

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Donnelly um and others on kind of how

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we evolve this as the force health con

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evolves as well . So , but I think

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that's helpful Darren because there are

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a lot of moving parts and people here

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little pieces here in little pieces

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there . Um so um I wanted to

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just close with just a couple of things

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that I wanted to emphasize . I've

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emphasized them to the directors

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already but they apply for our larger

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organization and and there are

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they're kind of tenants that I live by

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George can probably tell you I live by

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this and no PNDS and there are things

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that I value and in some ways demand

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um I'm a big transparent person .

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We are all better when we know what's

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going on . You cannot ask an

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organization to help you if we don't

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know what's going on . So transparency

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an open communication is where

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it's at and that's and I give you that

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commitment that that is the way I

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operate in my other organization . Um I

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will tell you everything I know and I

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know it um and for things that are way

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bigger than me which is this mission ,

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I will come to you and seek your input .

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Um So um but I think fluid open

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communications or or just the lifeblood

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of healthy positive productive

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organizations . I

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have a very gary has been laughing at

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me for the whole month that I've been

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here because I really think that

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disciplined operations , not that we

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didn't have them , but I stress that

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because I stress it to myself in terms

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of a standard for how we are going to

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move our information up down

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across organizational lines . And then

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of course from me into Mr Mr Donnelly .

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Um and that what does that mean ? Um

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we have a reporting rhythm that we are

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now into by virtue that the deputy is

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putting Mr Donnelly in a reporting

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rhythm which means the trickle down is

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here with us . So we're putting in a

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aligned reporting cadence that allows

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him to report up . So

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I know it's a lot with every buddy

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doing stuff all hours of the day and

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night . But we have got to be timely

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with our reporting information because

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there's so many above us relying on us .

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But that also goes to just if there's

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something emerging in your respective

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organizations , a staff member brings

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you something that you need to know and

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you think Gina better know this one .

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please bring it forward through uh you

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know always see see Gary and George and

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and they'll bring my attention to it .

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So there's the formal reporting but

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there's also this sense that

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I have to know that I am going to hear

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from you if you think there's something

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I need to know and so feel very free to

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to push information . Um

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Our packages as I referred before ,

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we have a lot of volume of paper going

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through um and um you know ,

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we have a lot of CAD um stuff that is

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generated by our own organization , but

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then there's Katims actions that are

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being put on us from external um

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requesters . We need to be paying

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attention to what's in our CAD um

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system . What are deadlines are if we

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feel that there's a complexity or an

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adjacency to an issue that is beyond

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our control and we're just not going to

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make the deadline highlight that

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earlier , not the day that the suspense

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was due . And we'll work to see if we

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can move some deadlines around . Opie

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MDSD finds ourselves in that all the

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time . And so we are very active about

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working with the requesting offices to

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move a deadline if in fact it's

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warranted . Um I uh

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I and maybe it's because I worked for

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Dot Cook who was a lawyer and Mr

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Donnelly and Howard Becker who was an

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english major um you know I got beat

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into my head um you know product

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quality um And um I want our

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packages our packages in part

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our brand when the secretary of the

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deputy sees something coming in from W .

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H . S . And they start reading it .

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That's their first touch at us as an

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organization . Both the content and the

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standard by which we execute our work .

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So I George knows this and OPM DST

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we have peer review so if you if it's a

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dense document and you just your eyes

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are glazed over , give it to one of

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your have your staff's give it to

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appear to just give it a quick set of

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eyes . Um But um we're all

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have our hand in good product quality

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and high standard uh production of

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documents um And

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again just think of it this way our

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product is our brand as well as our

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survey data day execution of our

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services , but particularly for the

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things that are going to be going into

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Mr Donnelly and the deputy and the

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secretary um to that end I've asked

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George and Gary to kind of put together

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a template library that might help you

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guys because I know time is of the

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essence a plug and play template that

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that takes all the thinking of you guys

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having to worry about formats and this

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that and the other thing , so that is

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on its way at some point , George is

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diligently working that as well . Um

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The other thing is , again ,

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collaboration , um I expect that . I

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think we're all better because of our

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collaboration . There's probably , I

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mean there's a lot of work that's

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within our functional organizations ,

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but there's a lot of work that there

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are interfacing equities everywhere in

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this organization . So I know who

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you're trusted partners are across the

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organization and then outside of the

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organization um and make it

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make it kind of your instinctive self

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that you're going to reach out and talk

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it up and cross talk and share

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documents . It makes us it definitely

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makes us better . And then the last

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thing is , you know , you're all

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experts at whatever level you are at .

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And so um I am one

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of the first things that some of the

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directors already know . I'm looking at

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their authorities and what their

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authorities are and what my authorities

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are , there's things that need to come

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up to me great . I'll exercise the

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authority . But if there are things

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that makes sense that should be

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residing and continuing to reside or

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need to be re established at the

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director's level . I'm looking at that

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right now . You guys are the experts

59:21.220 --> 59:24.110
and so and you're in it every day and

59:24.110 --> 59:26.750
so I've asked just so everyone knows

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and the directors that are here know

59:28.816 --> 59:30.871
this that I've asked them to look at

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their authorities and look at the the

59:33.150 --> 59:35.317
relationship of them between what they

59:35.317 --> 59:37.483
do and what I should be doing and find

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the right place that that should settle

59:39.706 --> 59:42.150
up that cascades down below too . So

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you know , I'm about empowerment with

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the directors and I want the directors

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and supervisors to be about empowerment

59:49.020 --> 59:51.020
with their staffs . That's that's a

59:51.020 --> 59:52.742
very important and it's a very

59:52.742 --> 59:55.740
rewarding experience . So transparency ,

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disciplined operations , collaboration

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and empowerment . That's what I'm at

01:00:01.040 --> 01:00:04.160
all about . And I think it will make us

01:00:04.160 --> 01:00:06.800
better . We should all be here to make

01:00:06.810 --> 01:00:10.130
each other better . Um you guys are

01:00:11.110 --> 01:00:13.910
you've got a you've got to work in

01:00:13.910 --> 01:00:17.520
progress here with me but I ask

01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:19.710
everyone to you know to just be

01:00:19.710 --> 01:00:21.830
thinking about how we can get better

01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:24.610
because the deputy secretary again from

01:00:24.610 --> 01:00:27.640
my conversations , she really has great

01:00:27.640 --> 01:00:29.584
respect for what gets done in this

01:00:29.584 --> 01:00:31.807
organization and of course I told you ,

01:00:31.807 --> 01:00:33.807
Mr Donnelly loves this organization

01:00:34.250 --> 01:00:37.880
dearly . So I think the stars might be

01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:41.040
aligned here where we've got high

01:00:41.040 --> 01:00:44.940
interest and advocacy and people who

01:00:44.940 --> 01:00:46.660
understand and appreciate the

01:00:46.660 --> 01:00:49.100
complexity of what we're doing here and

01:00:49.100 --> 01:00:52.290
so that's all good . So with that I

01:00:52.290 --> 01:00:56.270
think I don't know do we have a few

01:00:56.270 --> 01:00:59.880
questions I tried to front load as much

01:00:59.880 --> 01:01:02.000
as I could based on some of the

01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:03.944
canvassing that was done earlier .

01:01:07.510 --> 01:01:10.740
Excuse me . Okay , one question .

01:01:14.210 --> 01:01:16.380
Well , just so everyone's assured , I

01:01:16.380 --> 01:01:18.910
think that the questions that were

01:01:18.910 --> 01:01:21.132
solicited by the directorates , I think

01:01:21.132 --> 01:01:22.854
I've answered them . There was

01:01:22.854 --> 01:01:24.966
questions about vacancies , there was

01:01:24.966 --> 01:01:26.890
questions about Covid , there was

01:01:26.890 --> 01:01:30.800
questions about um what else was

01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:33.630
there a question about ? Well , Covid

01:01:33.630 --> 01:01:37.330
was the big thing , the vacancies ? Um

01:01:37.810 --> 01:01:39.921
shared services I think was one other

01:01:39.921 --> 01:01:41.870
question . Um First of all , by

01:01:41.870 --> 01:01:43.940
definition , WHS is a shared service

01:01:43.940 --> 01:01:46.070
provider . Let's just let's just

01:01:46.080 --> 01:01:48.247
organizationally put that one right on

01:01:48.247 --> 01:01:51.330
the table . Um You know , it's a major

01:01:51.330 --> 01:01:53.386
component of the department , it's a

01:01:53.386 --> 01:01:55.163
joint component um it's a field

01:01:55.163 --> 01:01:57.108
activity and it performs already a

01:01:57.108 --> 01:01:59.108
number of enterprise functions . We

01:01:59.108 --> 01:02:00.830
know that um for OsD and other

01:02:00.830 --> 01:02:04.330
components um so

01:02:04.340 --> 01:02:08.160
that is our known known state . Um as I

01:02:08.160 --> 01:02:10.610
mentioned earlier , you know mary has

01:02:10.620 --> 01:02:13.300
been here and was asked to come here to

01:02:13.300 --> 01:02:16.840
look at um some initiatives for

01:02:16.850 --> 01:02:20.410
uh business process transformation um

01:02:20.410 --> 01:02:22.500
with the focus on kind of this uh

01:02:22.510 --> 01:02:24.677
instead initiation of a contact center

01:02:24.677 --> 01:02:26.732
and whether that could have based on

01:02:26.732 --> 01:02:28.510
the experience that we're gonna

01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:31.520
evaluate , whether that has portability

01:02:31.520 --> 01:02:33.742
and some of our other directorates that

01:02:33.742 --> 01:02:37.020
would be good . Um but that should be

01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:39.870
business process improvement and

01:02:39.870 --> 01:02:43.390
transformation in my mind should be

01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:45.511
something that we are always thinking

01:02:45.511 --> 01:02:47.920
about . We cannot talk about the

01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:49.760
customer experience if we aren't

01:02:49.770 --> 01:02:52.490
thinking instinctively about how do we

01:02:52.490 --> 01:02:54.850
make this better ? Now , obviously some

01:02:54.850 --> 01:02:57.660
things are bigger and more profound in

01:02:57.660 --> 01:03:00.030
terms of how to build them and in stan

01:03:00.030 --> 01:03:02.400
she ate them . But I challenge

01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:04.344
everybody at whatever level of the

01:03:04.344 --> 01:03:06.456
organization you're at , that you you

01:03:06.456 --> 01:03:08.511
need to be thinking about this every

01:03:08.511 --> 01:03:10.511
day . How from my perch , how can I

01:03:10.511 --> 01:03:12.178
make this better and push the

01:03:12.178 --> 01:03:14.344
information up where we can um look at

01:03:14.344 --> 01:03:18.170
that and and deal with that . Um , So I

01:03:18.180 --> 01:03:20.910
asked that of everyone , I know that

01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:24.760
there was in secretariat

01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:27.540
spurs defence wide review , I know that

01:03:27.540 --> 01:03:30.440
there was a concept brief for a broader

01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:33.950
transformation of VHS . Um , I

01:03:33.950 --> 01:03:36.172
understand that there was feedback from

01:03:36.172 --> 01:03:40.110
that um , um presentation

01:03:40.230 --> 01:03:43.650
in the Defence Wide Review , um that

01:03:43.660 --> 01:03:46.630
got um some acknowledgement that it

01:03:46.630 --> 01:03:48.680
needed to be further explored . We

01:03:48.680 --> 01:03:50.902
would be crazy if we didn't explore how

01:03:50.902 --> 01:03:53.320
to continue to transform ourselves to

01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:55.264
be better , more productive , more

01:03:55.264 --> 01:03:57.376
effective , more efficient . Um and I

01:03:57.376 --> 01:03:59.760
understand that since that 2019

01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:01.760
timeline that there's been a lot of

01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:03.816
activity under way . That is another

01:04:03.816 --> 01:04:05.982
one of the things that Mr Donnelly has

01:04:05.982 --> 01:04:08.204
asked me to look at kind of where we're

01:04:08.204 --> 01:04:10.316
at , what was said , where we're at ,

01:04:10.316 --> 01:04:12.204
what are we doing and what is our

01:04:12.204 --> 01:04:14.560
trajectory reasonably and how does that

01:04:14.560 --> 01:04:16.890
intersect with the ongoing work of the

01:04:16.890 --> 01:04:20.730
organization ? So I will be

01:04:20.730 --> 01:04:22.786
bringing you updates on that as as I

01:04:22.786 --> 01:04:24.841
study it more again , I've been here

01:04:24.841 --> 01:04:26.952
for weeks and I told Mr Donnelly that

01:04:26.952 --> 01:04:29.160
we need to talk about that . So um I

01:04:29.160 --> 01:04:31.160
think I've covered the waterfront .

01:04:31.160 --> 01:04:34.500
Have I Gary ? Are we good ? So thank

01:04:34.500 --> 01:04:37.340
you again everyone for I'm sorry we had

01:04:37.340 --> 01:04:39.710
to cut this down today but um you know

01:04:39.710 --> 01:04:41.932
there's a lot going on . Um But I think

01:04:41.932 --> 01:04:44.410
this was a great first meeting and um

01:04:44.790 --> 01:04:46.950
and I really really look forward to

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meeting a lot of you . I'm going to

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start doing the walk around . Gary

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keeps telling me I gotta get out , paul

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keeps telling me . And by the way ,

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paul every day I come in this building .

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This building looks exquisite ,

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exquisite and it's to your team .

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I mean , it's just unbelievable . I

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feel like sometimes when I'm walking I

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can almost see my reflection in the

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florist are so clean , so anyways , but

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thank you all and I look forward to a

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reengagement soon . Thank you .