the private sector and academia. no less important are investments in stem education, programs that develop junior talent into future tech leaders of policies that promote an environment in which global collaboration, discovery, innovation, public institutions, and industry can thrive. i had an opportunity to read dr. schmidt's statement and i want to thank you because it provides a kind of reality test for us, and how do we continue to do many of the advances that we've been working on, and you note those in your statement very clearly. but also build an architecture that is going to bring us into the future and certainly respond to the needs of the men and women who go to war on behalf of our country. i look forward to hearing your testimony today. thank you. excuse me. and i yield back. >> without objection, both of your written statements will be made a part of the record. i do want to comment, dr. griffin, that nobody's read yours because we just got it. and i think it's important. i realize that when you're an administration official it's gotta be cleared by all of these diffe

sector and academia, as needed. we bring in as many people as we can because we recognize it's going to be an all of the above type of activity to answer these priority areas that the veterans administration has defined. >> so, i mean, actually, that's a perfect marriage, if you will, in that we have that ability and we're able to do that, and thereby, do away with this stigma, do away with the nonability to not work with outside groups and make this as seamless as possible. i'm still going to come back to you for one more. these research partnerships have the potential to accelerate scientific breakthrough in health care delivery systems and bio sciences. should the department replicate this model in other fields of research, and what steps can we as congress take to facilitate that? >> so, i think the answer is yes in terms of replication. our focal point right now has been on the veterans health data and on the precision medicine data set because of its unique complexities, because it comes with annotations, with handwritten notes, with data streams and imagery and the collections

partnerships with labs and academia and the private sector are important. a concerted effort here will lead to innovation tied to design and development of doe's next generation supercomputing that will merge big data, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to. better healthcare, via our strategy for precision medicine, through super computing and artificial intelligence that could inform when and how to treat our veterans to improve outcomes and control costs, to better science, via a cadre of researchers and clinicians who specialize in healthcare with doe experts in big data, ai and high-performance computing, and to better government via interagency collaborations bringing to bear the full capabilities and expertise within public and private partnerships. thank you, and i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you, and we now recognize mr. meek for his testimony. >> chairwoman come stack and ranking member lipinski, chairman wieber an ranking member johnson of the subcommittee on energy and members of both subcommittees, thanks for having me here today. on se

friends from the intelligence community, from the think tank and world of academia and other agencies around town. and even some media friends i have made over the years, so thank you for having me today. in the interest of time i'm going to cut right to the chase, and try to identify a core question. and give you my thoughts on that core question and hopefully frame the discussion that we have on the panel, but also during the q and a. so the core question i have been thinking a lot about is what exactly is putin going to do in the next six years, now that he has won reelection? does have a strategy? what does he really seek to achieve during this timeframe? i'm not even going to get into -- some of you may have seen that is the rate of chechnya. somebody might want to put in the constitution for 2024, that is a whole subject unto itself. i'm going to focus on the next six years. so if i look -- by the way, i think everybody will become a russia expert. it is impossible not to pick up a newspaper and everybody has an opinion on putin. so i'm just one of them. i spent a lot o

, civil rights organizations, and academia. have posted a series of meetings to hear perspectives from hate crime survivors, academic experts, advocacy leaders and law enforcement officials on best practices to combat hate. the end product will be a summary report outlining the action items detailing the discussions on the advisory group and will be released between the summer and early fall of 2018. it is a very competent of documents that we will clearly make available to this committee. today i would like to focus on challenges law-enforcement faces when it comes to hate crimes. as you have heard from the last two presenters, over the years, one of the greatest barriers to confront the overcoming hate violence has been the lack of statistical data on the occurrence and nature of these crimes. participation of the reporting system, which like the rest of the ucr is voluntary. while participation has increased over the year, but dissipation levels are seriously lacking. we know that figures -- the figures, as reported to the fbi, strongly suggest a serious undercutting of hate crimes,