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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysasah0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:36 p.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. John Hoeven (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Hoeven, Shaheen, and Tester. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE STATEMENT OF HON. DR. REGINALD BROTHERS, UNDER SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN HOEVEN Senator HOEVEN. The subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon to all of you. I would like to welcome our ranking member, Senator Shaheen. Thank you for being here and joining us. Also, Senator Tester, thank you for joining us as well. Senator Cochran will be joining us in a bit, and there may be some other members of the subcommittee that will be joining us as well. I want to thank and welcome all of our witnesses today. Thank you very much for your work, and thank you for being here today, Dr. Reggie Brothers, Under Secretary for Science and Technology; Dr. Kathryn Brinsfield, Director of the Office of Health Affairs; and also Dr. Huban Gowadia-I hope I said that right; if not, correct me-Director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO). So thanks to all of you for being here and for your work. We have called this hearing to examine research and develop- ment (R&D) efforts performed at the Department of Homeland Se- curity (DHS). By the Department's own definition, the fiscal year 2017 request for DHS includes $636 million in R&D funding. How- ever, a number of congressional priorities have not been identified as R&D, such as $133 million in Science and Technology (S&T) lab- oratory facilities, so that is one thing we will want to talk about. As we seek to examine the effectiveness of R&D efforts, it is im- portant to understand the level of resources being applied, what is considered operating, what is considered R&D. So we hope DHS (1)

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