[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 118 (Thursday, July 13, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E982]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018

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                               speech of

                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 12, 2017

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2810) to 
     authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military 
     activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
     construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
     such fiscal year, and for other purposes:

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of Amendment No. 18, 
and I'm proud to be a cosponsor of it.
  The amendment authorizes $15 million for an innovative program known 
as Hacking for Defense. I'm proud this was originally piloted at 
Stanford University in my Congressional District and has since expanded 
to six other colleges and universities around the country.
  Hacking for Defense offers our country's best and brightest students 
the opportunity to work directly with our nation's military to identify 
our most urgent national security threats.
  Students design innovative solutions using a lean-startup model that 
can quickly lead to the procurement of new technologies that solve 
real-world problems facing our military and the warfighter.
  Hacking for Defense integrates entrepreneurism with public service 
and helps the federal government become more flexible and less 
bureaucratic in its approach to problem solving, something Congress has 
long sought to foster.
  I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan amendment.

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