Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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thing. And for those of you were here last session,
I was doing costs at that time. I still am doing
cost, but value engineering is in planning now as
Directive Williams number seven and value
engineering is within the cost management division.
So before I get started on my remarks, I
know several of you in the room, I've seen faces
before, but I wanted everyone to get a sense of the
room. How many of you have actually ever sat in on
any kind of VE presentation or study at the
Department of State? I know there are several.
(Show of hands.)
MS. BETHANY: Great, thank you. I want to
thank you for your efforts on that process, because
it is one of our critical processes that we do to
try to bring projects into the best function they
can be. So that was excellent.
I also want introduce, I'm sorry, I almost
forgot, Angela Collins. She is leading the value
engineering program right now and is working for me
in the cost management branch. So if you have
questions on value engineering and you can't find
me, she's the one to go to.
So the first slide, just to give a quick
refresher, value can mean many things. If you look
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