Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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wanted to drop the word "foreign" and add "overseas"<br />
to that. And that cost the government about<br />
$400,000 to do the reconfiguration <strong>of</strong> that.<br />
Okay, now this is OBO's recognition that<br />
has occurred. It's 16 key recognitions that the<br />
organization has received. We're very proud <strong>of</strong><br />
them. I'm not going to read them. You can look at<br />
them, digest them and whatever, but it's been from<br />
pretty much every corner <strong>of</strong> the government.<br />
The one that I'm very proud <strong>of</strong> is Veterans'<br />
Affairs, down at the bottom. We have done a lot for<br />
Veterans and tried to help it out in a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
different ways, to include those small firms that<br />
have tried to come together and help. Our Society<br />
<strong>of</strong> American Military Engineers has been there a<br />
couple <strong>of</strong> times, and ABC, and so on.<br />
Okay. Now we are going to come back to<br />
that one slide that I skipped over and I know you<br />
were wondering well what about that. So, when we<br />
reach the 50th point, the staff said to me that we<br />
should just pause and do a little reflecting. The<br />
staff said to me we should pause and do some<br />
reflecting, which we did. And we looked at the BMIS<br />
situation that I just explained and kind <strong>of</strong> made<br />
some assessments about that and what it meant to us.<br />
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