ina is critical to meet those threats, dhs is fundamentally a department of partnerships and it is ina's mission to make those partnerships effective by ensuring relevant intelligence is fully circulated throughout the whole homeland security enterprise. ina performs a number of functions to accomplish that mission, it manages the information in intelligence sharing with our state, local, tribal, territorial, and tribal sector partners. it serves the intelligence needs of dhs components and leadership, it leverages the information holdings of the dhs components to identify and address threats to our national security and it coordinates information sharing within the department. if i'm confirmed, i will work hard to enhance ina's ability to accomplish each of those tasks. first, i intend to focus on the work force of ina, which, as i have seen, is a very strong and impressive group of dedicated intelligence professionals. as a manager, i always believed it is my first duty to support my personnel, and as a leader of an intelligence agency, i'll be particularly vigorous in defending their

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secondly, inas much as we do have -- ins amuchs a go have good day tark why do we lose diversity as people climb the ranks? ms. haynes: on the question of whether we have good data,y ill -- i will tell you we need more data. some of the data we have is good data but we don't have exit interviews exhaustively applied across the community. we're working to do that to try to help with ensuring we have the resources allocated to that and the systems in place and that is something that needs to be done. ms. haines: additionally, odni hadn't done data collecting, doing sur vairks exit interviews. we are now in the process of getting a barrier report done that was overdue. so there's a lot of room for improvement in this. in the context of the work ha has been done, what we have found out from those surveys and exit interview that was been done is that the primary reason people give is lack of promotion opportunity, as i mentioned. so that sake question for us and it certainly is -- comes back to, you know, one of the original point yourself making, i think. that's something we're looking at. i w