High poloidal beta (β_p) DIII-D plasmas have been dynamically driven from q₉₅ ∼ 10 to lower q₉₅ ∼ 6 with the pre-existing internal transport barrier (ITB) and high performance persisting for five energy confinement times. Two distinct confinement states were observed: an H-mode state with a high edge pedestal, and an enhanced confinement state with a low pedestal and an ITB. Previously, the high β_p scenario with an ITB and very high normalized confinement, H_98,y2∼1.6, was reached only at low current with q₉₅ ∼ 10 with β_N ∼ 3 and β_p ∼ 3. The higher current plasmas had β_p ∼ 2, These conditions are projected to meet the ITER steady-state goal of Q= 5. The ITB is maintained at lower β_p with a strong reverse shear, consistent with predictions that negative central shear can lower the βp threshold for the ITB. In resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) experiments it was found from a scan of external amplitude that, when there are no large type-I ELMs, there is no transition to the enhanced confinement state. This is consistent with the proposed mechanism for ITB formation being a type-I ELM. Quasilinear gyro-Landau fluid predictive modeling of ITER with electromagnetic physics including the kinetic ballooning mode (KBM), suggests that only a modest negative central shear is required to achieve the ITB formation necessary for Q=5. A paper describing this, entitled “Transport at High βp and Development of Candidate Steady State Scenarios for ITER” has been published in Nuclear Fusion.