Good morning. We are obviously focused on stem. I will tell you what is most important the end of the day is really the skills that are inherent in these different areas which is Critical Thinking and judgment and really excelling at what you do and frankly bringing integrity and ethics and all of those things given the extraordinary responsibilities that we give people in the Intelligence Community. We also tell people that no matter what it is that you study chances are we have a job for you in the Intelligence Community because we have so many Different Things we do. In a way its the interconnections they make. It helps us to understand the complexity of how the world works. That is so much a part of what we do. Please, anyone should apply. Intelligencecareers. Gov related to those skills it appears there has been a re prioritization of some of the National Security focus particularly from counterterrorism and so we think about that. Is that a Fair Assessment and if so were their challenges . I think its mostly fair in the sense that theres no question that the Threat Landscape has changed and certainly when the institution that i run was established it was very much a conversation about counterterrorism. Also, transnational threats are a fundamental piece of our work. In many ways is the kind of connections between these different thread strains which is a space we are trying to understand and better predict and effectively provide policymakers with a sense of how things will develop the other aspect i would say thats really shifted his we are just increasingly broadening the definition of National Security and for us Climate Change, health and Human Security is such a big part of it, emerging and Disruptive Technologies of course. A whole series of other types of expertise we are bringing in. Its integrating it can actually bring it into places that we dont normally think about it. How do certain negotiations and Foreign Policy affect for example Climate Change issues that are being worked on and other parts of the government and so on so its a complex landscape obviously but its also to say counterterrorism remains an issue for us. Terrorist threats have not gone away deeply rooted. Next topic in question is around a shift in the way that the ic thinks. Heres how i would think about it. We have to be trained for both in a sense in the component, we need to recognize that the part of her work but as you say it is we are also increasing and recognizing the importance of sharing across a range of act so the most obvious in our National Security strategy that obviously the Intelligence Community supports is the importance of allies and partners. We recognize that sharing is a big part of promoted understanding among partners and allies so you have a share of you shared a view of the threat. Ultimately sharing is important to the implementation of those responses in a series of ways but more relevant to the cybersecurity world that so many of you exist in, it is increasingly obvious to everybody that this sort of the Threat Landscape requires us to increasingly share intelligence with nontraditional partners and part of it i would say is an understanding, the Threat Landscape, we recognize that we do these sort of Global Trends reports where we look out and say here of the big Global Trends. Consult with people around academia and think tanks. One of the key trends that you see is the gross growth of nonstate actors. Its also other transnational movements and actors in the spaces and we as in Intelligence Community, we are focused on state actors and proxies of state action that we recognize we have to think about the Global Landscape in a different way given the way geopolitical power now is exercise. As we move down the road we recognize we do have a better understanding of the agendas of major multinational corporations. Additionally, and this is something that is obvious to all of you as well is we recognize that so much of whats outside of government is part of our attack surface. Whether its Critical Infrastructure or sectors of our private sector like in the Technology Areas that we need to focus on in order to protect themselves because they are of such important from a National Security perspective that we need to share information with them but we also need to bring them third or further into the decisionmaking cycle so we can say how do you respond to those things . Many of people in the private sector and other spaces have a better understanding of what will work and what wont work. Of course you also have an incredible amount of information thats in the private sector it is valuable to us so that we can understand the threat. Then we work with so Many Companies to try to do that but it is a very challenging space to get into the right relationship and its not just about downgrading this makes it easy for us to partner and communicate in more effective ways. Its a lot to cover. Your thinking about disrupting and dismantling. How do you think about collector and analysis organizations thinking how they could be more proactive in countering what they are studying there. There is so much to cover. Something with all due respect i knew less about this than you do for example all of you if not most of you in the audience as well. One of the things i see is as we are looking at the cybersecurity landscape youre in the position the threat evolves. Cybersecurity is an issue for decades. This is become more diffuse in terms of the ecosystem for ransomware. As an example looking at that challenge and trying to understand that Threat Landscape you have to actually reach out to nontraditional partners in order to collect the information we need. Now we have negotiators that sit between companies and those who are trying to collect from attacks. We have insurers and others and we have a whole series of different partners that we need to pull in information from. That is a challenge for us. Thats something i think we are Getting Better at but we are not where need to be. Its a characteristic of this area. Another challenge i find is that often you have actors in the space that are relevant to state actor threads and also to criminal threats. And there are two elements that. One is that we are the Intelligence Committee and we are focused on National Security. We tend to focus our resources on one of the most critical for and we sort of have to figure out and we know some of the threats that exist have such intensity were are so important ultimately we think about them as National Security threats. That is a decision on how far down do you go in terms of support. The challenge is an issue of us being traditionally focus on our state actor. When it comes to looking at an ecosystem of actors that are out there that might sometimes combine be used by the actors or. Its harder organizationally to go back to it. Thats what i want to go next. We covered the landscape, we covered challenges. The first question i have is where is the ic at in terms of garnering the work skills that are required. I think we are moving to the right direction we still have work to do that i think of it and you should tell me if you think this is the right way to think about it i think of it is not just the talent in the u. S. Government in this area. Think about it as lawyer who runs our Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center does a lot of the coordination talks about concentric circles where you have your focus on the workforce. Within the ic and private sector and want to see that be more porous in other words where we can have people going in and out of these different spaces more effectively so that we can take advantage of the opportunity to learn from each other as much as possible. I also think that there are all kinds of advantages to not just for sharing of learning but for the individual were thinking about their own professional development and want to have an opportunity to be in different spaces to see where the greatest learning can occur. We have other things we are trying to do to increase the opportunities for people and of course im biased but i believe working in the government is just the most extraordinary job you can have in a sense the mission and the feeling you can do something important for your society but also the people are suspect killer and when it comes down to it the older i get the more i come to work for the people that i get to and they are so exceptional in so many different ways and also the adventure. You get an opportunity to do things that have you move in different places as we do so many Different Things. I recognize the pay is not the same. There are other disadvantages. There are different reasons. I think the fact is there are different models in different ways to think about these issues so i hope that we are able to take advantage of where there is real expertise that we need we dont have to have it home grown and in other spaces we are able to exchange but its interesting that you make the you have your curl District Court talent. Little bit further out is where you get a longtail of candidates . You mentioned pay for second use of federal agencies are incentivizing and recruiting talent to increase pay. I see agencies are doing that as well. What is your first back on leveraging higher pay. I think it is important. I think its not just about recruiting. We are never going to compete with certain aspects of the private sector and the pain that you will get get. We can compete in other ways. Is also a different aspect have to think about how we do that in the spaces. I also think it has to be paired with greater capacity to movement so recognizing this generation to think about their career in the context of i will spend 30 years in government or at one company and a recognition of that is critical to our system it is part of the process all of those i think are important and i also hope youll recognize it is another value that i think we have. You can come in with different degrees in different areas and become find you love Something Else and how that degree or that education matches against it is important. I feel as if 10 years ago we were talking about how we needed to have more in a sense Technology Knowledge among Senior Leaders and tech folks at the table. Conversation shifted at some point. We need to help Technology People understand more about Foreign Policy and National Security. Really the interchange is so crucial and when i look at my Senior Leadership team and i will give you a number of. Five Principal Deputy stacy dixon has a masters in mechanical engineering. Our National Intelligence manager from global issues and climate as well as and a science degree. We have a person who runs our counter proliferation center. She has a medical degree and Public Health masters. There is a variety of different remarkable educations that come through its interesting to hear the diversity that you described here. In my career i started as a sophomore engineer. Had a degree in philosophy. Talked about retaining. In terms of upscaling the existing workforce, we are deathly trying to create opportunities to learn across disciplines in effect and sometimes that is by giving them the opportunity to bring the discipline they have into another area so that they are able to bring that knowledge and experience but as they do so so if youre someone who happens to be a favor security expert and now youre working in a China Mission center you will understand better some of the issues. I think thats one of mixing and matching is helpful. We do also have opportunities for training that we tried to create with the community full inside the community and other one obviously they do quite a bit of this in the context of cyber issues but also outside peering with academic institutions providing opportunities for us to do that together i think just to circle back to something you said in terms of your less concentric circle one of the things we do think about is how much should we be spending on trying to actually develop demand for certain skill sets and knowledge thats in educational spaces in the country thats kind of interesting. We do things where he tried to expose high schools and tomorrow but we do so we can give opportunities to see how they can use the skill sets in the future. We can kind of create the feeder to what it is that we are doing and hopefully all of that comes together produces the workforce in the future. What is most influential is culture. Can you talk about the silver cyberculture in the community you talked about mission and adventure before, say a few words. Are 18 elements of the Intelligence Community. That is a lot. Also have the spatial Intelligence Agency. Developments in every military service coast guard, marines, navy, air force and army. The Intelligence Community elements and Treasury Department and commerce and across different places, sorry, we dont have any commerce but we actually have been working with them to develop more liaison opportunities. As you look across this enormous ecosystem. One of the things that we talk about is what does it mean to be part of the Intelligence Community . Cybersecurity is a perfect example of some of the challenges. Every agency has its own character and culture. It is in many ways i think personally that you want to promote that. At the same time increasing the integration amongst the Intelligence Agency that exists is what allows us to do the most remarkable things. How many different forms of intelligence is absolutely remarkable. We talk about signals intelligence that essentially human intelligence. How we look at commercial imagery. We look at a variety of Different Things that have to come together as you think about these issues so we recognize the value. We recognize by leveraging each other skill sets will be able to move forward and in the context of cybersecurity we are seeing folks that we have this joint to the Assignment Program where you can basically but then do a joint duty assignment or vice versa so you see a fair amount of movement in that space and theres a lot of competition for the cybersecurity. There were opportunities for people and that creates extraordinary opportunities. Thats one way to affect the culture and change that Community Across the different elements that you can see how it is that these different intelligence sources might help you even in the context of cybersecurity. In any event there are many ways in which you can do that. Its fascinating. We also do the Strategic Investments will be bring together. We think this is a gap or issue. Try to together people who are experts on these issues from different elements and we get them into a room and say how can all Work Together to create something that would actually get after this most effect ugly . And in those moments it completely fascinating the connections they are able to make and the way they are able to see opportunities that they would not have seen looking at the picture from different perspectives. The other thing i would say it part of how a bout sharing other entities in a way we in the Intelligence Community tend to be somewhat insular. I nature of our work we are. That is dangerous in the sense that what we are supposed to be doing is better understanding whats happening in the world and being insular and understanding whats happening in the world can have its challenges so actually getting out and talking to the center and talking to academia and partners in other countries is critical to us testing our thinking and theories and creating innovation in a sense in these areas which i think is so fundamental to our ability to sort of thrive for the future so those are all sort of different pieces we used to pull together a culture but its not a uniform culture. Its rather one that i hope incentivizes the kind of integration that we know that allows us to be greater than the sum of our parts. I think thats fantastic. About the impact we could have going forward. You very much for your time today to talk about Building Workforce in the future of the ic. Everyone a round of applause. Y here to be for dni haynes. Lets please give general hayden a very warm general hayden is very graciously here to before dni hands. Thank you very much. Thank you so very much. Jason, thank you so much
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