Himself for a fiveminute Opening Statement. Welcome to the hearing to review the department of Energy Performance and fulfillment of the statutory responsibilities and to examine the departments fiscal year 2025 budget request to congress. Welcome back to the committee, secretary granholm. The department of energy has National Security responsibilities to protect Energy Security and oversee the Nations Nuclear weapons program. They conduct an overseas taxpayerfunded research and development, providing loans and grants to help commercialize energyrelated technologies. These hearings are essential to ensure that the department is taking to its core mission and is a responsible steward of taxpayer resources. These hearings are essential. Members will also have an opportunity to examine the department of energys expanded budget request as this year they are requesting 51. 4 billion. Since fiscal year 2021, the budget has increased by about 12 billion, about 30 increase. After three years o
The [inaudible conversations] the Committee Meets today to hear at all Mike Boettcher is. You have more titles than anybody else. The commander of the u. S. Cyber command, director of the agency and chief of the Security Service given your upcoming retirement this might be the last time you are dropping in. As the recent National Defense strategy identified renewed great power with russia and china and that kind of stands along with what the general said when he said that we are losing our qualitative and quantitative edge as we move into this 3to National Defense strategy. As we approach the eighth anniversary of the Cyber Command, we should recognize the remarkable progress made in the concept establishing the command. Later this year we anticipate the Operational Capability for 6,200 persons Labor Commission force despite the main successes, there are still significant challenges. The committee remains concerned about the hollow cyber force due to the lack of priority across the ser
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Awareness of the border in the next 18 months. Its take a look at the problems and the conflicts. Lets look at the convoluted process. Lets try to fully coordinate this. Lets start taking the incremental improvements. I come from the manufacturing of the Continuous Improvement root cause analysis. Lets look at these individual problems and working with you with your help with your expertise again i appreciate your service and understand thats what we have to deal with but the only thing that we could become bush in the next 18 months is lets not use piecemeal because i might have the wrong connotation. How about a stepbystep Continuous Improvement process. I think we had that attitude. If the members are willing to work with me. Lets pray our ties those problems so that we can address and start fixing this on a stepbystep basis. Lets thank you mr. Chairman and senator harper. The border search last year was unprecedented. I started doing this job for a long time and ive never seen the
His mission. Mr. Okeefe yes, please, sir . Dana thank you. Dana goward with the rmt foundation. A number of senior dhs officials have identified the susceptibility of the signal to jamming and have called it a single point of Critical Infrastructure. Can you tell us about dhss efforts to limit that the vulnerability . Sec. Johnson i am not in on a particular topic. I know we spend a lot of time we have an assistant secretary for Critical Infrastructure, and we spent a lot of time with Critical Infrastructure and those businesses we consider Critical Infrastructure on single points of failure and the like. We are in a collaborative discussion and exercise with Critical Infrastructure on these types of vulnerabilities. Mr. Okeefe yes, sir, way in the back . Mike mike with senator mark warrens office. As you mentioned, dhs has the responsibility for protecting the government. What would you say in terms of the authorities that you have . I know you got some last year, but in terms of the