Indopacific region. He spoke at an event by the brookings institution. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to the brookings institution. Before i begin my remarks, id just like to say on behalf of the institution that we are thinking every moment about the challenges that australia is facing with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way. Tan they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and prayers today. Im john allen im the president of the brookings institution. We are very honored to have you with us. Happy kn happy new year. We are pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the Army Ryan Mccarthy who is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the defense department, and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Se
Challenges that australia is facing with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way. And they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen. Im the president of the brookings institution. And were very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. Were very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, who is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the defense department, and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Secretary mccarthy was confirmed last year by the u. S. Senate, and after having served in that capacity as an acting secretary for a number of months, he has now assumed the full responsibilities on all the matters relating to our great United States army, to inc
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome to the brookings institution. Before i begin my remarks, i would just like to say on behalf of the institution that we are thinking every moment about the challenges that australia is facing, with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way, and they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen, president of the brookings institution. We are very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. We are very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy. He is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the Defense Department and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Secretary mccarthy was confirmed last year by the u. S. Senate and after
Associationat the of the United States army and thank you for being here. I cant think of a better way to the 2020ausa Breakfast Series than to do so in this location with the chief of staff, general james mcconville. Appreciate everyone being here and wish you a happy new year. Toget started, im going introduce ms. Tammy call, the director here at the museum. Thingsike to say a few about this Wonderful Museum were all in today. Please help me welcome mrs. Tammy call. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Mcconville, general ham, all of our guests, welcome to museum of the United States army. We look forward with great excitement of opening the doors june 4, 2020. On and a half months away but nobodys counting. Youre getting a glimpse of what phenomenal museum this is going to be and we encourage all of you to help us spread the to become thepare front door to americas army. So with that, welcome to the museum where we will honor and welcome hundreds of thousands
I feel very, very good that the systemic shortfalls and challenges we faced at the time of 9 11 have been addressed successfully. I will say going forward, though, as we look to the kind of information were dealing with in todays terrorism environment, the challenges are still there. They are still in ways growing. My analysts at nctc who come from across the Intelligence Community from every intense Community Partner contributes personnel to nctc. The design of reform but increasingly we are finding that relevant information exists in the nonclassified world. In the open source world. In the world of social media. So the next great leap for nctc, indeed i would a argue for the National Security community will be finding new and powerful ways to leverage access to open source information, information that is out there for anybody to look at, but out in such volume that looking at it in tpre of analysis and rigor you will want is a challenge. One of the things that happened just this we