Again or what it will take to secure the borders in the primary responsibility of the agencies by witnesses today. Border patrol is our Operation Force between cdps opposite Field Operations jobs to facilitate trade and travel to keep people from entering our country at the ports of entry. Air and entry. Aaron arenas for supporting unit which provides air and Maritime Interdiction support operations on the ground. All three of these security components rely heavily on technology to accomplish their mission. Technology is a Crucial Force multiplier in a multilayered approach of the right mix of infrastructure personnel and Technology Use for at least 20 years now. Instead of focusing solely on the gadget and gizmos than the many repeated failures weve had, import and to think strategically about the decisionmaking process for illicit purposes. Distracting the process by leveraging technology will help custom Border Protection that is the allocated funding to secure the border in the lon
Agents. With reduction of overall numbers. Do you anticipate a need to reexamine and restructure how the Border Patrolmans bases and Forward Operating bases . I share very much the concern we discussed on this hiring issue. For the Border Patrol to be in a downward spiral, which means were not able to hire as fast as attrition is very concerning. I have talked with your staff also about the number of programs that we put in place, particularly to speed up the process. So in these new hiring hubs we can get people through in 160 days until at times, well over a year. That is important. The close cooperation with the department of defense as people leave the department of defense and the active duty military to be able to hire them into the Border Patrol or into customs and Border Protection is particularly important. Working with congress for additional pay for very difficult locations where they work, hardship reimbursement would be particularly helpful. Along with things that weve dis
Surprise i found that theres obviously evidence out there that it exists, that women do have a different effect in leadership and gender inequality has an affect on a variety of state Security Issues and im sure some of you are nodding your head because im idiot and i should have known that. It was surprising to me who was a cobra pilot, im just like the guys. Theres nothing i cant do that they can do. Kind of took some of this emotion or the not emotional but more as a marine what i felt like touchy feely stuff out of the equation. As it turns out, i was wrong back then and im learning more every time. Right now what ive been looking at for a number of years is the impact of gender inequality not necessarily on face value, on its face, but the impact of gender inequality on domestic terrorism as an enabling condition. And terrorism, obviously, is very relevant right now and has been for the last 15 years, more so than it was earlier. And we still dont fully understand the factors that
I think is senator lees point of trying to allow for those who have the skill set, maybe that i had when i was 16 and hadnt yet developed are being left behind. If you think youre dating yourself on your first job, wait till i tell you what my first job was. I see senator peters has arrived. Senator, just in the knick of time. Well youre on. Thank you. You havent been to a Committee Meeting in a long time where you walk in, sit down and the chairman says youre on. I need to do this more often. Thank you for that. Senator furman thank you for being here to talk about Economic Issues and considering the future. Longterm structural changes that seem to be occurring in our economy that i think will pose some potentially significant challenges for us in the decades ahead. I enjoyed reading the economic report, job creation, dynamism, et cetera. One issue thats addressed in here and i think youve done some studies related to it as well deals with the pace of technological change and the impa
The female celebrity accounts that were hacked. From the cloud, from icloud and c nbc had a report that china likely attacked icloud accounts and then in 2015, last year, apple had to release a patch in response to concerns that there had been brute force attacks on icloud accounts. So im anticipating, well see, that apple will take further steps to encrypt and protect not only its operating system that it has today, but also, the protection as well as the icloud accounts. And ill just close with this. I have on my iphone all kinds of messaging apps. That are fully encrypted. Some better than others. Some were designed in the United States. A bunch of them were designed in other countries. And im not i wouldnt do anything wrong on my iphone but if i were a terrorist, i could use any one of those apps and communicate securely and there wouldnt be anything that the u. S. Government, not the fbi, not the congress or the president , could do to prevent that from occurring so i see this as,