Subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, ellen lord, concerning supply chain integrity for the department of defense in the United States. Since our her initial confirman as the undersecretary of defense, secretary lord has overseen significant acquisition reform at the department of defense, and a chill well talk about some of that today. As the u. S. National armaments director she has traveled to see the u. S. , throughout the u. S. And to see our allies and partners with regard to the development and Manufacturing Activities around the world, and, unfortunately, has seen firsthand just how reliant the u. S. Defense Industrial Base chain has become come to class relates to china. With the rise of china and Great Power Competition of the global covid19 pandemic, the vulnerabilities and gaps in our supply chains particularly as relates to National Security have taken on a new urgency. What you think Ranking Member k
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Your question and he will try to get to as many as possible. There is a chat but just keep your questions in the q a. With al that out of the way it is my honor to introduce jean guerrero, an Investigative Reporter contributing to npr, pbs news hour and other media. The author of crux which won the emerge Writers Press and recipient of an emin for the kpbs series, americas awesome tonight she is is discussing hatemonger, Stephen Miller, donald trump and the while nationalist sagged. Straight the ascene from stephen mill are from spiteful teenage troll to one of Donald Trumps chief adviser, miller who outrafted many others as encourages his boss worse impulses and help instill the native gist an miss any how much from the speech to the muslim ban the family separation policy border his fingerprints have been over the cruelest moments of the trump era. She wail by in conversation with jonathon blitzer. Won the 2017 National Award for education reporting for american studies, a story abou
For leaving the cia in order to help the community in a different way. Im looking forward to staying involved in the intersection of National Security, education, and technology. And to continue talking about technology, whether that is through the media or working with cuttingedge companies that are working on Artificial Intelligence, quantum. It is super exciting. I also dont believe that these positions in congress were designed to be for 30 years. Ive always said that six, seven, or eight years is likely the best thing. I am hitting that time and decided to go off and do other things. You have written a paper for the Bipartisan Policy Center on Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, and legislation. Whats the crux of your paper . Rep. Hurd well, its a series of papers and ultimately will turn into legislation. Its a National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence. We have to go back a couple of years. When republicans were in the majority, i was the chairman of the subcommittee on in