The oversight commiee which have required. Unlikehe original house intellience bill, which i oppose, this bill ds not include language that would have likely leaving the last few minutes of this, you can find it online at cspan. Org. Live now on cspan from the center for strategic and international studies, a discussion with security secretary ernest moniz. Well be hearing from the former secretary shortly. Were lucky to have him in town, staying active. Hes become the cochair of the Nuclear Threat initiative, my old boss, senator sam nun is the cochair with him, im delighted, senator, that youre back today, i asked if he wanted to say any remarks, he said hell, no, ill let ernie do that. Charlie curtis, thank you for being here. Charlie and deb, thank you for being theyve been partners with us in raising so many important issues of our day. Just as a bit of a safety announcement first, in case, we may hear a voice that says we have an emergency. If that happens, please follow my instr
And Nuclear Energy and commercial Nuclear Energy and talk to us about Nuclear Weapons , but we are lucky to have him staying active and he has become the cochair of the Nuclear Threat initiative, my old boss senator sam nun is the cochair , with him, im delighted, senator, that youre back today, i asked if he wanted to say any remarks, he said hell, no, ill let ernie do that. [laughter] you know. He may rebuttal. We will find out. Charlie curtis, thank you for being here. Charlie and deb, thank you for being here. They have been partners with us in raising so many important issues of our day. Just as a bit of a safety announcement first, in case, we may hear a voice that says we have an emergency. If that happens, please follow my instructions. Weve got an exit right there and one over there that will take us down to the street. Well go down, take two left hand turns once we get there, go to national geographic, ill have hot chocolate waiting for everybody. Nothing is going to happen,
Involved in denuclearization issues in reducing threats from nuclearization former Energy Secretary ernest moniz. This is an hour. Is a great opportunity to welcome back to csi s ernie moniz. When he was Energy Secretary, he was very active with us, and have him talk to with us about anything. He would talk about commercial Nuclear Energy, and he would come and talk with us about Nuclear Weapons, but we are lucky now to have him still staying in town, still staying active, and of course, he has become the cochair of the Nuclear Threat initiative. My old boss, senator sam done, is the cochair with him. I asked if he wanted to say and a remarks, and he said, oh, ernieo, im going to let do that. Charlie curtis, thank you for being here. Just as a bit of a safety announcement first, in case, we may hear a voice that says we have an emergency. If that happens, please follow my instructions. Weve got an exit right there and one over there that will take us down to the street. Well go down, t
Training and readiness. Lets take an air base. At an airbase, the air bases are open. They have guards at the gate. They have people in the tower. They have people in the fire truck. The lights are on. Were spending the money for all that. Where can you stop spending money quickly . Painting the buildings. Mow the lawn less often. That kind of thing. Importantly, you stop training. When you stop training, you have stopped readiness. We are protecting those in as we know are going to afghanistan and would be in a fight tonight on the Korean Peninsula if god forbid we ever had a wart on the Korean Peninsula. Were trying to protect the units most likely to find themselves in combat. For the others, we cannot afford to train them. That is risky because if something happens, those units will not be fully ready. Then we get to the civilian personnel part of a week ago, furloughs began for many of our civilians. Were far from washington, but our civilians live all over the country. They are n
New initiatives you have put in place with him are what he described to congress recently as 40 new cyber team is working under cyber command, which is the military side of his job. He said 27 of them more for defense. 13 were for office. He said 27 of them were for defense. 13 were for office. This comes before we even have a general discussion about whether you want the department of defense in the business of cyber office. Cybers about what these teams are supposed to do, what their mission is, how much all of this costs, whether it is expensive or inexpensive compared to the other things you are doing, and how you get the conversation going on offense of cyber. Very important. I divide the mission of cyber of in the department of defense into three pieces. The first and most important piece for us is to defend our own networks, the integrity of our own networks, because everything we do depends upon the use of Information Systems, including ones connected to the internet. 10 years