Committee will come to order. I would like to welcome our Witnesses Today as the Committee Examines military Cyber Operations. I note that just about exactly two months ago, president obama confirmed for the first time that the u. S. Is conducting Cyber Operations against isis. And as the leadership of the department of defense was discussing this, they said it was the first time that Cyber Command has been given the guidance to go after isis. Just like we have an air campaign, we want to have a cyber campaign. And some of the press went on to discuss that secretary carter was pushing for u. S. Cyber command to have greater freedom to launch attacks and to address tactical Cyber Threats against isi isis. The Department Defense capabilities to fight and win the countrys wars and be prepared and ready to execute those missions remain on solid footing regardless of which domain we are talking about, including the cyber domain. The department has been developing organizations capabilities
Document. When secretary signed the document, he directed the department to focus its efforts on three primary missions in cyber space. One, defend the department of information, department of Defense Information Networks to assure our dod missions. Two, defend the United States against Cyber Attacks of significant consequence and, three, provide full spectrum cyber options to support contingency plans and military operations. Another key part of our strategy is deterrence. Dod is supporting a comprehensive Cyber Strategy to deter attacks on the u. S. And our interests. This strategy depends on the totality of u. S. Actions, to include declaratory policy, overall defensive posture, Effective Response procedures, indications and warning capabilities and the resiliency of u. S. Networks and systems. I am proud to say that the department has made important strides in implementing dod strategy since it was signed in 2015. My colleagues and i look forward to going into greater detail on our
That is gone to be a part of getting this done. Can we have that within two weeks . We can try. We need to get that in two weeks. I appreciate you pushing for the specifics. I mentioned it is my intention to be moving this proposal in a relatively direct manner. We dont have a lot of legislative days before we can we conclude for mid july. I would reiterate the requests from senator wyden and ask that you be most expeditious with these next two weeks. Lets turn to senator gardner. Sen. Gardner thanks for holding this hearing and welcome to the committee. Murkowski. O chairman to address this issue. It is something i hear about from county commissioners every time i go back to colorado, the importance of addressing this issue. Colorado as well as many western the impact of the significant loss that can happen from a forest fire. With over 14 million acres of ,ational forest and grasslands it is all affected by drastic impacts we have had from budget reductions and other things on how we
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 35563. The bill is passed. Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent that i may hearafter be considered as the first ponce juror of h. R. 637, a bill introduced by representative schock of illinois for purposes of adding cosponsor and requesting printing pursuant to clause 7 of rule 12. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. The house will come to order. The house will come to order. The house will come to order. Please take conversations off of the floor. The house will come to order. For what purpose does the gentleman from seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask for unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to pay my respects to the young women who died suddenly in savannah, georgia, yesterday
Now. Were live in San Francisco. President obama arrived last night in the bay area. Alex savidge is near the president s hotel right now. Coming up in two minutes, he will explain the president s plans and the traffic issues you may encounter if you are headed up or down the peninsula today. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steves off. We have mark tamayo. A lot of cloud cover out there. Even a few drizzles and sprinkles. Our live camera out towards mt. Diablo. Skies becoming partly cloudy this afternoon. It will be warmer for your thursday. Warm to hot weather pattern expected for friday. That will carry over into the weekend. Right now, we have the overcast out there over the bay area over San Francisco, oakland. San jose reporting partly cloudy skies. But santa rosa in the gray as well. As far as the radar, theres not a lot of coverage out there. But just a little bit as you can see approaching South San F