The dangers of increasing threats posed by russia and china. Held by the Senate Armed Services committee, this is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. All right. The Committee Meets today for a hearing on the posture of United States Cyber Command. Were pleased to welcome back admiral mike rogers, the commander, chief of the Central Security service and several other titles, i believe. We are grateful for your many years of distinguished service and for your appearance before the committee today. Threats to the United States in cyber space continue to grow in scope and severity. But our nation remains woefully unprepared to address these threats which will be a defining feature of 21st century warfare. As a result, this committee has focused its attention on Cyber Security. We have expressed our concern at lack of strategy and policy for addressing our cyber threats. We were hopeful after years without any serious effort for a cyber deterrence policy from the last administration, th
Permanent residents, many errors involved. You can watch this conversation on immigration and sanctuary cities any time on line, cspan. Org, go to our video library. We take to you a hearing underway, the House Armed Services committee on the fiscal 2018 budget request and emerging threats. Hearing now from admiral mike rogers, commander of u. S. Cyber command. I think back to the dialogue in the 1980 whz when i first joined first commissioned in the military in the aftermath of the failure of desert one and the effort to rescue those u. S. Hostages being held in the embassy in terrain. We had a lot of dialogue about is soft so specialized, so poorly understood by theth broad conventional part of the military, so needing of specific attention that we should create a separate sof service. We ultimately decided that the right answer was to create a joint war fighting construct. Thus in 198 was born special operations command. In addition we said that that operational entity needed to be
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging the subcommittee will come to order. This is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber h cyber. This is an increasingly important domain of warfare and an area where we have increased our emphasis on overseeing the departments progress in building and maintaining cyber forts tods protect, defend, maintain, and when necessary conduct offensive operations in cyber space. As we move towards developing the fiscal year 2018 ndaa, i have made cyber and sigher warfare one of my main priorities. In the coming workz weeks, we plan to introduce standalone cyber warfare information that strengthens congressional oversight of Cyber Operations including mandating prompt notifications to congress in the event of unauthorized disclosures. We look forward to continuing to work with
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee of the House Armed Services committee. With the president budget request released earlier today, this is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber. This is an increasingly important area on overseeing the departments progress in building and maintaining cyber forces to protect, defend, maintain, and when necessary conduct offensive operations in cyberspace. As we move towards developing the fiscal year 2018 and daa, i have made cyber and cyber warfare one of my main priorities. In the coming weeks, Mac Thornberry and i, and the house Ranking Member adam smith stand to introduce legislation that strengthens congressional oversight of sensitive military cyberoperations, including mandating prompt notifications to congress in the e
Let me conclude, because i want you guys to have something to eat. We will have a session after dinner where we will teak questions and answers and we will take it from there. But let me conclude again. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for your willingness to be part after dialogue because we need a dialogue. As a nation, we have to make some tough choices. And we want to have a well informed dialogue when we make those choices. And weve got to realize that theres a wide range of opinions out there. I understand that. But the dialogue has to represent multiple view points. That is at heart what is the strength of america. The idea that we can bring together lots of individuals with lots of different view points and yet we can still remain who we are and what we are and what we are about. That is what makes me so proud to be the director of the National Security agency because i believe in its mission and i believe in its men and women. Im proud to stand up and say im directo