, one. Of morning. The Committee Meets to receive testimony on the u. S. Government policy strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyberspace. To begin id like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues and our Cyber Security subcommittee. This hearing builds upon the good work that they and their subcommittee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a challenge that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident, Cyber Attacks against our Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure, data breaches back compromise Sensitive Information of our citizens and companies, attempts to manipulate Public Opinion through social media and of course attacks against the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. Those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries, both state and nonstate actors view the ent
Epidemic, and that is very inspiring to us, to see these small news organizations that are struggling because they have lost so much advertising over the past decade, and still putting resources into this story is really important. So we cheer all those people on. Ms. Casey where does this go from here . Mr. Rosen i think the story that we did will get local television stations now to say lets cover it in our area in the bigger way. Lets not just cover the car crash or local three alarm fire, lets devote resources to this. When that happens, here is how it works in washington. Those stories happen, people at home get outraged, they call their senator and congressman, the senator and congressman look at the mail and the incoming phone list, and says oh, i better do something about that. Legislation has been proposed maybe to remedy it. Law enforcement, maybe the vote is more resources in a proper way. To theely, it goes executive branch that says this is going to be a big voting issue i
The Senate Armed Services Committee Held a hearing yesterday. [inaudible conversations] , one. Of morning. The Committee Meets to receive testimony on the u. S. Government policy strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyberspace. To begin id like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues and our Cyber Security subcommittee. This hearing builds upon the good work that they and their subcommittee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a challenge that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident, Cyber Attacks against our Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure, data breaches back compromise Sensitive Information of our citizens and companies, attempts to manipulate Public Opinion through social media and of course attacks against the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. Those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kin
Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. We also have the newly created the opm and the dod have a shared responsibility to make sure we stop moving the organizational boxes around as we transition, we need to talk about the efficiency and make sure at the end of the day we are protecting and securing the United States of america. Theres a tremendous amount of people that are working on these issues. We will have additional hearings and discuss that. I personally believe and i would like to draw this out, attracting and retaining the pr
Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. We also have the newly created the opm and the dod have a shared responsibility to make sure we stop moving the organizational boxes around as we transition, we need to talk about the efficiency and make sure at the end of the day we are protecting and securing the United States of america. Theres a tremendous amount of people that are working on these issues. We will have additional hearings and discuss that. I personally believe and i would like to draw this out, attracting and retaining the pr