Subcommittee will now come to order. I want to thank all the members and the witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee this morning. The chairman will now yield five minutes to migrate friend, mr. Mcnerney from california for five minutes. Good morning, mr. Chairman, i thank you for yielding me the five minutes and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue that we needed to care a lot about and make good policy on. Were meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security in the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy truer. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and ferc and others taking steps to address the growing dangers posed by nefarious actors. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy Touching Every aspect of our lives and a reliable grid is also crucial to our National Security and for a clean energy future. For lawmakers to encourage
Any background noise . Member, please mute their microphone. Going through documents and records please, email documents, im going to abbreviate my opening statement. I will put the full statement in the record given the fact that you probably cant hear me and understand me and im having trouble, you know, this is the second hearing, last hearing was in industries takeholders and we heard a distressing and serious gaps, shortages of several personnel, lack of even the most basic hygiene practices and a consensus among our witnesses that federal government needed to help the private sector which owns and operates 85 of the patients Critical Infrastructure to defend itself and respond to attacks. You know, the bill 3684 will provide funding at the local, state and federal level to enhance response to Cyber Security incidents. It improves the national highway system, other Transportation Systems, capabilities and established office of National Cyber directive to the principle advisory on
Any background noise . Member, please mute their microphone. Going through documents and records please, email documents, im going to abbreviate my opening statement. I will put the full statement in the record given the fact that you probably cant hear me and understand me and im having trouble, you know, this is the second hearing, last hearing was in industries takeholders and we heard a distressing and serious gaps, shortages of several personnel, lack of even the most basic hygiene practices and a consensus among our witnesses that federal government needed to help the private sector which owns and operates 85 of the patients Critical Infrastructure to defend itself and respond to attacks. You know, the bill 3684 will provide funding at the local, state and federal level to enhance response to Cyber Security incidents. It improves the national highway system, other Transportation Systems, capabilities and established office of National Cyber directive to the principle advisory on
Any background noise . Member, please mute their microphone. Going through documents and records please, email documents, im going to abbreviate my opening statement. I will put the full statement in the record given the fact that you probably cant hear me and understand me and im having trouble, you know, this is the second hearing, last hearing was in industries takeholders and we heard a distressing and serious gaps, shortages of several personnel, lack of even the most basic hygiene practices and a consensus among our witnesses that federal government needed to help the private sector which owns and operates 85 of the patients Critical Infrastructure to defend itself and respond to attacks. You know, the bill 3684 will provide funding at the local, state and federal level to enhance response to Cyber Security incidents. It improves the national highway system, other Transportation Systems, capabilities and established office of National Cyber directive to the principle advisory on
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. There are thousands of federal buildings across the country that not only serve as workplaces for federal employees, but also host daily visitors who come to access important federal services and help keep our government functioning efficiently. These facilities face a range of security threats that put both people and property at risk. And of those threats are only continuing to grow. Threats related to domestic and International Terrorism and even disinformation are rising and according to the department of homeland security, can endanger our federal personnel and Critical Infrastructure. Todays hearing will focus on what actions are needed to secure the 9,000 federal facilities overseen by dhs federal protective services. The facilities host the mold of bold ofthe civilian and federal employees and are visited by 1. 4 million americans each and every day. Currently the federal facilities are secured through a twostep proces