Coverage on cspan at 7 30 p. M. Eastern. Cspans video app makes it easy to follow the 2016. It is free to download from the apple store. Get up to date coverage, pod cast times for our poplar public affairs, books and history programs. Stay up to date. Lewis and david exhorton Live Saturday at 8 00 a. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Next, defense secretary Ashton Carter and former defense secretary William Perry on technology and innovation at the pentagon. They also discuss several issues including industry partnerships and cybersecurity efforts held by the hoover institution. This is an hour. Hello, everyone. Familiar facees. Good afternoon. My name is tom gilligan. I would like to welcome you to the Hoover Johnson center. Welcome, dick, so glad you could join us. Also, welcome you and thank you for joining us today. Our discussing is titled innovation in u. S. Defense policy. Secretary of defense perspective. It will take a deep dive look at how the u. S. Employed tech
Challenges facing u. S. Cyber command. I would like to thank you for convening this forum. Its an honer to represent the individuals of this fine organization. Im grateful and humbled by the opportunity to lead this impressive team. Im confident you would be proud of the men and women of u. S. Cyber command if you saw their commitment to mission and hard earned successes on a daily basis as i am fortunate to do. While my written statement goes into detail, i would like to highlight the challenges we face in todays environment. And some of the initiatives the command is pursuing to meet those challenges. Over the last year, we have seen an increase of Cyberspace Operations by state and nonstate actors. We have seen a wide range of malicious cyber activities aimed against government and private sector. At u. S. Cyber command, we focus on actors that pose a threat to our National Interest through cyberspace. Nations still represent the gravest threat to security. But we continue to watch
Try to do a better job internationally, pulling people together to do more, not just in terms of money, which is part of it. But certainly in terms of resettlement, work visas, family unification, humanitarian visas. Trying to get permission for refugees to work in the places that to which theyve fled. Trying to get kids in school. Trying to get Development Assistance off the tap to help governments like lebanon and jordan, whose societies are really strained by having done the right thing. So thats that gives you a little flavor for the kind of International Diplomatic exchanges were having right now. Thank you so much, miss meng. Mr. Deutch . Thank you, madam chairman. I appreciate it, thanks assistant secretary richard and deputy administrative minister sta al. We appreciate your willingness to keep a dialogue with the subcommittee. Ive been clear where i stand on the need for increased humanitarian aid, the support by our allies around the world, the tension and the need for action
Its not done yet. We had to go through sector by sector case by case convince each other our standards are good as yours. But we are making progress. Our Technical Team is doing even between the different else i hope we can receive Company Announced some result there later this fall. Commissioner malmstrom, thank you so much. You addressed a very broad range of issues with good humor, great comments. And have a feeling we will be seeing quite a bit of you in washington, and i think i think ambassador froman will be getting some frequent flyer miles to brussels. We hope the next time youre in washington you will return and help us understand the processes, i, for one, would like to sit through your class. Maybe they should be something to do the next time but we are grateful you spend your time with us. We wish you the best with your meetings, with ambassador froman, others. With your applause, please join me in thanking commissioner malmstrom. Thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible c