Terrorists turned civilian aircraft into weapons, killing nearly 3,000 americans and injuring thousands more. Today we honor the memories of those who perished and those First Responders who ran into harms way to help their fellow citizens. The tragedy of 9 11 led to the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, tsa, within the new department of Homeland Security. Tsa is charged with protecting our nations Transportation Systems from attack and ensuring freedom of movement of people and commerce. Im pleased that acting deputy administrator Patricia Cogswell is here to update the committee on the progress toward achieving these goals. Americas Transportation Systems are designed for accessibility and efficiency. The enduring challenge remains how to respond to terrorist attacks without unduly burdening travel, the economy and civil liberties. Tsas workforce includes transportation security inspectors, federal air marshals and visible intermodal response teams. Congress has
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And welcome to this hearing on detecting the nation, Transportation Systems. We reflect on a summer day in american history, 18 years ago that terrorists turned a address the agencys progress towards implementing modernization the committee will exercise oversight to existing security programs. Notably the passenger screening teams in february administrator pekoske briefed the committee on disturbing testing results from the ig and promised to revamp k9 training. Tsa is committed to making the federal federal air Marshals Program more intelligent space. Improving todays Frontline Security programs is important but tsa must adapt to changing threats and technologies. Emerging Technology Including biometrics, perhaps we will hear about that today. Understand tsa has a biometrics roadmap but we certainly need to do this in light of concerns involving privacy, Data Protection and civil liberties. I look forward to a robust discussion today on the vital role the tsa plays. Madam Ranking Mem
Afternoon everyone, thanks for joining us. My name is greg mathis, i felt policy advisor to senator mark warner and again for joining us for this Cyber Security Office Briefing today, is company on Cyber Security and healthcare area as many of you may know, underwater along with cory gardner the bipartisan adversary task force in 2016, this goal of shedding light on some of the most pressing issues are kind when it comes to Cyber Security threats and how theyimpact our nation. For todays briefing i think pacifically we seem a number of very high profile extensive and quite frankly potentially dangerous Cyber Security attacks in our Nations Health care sector. We brought in to individual today that have a wealth of knowledge in this area will robert lord who is chief Strategy Officer at protenus. Protenus, im sorry about that and so youll be here to give a presentation talk about this important topic as well as we have an who is ceo of dhi and so without further, ill let the first prese