Committee will come to order. I would like to welcome our Witnesses Today as the Committee Examines military Cyber Operations. I note that just about exactly two months ago, president obama confirmed for the first time that the u. S. Is conducting Cyber Operations against isis. And as the leadership of the department of defense was discussing this, they said it was the first time that Cyber Command has been given the guidance to go after isis. Just like we have an air campaign, we want to have a cyber campaign. And some of the press went on to discuss that secretary carter was pushing for u. S. Cyber command to have greater freedom to launch attacks and to address tactical Cyber Threats against isi isis. The Department Defense capabilities to fight and win the countrys wars and be prepared and ready to execute those missions remain on solid footing regardless of which domain we are talking about, including the cyber domain. The department has been developing organizations capabilities
That is gone to be a part of getting this done. Can we have that within two weeks . We can try. We need to get that in two weeks. I appreciate you pushing for the specifics. I mentioned it is my intention to be moving this proposal in a relatively direct manner. We dont have a lot of legislative days before we can we conclude for mid july. I would reiterate the requests from senator wyden and ask that you be most expeditious with these next two weeks. Lets turn to senator gardner. Sen. Gardner thanks for holding this hearing and welcome to the committee. Murkowski. O chairman to address this issue. It is something i hear about from county commissioners every time i go back to colorado, the importance of addressing this issue. Colorado as well as many western the impact of the significant loss that can happen from a forest fire. With over 14 million acres of ,ational forest and grasslands it is all affected by drastic impacts we have had from budget reductions and other things on how we
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