Washington to take on the hardest problems at dod. Ist i planned to do today have dr. Griffin give some opening remarks about his priorities and some things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation here at hudson and then he and i will engage in back and forth dialogue, talk about what he remarksd in his opening. I hope to allow for questions from you, the audience, and without further ado, dr. Griffin. Thanks rebecca. Its a pleasure to be here. Specifics of the last time is here was in april 2018. So that was two months after i was confirmed as the undersecretary, and it was still three months before i i was the head of an actual Legal Organization within the department of defense. We were still working on establishing a charter and all of the bureaucratic things one does to convert legislation into executive branches institutions. So in the time, in the 15 months since ive been here, we have been busy. We have filled out the senior levels o
China poses with her cheating et cetera i was wondering, what is the best way speed is we have delete this but you can find senator remarks and the rest of you in America Foundation coverage on our website cspan. Org. We will be live here on cspan2 at the Hudson Institute in washington, d. C. Will get a a look at innovation and technology in the defense sector. Im a senior fellow here at hudson and it is my great privilege to host dr. Griffin at hudson again, a little over a year since we last had a conversation about his priorities as the head of research and engineering at dod, and im not going to give him the long full introduction because you know who he is. The most qualified person in washington to take on the hardest problems at dod, and so what i plan to do today is have dr. Griffin get some opening remarks about his priorities and some things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation here at hudson. He and i will engage in some back a
With ed concerned im a senior fellow here at hudson and it is my great privilege to host dr. Griffin at hudson again, a little over a year since we last had a conversation about his priorities as the head of research and engineering at dod, and im not going to give him the long full introduction because you know who he is. The most qualified person in washington to take on the hardest problems at dod, and so what i plan to do today is have dr. Griffin get some opening remarks about his priorities and some things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation here at hudson. He and i will engage in some back and forth and dialogue, talk about what he mentioned in his opening remarks and then it is my hope to allow some time for questions from you, the audience here at hudson. Without further ado, dr. Griffin. Thanks rebecca. Its a pleasure to be here. Specifics of the last time is here was in april 2018. So that was two months after i was confirmed
Fiscal rules. Many on this committee have suggested establishing longterm debt to gdp targets. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. At our hearing last week, there was talk about a revenue estimating committee. We dont even address how much revenue were going to have to work with. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. Most important, such targets could encourage congress to focus less on near term spending battles and more on longterm Fiscal Health of our country. Another area ive been concerned with is how we budget for disasters. I note that according to the witness testimony, since 2005, federal funding for Disaster Assistance has tototalled at let 450 billion. While we regularly appropriate funding for Femas Disaster Relief Fund as part of the annual appropriations process, according to the congressional are provided for supplemental appropria
About this. The thing america has over any potential adversary is our creativity, Technological Prowess and ability, our asymmetrical advantage was a technological accomplishment as a nation and this provision showed up 1665 because it prohibits the Missile Defense agency before going down the path of exploring and researching the spacebased missile intercept we have had some tremendoutremendous progreh directed energy and neutron particle beams with those kind of technological advanced projects i dont see why we woulwewould tell them to explore possibility we would love to have a spacebased defensive capability like this. So i would ask that we adopt this amendment and restore what we do two years ago. In the spirit of being helpful to our colleagues, two of my colleagues voted for this two years ago it would ask for the support of the amendment and that we both restore i would like to speak in opposition to the amendment. For the members of the committee, the technology we are talkin