This tragedy came to pass but hopefully the Lessons Learned from it will provide a foundation for presenting preventing future tragedies like this one. Lets take just a moment to recap our aaron alexis copy access to the navy are then allowed to successfully enter the facility that fateful morning. In 2007, aaron alexis joined the u. S. Navy, as with other servicemembers he a background check was performed and he was granted a low level security clearance. After a discharge from the navy in 2011, alexis was hired by defense contractor that confirmed he possessed the balance security clearance. A valid security clearance. This marked him as a trustworthy individual. He was provided with an id card that was authorized his access to several buildings, including building 197 at the Washington Navy yard. Shortly before 8 00 a. M. On september 16, 2013, he drove to the front gate of the Washington Navy yard and displayed his access card. He was admitted by security, parked his car, and walke
Accountability Office Report has highlighted, a number of internal management challenges have impeded the federal Effective Services ability to protect facilities. For example, the federal protective service must the bleep the Facility Security assessment in a timely manner with the share them offices it protects. This service has been able to do that and other agencies have sought to complete their own security assessments, creating unnecessary duplication and waste. The federal protective service must also do a better job of tracking and overseeing the training of the 14,000 contract guards that it uses to protect its facilities. Ensure that post is federal Law Enforcement officers and the Armed Security guards it uses are appropriately trained, equipped, and prepared. Training, the equipment, the preparedness of federal lawenforcement officers and Contract Security guards is essential to providing for the security of facilities safeguarded by the federal Addictive Service protective
The things we do with the budget resolution, on the bus appropriation bill, separate appropriation bills that follow, sequestration across the board cuts to allow agencies, departments, to allocate their resources. Hopefully that will enable us to look at risks, areas of risk, put more money there and areas of risks put less money there but in terms of what we can do to help you do your work better, give us one good idea. I will start. Having answered my question, you had given my response and it is recognizing that this country there are a number of risks that we face. Is a large country and part of the conversation we have to have, the department of Homeland Security administration and lawmakers and American Public is we cant mitigate every threat so it is understanding those that have the most significant consequences and ensuring we are having a conversation, mitigating them, personnel to go about doing that so having the conversation that we have today over the course of time, wha
We have debate and over the course of time are, i think, whats critical. You have already taken steps by moving away from sequestration. That will be helpful to us as well. But again i think that recognizing that we have to manage risk and that we cant prevent every incident, and as long as we are adapting. General . Yes, sir. The federal protective services to the be very brief, very brief. We have to work and weve our way through both state, local, federal, and civilian contractors environments. And we do that with a very small force. Your help in helping us to your support in helping us move through and navigate through some of those areas is critical, quite frankly. Because we are trying to look out and predict, if you will, what is coming down the road to keep our people safe. And we really need the support of folks like yourself and this committee to help us see through that and help us to work through some of these challenges. Brief response, please. We believe that continuing t
Attack. In many instances security measures again well before a person approaches the facility. To maintain ae security cleared him and he was trusted as a defense clatter that contractor and granted access to a navy complex. He exploited the stress, and he hurt a lot of it is people. The aftermath, it is only natural that we wonder if all people entering a federal facility, in the that even employees, should be screened in some way . And often usedw phrase from ronald reagan, trust but verify . Manyof the examples of undesirable threats facing our federal the syllabus facilities. In addition to active shooters, agencies must develop countermeasures for blued that improved explosive devices, biological weapons, and other types of results. Examinehearing will federal agencys efforts to develop and maintain effective layers of security at their facilities, and prevent future attacks against innocent people. Facility security is not just about protecting the physical structure of a buildi