From, prior to the hearing. We welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and those viewing dramatically with Cyber Security at nasa. Increase telework during covid19. In early 2020 the world was caught offguard by the coronavirus. The office of management and budget rapidly shifted to telework operations. 17,000 Civil Servant employees and extensive contractor work. To its credit nasa prepared for the transition having held in agencywide telework exercise in early march. It expanded telework operations and today 75 percent80 of nasa silver servants work remotely, with project oversight and inspections, development work, engineering analysis and other activities. The shift to increased telework raises many questions, front and center cybersecurity. The increase and extended worth of telework means for protecting nasas intellectual property, personally identifiable information and mission operations. How do cyber challenges relate to increase telework affect the agencys overall Cyber
Want to submit, email them to the committee clerk. That email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome our panel of witnesses, members and those who were viewing remotely to todays subcommittee hearing on cybersecurity at nasa, the ongoing challenges and emerging issues for telework during covid19. In 2020, the world was caught off guard with the onset of the coronavirus. Nasa, like other federal aencies, rapidly shifted to telework operation to ensure the health and safety of its more than 17,000 Civil Servant employees and extensive contractor workforce. To its credit nasa prepared for , the transition having held in agencywide telework exercise in early march. It expanded telework operations nasasay 75 to 80 of silver Civil Servants work remotely, with project oversight and inspections, development work, engineering analysis and other activities. The shift to increased telework raises many questions, front and center cybersecurity. What
Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us. As we meet with you here today, we await language of a resolution that the democrats say theyre going to put forward. We would just note and were going to hear more on this issue in a minute, but i would just note that what the democrats are now trying to do is basically cook up a process theyve been conducting in secret. The aim of the process was very clearly to preclude the president s counsel from asking questionsof witnesses. The goal of their process was to preclude republicans from being able to call any witnesses and have now taken this process. Theyve gotten so much pressure because of the way theyve been conducting the process. Theyre now attempting to put a cloak of legitimacy around this process i sing theyre going to bringit to a vote on the floor. They cant. The process is broken, it stated. They had gone through this process where youve seen one side of the story, and effort to get one side of the facts and leak those fact
[inaudible]. good morning. i like to call this hearing to order. of the u.s. senate committee on agriculture and forestry. this is the first hearing for new members and i want to welcome senator walker wuhan, warnock virtual and so welcome to the committee. we look forward to working with you. and i certainly look forward to continuing to partner with the centers and i appreciate so much for being able to work together to get our secretary confirmed. thank you so much and looking forward to some really positive bipartisan efforts to the committee. i m so pleased to be holding our first policy hearing in congress on the climate crisis. a topic that is critical to the future of every farmer, every rancher in every forrester in the country. just as for michigan cherry growers to experience an unseasonably warm spring followed by a late freeze and destroyed the entire crop. that was in 2012 they ve had challenges ever since printed the foresters and communities out west he spen
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Atlantic Council. Im paula dobriansky, im on the executive committee of the Atlantic Council board and i would want to commend the councils Eurasia Center for todays program which is entitled the state of human rights and putins russia. As many of you know the center has been extremely active and a vigorous voice on a range of issues from russias disinformation to the issue of ukraine, the scale and scope of the aggression in ukraine and the illegal annexation of crimea. Todays forum is particularly timing. Russia has experienced the worst crack that in human rights in decades. And we have three keynote speakers who will be up first, and all of whom are making a difference in their own way. Their strong, outspoken advocates for freedom and basic human rights in russia. Im going to introduce the first three and then will be having a panel afterwards which will be moderate