Employ the capability. And then are you making that largely permanent . At some point in the future you moved on to Something Else and someone comes in behind you. Is this still evolving how you are trying to establish these relationships as they apply to cyber, or are these going to be largely permanent . Will we be changing the story . I think they will be largely permanent. I feel pretty good that we have done the foundational work, broadly. I always remind people. Remember, no plan ever survives contact. In the broad framework, we are likely to see things we havent anticipated. We have to be flexible and be willing to change given the specifics of whatever it is is were dealing with. But for the way we are partnered, it hasnt been adversarial at all. It has been a great team. I would like to jump in on that sir. I would like to give a shoutout. We have been dealing with this on how to build up cyber capacity in the guard and reserve. We are building right now towards about 2,000 gu
Responsibilities it is important that this committee and other appropriate committees of the congress are able to receive testimony, briefings and other communication of information. Have you adhered to applicable laws and regulations governing restrictions . I have. Have you taken any actions for the process . No. Will you assure that your staff adhered to deadlines, including records for the hearings. I will. Will you cooperate with briefers in response to congressional questions . Yes. Will the witnesses be protected in reprisal from thur testimony or briefings . They will. Do you agree to appear and testify upon request before this committee. Yes. Do you agree to provide documents, including electronic forms of hearings or to consult with the committee for any good faith delay or denial in providing such documents . Yes. [ inaudible ]. That concludes our routine questions that we ask of the nominees. And so before the committee proceeds to the business before us today on behalf of
Battle of tal afar. Continuing on to serve in afghanistan afghanistan. And now h. R. , im going to butcher your title. So ill let you give it to me directly. Its Deputy Commander general for training and doctrine command for futures. And then the clunky long title is the Army Capabilities integration center. Im glad i didnt try to memorize that. Arcic. But what h. R. Is really that quite extraordinary combination of thinker and great military leader. There arent that many in our history. There are a few people like general jack galvin but its very few. So were really privileged i think to have somebody with us who has an extraordinarily distinguished record of command including command in combat. With an equally distinguished record as a thinker. He was also i should have mentioned up front a senior fellow at the iiss and remains affiliated with iiss as well. Its wonderful to be here with him particularly since as i said were old friends. The way we thought wed do this is begin it as a
Other disasters would be less expensive and others were looking at, are we driving trends down . Are we seeing overall we contain overtime costs are we not, you know, doing things just because people always did it that way to really drive down the costs of every dollar we administer. I can give you things we work towards, case studies of disasters where we have done reductions versus what we would have spent before and show you trend. Youll show us metrics on outcomes . Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, i look forward to hearing those. Back to the conversation with senator baldwin. You talked about grant programs, preparedness, and local First Responders and local agencies, and i certainly agree with that as governor after september 11th i can tell you directly what a difference the department of Homeland Security grants have made to our preparedness, and thats why i was concerned when i saw in the budget that you were proposing an 18 cut to preparedness grants, cut to training, and 1 prepond
And maintaining old systems that we think we can do a better job by modernizing the system and reducing our costs. In many cases we think we can have substantial reductions by upgrading to newer systems than to pay legacy costs. This becomes a Cyber Security concern as well. When you have systems running on old, old systems including the fact that microsoft is no longer supporting serving 2003, but your systems are built on that, if youre not upgrading them youre going to increase your signer vulnerabilities. Weve done a lot of work on that end. We were not a poster child at all for that. We cleaned up the systems documenting the systems, eliminating systems no longer needed, but we have reached a point where if we do not start upgrading the systems, not only are they more expensive to maintain, they do not achieve the purpose of being transparent and sharing information with the stake holders, and well spend more time responding to the request by creating a spread sheet in excel to ta