Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
Any time. Before i deliver my opening remarks, i want to note today the committee is meeting virtually and announce a couple of reminders to the members about conduct of this hearing. First, members should keep their video feed on as long as theyre present in the hearing and members are responsible for their own microphones. Please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking. If members have documents they wish to submit for the record. Please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was committed prior to the hearing. Good morning, id like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, members and those viewing remotely. Todays subcommittee hearing, cybering security at nasa. Ongoing challenges and increased telework during covid. In early 2020 the world was caught off guard with the rapid and dramatic onset of the coronavirus. Nasa and many agencies and consistent with the committee of budget. To ensure the health and safety of more than 17,000 Civil Servant empl
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
Hearing is an hour and twenty minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to tulare recess at any time. Before i deliver my opening remarks, i want to note today the committee is meeting virtually and announce a couple of reminders of this hearing. First, members should keep video feed on and members of responsible for microphones. Please keep muted if you are speaking. Finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Good morning, everyone. Id like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, members, and those viewing remotely to todays space and aeronautics security on cybersecurity at nasa, ongoing challenges and emerging issues for increased telework during covid19. In early 2020 the world was out caught offguard with rapid on set of coronavirus. Nasa like man agencies and consistent with management and budget guidance r