Ambassadors to afghanistan and bahrain. They were asked about the security in embassies of staff abroad. In addition they heard a nominee to head the african committee. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. In keeping with the great way that senator ramsey runs his committee, we start on time here, too. Well defer our opening comments out of respect for you so you can make your destruction and go about your business. You honor us by being here, we thank you for that. The floor is yours to introduce won of our nominees. Thank you, chairman corker and Ranking Member carden. Thank you for the chance to appear before the committee. He has been my budget director. He has tremendous knowledge and he has been able to coordinate many efficiently. He was born and raised in portland, oregon. He remains loyal to his west coast roots. After graduating college, he considered teaching diplomatic history. The opportunity to serve at the state department in
Well, good morning. We meet in organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin i would like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security Sub Committee. This hearing builds upon the good work they and their Sub Committee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a battle space and across it they are waging a new kind of war against us, the war involving what extending beyond our military to include our businesses and our people. The department of defense has a Critical Role to play in this new kind of war but it cant succeed alone. To be clear we are not succeeding. We have lacked pollties in the cyber domain and we still dochlt it is because we were trying to
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
, one. Of morning. The Committee Meets to receive testimony on the u. S. Government policy strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyberspace. To begin id like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues and our Cyber Security subcommittee. This hearing builds upon the good work that they and their subcommittee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a challenge that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident, Cyber Attacks against our Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure, data breaches back compromise Sensitive Information of our citizens and companies, attempts to manipulate Public Opinion through social media and of course attacks against the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. Those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries, both state and nonstate actors view the ent