Subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, ellen lord, concerning supply chain integrity for the department of defense in the United States. Since our her initial confirman as the undersecretary of defense, secretary lord has overseen significant acquisition reform at the department of defense, and a chill well talk about some of that today. As the u. S. National armaments director she has traveled to see the u. S. , throughout the u. S. And to see our allies and partners with regard to the development and Manufacturing Activities around the world, and, unfortunately, has seen firsthand just how reliant the u. S. Defense Industrial Base chain has become come to class relates to china. With the rise of china and Great Power Competition of the global covid19 pandemic, the vulnerabilities and gaps in our supply chains particularly as relates to National Security have taken on a new urgency. What you think Ranking Member k
Hurricane laura nears the u. S. Gulf coast. Massive activations take lace for fears the storm could drive 30 miles inland, causing massive damage. Jobgermany extends preserving subsidies until 2021, as europes with this economy recovers from the coronavirus. This as the japanese official warns over a second wave. It has just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 9 00 a. M. In the difc in dubai. We will spend a lot of time talking about specificity. [laughter] hopefully at got that right. Put it to you this way, the end is reallyael well anchored in the u. S. I see those as being the two risks if there is a lack of specificity. Annmarie you make a good point. It is clearly going to be center stage. Writes, theper dollar is the guest of honor even if it doesnt want to be. Can we see more u. S. Dollar unwinding . Of course, this is the bond market moment. It comes back to the conversation we had on monday with a great Bloomberg Businessweek satire speech. They said no, i stuff, jay powell. Manus exa
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Installed within a whisker of februarys alltime high. The cash trade is less than one hour away. Your are your headlines. Germany extends its Job Support Team until the end of next year, spains or rules out another National Lockdown as cases rise. Britains vaccine bet, the u. K. Backs a plan for a dnabased maxine. We look at a 50 million rates for a solution. And caveat emptor, u. S. Consumer confidence drops to the lowest level in six years. We will get the latest french figures out this hour. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at how futures are trading. Right now across europe, we are seeing slight green arrows. And i mean slight. You can call dax futures and euro stoxx 50 futures unchanged. In the u. S. , we see most futures contracts falling this morning, although also very slight drops. S p futures are unchanged after another record high yesterday. Nasdaq futures gained about 1 10 of 1 . Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna feel
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin