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
To rubble a ceasefire between azerbaijan and armenia hangs by a thread after more attacks from both sides. Donald trump says hes no longer you no longer has the coronavirus a claim backed up by his physician but theres still no official negative test result. And very remote corner of chile where scientists are investigating a possible mutation of covert 90 a strain that is far more contagious. We begin in nigeria where a notorious elite police unit has been disbanded with immediate effect it follows renewed street protests and a powerful Online Campaign which harness the hash tag and size all saw as the special and. Robbery squad had been operating in nigeria for decades and was accused of unlawful arrests torture and even murder and it was banned 3 times before reforms were announced this week thousands of people filled the streets of nigeria after a video came to light allegedly showing members of the unit shooting and killing a man in delta state then on sunday nigerias police chief
President humble. How did the government let it all gets so bad. Vice president hamilton were our welcome to conflict zone a few months ago you told journalists everythings under control we just dont know whos just how bad is the chaos in your administration. Everything is ok in our administration that was a kind of a joke that i used to say ok it was not very straight for war war that i put it was a joke only a joke because here in brazil everything is ok. What sort of joke was it you had to Health Ministers who were gone in the space of a single month during a Health Emergency and Justice Minister resigned and Education Minister hurries off to the u. S. Just days after stepping down from the job saying i dont want to fight leave me alone dont provoke me isnt that enough chaos for you now it is not things that happen in any government ok that their way that their vacation minister went out well it was not a big problem for us ok and you know brazil is a very different country and well
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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