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
Congress where i played a role in the founding of the Homeland Security department. I call myself one of its grand mothers. One of its grandfathers that would be thad allen, or i think hes one of the grandfathers, im not sure, is on the call with me and the rest of you children are the successors and i think that it is really wonderful today that we are having i guess hes been phone now, a lot of zoom issues, with chris and a panel organized by meg king who heads our science, technology and Innovation Program and a number of a rest of you on the phone. The topic is whats critical, evolving the security playbook for managing ones, zeros and everything in between. While its not as much fun to see you all or some of you on line, chris is on the phone, its not as much fun to see you in person. If any group could make a conversation interesting its our science, technology and information program. Today were joined by the nations chief risk officer chris krebs, director of the department of
Considers a plan to order a for tiktok. Nership microsoft is in talks to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Of covid19 rising, but at a slower pace. Florida reporting record deaths. As of today, the 600 unemployment checks millions have been getting will expire. Next week, 200. To break down how investors are digesting this, abigail doolittle. We have to talk about this tech rally. Buteveryone, it seems, google. Abigail yes, a big rally for apple, amazon, facebook. Google the odd stock out. You and i were talking about quarters forblowup most companies. Apple, in particular, the stock had been up 5 , then in the afternoon around that news came reversed, and that is when apple took off, as though there was an invisible hand behind apple surging. It is hard to believe institutional money is buying the stock at a fiveyear high. They havent provided in outlook, but nonetheless, great results, each beating estimates. Apple and amazon beating, meeting or beating the adjusted earnings estimate pri
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