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Infrastructure on the routine basis. Further our adversaries are probing Critical Infrastructure whether chemical plants stock exchanges any type of important infrastructure. And our partner countries that can inflict damage to the Global Economy as well as exacerbate instability in the security environment. What are your specific recommend ages with arerd to increasing cyber capability and specifically how do we compete with the private sector to get the brightest minds and the best engineers and math met igses to want to serve as cyber warriorsen and hands the Cyber Defense . Have you thought about ways to not only recruit and retrain and retable the best and brightest in the fields but also to perhaps develop resources throughout National Guard and other sources. And the panel senator, we did not go into that level of detail we noted the importance of the area the importance of the investing of both defensive and offensive capabilities urged the department to move forward with moder