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Who always chairs the appropriating committee nd from the library, and i think thats particularly helpful you could be here with us for this today as well. Also a member of this committee. So shes here as a member of the committee but also on these topics, particularly valuable in her role as appropriating. Weve been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol, these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure were giving the agencies the help they need. Were glad to be here, of course, with the librarian, dr. Carla heyden, and karen temple, registry of copyrights. I think we want to talk primarily about modernization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden at the last meeting to talk about the Physical Plant ideas of how to make the library even more of an experience for people who visit there. I think we want to talk about today more of how the modernization of the i. T. Elements at the library are coming together and how all s
How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you fran for the kind introduction. Great to see you and also want to thank the council on foreign releases for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Border Security and immigration concerns, nationalry but also hopefully fran well have the opportunity to have conversation and dialogue on some of the other Homeland Security priorities and with the members here. I know that many of you have been following the crisis on our southwest border over the past year. And tracking really the growing regional challenge of irregular migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for Border Security. But its led to really a significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. Id like to take the thog today a little bit of above the headlines and the daily news cycle and kind of look back at ch
Tumbling. And a new u. S. Cyber agency says priority number one, countering threats from china. How it plans to keep the tech supply chain safe. First, ramping up the trade war. Eared down onmp b china in a series of tweets, writing in part, the vast amounts of money made and stolen by china in the United States for decades will and must stop. Our American Companies are ordered to start looking for an alternative to china. For more i want to bring in sarah mcgregor, who has been following the back and forth. Talk to us about this new round of tariffs, soybeans, cars, oil. Who will be hit hardest if these go into effect, and how . The fact that china is retaliating when the Trump Administration announced these new tariffs, china said, we will respond. 75 billion worth of u. S. Imports isnt a huge number, but politically sensitive products, things like agriculture, cars, it hit some of those states where they produce these items where trump has his support base. Emily sarah hang on a mom
We had to rebuild the military didnt have a choice. Welcome to hudson wide big crowd in the middle of summer. But the topic is very interesting and i appreciate you being here. Today we will talk about the intersection of economics and National Security thinking about competition as you know across the domain and on the economic side of things. The ad jumped secret fellow and a former associate director for capability and the chief Technology Officer National Geospatial intelligence agency. In that capacity responsible for technology r d and the strategy of the Agency Overall responsible to bring ai into the agency and to adopt it more effectively and ceo of two technology startups. With the phd and we need more of anthony and the government of economics of National Security with his whole career and then i will open this up to the audience. Thank you so much and to discuss this topic today. And then to spend some time and what that means for the American Military and intelligence in t