Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committee is meeting today to exam the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an opening statement, i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and Airborne Reconnaissance will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of the witnesses, acting secretary elaine duke, fbi director christopher wray, ctc director nick rasmussen, for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work every day to insure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee is extremely grateful for your service and director rasmussen, for over two decades, you have helped navigate an unprecedented landscape in combat terrorism
Attempting a direct listing, and is there really investor demand . Intel discloses this week that most of the processes running the World Computers and smartphones have a feature that makes them vulnerable to attacks. As the largest chipmaker in the world, the impact is farreaching. Fixes are coming over the next few weeks and it sees no Material Impact to its business. Google, which discovered the flaw, says the issue affects other Semi Conductor firms. Microsoft, apple, and google say they secured their systems. Google researchers found out that this might be a problem going back to the middle of last year. The idea was we get together, find a fix for this, then we put that fix in place, then we go and say, look, this is what happened. We sorted it out. Dont worry. Unfortunately, news intervened. People found out. They are now in scramble mode. Intel was forced to come out and we dont have all of the fixes in place, we dont know the impact it will have on computers. There is a lot of
Logic of suicide terrorism, bombing to win, air power and cornerings war, why economic sanction does not work, the Strategic Logic of suicide terrorism and many other articles average frequent contributor and an throes a vote of news and Media Outlets help taught at Dartmouth College before come thing to the university of chicago and he taught air power strategy for the u. S. Af school of advanced air power studies for three years, he received a ph. D from the university of chicago and graduate sim ma cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the university of pittsburgh. Next to robert pain is paul post, who is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science here at the university of chicago. A Research Affiliate of the peerson institute for the study of global conflicts he studied International Relations with a focus on International Security. The author of two books, the economics of war and organizing democracy. He is authored or coauthored academic papers in numerous journal
Campus commemorating the breakthrough and exploring the experiments longterm impact and defense has presented opportunities to engage scientist, are artists, policymakers and the public around a set of issues that grow from that original event 75 years ago. Now, this evenings discussion im particularly delight because it brings social science into the conversation in just the way it should be. Our panelists will be introduced in just a moment. Each is a scholar in International Relations and national security, and theyll offer different viewpoints on military decisions, the role of nuclear arms and the formation of alliances and aids and obstacles to nonproliferation efforts. This events sponsored be by television of social sciences at the university of shack and also sponsored by the center for International Social Science Research at the institute of politic and the chicago project on security and threats. Now im going introduce or moderateow, steve edwards, steve will introduce the
Wisdom is a repositoriy in the governors offices, and we know that we have the greatest collection of educational leaders in he history of the governor on a bipartisan basis, i think is a bipartisan consensus about that this morning. So im looking forward to this discussion. Im going to kick it off by some comments. A few things well look toward to excusing today. How do we help families finance Higher Education in how do we make it more accessible to Diverse Communities . How do we expand opportunities for career connected learning. How do we use data to really use strategies to prioritize our investment. Im looking forwards to comments. A preliminary comment, i know governors have been doing some really progressive work trying to make Higher Education more affordable and accessible to our family us. We know the crushing debt burden our families have and we recognize we have talent on a bipartisan basis, governor jerry brown in california, a really championing a new system in that reg