Billion for ship building. The acting navy secretary, the chief of naval operations, and the marine corpse com men dant testified at a Armed Services committee hearing. This is two hour 20 minutes. Good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the plans and programs of the department of Navy Fiscal Year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation as well as the sailors, marines, and civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported short falls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new modern capabilities. And yet as secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington, fiscal uncertainty, continuing resolutio
Billion for ship building. The acting navy secretary, the chief of naval operations, and the marine corpse com men dant testified at a Armed Services committee hearing. This is two hour 20 minutes. Good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the plans and programs of the department of Navy Fiscal Year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation as well as the sailors, marines, and civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported short falls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new modern capabilities. And yet as secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington, fiscal uncertainty, continuing resolutio
About cause and effect. History matters. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Up next the acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley testified on president trumps 2018 navy budget request. Hes joined by the chief of Naval Operations John Richardson and marine corps commandant. This is just over two hours. Senator mccain good morning. I want to thank each of our witnesses for they distinguished service to the nation as well as the say alreadies say alreadies, marines and civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months, our nations Senior Defense and military leaders testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported shortfalls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new, modern capabilities. Yet as secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington. Fiscal uncertainty,
Today remarks by Joseph Dunford on military issues including the ongoing dangers of is isis, cyber war fair and recruiting and up strengthening the u. S. Alliances. They will speak at the National Press club. We will come to order. Without objection, the chair is allowed to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing entitled, bolstering the Cyber Security Lessons Learned from wannacry. I want to welcome the witnesses here today. And i would also welcome chairman smith, oversight subcommittee, Ranking Member buyer, research and Technologies Committee chairman abraham. Research and technology Ranking Member lipinski. Members of the subcommittees, our expert witnesses and members of the audience. Cyber security, a concept we hear mentioned frequently, especially in this period of rapidly emerging threats, is an everinvolving concept. Maintaining an effective Cyber Security posture requires constant vigilance as new threats emerge and old ones return. Too often,
Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me, senator tom cotten from arkansas. Part two after his keynote address as well as q a will be a lively debate on Missile Defense with joe and rebecca from the henriksen institute. We want to spend as much time with senator cotton as possible so ill keep my remarks short. Washington is faced with severe challenges when it comes to missiles throughout the world. Obviously north korea is very much in the news due to the development of the short, medium and longrange missiles and the ability to actually hit the homeland at some point. Senator cotton has been at the forefront of advocating for a robust strategy. His remarks will be around 20 minutes. That will open the floor for questions for about 25 minutes. Keep in mind during the q a, the state your name and affiliation as we are on the record as you can see by the cameras. Also if time is limited, please keep your question compact and precise. With that, senator cotton. Thank you all for