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Welcome to the center for American Progress, i am the executive Vice President of external affairs. Im so delighted that you could join us today. In our recent report reviving antitrust, it highlighted the idea that the economy has grown more consolidated with more power being concentrated in the largest firms in america. This is in no small part of the conservative assault on both government and the middle class. This assault has played out not just in the courts, but in antitrust enforcement practices of the department of justice, the federal trade commission, and at a wid range of deral regulators and in the halls of congress, where the view that big meant more efficient, has dominated for far too long. Since the early 1980s, conservative legal thinking embodied in robert bork and antonin scalia, has sought to dismantle the ability of government to protect consumers, workers, Small Businesses, the environment, people of color, basically all of us ordinary folks, from the abuses of m
Agencys i. T. System doing cybersecurity and also doing password restoration. Kind of and against them you had the Peoples Liberation army. So it wasnt entirely a fair fight. Sought idea of managed services is good but its easier to say than to do. So in talking to people in the government they say, well, theres networks, theres email, theres the application thats are running. What is it youre going to be managing . What is it youre going to move to . Then theres the question of who is it thats going to manage the services . Do you go to commercial contractors the way gsa does it now . Do you have it be a Central Agency like dhs . I dont know if you want to talk about managed services. If this works, it and the budget will profoundly change how the federal government does Cyber Security. Ill stress at this point the way if. So i dont know who wants to go first. Ill take a first stab. I think the answer to your question depends on the answer of who. Commercial. Is it another agency . Is