Epidemiological trends across the country, we have reasons for optimism. With mondays announcement from the monitoring board for moderna candidate vaccine and showed 95 efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Operation warp speed has delivered a safe vaccine in a number of ways. And ensure there are no delays in vaccine production. Because of this work, by the end of december, we expect to have 40 million doses of these two Vaccines Available for distribution pending f. D. A. Distribution and going to our most vulnerable americans. We have been laying the groundwork in administration for months. There are four major caps to get the manufactured product to americans safely in order to save lives. Allocation, distribution, administration and ongoing monitoring and data work. We have led the groundwork for these and paid for the vaccines and worked to ensure that the Administration Costs will be cover
Require a near constant struggle to stay ahead of events and the real danger lies in getting complacent. Effective cybersecurity is an ongoing line of effort. The Threat Landscape is diverse, the best practices are changing, the information you get may not always be reliable. The task can seem overwhelming and the stakes are high. In this context, i have found myself thinking effective cybersecurity cannot move at, quote, the speed of government. By that i mean cybersecurity is a 21st century Public Policy program just not manageable by 20th century government means. Regulations, mandates and centralized action in general, these approaches are inadequate to match the pace of change. Congress needs to make sure that the governments role in detecting and responding to cyberattacks is clearly defined, that theyre focused first and foremost on the security of federal information networks. Today well hear from the department of Homeland Security and their cybersecurity work. How it is evolv
Modernizing the teleworking moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid19 pandemic. We should have some good come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, what gaps are still there, and what better we can do for this process. Its been a decade since the last telework legislation. The telework enhancement act of it set the baseline standards 2010. For them to follow with telework and over the last 10 years, weve seen great advances in technology and workforce expectations and the increase in cybersecurity threats. So many changes in the world, it makes sense to take a close look at the telework policies and strategies than the federal workforce. Current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass for telework policy improvement. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with ho
Country. This is throw to an hour. This is close to an hour. Thank you for joining this update on operation warp speed. Because of president trumps founding and leadership of operation warp speed, even as we face daunting epidemiological trends across the country, we have reasons for optimism. With mondays announcement from the monitoring board for moderna candidate vaccine and showed 95 efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Operation warp speed has vaccine in a fe number of ways. Operation warp speed has delivered a safe vaccine in a number of ways. And ensure there are no delays in vaccine production. Because of this work, by the end of december, we expect to have 40 million doses of these two Vaccines Available for distribution pending f. D. A. Distribution and going
Speaker who we aree so honored o have with us, senator tammy duckworth. Senator duckworth probably needs no introduction to most of you watching. She is an iraq war veteran, a purple heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the u. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and napa yes, senator for the state of illinois. For both of us working in our security, certainly for those of us who are women in National Security, when you think about people who are breaking down barriers ahead of you, store duckworth is the top of the list when the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom cup first u. S. Senator to give birth while in office, and particularly relevant to todays event the firsts member of congress was born in thailand and the first asianamerican who was elected to congress from the state of illinois. In addition to the work shes done of defense and Veterans Affairs, senator duckworth spent a lot of time thinking about the military cha