Any time. Before i deliver my opening remarks, i want to note today the committee is meeting virtually and announce a couple of reminders to the members about conduct of this hearing. First, members should keep their video feed on as long as theyre present in the hearing and members are responsible for their own microphones. Please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking. If members have documents they wish to submit for the record. Please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was committed prior to the hearing. Good morning, id like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, members and those viewing remotely. Todays subcommittee hearing, cybering security at nasa. Ongoing challenges and increased telework during covid. In early 2020 the world was caught off guard with the rapid and dramatic onset of the coronavirus. Nasa and many agencies and consistent with the committee of budget. To ensure the health and safety of more than 17,000 Civil Servant empl
Can you hear me . Thank you so much, nadia and thank you to the Hudson Institute for having me here today. I think this is one of the most important topics confronting our nation today. I wanted to spend some time today talking about about the economic threat from china in general and to the nation, and what that threat means to the American Military and intelligence. Then i have a fairly specific proposal i would like to talk about to begin improving our economic defenses. Some are referring to this as a new cold war. Its as much economic as military. The economic nature of this cold more is new for america. We havent faced a competitor with near the economic power they have since we faced the british. Nor have we ever faced a competitor that has the economic agility we pride ourselves on. This economic competition is going to require that we have fundamentally new ways of thinking about defense and National Security. Chinas gdp is on track to surpass americas. As measured by purchasi
About manufacturing jobs and the Trump Administrations trade policies. And later, podcast host Jennifer Briney joins us to discuss her podcast, congressional dish. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2018]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Isit ncicap. Org] host video released byism great lakeses from those raids at various businesses at mississippi this week. Mostly latinos were isolated in what officials are calling the biggest single operation of its kind in u. S. History. Some say the law is merely being enforced and others call it dehumanizing and call it sharp criticism in congress. I want to get your reactions this morning. Two illegal workers in their country and perhaps in your community, what does your presence mean to you . Here are the numbers to call 2027488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zone. If you live out west, its 2027488001. We have a separate line for
[indistinct conversations] welcome to hudson. This is a big crowd. I am surprised, in the middle of summer. Everyone must be seeking some air conditioning. But i think the topic is interesting and i appreciate you being here. Theill talk about intersection of economics and National Security, thinking about competition. As you know across the economic and political military domain and we will spoke focus on the economic side. We are fortunate to have an adjunct senior fellow from the american and for the new security. And the chief Technology Officer geo national he was responsible for technology, r d, and the strategy of the agency. He was also responsible for bringing ai to the agency, which is an accomplishment. Would you know is an accomplishment. Previously he was the ceo of two Technology Start ups and he served with the department of defense and iraq, afghanistan, i think afghanistan . And africa. He has a phd in International Relations at the London School of economics. Theeed m
Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g