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Good afternoon. Senator manchin, Ranking Member should be here shortly. He had a meeting off the hill. Thank you, senator blumenthal, for being here. Senator purdue, as well. We have a number of our other members who are joining us virtually today. Today, the cybersecurity subcommittee welcomes for the first time colleagues to present the findings of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Our friend, senator king, and representative gallagher. Theyre joined by fellow commissioner, retired Brigadier General, john c. Inglis. Welcome to all. Thank you for coming to discuss this important topic in todays hearing. I would like to extend my congratulations as well no Mike Gallagher and her wife ann on the recent birth of their birthday girl, grace. Good lu ....
now, national cyber director chris inglis discusses u.s. cyber infrastructure and resiliency, hosted by the center on cyber and technology innovation at the foundation for defense of democracies. it is about one hour. heckle or heckle? definitely. samantha: hello, i am samantha ravich, chair at the center of the foundation for defense of democracies. thank you for joining us. for more than a decade, report after report has documented the growing number of unfilled cyber suspicions, in the u.s. government and nationwide, while offering strategies and recommendations to address the shortfall that often goes north. the secretary of defense stated that the pentagon is in desperate need, desperately short of people with cyber skills in all services, and we have to address this. that was in 2010, and that was the secretary of defense robert gates. that was one year after amazon had a workforce total totaling already 4003rd last year, amazon had a workforce of 1.6 millio ....
director, and we like to say bringing so many together across the word. ambassador tai, welcome once again. you were part of our last in-person pre-pandemic event when would he hosted you with deputy attorney general, ambassador jamie white and since that event in february of 2020, we ve hosted over 120 different webinar panels with almost 25,000 viewers in 49 states and 100 different countries. as we do at a lot of our online events we like to call out names you re in community with, even if you can t see them on zoom or c-span today. welcome today to mary thornton, amazon web services, and nicole bevins collison and welcome, mary, nicole, and all of you. if you re watching on zoom we ll try to get to a few questions you asked online when we get towards the end of the panel and incorporate those with some of the questions with our audience here. we ll dispense with lengthy introductions of guests who need no introduction, starting with wendy cutler, vice-president of ....
[inaudible conversations] hello. i am samantha ravich, chair of the center on cyber and technology innovation here at the foundation for defense of democracies. thank you so much for joining us. for more than a decade report after report has documented the growing number of unfilled cyber positions both in the u.s. government and nationwide, offering strategies and recommendations to address the shortfall that often goes north. the secretary of defense stated that the pentagon is in desperate need, desperately short of people with cyber skills in all services, and we have to address it. that was in 2010 and that was the secretary of defense robert gates. and that was one year after cybercom was created and that s when amazon at a work force totaling 34,000 of last year amazon had at workforce of 1.6 million people. people. so the need hasonon gone up ande difficulties and attracting people and talent has gone up as well. the congressionally mandated commission, what w ....
To go thanks and that is the National Security agency. We are very fortunate once again to have two people with us who know more about the president s daily brief and that is the director of the cia john brennan are and john clapper. Both the been supportive of intelligence transparency efforts. Director clapper has instituted an intelligence transparency council. Is like today would not happen without the support of director brendan. Today,se in attendance you should have a document like this on your chair with an agenda. The introductions will be very brief because the agenda has all of the bios and it. For those of you watching at home, you can see all of the same booklet on the cia. Gov website. I want to thank the Nixon Foundation for making this wonderful venue available. Introduceuld like to the director of the Ri ....