We will break and have lunch. We will regather at 12 20. [indistinct conversations] dr. Hertzfeld so this one will not have as many sort of virtual folks. It is all in person. Soho karen has readily managed her risks by not having any virtual dispense on her panel. Not sure how she did that. It is all of this year. We talked about the task and experienced before, and this is more future looking and where are we going now . Karen com over to you. U. Karen thank you, scott, and actually, we are all holograms. No one is actually here. [laughter] i was not speaking into it. I was speaking into this volunteer im not sure why it is there. That is for cspan. [laughter] dr. Pace an advertisement for cspan, im watching their feet, the recording, it looks excellent. Whenever it is available, i urge you to take a look at that. That probably be the reporting of record for this event. Thanks. Karen ok. Welcome to panel 2. Well be talking about future strategies for Publicprivate Partnership. I thin
We will break and have lunch. We will regather at 12 20. [indistinct conversations] dr. Hertzfeld so this one will not have as many sort of virtual folks. It is all in person. Soho karen has readily managed her risks by not having any virtual dispense on her panel. Not sure how she did that. It is all of this year. We talked about the task and experienced before, and this is more future looking and where are we going now . Karen com over to you. U. Karen thank you, scott, and actually, we are all holograms. No one is actually here. [laughter] i was not speaking into it. I was speaking into this volunteer im not sure why it is there. That is for cspan. [laughter] dr. Pace an advertisement for cspan, im watching their feet, the recording, it looks excellent. Whenever it is available, i urge you to take a look at that. That probably be the reporting of record for this event. Thanks. Karen ok. Welcome to panel 2. Well be talking about future strategies for Publicprivate Partnership. I thin
To comment on the valley of 215. But if confirmed i certainly intend to be able to do so. I believe one of the most important functions of the director of the National Security agency is to be able to articulate just that. What is the value of our effort so that we could make well informed and smart decisions. Do you have an opinion as to whether, yeah, and opinion, as to whether or not there has been an instance involving a threat to the United States in which the 215 program made a concrete difference . Do you have an opinion going in on that subject . Nothing specific. Ive not had a chance to sit down and red review the events. If my memory is correct, general alexander outlined a number of instances in which he thought 215 generated value. All right. And this is also for you, admiral or do you think the department of defense is doing enough to provide capabilities for our defense of cyber units by exploiting commercial technology . I would use my own experience right now as the Nav
[inaudible conversations taking place] good morning. The committee is meeting to consider the nomination of selva, usaf for reappointment to the grade of general and to be commander, United States, transportation command and the nomination of Michael Rogers to be command of the u. S. Cyber calm and director of the National Security agency and director of the Center Security service. We welcome you and thank you for your years of service. And we thank your families who give up so much to enable you to serve. Transcom, which is the military mobility, the navy sea lift and the army command is the leech of the mobility. Transcom played a crucial role in supplying the operations in afghanistan and iraq. It has brought equipment home and we would be interested in how long we can wait for a Bilateral Agreement to be signed and meet the december 31st deadline for removing the people and equipment in the event we end up without an agreement. Like the other elements of the department of defense,
Have a good tuesday. I will use my own experience right now. We have a continual outreach to the broader commercial Industry Sectors in an attempt to identify what technologies are available that we could use. There is an aggressive effort to do so. We have expressed many times our concerns about iran and the threat that they pose to us and as farr intelligence back as 2007 indicated they auld have a capability of weapon and Delivery System by 2015. It was even more forcefully by oured in a report intelligence and 2010, referring reaffirming their suspicions. I have been concerned about that. We have a president that somehow think there is an opportunity to get them to joining the Global Community and reform their ways. An article suggested that the iranians were able to successfully infiltrate the navy commuter computer network. It raises questions suggesting it ran was able to access the bloodstream of the navy network. I will quote from that report. s infiltration was far more exten