Its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about. So if that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome, a lot of people as you might guess came and went. And it involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity for computers so thats new in the first gravitational wave was detected. And what the source was, that was two colliding black holes that were in a postbinary system. The most recent gravitational wave detection to neutron stars emerging. So its, but it was a very long tail. There are many many directors, many and its a Program Officers involved National Science board, they changed over large number of times during that interval and had to improve all the funding and that of Course Congress of course was the ultimate arbiter of appropriations and making the decision to continue an investment but nobody was quite sure what would have a result so how risky is
But earlier this year, columbias law professor matthew waxman, the chair of the Cyber Security center and the program on National Security and law road an article that is truly intriguing and you will all agree. It is worthy of serious discussion. It is called the power to wage war successfully. It touched on many things that we are all interested in. First and foremost, it centered on a truly historic figure that few of us know much about anymore and has basically been lost to time. It is the extraordinary Charles Evans hughs. He had an Extraordinary Public Service career. It was unparalleled by most measures. He served as the governor of new york state from 19071910 and was named to the Supreme Court by William Howard taft. Into that term, he took the nomination for president and narrowly lost the Electoral College to wilson. It was 4000 votes in california. In 1921, Warren Harding named hughs the secretary of state and he served until 1925. In 1930, he entered Government Service aga
Some changes coming to highways in our area. The news starts now. Up next its back to work for lawmakers in virginia and maryland. Both assemblies returned today. First, though, to richmond and the year of the woman. Voters sent a dozen new women to represent them in the house of delegates. They were front and center for todays swearing in ceremony. On the list, the first latinas, the first transgender woman, the first lesbian, a historic day in the colonies. On behalf of all the people in the 13th district including the 12,077 people that gave me the blessing to be here, its the honor of a lifetime. I cant even articulate the history of the moment and how amazing it was. Reporter can you speak . These women part of a democratic wave hitting richmond. Republicans still have control of the legislature, but just barely. Democrats say that slight edge means the issues theyve been pushing for years chance. That balance of power in the Virginia House of delegates is 5149, but it could split
Security. Unfortunately was pulled away from washington on business. Bob lasky the acting deputy for the National Protection commonly known in our election world as an ppd. As acting deputy under secretary they oversee federal protective service. He also works with the deputy under Cyber Security in communications to ensure a holistic approach. Prior to serving in these current roles he was appointed as a Deputy Assistant secretary he helps lead the core needed efforts. The National Preparedness and rapid recovery in the event of an attack. They have seen it about a doll. It has been a pleasure to get to know you. And i look forward to seeing it today. And seeing what is coming about in the coming months appearing for 2018. Thank you. So one of the things we had accomplished over the last year and half weve taught them more about the department of Homeland Security. The state Elections Committee this is something that we talked about a lot. We saw in spring of 2016 and 2016 we were not
I want to thank you for coming back, personnel from the break i went to welcome my panelists took thank you for being willing to participate. Obviously is the topic du jour i would say for Election Administrators as well as folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election Cyber Security and securing the elections process. Just as a way of the background this topic is obviously the top of jews your coming out of the 2016 election where we saw a nation state state level election systems through registration as well as vendors and spear phishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of election with Critical Infrastructure by the department of Homeland Security, so on this panel today i hope we delve into some of those issues and talk about the operating environment Election Officials are in today sharing expertise see all have experiences and most important what steps we are taking to secure the process when you board in 2018 and how you are moving forward p