Now to a hearing on diversity and inclusion in the Intelligence Community. Witnesses included three officials from military and civilian Intelligence Agency who talked about recruitment efforts to include more women and people of color into the workforce. The committee will come to order. Before we begin i want to remind you we are in open session and as such we will discuss unclassified matters only without objection, the chair may declare a recess at anytime. I welcome our members and witnesses to todays hearing. Im grateful you joined us today to discuss the mission imperative in the Intelligence Community, significant improvement of Diversity Inclusion at all levels entrylevel to Senior Leadership and within all disciplines. There has been some improvement in recent years the demographic profile of the workforce still does not mirror of the Wider Population is lighting and attracting the best and brightest from all walks of life. Only taking advantage of the diverse and correct inn
Hosted this event. The committee will come to order. Before we get our termite all members we are in an open session and as such will discuss unclassified matters only. Without objection, the chair may declare in recess at any time. I welcome our members and witnesses to todays hearing. Im grateful you have joined us today to discuss admission imperative in the Intelligence Community, significant improvement of diversity and inclusion at all levels, from entrylevel to Senior Leadership and within all disciplines. While there has been some improvement in recent years, the demographic profile of the ic workforce still does not mirror that of the Wider Population and is lagging in attracting the best and the brightest from all walks of life. Fully taking advantage of the diverse intellect, innovation, and experiences here at home better prepares the ic, and our nation, to address tomorrows most pressing challenges and analyze an increasingly complicated and integrated world. In holding th
Ethis committee will come t order. To help us understand what china is doing. We spend a lot of time on this committee debating whether xi jinping will make a move. This is a question that people continue to debate. I wonder if such an invasion or the preparation for such an invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member very eloquently brought up yesterday has already begun. Put differently, the ccb has been attacking us. Government, our defense contractors, our Development Firms in cyber. And they had been robbing us on tech. And they used that to their military modernization. And they have been gathering information on people and companies. Our military records have been compromised. Mine is framed in my office, in my basement. According to the fbi, chinas vast Hacking Program is the Worlds Largest and theyve stolen more americans personal and business data than any other nation combined. But that wasnt enough for the ccv. In the past few years, our intelligence and
Directions but we are truly fortunate to have rob joyce in his place. For those that dont know rob, rob is the cyber lead at the National Security council. Hes the socalled cyber czar, the coordinator for all things cyber. He comes to the white house from the National Security agency where among other roles he ran t. A. O. Which i think has gotten a little more noticed in recent years and there was a time we couldnt even mention that, but rob comes to this job with true professionalism. And he has a natural ability to translate sort of those ideas into policy and the like. So rob, thank you for doing this, especially at last minute. I thought wed start with a general question. The executive order promulgated in may. I know a lot of homework items were due early september, late august. Can you sort of give us a sense of where we stand and i dont expect you to break all news in terms of what exactly was provided but tell me where things stand and in particular, just because its been a co
The [inaudible conversations] the Committee Meets today to hear at all Mike Boettcher is. You have more titles than anybody else. The commander of the u. S. Cyber command, director of the agency and chief of the Security Service given your upcoming retirement this might be the last time you are dropping in. As the recent National Defense strategy identified renewed great power with russia and china and that kind of stands along with what the general said when he said that we are losing our qualitative and quantitative edge as we move into this 3to National Defense strategy. As we approach the eighth anniversary of the Cyber Command, we should recognize the remarkable progress made in the concept establishing the command. Later this year we anticipate the Operational Capability for 6,200 persons Labor Commission force despite the main successes, there are still significant challenges. The committee remains concerned about the hollow cyber force due to the lack of priority across the ser