[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