Good morning. This hearing of the subcommittee on readiness and management will come to order. Subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from undersecretary defense for acquisition and sustainment, ellen lord concerning supply chain integrity fourth apartment of defense in the United States. Since her initial confirmation as the under secretary of defense secretary lord has oversensitive give acquisition reform at the department of defense and i am sure we will talk about some of that today. As the u. S. National armament director she has traveled to see the u. S. Throughout the u. S. And the to see our allies and partners with regards to the development and Manufacturing Activities around the world and unfortunately has seen how reliant the u. S. Defense Industrial Base chain has become particularly as it relates to china. With the rise of china and Great Power Competition and the Global Pandemic the vulnerabilities and gaps in our supply chain particularly as it relates to the Na
Subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, ellen lord, concerning supply chain integrity for the department of defense in the United States. Since our her initial confirman as the undersecretary of defense, secretary lord has overseen significant acquisition reform at the department of defense, and a chill well talk about some of that today. As the u. S. National armaments director she has traveled to see the u. S. , throughout the u. S. And to see our allies and partners with regard to the development and Manufacturing Activities around the world, and, unfortunately, has seen firsthand just how reliant the u. S. Defense Industrial Base chain has become come to class relates to china. With the rise of china and Great Power Competition of the global covid19 pandemic, the vulnerabilities and gaps in our supply chains particularly as relates to National Security have taken on a new urgency. What you think Ranking Member k
And we are going to hear from all of our members who want to speak and then will be taking your questions. Our country is facing two major battles, the fight to make sure every american is protected from the virus and the fight to get the economy back on track. So Many Americans have a lot of anxiety right now and this back to work checklist is meant to provide so many who are going through i think what many are , im a business, when can i reopen . We have put together a checklist. These fights are on two different battlefields, health and economic. They must be fought simultaneously so that is why we are announcing these benchmarks to reopen the American Economy. We need a Regional Industry by industry multifaceted data driven approach. It will not be a onesizefitsall approach. Combine to be dynamic, Public Health, economic rescue, and plans for the future. All members of the caucus have worked so hard on this and i am grateful to everyone. Dealing with the coronavirus impacting our c
Electronics association and the intelligence and National Security alliance. Thank you. I was going to try and get you fired up here because the initial plenary session, we were a little bit subdued. So i want you to feel free to get enthusiastic here. We have a great panel coming. Lots of cheer for them. We are going to have a great discussion. So welcome back. Before we jump into this next session, let me remind everyone that for the plenaries here in the maryland ballroom you can email questions to the panel. And pope flee we will have a logo up that says questions intel summit. Org. By the miracle of technology they are going to appear on an ipad with vince. Vince, if you didnt get the word at some point larry is going to tell you last question. Okay . So it is now my pleasure to introduce the moderator of our Defense Intelligence plenary, Lieutenant General vincent stewart, u. S. Marine corps come on, come on [ applause ] retired. Thats the part i was waiting for. [ laughter ] and
President has made abundantly clear the u. S. Has not in any way indorse the decision that the government of turkey to mount a military incursion into northeast syria. President trump has emphasized to the government of turkey that they bear full responsibility for protecting the kurdish population and religious minorities including christians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place the ambassadors of e. U. Countries who sit on the Security Council we also came up with a joint statement we are deeply concerned by the Turkish Military operation in syria we call upon turkey to see is the unilateral military action as we do not believe it will address truckies underlying security concerns im told behind the scenes there be no discussions about those words with germany and france wanting to take a tougher line with turkey than the u. K. Statements from the German Government and from the french government has said that they condemn what is going on the Turkish Operation in the