You have everyones bio, i dont think i need to reintroduce the panebut it is a way to look at the year in a context of cyber and healthcare and give us a different way to look at the efforts to get the vaccine to the public. Have news that we will get to later, the new rk times reported cyberattacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been gog on since august and it is unclear whether this is about ran somewhere or sothing more sinister but we will get to that in minute. What i thought we would do is divide the discussion into three parts, going to look at thbroader issue, attacks on for healthcare sector as we wrestle through a pandemic, ok at the security and protection of intellecal property related to the vaccine and finay is related to news about hacking the cold cin we will talk about Security Protection and defense of the supply chain for the vaccine. What i would like to do if you have questions i will field those as we along and we may have questions at the end as well
49. 1 billion in discretion fundi funding and the disaster of the relief fund. Today we welcome chad wolf, the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Secretary, the fy 21 budget proposes 49. 7 billion in discretionary funding for the department of Homeland Security. This is a cut of 750 million below the current year level. I want to be clear, absent of any in acted law to affect such a transfer, this subcommittee will continue to include funding f for the secret service. When including funding for the secret service for the total, the budget request for fy 21 is 1. 78 billion above the current year level. There is something of the proposed budget that i believe will find strong bipartisan support. However there are also proposals we should not expect to see funded in the house bill. Among those are funding for border barriers and the expansion of capacity. Particularly in light of high priority needs that just continues to hire custom
Good morning, this hear is cool called to order. I want to welcome all the witnesses and thank you for your thoughtful, written testimony and looking forward to your oral tangherlini. Id ask my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. I want to make a couple comments. About really kind of what i want to see the goal of this hearing to be. Its similar to the the goal of every hearing is a base account problem solving process. This committee under my chairmanship developed a a Mission Statement to enhance the National Security of america to promote more effective and accountable government. The reason im pointing it out today is i cant think of a hearing that that Mission Statement is more applicable to. When we Start Talking about 5g were talking about the Economic Opportunity and the National Security risks. In order to take advantage of that and avoid the National Security risks. We need more effective government to step up to the plate to compete against what unfortunate
This hearing is called to order. I want to thank you for your written testimony and prayer oral testimony and the answers to our questions. I asked that my written Opening Statement be put in the record. On to make a couple of comments about what i want to see the goal of the searing to be. Ive done this in a while but my chairman developed a statement to enhance the Economic Security of america for a more Efficient Government and the reason im pointing out today is i cant think of a hearing where that statement is more of likable. When we talk about 5g we talk about the Economic Opportunity in order to take advantage of that opportunity to avoid those Security Risks, we need more Efficient Government to step up in competing against what is becoming a friendly economic rival but adversary in the many cases on the line on the world stage in china. So, in terms of the definition of its product, im really hoping to be able to lay out a certified definition at lay out some priorities of th
Done this in a while but my chairman developed a statement to enhance the Economic Security of america for a more Efficient Government and the reason im pointing out today is i cant think of a hearing where that statement is more of likable. When we talk about 5g we talk about the Economic Opportunity in order to take advantage of that opportunity to avoid those Security Risks, we need more Efficient Government to step up in competing against what is becoming a friendly economic rival but adversary in the many cases on the line on the world stage in china. So, in terms of the definition of its product, im really hoping to be able to lay out a certified definition at lay out some priorities of things we need to address so that we can focus everyones attention on this. Let me take a stab. This is an unusual opportunity. Its an opportunity moving to 5g which would be trillions of dollars of activity. Its an enormous opportunity with the competition and take advantage of that opportunity a