The Senate Committee held a confirmation hearing for several underground divisions including Inspector General and deputy undersecretary for intelligence and security. Some of the topics covered the Committee Hearing included whistleblower protections, election interference and servicemember misconduct. The meeting will come to order, we consider the nominations of mr. Jason, Inspector General of the department of defense. Mr. Lucas to be assistant secretary of defense that Nuclear Chemical biological and defense rooms and mr. Lewis to be assistant secretary of defense special operations. I think everyone for being here today, let me briefly say these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the mission they are accommodated for. Senior advisor, u. S. Customs and border protection, you have extensive experience leading litigation as part of the Inspector Generals offices for the federal Housing Agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban Dev
Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
Indopacific region at the heritage foundation. His talk focused on the future direction of the marines and the technology in their future missions. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [ applause ] were sitting next to General Mills and were infantry guys so were not pal, but you look at the guy who introduced me and i dont know down in pensacola, they decide what aircraft theyll fly, but that guy will not fit into the cockpit and he must fly big helicopters. General mills is one of my mentors for life so its sort of intimidating to be up here in front of him. I if i could follow your foot steps and do half as good as you d i would be really happy, sir. Good to be here this morning. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me to be here this morning, as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. In that kind introduction, thank you for also keeping it short, sir. Bullet. I have to think of how you got that call assignment, bullet and theres probably a story there. Dakota, very quickly, has been mo
Introducing, in pensacola, deciding what aircraft theyre going to fly, but he was not fit cockpit, sojet he might fly helicopters. General mills is one of my istors for life, so it intimidating to be up here before him. If i follow your footsteps and do half as good as you, i would be really be happy. Its good to be here. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me too be here as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. Thank you for keeping it short. I have to think how you got that call sign bullet. Theres probably a story behind there. Real quickly, dakota has been more helpful to me over the years than you all will understand. But he is a lot like me in that he is a critical thinker, and thats how i was trained to think, every path you go down questioning that and for continuing to do that please do not go down that at all. I thought this morning i would offer two parts to this. First, i think i owe you some perspectives on the Planning Guidance that we published the summer. I will just
Good afternoon and welcome to the 10th annual Cyber Security summit. My name is Tom Billington. Its ab honor and privilege to convene this forum for a tenth year to address our high purpose and theme a call to action for the siCyber Security community. As you look around in the audience here and throughout the exhibit hall are some of the most Innovative Companies and organizations in the world. Facing some of the toughest adversaries. We thank you for your dedication to the mission. My wonderful wife and i founded Cyber Security ten years ago. Besides this annual summit, we host the leadership council, a Member Service and aim for dialogue about Cyber Security in our nations capital. Thats filming the event today, this conference is on the record unless specified and unclassified. And we welcome those members of the media today. You can follow us on twitter at billingtoncyber. As youll see from the Conference Program in your conference materials, we have a packed day and a a half ahea