Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combata
Appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face capability shortfalls. I just returned from the security conference with several others here at th
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v
Welcome to new america. Thank you for coming out in the what the Weather Forecast has called a wintry mix. Thank you for cspan for covering this. And welcome to the cspan viewers. Im going to introduce our moderator, sharon burke who is the Senior Advisor to the International Security program. She runs the resource security program. Shes a Longtime Department of defense most recent position was assistant secretary of defense for energy and security. Ill go to sharon now. Thank you. Sharon thank you very much. Apparently, you realize its snowing. So we thank you for braving the weather for joining us together for a very important situation and a fastmoving situation for sure. I want to start by acknowledging something that we just did with peter. Peter, of course has a new book out that you should all read. And when we were here talking about his book just about two weeks ago, i asked peter, i said you know, youre writing about a president and a National Security team before the story i
Any background noise . Member, please mute their microphone. Going through documents and records please, email documents, im going to abbreviate my opening statement. I will put the full statement in the record given the fact that you probably cant hear me and understand me and im having trouble, you know, this is the second hearing, last hearing was in industries takeholders and we heard a distressing and serious gaps, shortages of several personnel, lack of even the most basic hygiene practices and a consensus among our witnesses that federal government needed to help the private sector which owns and operates 85 of the patients Critical Infrastructure to defend itself and respond to attacks. You know, the bill 3684 will provide funding at the local, state and federal level to enhance response to Cyber Security incidents. It improves the national highway system, other Transportation Systems, capabilities and established office of National Cyber directive to the principle advisory on