Good morning. This hear willing come to order. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank acting secretary wolf for his service and for taking the time to come before our committee here today. I know you have a lot of things on your plate here. The committee does appreciate you taking the time for coming in and explaining whats all been happening and answering our questions. Your full testimony, full written testimony will be entered in the record. For my part, im going to read my Opening Statement, and then there will be a twominute video at the tail end of my statement. The federal protective Service Officer David Patrick underwood was 53, on may 29th, when he was shot dead guarding a Federal Building in Oakland California during a protest. His partner was also shot, but thankfully survived. News reports said the protests involving approximately 8,000 people turned chaotic and violent as demonstrators smashed windows, looted stores and broke into a bank a few blocks from where
Im behalf of the Auburn University president and the board of trustees of our university, i i would like to welcome you to a conversation with the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. Todays event is brought to you by the Mccrary Institute for the cyber and vertical infrastructure security here at Auburn University. We have likely over the past few weeks used the term unprecedented more than any other time in our history. The covid19 pandemic have brought about many changes in our country, and affected virtually every aspect of our daily lives. As an institution we here at Auburn University have tried to respond quickly with our researchers and scientists directing their expertise towards fighting the covid19 pandemic and its impact on our health, our economy, and on our way of life. The department of Homeland Security that youre going to hear from today plays a lead role in the nations response. We are honored to have secretary wolf join us today to disc
Response to the pandemic but also pointed out Hurricane Season is approaching and the agency needs to deal with that and other disasters. He participated in an auburn virtual discussion. Good morning. On behalf of the auburn president and board of trustees i would like to welcome you to a conversation with the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. The event is brought to you by the Mccrary Institute for the cyber and Critical Infrastructure security here at Auburn University. Weekse over the past few used the term unprecedented more than any other time in history. The copan 19 pandemic has brought about many changes in our country and affected virtually every aspect of daily lives. As an institution, we had Auburn University have tried to respond quickly with our researchers and scientists directing expertise andrd fighting the pandemic its impact on our health, our economy, and our way of life. The department of Homeland Security you are going to hear fro
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] my name is david tula, dean of the institute for aerospace studies. Joining me is cohost, the editor of war in iraq, ryan evidence. Our topic this morning is the future of air superiority. Over the next decade and a half, the United States is at risk of losing its ability to control the domain in combat. Budget pressure for delaying key investments are adversaries continue to advance. With this in mind, Brigadier General alex brenna which led a team of airspace cyberlogistics and support experts in an exhaustive review of options to gain and maintain control of error when necessary. It was called an Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team support ecc t. For short and a resulted in the air force air superiority 2030 flight plan. To read the other key experts in air security for colonel tom colquitt tour, the Constant Development leader and mr. Jenks failing, the Analysis Team lead. We are very pleased they could join us today to explo
Actually have very, very stringent and effective rules in that regard. For example, under one particular provision of fisa, were not allowed to target either United States persons or persons within the United States. Sometimes it happens that we think somebody is not a u. S. Person and then we discover, oh, my gosh, this person has a green card. We didnt know that before. And the rules are at that point, you have to go and purge the collection you have to report it to the fisa court. You have to purge the collection and you have to purge any downstream reporting that comes from that, as well and all of this is overseen within the government, reported to the court and also reported in summary fashion each year to congress. So it actually it actually is possible to get rules and procedures that do protect against these kind of mistakes. Supply want to thank our panel for sharing their thoughts and wisdom with us this important and thanks to the audience for your participation and i under