wolters: yes. >> the department of defense looking at this list of detailed requests? dr. wallander: yes. >> and as the department of defense ready to go on the record to provide this committee with an analysis of these requests and what we are able to comply with or what we are not, and the reasons why we are not? dr. wallander: yes. >> thank you. broadening out in terms of our security cooperation, there was this issue of providing migs through poland and general wolters, you made it clear that providing fighter jets would not be appropriate at this time. yet we continue to hear from ukraine that this would not be a game changer but an important element to ukraine's defense and allow them to protect power in the south and east. where we cannot allow them to cut off supply lines, and they also told me that they are rebuilding their airfield. they have logistics systems support capabilities, pilots can fly, and it would not make a difference, and the ukrainians are not going to ask for something they cannot use because they are fighting for their survival. could you both te

we are fully lined with department of defense priorities. everyday, we work to generate peace with allies and partners by strengthening the germans in defense of the euro atlantic. this is a pivotal moment in europe with generational implications. when testifying before this committee last year, russia was already on the path to intimidate and threaten ukraine while testing the resolve of the transatlantic alliance. russia's premeditated and on provoked invasion of ukraine has galvanized our allies and partners. we admire the courage and tenacity of the ukrainian armed forces and citizens and we specked their sovereign democracy. in the euro atlantic area, nato remains the cornerstone of deterrence and defense as we face the largest conflict in europe in three generations. our transatlantic alliance has responded in all more fighting domains -- all war fighting domains. we have an architecture on the eastern flank that includes contributions from 11 allies. on land, allies continue deploying additional forces. our standing maritime forces are

in addressing the threats facing the united states, its allies and partners, the department of defense's intelligence and security officials -- professionals work every day to address current and future threats facing our nation. on their behalf, i wish to thank the members of the subcommittee for their support and partnership. i'm joined in testimony today by these generals. they will provide you a more comprehensive picture of how we support us and characterize challenges we face. the department of defense trusts the intelligence community to respond to the threats we hear about. gen. berrier: i do have a statement, i can for grow the statement if you would like to get to questions. >> we will skip to questions. >> i will forgo my statement as well. >> i appreciate it. all right. thank you. i'm interested in hearing about progress made for the reforms to support a combat commanders need for intelligence. given the situation in ukraine, i will ask two sets of questions. could you share specific examples of intelligence sharing to combat disinformation, such as exposing russians false fl

department of justice. i various organs of the u. s. government to include the department of defense, the central intelligence agency, as to what types of enhanced interrogation techniques would be authorized for certain types of detainees to when they began signing for pantano. and i moved to having psychologists do interviews with patients, discover individual flaws, individual sources of trauma and security. and then they, they also discovered because they were germany with arabs and muslims. ah, the muslim males are uniquely upset by nudity, and also by female fiscal contact. and fear of dot race has always played a role in american torture. it's the american torture techniques are part of old military punishments, punishments that were used on slaves and, and, and you might find that strange, but there was one area where slaves were never whipped, but you use clean techniques on them. so they didn't leave marks. and that was, if you're going to sell a slave, because a slave that had with marks means that they were not going to obey. and so a clean slave was so got a higher price

i do want to testify on the department of defense countered weapons of mass destruction efforts today. the department cwmd mission is to dissuade, deter and when necessary, defeat actors of concern to threaten or use weapons of mass destruction against u.s. and our interests. mission success requires the expertise and collaboration across many d.o.d. components, close coordination with the inner agency, and congress, and strong international links and partnerships. today, russia unlawfully invasion of ukraine underscores the importance of the cwmd mission. in a period of just a few weeks we've seen the threat of new clear weapons. we've seen attacks on ukrainian nuclear power plants, and we have seen an extensive russian disinformation campaign on chemical and biological weapons development in ukraine, pure lies. and it's most likely a troubling pretext for possible russian use of these weapons themselves. the d.o.d. leverages its unique tours and expertise and support of a whole of government approach to mitigate the risk of global wmd proliferation and of his adversary pursuit of th

defense contracts. and that one of its top customers is the united states department of defense max or enables the u. s. department of defense and its allies to better monitor, understand and respond to global events, deter threats and ensure global security. together the many elements of macs are can help the d o. d meet it's far reaching modernization goals, maintain decision advantage, and rapidly identify and predict change. one of the main investors and macs are, is black rock incorporated, the largest investment management firm on wall street and 3 of its former executives are now top members of president jo biden's cabinet. as many intelligence provided by max r is actually quite substantial. in fact, 90 percent of the satellite images collected by the us government worldwide in the name of national security are created using max or technology. as a result, they're closed partnership can allow for censorship on behalf of the u. s. government, similar to what we saw back in 2001 when the department of defense ordered another company not to send satellite images of afghanistan to anyone, but then

population in ukraine i will just note that this is the main thing, the intelligence department of the ministry of defenseraine puts up some kind of garbage on such a site. they photographed in order to provide it, like a bazaar. i'm wondering, just wondering what that might look like. this is a caravan of soldiers traveling with the loot, like along the silk road, or maybe even gregory's bicycles. this is what it looks like and for sure. there are similar taxes, of course, an excellent analogy for 2014 ukraine any sites ads. e commercials are full of offers for the sale of used tvs, used washing machines, used dishwashers. uh, used cars from donetsk numbers too, and the people of kiev themselves said that throughout ukraine, simply, the supply exceeded at some point even the demand, all this was sold at a low price. and here we see a technique called mirroring. that is, i did some nasty things for and when you need to simply attribute what i did. well , if we did it, then they do it, well it's all very easy to expose, you just need to go to this very outside and see if this market is there or not. i thin

are now more than ever we need to pass legislation that time is past due for the department of defense veteran affairs to acknowledge these injuries as a direct result of armed conflict to the instrumentality of war. we are asking from the department of defense to honor these injuries with compassionate common sense and invitation to begin the healing process following the environmental hardships of war. serving in the united states marine in iraq suffering from intestinal ulcerations and he died in 2009. serving in the u.s. army was applied twice to iraq the doctor said he was later diagnosed with pneumonia and treated and sent home eventually he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis after a lung biopsy he was informed he had titanium, magnesium, iron and silica in his lungs he underwent two transplants and passed away this december at 50 years old. the environmental officer warned his supervisors about the health effects of the black fumes of burning of waste isaiah james deployed to iraq in afghanistan and then to say this now is a supplemental oxygen that it is my hope you not only

the russians as a potential for false flagro operation, from the white house on down to the department of defensedepartment of state and all of the vehicles we have to communicate accurate information out about this and the work that's underway, i can say to you unequivocally there are no offense of biologic weaponsve in ukraine laboratory the united states has been involved with. >> without a doubt. anyone else want to take a crack at that? moving on fun. the threat reduction program has unique authorities ensuring recent examples, thank you for that question, sir. the cooperative threat reduction program does have unique authorities within title 50 specifically.sha the funds from other organizationsro, a recent amount of funding has come in from the united kingdom or work in these particular areas. an active program, over early countries, last year alone we had 70 engagements across the cooperative threat reduction program across all areas of response ability's in combat and commands from a closely coordinated with doctor plumb in his office where we've received the policy determinations to wor

department of defense. bloodd is a demographics consultant for the defense department to do? >> same thing i do in the book which is try to show people with influence how to read the world. basically how do we use population trends to help us better understand the questions that motivate the department of defense into businesses and things like where might the next war break out or how can we try to encourage more peace, better democracy and even what's the difference between poverty and prosperity. what are theat influences on tht and what role does the population have to play. >> one of the questions you answered for dod? >> we looked a lot at risk analysis. so you lookou over the globe and try toot understand where the hotspots might be so that you can pre- position your forces and material. so you can look at an underlying demographic trend like how you get the population and understand where those hotspots might be. >> what is the importance of an old population were youthful population? >> it's kind of changing which is the interesting thing. to this point it's been the

of mass destruction and emerging threats in all theaters. as both defense agency and a combat board a kiss in principle counter of weapons of mass destruction organization within the defense department we serve as a linchpin between the strategies and its practitioners. through ms. rosenblum and dr. plumb and their comportment the guidance priorities and oversight in the areas of nuclear matters, cabled and biological defense, threat reduction and arms control. at the same time we support u.s. special operations command role is the coordinating authority for counter of weapons of mass destruction and work very closely with vice admiral green staff as well as those in the other combatant commands providing strategic, operational and tactical planning and expertise as well as indebted support of the true and nonmaterial counter weapons of mass destruction solutions. these dual roles provide a synergy that is key to the successful execution of our counter wmd mission and supports of the nation, the national defense strategies vision of integrated deterrence. the work we plan, program execute on behalf of the department ensures a safe secure reliable effective nuclear deterrent, enables

yeah, well if you look at what the department of defense is saying about this, sudden secretary austin is looking here to talk about the current security needs for your current and future security needs. there be meeting together with that nato allies and also non nato allies, to talk about what perhaps for example, security guarantees that they can provide ukraine going forward. and critically here, they're also talking about what might be needed to rebuild ukraine in the future. the already looking ahead to what might happen after this war is over. so the u. s . thesis as again a long game of supporting ukraine and also a bolstering european security entrusts, including ukraine's me so much going to there for us in washington. thanks so much for your reporting. turn now over to sports. in sunday's bonus, legal action hatta berlin, took on relegation. rivals stood guard. the teams were separated by a single point before tick off, but by that final whistle and his hopes of survival had been given a massive boost it offense picked out the olympia, stodgy, unfulfilling smug. it's $500.00

. >> i do not have more information beyond what you heard from the department of defense. the department of defense confirmed there appears to group an explosion aboard but i do not have any further details to offer. >> can i ask you a question on the genocide aspect? the repeated use of terms like war crimes and genocide would [indiscernible] when one talks about genocide rwanda comes to mind. if you keep repeating this, ultimately it is not good [indiscernible] >> we have repeated the term were crimes because russian forces have committed war crimes in ukraine. russia's forces have engaged in war crimes. i think that it underscores the atrocities and the level of atrocity, the scale and scope of atrocities that are being committed, and as a general point, i think your point is well taken, but there is nothing routine, there is nothing general about what all of us are seeing and have seen with our own eyes, the level of brutality, the level of atrocity that russian forces have engaged in against the ukrainian people inside sovereign ukrainian territory. >> a foreign minist

does the department of defense -- how can we reasonably expect that this vital program will be adequately supported when the department's budget request does not even exceed the rate of inflation? >> i can assure you that we're going to make sure that we have the capability that we require to make sure that our triad remains functional and safe. and so this is a thing that we'll continue to invest in. but we'll maintain the capability to do what needs to be done. >> and the two-site solution with the capabilities of los alamos and savannah river, that's critical, that it be two sites? >> what's critical is that we maintain the capability that we need. and again, as we look at things going forward, you know, we'll make the right decisions. my commitment to you is that we'll make sure that we have the right capability, adequate capability to be successful. >> and the american people need to know, many of the pits that we have are 60 years old and so this is something that's just got to be done and in the two-site solution would really work to the benefit of the american people. and a final

but she's also a former demographics consultant to the us department of defense professor shuba. what is a demographics consultant for the defense department do same thing that i do in the book, which is try to show people with influence how to read the world. basically. how do we use population trends to help us better understand those big questions that motivate the department of defense that motivate businesses things like where might the next war break out or how can we try to encourage more peace spread of democracy and even what's the difference between poverty and prosperity? what are the the influences on that? and what role does population have to play in that? so what are one of the questions that you answered for dod? we looked a lot at risk analysis. so basically as you look at over the globe and you try to understand where hotspots might be so that you can pre-position your forces or your material so you can really look at an underlying demographic trends like age structure. for example, how young is the population and to decide where those hot spots might be? what i

from the department of defense perspective, we certainly recognize the value of the dual hat role that general nakasone has played for the last four years and the role of cyber command and nsa over the last 12 years-plus, i believe that the dual hat will be looked at again just by this administration, just to ensure that we understand what the value added is, but also what the impacts are. and so that discussion is still ongoing within the department today. we understand that the -- there is sentiment on both sides to really not do any harm. but i believe that it will be looked at, i think, it will be an objective look and we'll make sure we brief it out to you, sir. >> the cyber teams, the core of them are nsa folks. if you are two four stars with different vision and direction, i don't see how you keep a unified direction for the cyber team, but that's just my two cents, being down at the 2005, 2006, 2007 level that i was in. one last question and this is for general barrier and general nakasone. there's a push to go all fifth gen collection, but we know day in and day out we do not

concurrent with the release of the budget, the defense department submitted to congress classified versions of the national defense strategy, the national nuclear posture review and the missile defense review. these along with other strategic documents yet to be released will serve as key guide posts for this committee as we take a clear-eyed approach to what's necessary to succeed in our long-term strategic competition. an essential element going forward is the need to build the joint capabilities of our armed forces across all domains, including space, cyber and information operations. i'm interested to hear from our witnesses how this budget support joint capabilities to ensure our military remains the world's premiere fighting force. i am encouraged that this budget includes the largest request for research, development, testing and evaluation. a total of $130 billion or 9.5% increase over last year's levels. the budget includes funding for modernization such as microelectronics, artificial intelligence, hypersonics and 5g, critical for national defense. our strategy towards china and r