introduce undersecretary of defense michael griffin are at the hudson institute undersecretary griffin will be speaking and conversation on precisely the question of the preeminence and the great power competitors to exploit those technologies against u.s. interests. undersecretary griffin and his chief technology officer for secretary of defense mean he looks at defense capabilities how to improve them technologically with the transformation and how to hedge against uncertainty and engineer by training most recently from the university of alabama at huntsville before returning to the department of defense serving as administrator of nasa 2005 through ten -- 2009 prior to their key with head of the space department at john