the darpa challenge.hey said at the time that whoever could build a car that could drive itself from los angeles to las vegas would win a million dollars. about a handful of students and i built a car that would drive the course. >> and you did. >> this has to be slightly faster than anybody else. which gave us the first prize. >> i think that is called winning. i rode in the self driving car about four years ago. >> you remember. >> how far has it come since then? >> at this point, i confidently tell you it drives better than me. if you were to drive with me, then you would beg me for the car to take over because it keeps the lane much better, it brakes more gently. it anticipates things much faster than i can. >> would you drive in a self driving car with your family across the country? >> i have done this many times. i have a vacation home in lake tahoe and i've taken my family up many times. of course, i am behind the wheel as a safety mechanism. >> have you ever had any issues? any problems? >> of co

well, you're in luck because darpa-funded researchers have tested a drone that can learn an act on its own. the drone proved it could learn by flying into a series of unfamiliar rooms in which data from the walls, furniture and other objects triggered it to report it was in a new space and caused the way its neurons connected to one another to change in a crude mimic of learning in a real brain. and the next time the craft entered same room, it recognized it. folks, this would be a fool-proof plan to get the terrorists, as long as they never redecorate. ( laughter ) darpa, darpa funded the research so drones could make sense of video and sensor data for themselves instead always having to beam it down to earth for analysis by computers or humans. oh, well that's great. then we're off the hook. now if we accidentally bomb a wedding, you can't blame us. it was our self-aware flying rumba's decision. folks, as much as there is absolutely no down side to arming machines, releasing them into the skies, and letting them do what they want, one thing about this gives me pause. >> c.e.o. elon m

the darpa challenge.hey said that whoever could build a car that could drive itself from los angeles to las vegas. they would win one million bucks. about a handful of students and you build a car that would drive itself. >> and you did. >> we happen to be slightly faster than everybody else, which gave us the first prize. >> i rode in the self driving car about four years ago. >> i remember. >> how far has it come since then? >> it drives better than me. if you were to drive with me, then you would beg me for the car to take over because it keeps the lane much better, it breaks more gently. >> would you drive in a self driving car with your family across the country? >> definitely. i've taken my family up many times. of course, i am behind the wheel as a safety mechanism. >> have you ever had any issues? any problems? >> of course. we had many problems. >> like what? >> in the early days, we had no experience in the rain. the first thing we had this water splashing up, it looked like phantom cars popping

one of the comments on "the wall street journal" said, we have an agency that exists for that, darpa,ted in the 1950's so weould be ahead on research technology and innovation. >> darpa is wonderful. dark butut possibly ththis is to fund innovation. whate are talking about is, innovation is more demratized. , inappens i in small groups garages. it is very rapid. we need access to those people. >> pre-competitive research is the stage between research and development and when you actually create a product. there are lots of people creating products that can easily be adapted to t military and give us more bang for the dollar. they are spreaall over the country. they are not just in silicon valley. you have got to learn to be a better customer. a big ise weould devote an .our a day to the president ruffled a lot of feathers with republicans by saying, if you do not pass a bill, i will act independently. they say, we have got a bill. it is justst not the one you wa. >> the president has to decide whether he igoing to accept or reject it. the republica -- this is not an impeachablerime he

it is a great initiative, a lot of support and momentum. >> you have worked with the darpa in the past. what is the economy looking like in next year? the problem with b business, government and private, ishat they are sitting on their cash becausthey don't know what's coming next. how do you see things? >> i think there is aa big diverge between what we need to do as a nation and the political risks we face. the midterms taught a lesson to both target that is iortant to worry about their base and keep it in lane. i worry about government shutdown resululting from the residence action on immigration. that aside, when youook at the nation's future, there is a profound and immediate need for innovators to get more involved in national security. the threatweace, things like jpmorgan profiles being stolen, isis, comments that the power grid could be brought down by the chinese, all these things are happening. >> the public may not know but we are getting thousands of pings every day to see what the could dof they wanted to shut down something. it is happppening right now. >> it is happenin

because darpa's approaches to these research and developments die verge from conventional avenues, they have a real potential to produce game-changing advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ebola. in conclusion, we have a comprehensive u.s. government response and increasingly, a coordinated international response. the department of defense's interim measures are an essential element of the u.s. response to late necessary groundwork for the international community to mobilize its response capabilities. with that, i would like to introduce my colleague behind me, major general jim laravair, the joint staffs director for political military affairs with regard to africa. the general and myself look forward to answering your questions. thank you. >> secretary johnson? >> thank you, chairman mikulski, senator she will business you have my prepared statement. let me just mention a couple of things in my five minutes. first, we all agree that the thing necessary to -- that the key priority is ensuring the safety of the american puchbl i agree with chairman mckulski that first a

it's one of hundreds across the country northern as darpa, the pentagon team of mad scientists.at a little like herding cats? >> actually, as a great science engineer, that's exactly what it's like. you want people to have immense creativity and chasing great ideas. >> reporter: it was created in 1958 in response to the earth-shaking then 57 launch of sputnik by the soviet union. >> cbs television presents a special report of sputnik 1. >> it was huge for the united states. >> reporter: what do you see as the mission on darpa? >> our core mission is technologies for national security. >> reporter: for example, they did early research on stealth technology allows u.s. aircraft to invade a radar. but many of the brainstorms have had enormous impact well beyond the military. >> 45 years ago, darpa did this crazy experiment which is put a couple computers together and have them talk to each other. that has become the internet today. >> reporter: ranging from sophisticated prosthetic limbs to wounded warriors, to gps, they even developed many of the components in today's smartphones,

because darpa's approaches to these research and developments die verge from conventional avenues, they have a real potential to produce game-changing advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ebola. in conclusion, we have a comprehensive u.s. government response and increasingly, a coordinated international response. the department of defense's interim measures are an essential element of the u.s. response to late necessary groundwork for the international community to mobilize its response capabilities. with that, i would like to introduce my colleague behind me, major general jim laravair, the joint staffs director for political military affairs with regard to africa. the general and myself look forward to answering your questions. thank you. >> secretary johnson? >> thank you, chairman mikulski, senator she will business you have my prepared statement. let me just mention a couple of things in my five minutes. first, we all agree that the thing necessary to -- that the key priority is ensuring the safety of the american puchbl i agree with chairman mckulski that first a

ditra and darpa, many times in the earliest stages. ennih at the next level and then barda at the next level when we're getting to that stage of manufacturing in terms of thinking about the continuum of getting product that from that initial idea through production and use. >> madam secretary, i see that the hhs request for biomedical advance research development authority is specifically requesting an additional $157 million manufacture having seens and therapeutics for use in clinical trials in. the upper midwest region, there's very promising therapeutic but as i understand it's not synthetic. meaning it's developed outside the lab. this has pruch effective with m,rs and the flu so how is your request flexible enough to take advantage of new technologies like this? >> what we want to do is work and we have been working on zmapp which is tobacco-based currently, one of the things in terms with getting enough production that we can do trials. this is a therapeutic. why we've turned to synthetics is because we think we can get volume.

ditra and darpa, many times in the earliest stages. ennih at the next level and then barda at the next level when we're getting to that stage of manufacturing in terms of thinking about the continuum of getting product that from that initial idea through production and use. >> madam secretary, i see that the hhs request for biomedical advance research development authority is specifically requesting an additional $157 million manufacture having seens and therapeutics for use in clinical trials in. the upper midwest region, there's very promising therapeutic but as i understand it's not synthetic. meaning it's developed outside the lab. this has pruch effective with m,rs and the flu so how is your request flexible enough to take advantage of new technologies like this? >> what we want to do is work and we have been working on zmapp which is tobacco-based currently, one of the things in terms with getting enough production that we can do trials. this is a therapeutic. why we've turned to synthetics is because we think we can get volume.

refueling, and that was about 10 times the flig endurance that anybody else had ever produced with a drone darpa got interested. he got a ctract to build a larger drone with the same configuration for the military. in the late 1980's, the politics of defense contracting and the failures of other uav's, namely one called aquila, that the army had spent $1.2 billion on ,ithout getting it to work spelled the end of the process. in a small handful of people regarded the predator a as something special -- >> a small handful of people regarded the predator as something special then. what changed? whenrmer secretary peters you doubt that the predator was -- formerit like a seetary peters pointed out thatat the creditor was a little bit like -- the predator was a little bit like the first-generation computer. they got their hands on it. -- the safari aeronautics group. then wars came along. if necessity is the mother of invention, war is the mother of neceity. the war with kosovo and the war with -- it is what allowed the predator to change into a worord changing w weapon. >> what were the big acquisiti

that the threat reduction agency has been availabler rapidly treatments.es and can you elaborate what darpa if thereooking for and are technologies in the pipeline that show promise in the short-term? don't proprose to promise anything. this is a research capability we trying to fund to accelerate development program. and i think the key to look at this, this is in conjunction with n.i.h. efforts in conjunction with detra efforts out allave to full stops as we look at doing ground breaking new innovative technologies to address the treatment and ultimately a ebola. to prevent so, darpa has unique and methodologies how they look and do problem wiled to many of the capabilities of everything from g.p.s. to the mouse that runs computer. they have innovative technologies is the way they look at the problem solving. we would like to resource them to look at this problem set and set of eyesone more to move this forward as fast as possible. >> and then to coordinate that of for the with d elfed tra. >> and n.i.h. as well. think of it as a continuum in the earliest stages. are not always just the e

because darpa's approaches to these research and developments die verge from conventional avenues, they have a real potential to produce game-changing advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ebola. in conclusion, we have a comprehensive u.s. government response and increasingly, a coordinated international response. the department of defense's interim measures are an essential element of the u.s. response to late necessary groundwork for the international community to mobilize its response capabilities. with that, i would like to introduce my colleague behind me, major general jim laravair, the joint staffs director for political military affairs with regard to africa. the general and myself look forward to answering your questions. thank you. >> secretary johnson? >> thank you, chairman mikulski, senator she will business you have my prepared statement. let me just mention a couple of things in my five minutes. first, we all agree that the thing necessary to -- that the key priority is ensuring the safety of the american puchbl i agree with chairman mckulski that first a

it was a daughter that program are -- darpa program where you couldn't get on unless the department of defense said you could. it wasn't designed for that. so that's a good example to me about how the network is evolving, where some people actually want a lot of security in the network. if you're doing, you know, cloud-based stuff. used to be your keyboard to your cpu and your hardiesing all in your office is now zinging through the network, and as we know, cloud stuff isn't that secure as we find out from the icloud break-ins and all these problems. now all of a sudden maybe not for everything, but for certain things i might want some security. probables with security, if you've ever used these encryption things, it slows everything down. everything has to be processed, you have to put in keys, and even if it's transparent to you, it makes the system cumbersome. hey, maybe for my youtube videos i don't need encryption, but for e-commerce transactions, these things i do, then we're starting to see a very different world where we'll see some spread out in terms of what we want out of th

because of darpa's approach to these research and developments come from conventional avenues, they have the possibility of producing real results. in conclusion, we have a comprehensive government response and an increasingly corrugated international response. the dod's interim measures are in essential element of the u.s. response delay the necessary groundwork of the international community demobilized the response capabilities. with that, i would like to , theduce my colleague director for military political affairs for africa. we look for to answering your questions. thank you. >> secretary johnson. >> thank you. you have my prepared statement. let me mention a couple of things in my five minutes. that the all agree thing necessary to prevent -- the key priority is ensuring the safety of the american public. i agree with term a costly that that means fighting the disease at its epicenter. let me mention a couple of things about screening that we are doing with regard to passengers who may come to the united states from the three affected countries. first of all, we have the authorit

the creation of the first satellite and the defense advanced research products agency, darpa, and other endeavors that really moved along a lot of our, you know, progress in science and technology. >> guest: i think you're right about that. i think that ike -- while he was not a scientist -- was extraordinarily aware of the effect of technology on life and on war. in those terms, it was ike whose enthusiasm for the autobahns in germany caused him to produce our highways which changed the face of the united states. and ike certainly was the most thoughtful person in the world about the atom you can bomb -- atomic bomb. henry kissinger has often pointed out that when he published his book on the atom you can bomb and foreign policy, he went down -- atomic bomb and foreign policy, he went down to ike to talk to him about it and was absolutely stunned by ike's intelligence, his grasp of the subject, his understanding of the subject. i think ike was a very, very smart guy, smart enough that he could afford sometimes to appear not so smart. which is the ultimate smartness. >> host: thomas, sa

things like lessons learned from a best lessons learned, best practices, the department of defense and darpa spends millions of dollars in science and technology that would e-mail a friend to our capabilities in the things we would like to deploy to prevent or detect these aspects of how many information technology are informational assets. that is one of the next steps. i don't only see her today or not, but i read a couple articles, david carrera on the political growth intact in one of his recent articles about the cyberthreat and the aspect of increasing the workforce, training and education, and been seen in security engineering. >> so information sharing, the common factor is that involved for a long time. they are our enemies out there like the national cybersecurity center coordination that we actually participate in. we literally have people on the floor hosted with dhs, work in information sharing in the communications sharing and analysis honor that shares amongst up in the communications committee but also across sector sharing that goes on periodically through dhs. we also parti

the creation of the first satellite and the defense advanced research products agency, darpa, and other that really moved along a lot of our, you know, progress in science and technology. >> guest: i think you're right about that. i think that ike -- while he was not a scientist -- was extraordinarily aware of the effect of technology on life and on war. in those terms, it was ike whose enthusiasm for the autobahns in germany caused him to produce our highways which changed the face of the united states. and ike certainly was the most thoughtful person in the world about the atom you can bomb -- atomic bomb. henry kissinger has often pointed out that when he published his book on the atom you can bomb and foreign policy, he went down -- atomic bomb and foreign policy, he went down to ike to talk to him about it and was absolutely stunned by ike's intelligence, his grasp of the subject, his understanding of the subject. i think ike was a very, very smart guy, smart enough that he could afford sometimes to appear not so smart. which is the ultimate smartness. >> host: thomas, santa barbar