and department of energy program as well as the dod missile defense and space and nonproliferation committee. and served as the council for oversight for the department of energy's civil and nuclear science based program. and last line before my colleague, is a staff member also with armed services committee and his areas of responsibility include nuclear forces, missile defense, nuclear propulsion, threat reduction, arms control and counter proliferation countering weapons of mass destruction and nuclear cleanup efforts. most recent adam was principal or acting principal of nuclear matters when the office of the secretary of defense and before that served in several positions at the office of secretary of defense and joint staff and departments of state. adam served in our armed forces as an army abrams tank crewman. please join me in welcoming our distinguished panel and we'll turn to madeleine for her opening remarks. >> thanks. [applause] >> well, thanks, jeff, i appreciate it and appreciate the opportunity to be here today to say-- and congratulations to your hearty souls who

defense budgets of the next 10 countries after america. a crafty figure, meanwhile , the hawks insist, demanding that biden give the us department of defenset kind of war are they preparing for and what are they ready to sacrifice? joe biden's recent appeal to the american congress, many of them , as they say, rolled their lips, but then the numbers appeared and it turned out that reality did not quite coincide with their expectations, what happened, there are several factors: firstly, last year the republicans... to a colossal the figure of the american national debt, which now equals $35 trillion, obliged the biden administration to keep itself within limits with regard to any budget expenditures, in fact, that’s why the previous pentagon’s plan has not yet been finally adopted budget. the pentagon is now operating within the framework of temporary resolutions, one of these resolutions, by the way, will expire on march 22, and the us department of defense. will once again face the threat of a shutdown, but if we return to specific figures, the main complaint of the hawks, who looked and got acquainted with the articles of america’s defen

american defense department does not have the necessary funds for this. that we had already provided to ukraine. if the pentagon does not receive the necessary amount, this will affect the combat readiness of the united states itself and its reserves,” said a defense department official. there is another very interesting point that can be discovered if you read the draft american military budget not from left to right, but from right to left. go from the numbers, as sometimes they read the menu, and so , it turns out that with all this media rhetoric, the money that will be allocated to the european direction is half as much as the money that is reserved for strengthening the muscles of the american military machine in china direction, it turns out that the americans continue to believe that for them... the main and strategic confrontation is the confrontation in asia, this is the confrontation with beijing. probably the main conclusion that can be drawn after reading the controversy that began around the us military budget, with the items of this budget

information about this appeared the day before, here is the confirmation from the defense department.nemy is suffering heavy losses in the donetsk direction, where the russian military occupied advantageous positions and inflicted damage on the ukrainian formations. defeats in the area of ​​​​the settlements krasnogorovka, chasov yard, kleshcheevka. 370 militants and technicians were destroyed, including the polish installation krab. in addition, air defense systems shot down 26 highmarc and vampire rockets, as well as more. the commander of the center group of troops, andrei mordvichev, who led the operation to liberate avdievka, was today awarded the hero of russia medal in accordance with the presidential decree. the colonel general received the award from the hands of the minister of defense sergei shaigu. a strategically important settlement came under control russian troops about a month and a half ago , after the most difficult battles, the head of the defense department congratulated mordvichev and thanked him for his exemplary performance. this is the highest rank in our coun

part of the department of defense planning instead of the depart efforts to the secretary about my concernr that, the fact that we were moving pretty fast on this. they were not moving fast, and i wascations based on it. i went to the secretary. we spent some time talking about that. ally followed up with a written idea of some things we could do. 10 recommendations to the secretary of defense on that. >> recollection? general milley? >> absolutely. executive privilege, etc., my assessments at the time and his assessments, the g military through and including the secretary of defense was that they should omafter the decisioo keep their presence there, the situation to be rated in the summer -- situation deteriorated in the summer and we were pressing for calls. >> they did eventually develop a >> so they had a plan. like i said, it is a requirement to have a plan. it is another thing, the specifics of execution. having a plan, coordinating the actually care you out in the department of defense, that is another set of tasks completely. >> it was too little, too late. >> it was my judgment t

department. primitive defense. we had known in reporting on the withdrawal from afghanistan that there was friction between the defense department and the state department. we have heard some of that in previous hearings, but jake, it has never been quite this clear to what extent there was that friction here. we hear mackenzie and milly saying they were pressing the state department for the planning around the evacuation, and then the order itself to begin that education, which they felt should have been sort of started weeks, if not months earlier, we all saw how this played out and tragically, of course, and the final days of that withdrawal, a suicide bombing that led to the killing of 13 us service members at abbey gate and there are still afghans left behind, afghans who risked their lives to help the united states in the war effort. some are still unable to obtain what are called sieves are special immigrant visas. did we learn anything about those sieves, those individuals who need to get out of afghanistan

the defense department began the planning around what's called a neo as you point out, a non combatant evacuation operation in the months ahead pressing, they said and this is both mackenzie and milling pressing the state department for their plans on a timeline and ultimately for the order to give a neo it is not a defense department decision to say yes. evacuating. >> that's up to state, even if >> it's the defense department that carries out that evacuation, essentially an emergency evacuation with its assets. you see some of the aircraft were involved in the kneel on your screen right here, makenzie said a month earlier, hebei again to doubt and this is in july of 2021, whether state could effectively carry out a neo as he waited for the order to come down, an order that only came on august 14, which is one day before some members of the afghan government's leadership fled the country. here's what he said >> orders to commence the >> non combatant evacuation >> operation, bringing out our embassy our citizens, and at-risk afghans were received on 14 august these dates are important

so the fbi met this ship when it came into port, the defense department has now taken custody of this object. it's now at a base in alaska, according to the defense department where the dod and other federal agencies will do forensic analysis on it to try to determine both its >> off the coast of alaska, sarah, so we will be watching closely to see what the defendant will be waiting to hear those details as soon as you get them. can ebola bot. let us we appreciate it. >> so ivf patients and alabama or >> breathing a sigh of relief this morning, the state's >> governor just signed a new law trying to fix some of the fallout from that state supreme court ruling. and opening statements begin this morning and the trial of the man who bought the gun, his son used in the deadliest school shooting in michigan state history i am not guilty. >> i am resigning administration officials destroyed my cover >> politics were great power meets questionable decision-making. >> and then on faceless backroom deals. cisac affairs, driver corruption prostitution. >> as >> someone who lives for politics wh

the department of defense and u.s.overnment has been critical in the development of software and technology in this country. representative of silicon valley i remember is our mission to the moon to the acquisition of semi conductors. we had not had the u.s. government by semi conductors in the skill they did he would never seen the development of silicon valley and the technology. now the innovation is happening in my district and in the private sector. to strengthen the collaboration betwee our department and defense and private sector in pr recognizing the dynamic nature of software and how softly it chgee need that innovation to keep us the strongest military country in the world. i am looking forward to your comments and your suggestions. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i'll start the witnesses miss lord you are recognize her five minutes for opening >> thank youyo very much congressman for chairing this hearing and thank you for members of the subcommittee to in socko's on my former colleagues and now curr

part of the department of defense planning instead of the department of state planning, and i made toary about my concern over that, the fact that we were moving pretty fast on this. they were not moving fast, and i was concerned we would have i went to the secretary. we spent some time talking about that. i acal up with a written idea of some things we could do. 10 recommendations to the secretary of defense on that. >> is that your recollection? general milley? >> absolutely. without breaching things like executive privilege, etc., my assessments at the time and his assessments, the general consensus of theil through and including the secretary of defense was that they should be coming up the same time we were coming up. after the decisions were made to keep their presence there, the situation to be rated in the summer -- situation%] deteriorad in the summer and we were pressing for calls. >> they did eventually develop a plan? ■e>> so they had a plan. like i said, it is a requirement to have a plan. it is one thing to have a plan. i thing, the specifics of execution. having a plan,

announcer: tonight, a look at digital modernization of the defense department with testimony from defenseor potential dangers of implementing ai. >> what can we learn from the integration of gaming models, ai, and military strategy? >> i'll talk less about gaming because i'm not a gamer but about how we might effectively use tools, gen ai like chatgpt, we out where and when gen ai will be useful and dangerous. the danger is, it takes a high cognitive load to validate the output of this model. so there's a very large demand signal for ai to replace experts and allow novices to replace experts. that's where it's dangeus is helping experts be better experts. helping someone who knows their job well be better at their job that they know well. announcer: watch this subcommittee hearing on defense modernization tonight at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, at eastbound.org -- c-span.org. ♪ announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more, including including midco. ♪ >> ♪ no one can do it like we did ♪ -- like we do ♪ ♪ announcer: midcsup

you are on the team headed by rob nally and you're not the defense department.of thinkers which are third country flag tankers. that fleetla grew from about 70 vessels at the beginning of the administration a to almost 400 tankers today. the iranian regime used that ghost fleet to ship over a billion barrels of oil, and to make unaccountable tens if not hundreds of billions of dollarsr iran was selling roughly 300,00. today, due to the biden administration's appeasementrany 2 million barrels of oil a day. those billions of dollars went resm. they went to the houthis. they went to hamas. they went to hezbollah. they pay for the houthis terrorist, terrorism and for the weapons. they paid for the october 7 atrocities in israel. the biden administration refused to meaningfully enforce our sanctions, and we are seeing the consequences with war in the middle east. in your judgment how has the biden administration's appeasement of iran and refusal to enforce sanctions against iran, how basso worked out for the safety and security of israel and the safety and security o

the state department, department of defense, coming together on an ad hoc basis.w york taking an important leading role and japanese government stepping up and helping us. we worked with philippine government and japanese government and u.s. governnt took better part of two years to get to work. the development finance corporation, i thought would be the tool was unable to participate in this. a lot of effort and elbow grease but not direct participation, i start with you secta talk about the new office for strategic capital is this a means a tool by which you might be able to do hard infrastructure, i know you are talking technology here there are tools to play a more direct role. >> yes, i can -- will get back to you specifically on office of strategic capital as it relates to pacific islands, with infrastructure we have a number of mayor posture, initiatives in the pacific islands. in the cova states in marshall islands and palau, we have major projects underway. and last year, concluded a defense cooperation agreement. and one indopaycom site survey team down.

leaving, it’s scary, no, it’s hard to get used to, now the footage that we received from the defense departmentthe department checked the implementation of the state defense order by the enterprises of the diamond antey concern. means of detecting air targets 354. here an antenna rotates in an electromagnetic field without... mechanics, respectively, this makes it possible to work trouble-free up to 2000 hours, 800 hours a year, so 2 years before duty is not, we have all switched to a schedule where the police merge throughout the year, and you and i spoke at the last meeting, at previous enterprises just about the fact that from december-november we are moving everything, so to speak, trying to the left, in any case. for this we have everything, we have the funds that the country gave, within, not immediately 10, our finishing site does not allow us to collect, okay, you have a knocking the site doesn’t allow it, create another site, create two sites, create three sites, if before we spent up to 30 minutes searching for a target, here it takes 4 minutes to find a target, this will allow us to

the objectives of the strike, our defense department emphasized, were all objects have been reached andas for the directions, on avdeevsky, our fighters did not allow the enemy to counterattack, they repelled eight attempts, the fsu lost up to 300 battles. as well as a large amount of equipment, large losses to the enemy also in the donetsk and kupinsky sectors, in addition, during the day, almost 180 ukrainian drones were destroyed by air defense systems, and more than twenty rockets from the khaimars and vampire multiple launch rocket systems were shot down. the accomplices of ukrainian militants involved in the terrorist attacks were identified by employees of our special services and sbu spies detained in the lugansk people's republic, they were recruited and given instructions via the internet, the task was to collect data. locations of our military and equipment to transmit coordinates for strikes. now those detained face up to 20 years in prison. operational footage in the report by oleg shishkin. attention, let's start. the operational footage shows the moment of the detention o

head of the defense department sergei shaigu, chief of the general staff valery gerasimov together. votinga announces its preliminary results. according to ella pomfilova, the central election commission is constantly in touch with colleagues from the regions. and our correspondent, anton vernitsky, goes live. anton, greetings, i give you my word that the work is in full swing. good afternoon, ekaterina, the information board is gradually filling up, on which data on voter turnout is displayed as it becomes available. plot. data is updated every hour. somewhere we see a fairly active turnout primorsky krai 23 almost percent of those who voted sakhalin region 32% of voters somewhere the turnout is not active enough serdlovsk region 6, but as you understand, all this depends on how the data comes in, you need to understand that today only the first day of voting for the whole country, however, there are already leaders, the donetsk republic, now we will probably reach it, the turnout is almost 58 percent. i ask the operator to show, here is the donetsk republic 57.85% have already voted. the

i think the results speak for it tells. >> the defense department said it found no evidence that anyentified flying objects seen over the last decade are alien technology but a lot of americans are spectacle. time to bring in tom jones. get to the skepticism later. first, what is your take away from the government report and how do you analyze what you got from it? >> thank you for talking about this great topic today. i have always been interested in them. when i was in space i did not see any alien objects or evidence thereof. we have to remind ourselves to have extraordinary claims like visited from alien ships requires extraordinary evidence. we don't have that extraordinary proof. looking into it deeply understand it is natural or misidentification cases that explain most of the siding spirit i am not too comfortable with the government telling us everything. i think in this case they are probably on target. >> what cause the government to change what it previously thought? maybe it never believed that. why did they decide to review existing records? >> so many claims of people

the defense department emphasized that all tasks were completed in full, the yars complex is the basiseterrent forces, the missile’s flight range is up to 11.00 km, the multiple warhead with individual guidance units can hit several targets at once with high accuracy. how to effectively counter military threats in space was discussed at meeting of vladimir putin with permanent participants of the russian security council. the president held it via video link. dear. my colleagues, good afternoon, you and i have already discussed the falsehoods that some figures in the west are making about our supposed plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space, i say allegedly, because such plans, as i have already said, we know well , we don’t, but still the question of space, the question of neutralizing threats that may arise for us in the space sphere, must constantly be in our sphere... attention, let's talk about this today. now about the combat work of our military in the special operations zone. at the beginning of the week, we reported about the first american abrams tank being knocked out near

and further information from the defense department in the belgorod direction in the border regions of, saboteurs were destroyed. it is also reported that the bases of foreign mercenaries in the sumy region were hit. terrorist attacks against the russian military were also prevented in the belgorod region, and an accomplice of ukrainian militants was arrested. a joint operation of the fsb and the russian ministry of internal affairs. it was possible to establish that the criminal received instructions from the terrorist organization russian volunteer corps, which is banned in russia. during the search, several bombs were found. explosions the saboteur planned to carry out the attack remotely at the locations of our units. and ukrainian militants launched a new attack on belgorod this morning. the terrorists' target was residential buildings, five people were wounded , apartments were damaged in several multi-storey buildings, glass was broken, the facades of buildings were cut, in one of them there is a threat of balconies collapsing, emergency services are on the scene, ambulance team

polling stations, foreign minister sergei lavrov voted in the center of the capital, head of the defense departmentergei shaigu, chief of the general staff valery gerasimov took part in the elections in the southern military district , state duma chairman vyacheslav volodin filled out a ballot, he voted in the capital, and the head of the council valentine federation matvienko in st. petersburg. in simferopol , the head of crimea, sergei aksionov, made his choice; in his region, he came to the polling station and... in some regions, the first day of voting has already ended; polling stations in the irkutsk region and buryatia have literally just closed. there are almost 2.5 million registered voters in these two entities. well, they started a three-day marathon in the far east, the chukotka autonomous okrug and the kamchatka territory, according to tradition, they start voting before everyone else, it should be noted that on the first day, voters were active in chukhotka, turnout amounted to almost... and in one of the villages even all 100, and the figure was achieved in the first 2 hours. in kamc

he, along with his colleagues from the defense department , discusses plans for an attack on the crimeandge with long-range taurus cruise missiles for nearly 40 minutes, which the federal chancellor actually promised not to send to ukraine. this decision seems strange to the military; their plans are to supply these weapons to kiev in two equal batches, 50 in each. so far, i do not see that the moment for the start of deliveries of rotyat taurus to ukraine has been indicated. it was not like scholz said to pistorius: “i want information now.” and tomorrow morning we will make a decision, i have never heard anything like this, no one knows why the federal chancellor is blocking these supplies, the most incredible rumors are appearing. german experts carefully examined the saudi track; they were all in one voice recognize the authenticity of the recording. some chose the epithet authentic; sources in the bundeswehr itself told zdf journalists about its authenticity. the voices do not sound falsified, the soldiers know each other, a huge number of details related to countless internal proce

the defense department itself has already found it.possible reasons that the conversation between air force officers was able to be recorded is individual user error: not all participants complied with the requirements for a secure connection; as far as we know, there was a data leak of a participant in the conversation in singapore. leaked conversation high-ranking german officers were shocked not only by the world community, the population of germany itself, but by the political establishment of the european union. according to the publication. bloomberg, the scandal has reignited a rift between germany and its allies over the supply of new weapons to kiev. the incident irritated the french and british, but the world is more concerned about the threat of a large-scale military conflict. about the line between the loud statements of western politicians and a real threat to our security. author's commentary by maria petrashko. hello everyone, i'm maria petrashko, tv news agency. never before has nato's compass rose turned. the east is

we are talking about the former head of the british defense department ben wallis. g defense spending to 3% of gdp, and then did not rule out that the kingdom’s troops would have to enter into conflict, and the ex-minister clarified that in the event of such a decision on the part of london, it is the regular army that will go to help the kiev regime. and now understatement is supposedly part of deterrence. a compulsory health insurance policy, this is already comparable to very large constituent entities of the russian federation, and of course, it is necessary to organize work related to the provision of medical care, in the same way as it is provided in any constituent entity of the russian federation. we have provided the necessary funds, funding has already been provided for january and february, including through funding from the federal fund has been paid, deadlines have been set. our russian citizens. in the new episode of the our stories program, anna ilyasova, a participant in the special operation. she left her profession as a flight attendant and went to

we also made history by passing first republican only ndaa, fighting against a "woke" defense department agenda while investing in our troops and our strategic capabilities. house republicans improving -- are proving that we can and will continue to govern on behalf of the american people. joe biden and democrats, however, have proven that their only priority is appeasing the far left members of their party. with note -- look no further the last week enmerica witnessed the most divisive state of the union address in modern history. what was supposed to be unifying, unifying outline of the president's vision for our country was nothing more than a partisan campaign speech used to further splinter america and americans. americans are sick of joe biden's blame games and refusal to take responsibility for the crises he has created to the next months will be spent to remind our constituents why they elected us in the first plac teamwork, commune occasion and respect, we deliver common sense wins that we promised. with our slim majority, we will continue to work with every corner of our confer

the head of the defense department heard reports from commanders on the nature of the enemy’s actionstasks our units were performing. particular attention to the effectiveness of counter-battery warfare. the minister was shown how enemy targets are hit. here is the building where up to 300 militants were located at the krakin fuel and lubricants warehouse. this means that while we were flying over we did some additional reconnaissance, and it’s still burning. the fuel warehouse is on fire. sent to our country, on instructions from kiev he was supposed to lay down the railway along special homemade devices to prevent the movement of trains with cargo for the air defense system. the criminal confessed to his crime, we are cooperating with the investigation. a historical choice to be with russia forever, a choice for the sake of yourself, your children and grandchildren, for the sake of a common, happy and prosperous future, for the sake of our memory, culture and values. today is exactly 10 years since the event. referendum, during which the majority of residents of crimea and sevastopo

defense. according to the department, the enemy continues to attempt counterattacks in the ovdeevsky direction. during the day, our military repelled another 11 attacks. and in the donetsk direction , another settlement was liberated recently. yes, this video, right now on your screens, in the upper right corner, this is a video from the ministry of defense, footage of the destruction of equipment sabotage and reconnaissance groups, ukrainian terrorists, actually in the border zone, we are talking about a situation that occurred in the area of ​​​​the settlement of nikhoteevka, this is the belgorod region, there was a breakthrough by ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups. not allowed, these militants' drgs were destroyed directly at the border crossing, in the footage this is just damaged equipment, which is simply in a broken state, it is also known that the terrorists and militants themselves tried to escape from there, not even hesitating to take away those who remained wounded, what is known, what is known from the victims, this is more than about 100 people, according to the russia

we need subsectors and there needs to be a department defense of a sector for defense, intelligence issues probably managed by the department of ed, as they do the defense industrial base that subsector and then i think you need a subsector for communications because the fcc's already got a very strong relationship in there. so i think with that, you could do it. if i could say one other thing. the government has to do, they've got to set up a supporting ligature around that and that's the the gtc, the government coordinating and the center for training councils and they sound boring and bureaucrat and they are a critical the sectors that are run well and i put the department of the energy sector have great sex and gcs where the participation or the ceos of companies no tom fanning you know for years was the chairman of the electrical sgc deeply involved with the government and brought, you know, a commitment from his company and got the commitments of the other ceos that were there alongside him. and so, in my mind, you know, setting up naming in a sector is a national infrastructure, put

did you disclose it to the department of defense? >> senator, we take oci incredibly seriously, and i have even gone beyond what is required around disclosures. >> so that's a yes? >> we take it seriously and made all the appropriate disclosures, senator. i'm happy to come back to you on any details specific to the work that we do on the department of defense. >> that is not what news reports have found and news agencies who have looked into this. to quote nbc news again, bidding on contracts, the u.s. navy, customs, border protection, you did not disclose your work with an apparent conflict of interest. a report in 2021 showed in december of 2021 that you admitted to providing services only for local governments in china, but not for the central government in china. my question is why should you be able to get any contracts in the united states government if you're going to advise foreign nations that are hostile to us and make gobs of money off of them? why should you be getting u.s. government contracts? >> senator, we have never

the department of defense and u.s. government has been critical in the development of software and technology in this country as a representation of silicon valley. i remember that it was our mission to the moon that led to the acquisition of semiconductors. that is what spawned silicon valley. by semiconductors, yohave seen of silicon valley and the technology. the innovation is happening in éÑand the private sector, we need to figure out how we continue and stprivate s the dynamic nature of software, how quickly it changes, how we need that innovation to keep us the strongest military and country in the world. i am looking forward to your comments and your suggestions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. witnesses. now start with the misses lord, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much for chairing this hearing and thank you members of the --. in an era of strategic competition among technologically advanced powers, software shaped the nature of deterrent and defined national security advantage. the urgen

biden has asked congress for $850 billion for the defense department, up 4% from this year. the budget nato and washington’s other european allies, however, ukraine does not appear as a separate expense item for the us department of defense; there is only mention of a project on this topic, which congress has been blocking since last year. let me remind you that the armed forces of ukraine have not received american money since december 2023. however, republicans in the house of representatives have already named this project, quote, “the road map that leads to the decline of america.” too high a share of non-targeted expenses in... conditions of high inflation. jens stoltenberg said that nato does not plan to send troops to ukraine advised emmanuel macron to consult on important issues with members of the military alliance. on the eve of debates in the national assembly, the opposition asks the president to pay attention to the problems of his country. for example, the online resources of many government agencies in france barely recovered from a powerful cyber attack that lasted almo

pomir installation, nuclear power reactor. was created for the needs of the defense department of thet union, so that in hard-to-reach areas military units could obtain energy, because it was almost impossible to deliver conventional fuel there by any means of transport, these are the interests of defense, but the range of applications is wide, including for needs of the national economy. a source is needed for remote areas that do not have energy sources, so it was necessary to somehow deliver it there her, at the same time a new program began in the republic, the use of atoms for peaceful purposes, work began on the creation of the first belarusian nuclear power plant. unfortunately, the accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, a time of change in the ussr, pushed this project back by a decade. they were able to resume it already during the period of the sovereign belarusian state. today the belarusian nuclear power plant is the pride of the republic. one block of a nuclear power plant generates 9 billion. nuclear energy, especially the opportunities that a renewable, closed c

lance drones, according to the defense department, kiev suffered significant losses, a total of 234 militantseveral infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers were destroyed. well, this is what the village of nekhateevka in the belgorod region looks like now, where saboteurs were allegedly heading, the footage was taken about two hours ago, but it is clear that there are no saboteurs , the settlement also lives its normal life, public transport works and... not allowed. well, now the details plane crashes in the ivanovo region. the malfunction that led to the crash of the il-76 appeared as soon as the plane left the runway. the speed of the transport aircraft was already so high that it was simply impossible to interrupt takeoffs and land on the remaining section of the runway. the crew - these were pilots from the orenburg region - made the only correct decision - to turn off the engine that caught fire. perform a right turn and try to land at the departure airfield in the opposite direction, and in the last seconds, when it had already become obvious that the plane simply wou

defense partners are you working on that plan? >> i'm not specifically working on that plan for the department of defense. t. >> senator, the same answers we are not working directly we are in support of the department. >> not to you but to the department of defense and secretary, that is disappointing. i would like to follow-up with both you and the department on this to make sure that begins to get implemented so we can begin stopping the illegal flow of dead drugs ing of humans. you know, that's big business for the cartels instability in countries across our hemisphere. so what efforts beyond that plan since that is not yet been developed, what efforts are already underway with you or your parties to address human trafficking, general richardson? >> thank you senator and i'm not aware that the is not, the report could very well be the well along its way. we are just not actively working on it from our times the joint staff and the osd will work those things to allow us to continue to execute our daily missions. but we are working very closely because i have the very end in my aor which is a huge human

however, ukraine does not exist as a separate expense item for the us department of defense.oject on this topic, which congress has been blocking since last year. let me remind you that the ukrainian armed forces have not received american money since december 2023. however, representatives of the house republicans have already called this project a quote: a road map that leads to the decline of america. too high. share of non-targeted expenses in conditions of high inflation. a maritime humanitarian corridor to the gas sector has been opened. the first ship with humanitarian aid, it is called open arms, left the port larnok on the island of cyprus. there are more than 200 tons of food and other essential products on board . the ship is expected to dock off the coast of the enclave south of gaza city. at the pier, which was specially built for this purpose from the rubble of destroyed buildings. and crushed stone. let me remind you that the creation of this humanitarian corridor was agreed upon by the european commission and international donors last friday. israeli authoriti

the department of defense's achieve information officer.d the director of the defense systems agency and the commanders join forces for the primitive defense network. he is set to depart h position on april 15. before we hear from the witnesses, i go to the ranking member for any comments you may have. >> think you for your bipartisan focus on how we can make the department are innovative, agile and capable of adopting the latest technology software and working with the -- i hope we can explore not just what the apartment is doing but their perfectibility is needed. the reality is we have a challenge to bring tm up to thef modern information while operating in the area of rate power competition. securing the■] industrial base. accelerating the rollout of a robust identity credential is fundamental. the subcommittee had a very interesting hearing on software developer and software acquisition. a month ago, the committee held a hearing on exhilarated the base of innovation across the department. as we approach the end of this term, what would

our competition has worked in advisory roles with the with the department of defense as it relates to.i. and cybersecurity. but from a government leader and one with one who can speak for communities and organizations around the country,e're very pleased to have mignon clyburn as an advisor on the board. you■é know, to say colin was a friend now, an old friend, a longtime friend. he worked for now-senator markey but then-congressman markey in the early days of the formation of policies thatfo a brought us competition in capable and satellite and wireless. the 1996 telecommunications act, the early internet policy, the , and then he went on to establish the government affairs offices for twitter not only in the united states and washington, but around b the world. and now a heads up. ais called the blue owl. we're very pleased to have his long, thoughtful policy advice, leadership, guidance and then -- [inaudible] from fran anytime telecommunications who can tell us from the industry and who is serving both government and commercial entprises a■rrod the country, if you think of walmart

biden has asked congress for $850 billion for the defense department, up 4% from this year.cludes expenses for the maintenance of nato and other european allies of washington, but ukraine does not exist as a separate item of expenditure for the us department of defense. there are only mentions of a project on this topic, which congress has been blocking since last year. let me remind you that sow has not received any money since december 2023. however, republicans in the house of representatives have already called this project, quote: a road map that leads to the decline of america. too high a share of non-targeted expenses in conditions of high inflation. in the united the kingdom's press is discussing a strange photo that was published on social networks by the duchess of cambridge kate. the photo bears traces of rough graphic processing. alexander khabarov will not tell you more. at a minimum, the serious illness of the wife of the heir to the throne is hidden from the people. appeared in public for quite a long time, about 2 months, the tabloids suggested that the royal

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of the ministry of defense, to minimize the information failures of the main intelligence departmente you examples, budanov should already be called budanov avdevskyi, clearly, this, this is a failure of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense, for which there should be personal charges responsibility of the leader. instead, we see the awarding of a hero star. well, i have no questions. i emphasize once again, what does gur have to do with the sinking of russian ships? we don't have access to this confidential information, honestly, we just don't have access, well, as far as we understand, if the main intelligence agency reports on the task and informs about the progress, and the number of losses, well, it's quite reasonable to understand what it will use. these maritime drones, this was the prerogative of the main intelligence agency in this case of the ministry of defense, mr. antin, i will remind you of the events related to the strikes on the crimean bridge, when gurkh began to make statements, the security service asked questions then, they came out three hou

and the department of defense is in support of and other departments are in support of.ect. >> general mckenzie? >> i agree. >> the state department are they responsible under law? for requesting emergency evacuation is that correct? >> that is correct. and i think actually i think that is done at the pass at oriole level, you have to check the law but i think the ambassador can make the decision but it's up to him or secretary of state. >> and did the state department specifically embassy kabul have an evacuation for afghanistan? >> chairman every embassy has an evacuation plan for afghanistan. embassy kabul had not had a plan or had an f77 list which is the list of u.s. citizens and their families in the country, and we struggled to gain access to that plan and work with them over much of july until we finally got a decision to execute which as i already mentioned occurred on the 14th of august. now, we worked with the embassy before then, but we did not have authority to move out and do the things you have to do to make a nail happen until the 14th of july at comic co

the defense department does a pretty good job. you add all of the suppliers and everybody in the chain that helps to build a satellite and now, you are dependent on their cyber protection and resiliency to keep you safe to avoid getting into your networks later on that the huge challenge. i don't believe we have gotten it right yet. second, i would make sure that we create an architecture using our private sector and commercial enterprise to get low earth orbit architectures so that it makes it unappealing for the chinese or the russians to start taking out low earth satellite. you can get one, but not for long. we need to build bad resiliency and the last part of that is the supply chain piece. we need to build capability, not capacity necessarily, but capability in the united states. we have atrophied ourselves in a way that very hurtful to the ongoing national security protection at united dates, chicks being a part of that. you think those microprocessors, how important it is, certain types of microprocessors, even the ones th

department and here they're probably going to point the finger as somebody said, right at the defense department but you know, the finger point, you can go back and forth all day, but clearly there was not a good plan whether that was the military's falter state department's fault. it's clear that there wasn't a good a good plan for this scenario or the or the call was made at much too late of a date those obviously led to the conditions. write an essay said, right, having two small presence in country that had to then come into security airfield and conduct that noncombat evacuation operation. anytime you got to conduct a usually under duress, usually those don't happen in advance and things go badly and it went very badly, but again, to keep in mind why some people might not have been able to forecast it or understand it despite the intelligence, the taliban is not a sophistic sophisticated foe. write, this government just collapsed in the face of a foe that's not a sophisticated or they could have clearly defeat of the taliban if they had in any will to fight whatsoever. again, just look, loo

biden has asked congress for $850 billion for the defense department, up 4% from this year.cludes costs for maintaining nato and washington's other european allies. however, ukraine, as a separate article there are no expenses for the ministry of defense. there is only a mention of the project. on this topic, which congress has been blocking since last year. let me remind you that the armed forces of ukraine have not received american money since december. however, republicans in the house of representatives have already called this project, quote: a road map that leads to the decline of america. too high a share of non-targeted expenses in conditions of high inflation. deposit is the best interest. up to 16% per annum to sberbank online, hello everyone, dear subscribers, sometimes when mom orders cosmetics, they are from her favorite and turns into strict, sleep-deprived , gloomy, then my cosmetic bag is replenished, look, you can try on cosmetics first, we wanted to be loved, we remain loved, megamarket: it’s beautiful and profitable to please, entrepreneurs, we approach o

according to the announcement of the civil defense department of gaza, at least 400 palestinians have been shot and killed by the invaders while they were waiting for humanitarian aid. the islamic resistance of iraq issued a statement about a drone attack on an air base of the zionist regime in the occupied golan. the islamic resistance of iraq, the location of the attack , was carried out in the framework of the second phase of the resistance operation in support of the people of gaza and in response to the killings of the zionist regime against the palestinian people. a member of the political bureau of the hamas movement said: "a real opportunity has been created to end the aggression of the zionist regime in gaza and achieve a permanent ceasefire." despite the destruction of gaza , it did not achieve any of its goals. after 163 days, the resistance is still capable in the field battle. this senior member of hamas added that the enemy claims to have defeated hamas fighters in some places and cleared these places , while in these places the units the resistance is fighting against t