kind of integration but today, cyber warfare and information warfare are separated and the department of defense and involved multiple organizations. and fifth, i would recommend as one of our witnesses, i think will testify today the department must help develop an effective whole of government response to russia's strategic operation through things like a joint interagency task force and a fusion center. our colleagues on the foreign relations committee have proposed something similar. the threat is not going away. it is likely to intensify. and as our intelligence community has been warning, and coats has just testified to the senate intelligence committee, that thread is not going away. so, the 2018 elections are upon us. watchnot sit idly by and this happen again. thank you, mr. chairman. chair: thank you to our panelists here. our witnesses. we ask that you limit your opening remarks to five minutes. madeentire stigmas will be part of the record. we would like to begin with mr. butler. mr. butler: thank you, mr. chairman. thedistinguished members of subcommittee. thank you for the invitati

. >>> without further ado, i want to turn to some of our key colleagues here who have joined us from the state department and the department of defense. starting with mr. rafael carland, the managing director for policy. rafael, you know, the united states state department is undertaking a review of its role and some of the efficiencies that might be gained in term of its resourcing, and in the context of that, i understand, has been undertaking reviews particularly of ssa tools as well as stabilization tools. in that process, i'd be curious to hear your thoughts on what sort of innovations and best practices the state department has identified for ssa in that context. please. >> sure, thank you very much. and thank you so much for organizing this, and i appreciate the report as well. and then, of course, just by way of introduction, the office of foreign assistance that we do overseas and coordinates the 30 billion or so in foreign assistance at the state department and usa manage every year, and we look across all these accounts of which it's object 30 billion a year, a quarter to a third of any given year is secretary assistance.

my recommendation is in the homeland defense mission of the department of defense. we should stand up and move forward as we begin to move to another level which would be a national security task force, but in the interim, this come they has jurisdiction and the secretary has prerogatives to set up a jiativ to set up homeland defense and this is a homeland defense issue. >> well, everybody's -- >> i think it's a defend the nation issue. >> i think you're right. and. >> i think this is as clear an attack on the country as if you lobbed a missile or if you lobbed an artillery shell. >> senator blumenthal wanted to ask the question, one of you had stated that it's going to morph into where the attacks are going to look more american. would you expand on that, please? >> senator, that was me and it's in part from some of the lessons we learned from the french presidential election. the last cyber attack which happened within the last 24 hours of the campaign. it was a combination of both hacked e-mails from macron's campaign as well as made up messages and it was all mi

which is going to be what you need from the department of defense and/or the congress to do this? u just mentioned two years ago congress further expanded the ability of the department of defense to use other transactional authority which basically allows you to circumvent a lot of traditional requirements on paperwork and on laying out, you know, detailed ways of complying with a lot of complex standards and to get commercial off-the-shelf technology or otherwise move fast. if i did not summarize that well you can correct me in a second. question really is, again, what you need from the department of defense or the congress that you have not yet received? that will allow the rest of washington and the rest of the country to support you and what you are trying to do. >> i have been repeatedly hedging in public with what i say that we may need legislation. dependent upon the course of action the secretary in the chief tech here, in the early march timeframe, it may require legislation. we may also want to. to codify and institutionalize the changes. because it will be different. how

so the department of defense and democratic and republican administrations has been on top of it. what hasn't happened here is the administration has not embraced the need and followed through on the opportunities. rep. pallone: we on the energy and commerce committee have been trying to have hearings on climate change, sea level rise. they will not do it. no hearings, no discussion of it whatsoever. so we had a minority hearing, which was our right. and i figured let's go to annapolis because they were having major problems with sea level rise. i called up the superintendent and told him this is a partisan hearing. there will not be any republicans. i fully expected him to say no way, congressman. he said please come down. [laughter] rep. pallone: we went down there and had the hearing in this room that could look out on where all the flooding was. it was not even a stormy day. it was a bright, beautiful day and you could see all the flooding at annapolis. and he testified because he was so concerned that this is affecting the military. what role says is just a reality. rep. cici

government accountability office i that cod be used to report a cyber incident however the department of defense does not have the visibility of all national guard units capabilities for the support. last year i introduced legislation along with my committee coffee senator gillibrand and senator fisher to correct this oversight but unfortunately it wasn't included in the final version of the 2018. and as of july 52017, they have not complied and recommendatio recommendations. so how do you ensure that they are fully tapping into the expertise of the national guard and reserve when the dod doesn't have visibility of all of the capabilities within the national guard and what more can we do to correct this in the cyber command? >> i try to work closer to the national guard bureau and team and they just established band released a cyber strategy for example last month as a matter of fact and we were a part of that dialogue on how we make sure we are using an integrated approach as it can be an active only component or civilian only component as you and i have discussed the aspects of store? beyond m

the scope of responsibility for the operation forces specific roles for the planning of the department of defense counter wmd efforts and support of other combatant commands, department of priority is and as directed other u.s. government agencies. other coordinating authorities that have been established this enables a more strategic approach to enhanced integration of department of defense plans and intelligence priorities. the establishment of the coordinating authority we focus on three major areas of effort. first, we are developing a campaign plan in coordination with the geographic combatant commands you to the plan takes a trans regional perspective and the sizes of the new development and existing programs. second, we've conducted a baseline assessment to determine geographical combatant command counter wmd capabilities and capacities. the intelligence planning and assessments to this end we've established a counter wmd fusion center dedicated to the planning and using intelligence operations providing the community. while much progress has been made in the past year, a tremendous amount

that armitage offense, with significant input -- the department of defense, with significant input, conducted this review along with the department of state and energy, in consultation with allies and experts from inside and outside the government. the resulting 2018 nuclear posture review is consistent with prior reviews in its definition of u.s. nuclear roles and strategy. in fact, in many respects, the review reaffirms long-standing, bipartisan principles of u.s. nuclear policy, while at the same time recognizing the reality that a much more challenging nuclear threat environment has emerged since the previous 2010 nuclear posture review. 2010 nprrs ago, the made several assumptions about the nature of the strategic that served as a foundation for its vision of achieving the global elimination of nuclear weapons. unfortunately, none of those assumptions proved out. that served as a foundationfor example, first thr argued that u.s. relations with russia and china had changed fundamentally since the days of the cold war, and it assumed that the prospects for military confrontations had decli

without further adieu, i want to turn to some of our key colleagues here who have joined us from the state department, the department of defense. starting with mr. rafael carland who's the managing director for policy in the office of u.s. foreign assistance resources. rafael, the united states state department is undertaking a review of its role and some of the efficiencies that might be gained in terms of its resourcing and in the context of that, i understand has been undertaking reviews, particularly of ssa tools as well as stabilization tools, and in that process, i'd be curious to hear your thoughts on what sort of innovations and best practices the state department has identified for ssa in that context. >> sure. thank you very much. thank you so much for organizing this. appreciate the report as well. and that, of course, just by way of introduction, the office of foreign assistance that we do oversees and coordinates the $30 billion or so in foreign assistance that the state department and usa manage every year. we look across all of these a accounts, $30 billion a year, quart toreer to a third in any year is security

and also have the department of defense does its job -- how the department of defense does its job. will start by agreeing with the last point the chairman made, whatever we do in our military, this is what we expect you to do. it is our paramount obligation to make sure that we fund that. to make sure that we don't have a situation where we give them so many tasks, but not enough resources to train for them. that is the definition of a hollow force, when we send them into battle unprepared for what we told them to do. unfortunately due to budgetary challenges in the last six and seven years, that has happened far too often. we have lurched from continuing resolution to government shutdown to continuing resolution it's very difficult , for both of you and your predecessors to plan what you are going to do when you don't know how much money you are going to have one week to the next. i think that is a very significant problem, so i appreciate the strategies put together. my biggest concern is, does it match the likely resources we will have to fund it? we are $21 trillion in debt and

so the department of defense and democratic and republican administrations has been on top of it. what hasn't happened here is the administration has not embraced the need and followed through on the opportunities. mr. pallone: we on the energy and commerce committee have been trying to have hearings on climate change, sea level rise. no hearings, no discussion whatsoever. so we had a minority hearing, which was our right. and i figured let's go to annapolis because they were having major problems with sea level rise. i called up the superintendent and told him this is a partisan hearing. i fully expected, no way, congressman. he said please come down. [laughter] mr. pallone: we went down there and had the hearing in this room that could look out on where all the flooding was. it wasn't a stormy day but a bright, beautiful day and you could see all the flooding at annapolis. and he testified because he was so concerned that this is affecting the military. it's a reality. mr. cicilline: it was included in the national defense authorization bill, recognition of the challenges that c

it would be deeply irresponsible for members of this house to vote against providing full-year funding to defense department which addresses the needs of today and tomorrow, not last year. the secretary was on the hill to discuss something very important, the department's national defense strategy which seeks to address the significant challenges we face with rising adversaries in china and russia along with enduring threats of nuclear armed korea, a terrorist state in iran a terrorist network like isis. and he said, and i quote, i regret that without sustained, predictable appropriations, my presence here today waste yours time. because no strategy can survive without funding necessary to resource it. mr. speaker, this bill funds our military for the year, with funding that addresses the challenges we face today. and separate this is critical funding from the political fight here's in washington, d.c. our troops need our support for this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. carter: they need what this bill provides. because of that, i support the bill and urge pass

the department of defense has been on top of it. what has not happened is that the interest -- administration has not embraced the need and follow through on the opportunity. >> one thing to follow up -- we committeeand commerce are trying to have hearings on climate change, sea level rise. they won't do it. no hearing, no discussion. at the naval academy, they were having major problems with sea level rise. i called up the superintendent. i told them this is a partisan hearing. there are not going to be any republicans. i fully expected he was going to say, no way. he said, please come down. room, the hearing in this looking out on where the flooding was. you could see all the flooding at annapolis. as you testified, because -- he was so concerned this was affecting the military. this is the reality. >> it was included in the defense authorization bill, the challenges climate change presents the military. speaker, my as concern was climate and energy under president bush's leadership. in a bipartisan way, we passed the largest ener

department of energy, lisa gordon-hagerty of virginia to be under secretary for nuclear security. department of defense, kevin fahey of massachusetts to be an assistant secretary. thomas e.ayres of pennsylvania to be general counsel of the department of the air force. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening actions or debate, that if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table en bloc, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, that no statements be in order, and any statements principled in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the nominations en bloc. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of the following nomination -- executive calendar 663. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of energy, melissa f. bu

department of often through the department of defense of other countries because in the in the few times during our history that the military has been asked to defend the country it doesn't fit hasn't done a very good job in a war of eight hundred twelve we got the capital burned before they managed to fight the british to a drive to declaring war on the superpower at the time in world war two they didn't think the japanese were capable of attacking pro harbor so the military failed there and of course on nine eleven the fighter jets went out to sea so we need to increase our defenses and quit you know meddling in other countries business you know you know early that through the thing that i find again i think daniel really hit it here because i'm very disappointed to and that's why i have my own program because i can talk about things that i think are interesting because when i look at the literal of corporate media there's almost nothing of interest to me whatsoever it's tragic stories it's sad stories it's political posturing but there's no debate really about policy and

unified command has the scope of special operations forces specific roles to the planning of department of defense counter wmd effort and support of the other combatant commands and the department priorities and as directed other u.s. agencies. as other missionaries and coordinating authorities are established, this is going to enable a more strategic approach, and enhanced integration of the department plans and intelligence and priorities. since the lead responsibility of this mission set from the u.s. strategic command and the establishment of the socom's coordinating authority we have foc focused on three areas of major effort. and first, we are going a major campaign plan with coordination of the geographic combatant command commands. it takes a transregional perspective and emphasizes preventing new wmd development in existing programs and precluding aspiring actors from attaining the ta wmd. and we have a baseline assessment to determine the combatant and command and capabilities and capacity. it has identified shortfalls and when needed, the future capability of development and resource al

today, the senate armed services committee is going to be holding a hearing on the department of defense's weapons of mass destruction live here at 3:30 on c-span3. >>> tonight, a house subcommittee on the military leaders misconduct investigations. >>> saturday, american history tv on c-span3 is live beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern with all-day coverage with the new museum of the bible in washington, d.c., with the symposium of historians exploring the bible and the founding of america. the speakers include baylor university

the first panel consists of the department of defense and services inspector general. they will discuss the reporting and investigation of senior leader misconduct in addition to the types of cases they investigate. for the second panel, we are honored to have the vice chiefs of the army, navy, and air force along with the assistant, ron of the marine corps. they will discuss what happens to those investigations if they are substantiated, how they hold accountability, and divide an overview. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses about ethics and mentorship programs in place to prevent misconduct. i am also interested in hearing how the organization holds wrongdoers accountable. lastly, i would like to know in regards developed to the issues that are being reported and investigated. hearing i look for to what additional actions can be taken to further reduce incidences of leader misconduct. i would like to make two other points. first, the department of defense's common definition of a senior leader includes anybody 07 and above. for the purposes of today's hearin

that they are trying to hide or harbor information, the reality is when it translates from department of defense over to the department of justice, they are prohibited from providing very illuminating or alternative views. yet, they can't. i think that's very important to establish in the hearing today. >> in conversations with one of you, i guess it was over someone being reprimanded for endorsement, it came up that general officers could have outside employment. then, we checked the ucmj and found out there was no prohibition for general officers to have outside employment, which i think is pretty stunning. would you approve of us passing an amendment that would prohibit outside employment? >> i certainly would. i don't know what general officer ha time to have outside employment. >> if he is in the army, i will get a new job for him. >> we will go back and look at the statutes. i want to believe that we are prohibited from outside employment. we are not prohibited from serving on certain organizations that are for the benefit of the military service or volunteer organizations as a board membe

for at least 15 to 20 years the department of defense has been very evident about the threat you believethat climate campos. largely they tend to think of climate has an accelerant and usually the second order a fax so climate can relate to drought conditions which can lead to food issues that relate to dislocation migration patterns, disasters that affect for instance a major oil-producing in nigeria are somewhere where you think you might have to have a military mission. so we have long seen it as a challenge in that sense and also more to the point you are raising with regards to the safety and security of its own servicemembers because they are working in operating for the u.s. navy in the u.s. coast guard along coastlines in areas that require mitigation in states like florida that have significant naval presence. this is a real issue for dod. you can argue about climate one way or the other but you'll have to have your making sure your lives of your citizens are protected. dod i think this is a case where they can't call things climate related. you're going to put up a request to c

the department of defense conducted this review along with the departments of state and energy and in consultation with allies and experts from inside and outside of the government. the resulting 2018 nuclear posture review establishes the department of defense priorities as maintaining a safe and effective nuclear arsenal that can effectively contribute to the key goals deterring nuclear and non- nuclear. assuring the allies and partners in achieving u.s. objectives should they fail and hedging against an uncertain future. it also emphasizes the policy will continue to contribute to u.s. nuclear nonproliferation goals. these are consistent with past priorities of the policy and indeed the 2018 maintains the nuclear policies adopted by both democratic and republican administrations for example it recognizes the need for the nuclear triad and sustains the previous administration's plan for modernizing the aging nuclear triad of the land-based and breathing delivery platforms as well as its supporting nuclear infrastructure and command and control. consistent with the 2010 npr conducted

of the 1940 building. >> the old war building. >> the old war building. the war department became the department of defense, so the pentagon was built and in 1947 is when the department of state moved into that building and george marshall was the first secretary of state. when visitors come in they can see the historic lobby where we had an interesting mural painted that shows the war department, the legacy. let's talk about the further expansion. >> they were not there for more than 10 years before they realized they needed a lot more space. to significantly expand the building to what we know today, which borders 21st street and 23rd street, as well -- c street street and d street, so there was a cornerstone laying ceremony. >> presided by none other than president eisenhower. when eisenhower laid the cornerstone of the building, he wel that it been used by george washington to lay the cornerstone of the u.s. capitol and they also put in some historic documents. during the kennedy in ministration, -- during the kennedy administration there was another expansion and this is where we get the modern state

us the budget that then enablestous carry out our responsibilities, all the leaders in the department of defense that will address the issues you brought up. a lot of work goes into the execution, the quality of the training, you can count on us. we will earn your trust on this and spend the money wisely. >> if i can ask you about the recently released review, calls for smaller nuclear weapons to added to the arsenal. here on record saying there's no such thing as a it canty call nuke, it is a stra teej i can game changer. how does this new review add to global stability because there are many people who believe if you have nuclear weapons you're inclined to use them. >> we are talking the nuclear deter rent and in that we believe that some nations could miscalculate, one in particular, if they used in a conventional fight, a small yield bomb, we would not respond with a large yield bomb. our response to this is to make a small yield bomb and say don't miscalculate. remember it changes from year to year to decade to decade. we have to address it in its current construct. the idea is to raise the

it would be deeply irresponsible for members of this house to vote against providing full-year funding to defense department which addresses the needs of today and tomorrow, not last year. the secretary was on the hill to discuss something very important, the department's national defense strategy which seeks to address the significant challenges we face with rising adversaries in china and russia along with enduring threats of nuclear armed korea, a terrorist state in iran a terrorist network like isis. and he said, and i quote, i regret that without sustained, predictable appropriations, my presence here today waste yours time. because no strategy can survive without funding necessary to resource it. mr. speaker, this bill funds our military for the year, with funding that addresses the challenges we face today. and separate this is critical funding from the political fight here's in washington, d.c. our troops need our support for this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. carter: they need what this bill provides. because of that, i support the bill and urge pass

but the largest employer on planet earth is the united states department of defense, with more than 3illion employees. it's the largest single organization on earth. with all those workers and all those many agencies within it, all part of the gigantic u.s. department of defense they have a lot to keep track of at the pentagon. but last year in september it made for particularly bracing headlines when the director of one pentagon agency said quote i have got murderers who have access to classified information, i have rapists. i have pedophiles, i have people involved in child porn. i have all these things at the interim clearance level, and i'm pulling their clearances on a weekly basis. january of this year, nbc news obtained a report from the defense department showing that 165 contractors to the department of defense had had interim security clearances revoked because of illicit activity of some kind, things like questionable financial transactions or being influenced by a foreign government or, one person who got an interim security clearance clearance in 2015 was discovered in 20

kennedy: the defense department is failing to account for hundreds of millions spent by the military.efense logistics agency has $800 million in construction projects that were not properly documented or accounted for. the department of defense has an annual budget of nearly $700 billion this year. the president look topic crease that spending for next year. he promised to beef up the military while eliminating government waste. how can we cut spending and make government more efficient if we don't know where the money is going. joining me, my friend bryan suits. welcome back, suits. how do you lose that much money? >> defense logistics agency is a civilian-run agency but part of the pentagon. they have their own inspector general. here is the thing about the pentagon. afghanistan says hold my beer. $700 million would be a relief when you cop pair that to the inspector january in afghanistan and iraq. kennedy: didn't when find the department of defense miss appropriated $125 billion. >> you say misappropriate, they say lost. the pentagon does try. i had to account for he round of arti

but the largest employer on planet earth is the united states department of defense, with more than 3oyees. it's the largest single organization on earth. with all those workers and all those many agencies within it, all part of the gigantic u.s. department of defense they have a lot to keep track of at the pentagon. but last year n september, it made for particularly bracing headlines when the director of one pentagon agency said quote i have got murderers who have access to classified information, i have rapists. i have pedophiles, i have people involved in child porn. i have all these things at the interim clearance level, and i'm pulling their clearances on a weekly basis. january of this year, nbc news obtained a report from the defense department showing that 165 contractors to the department of defense had had interim security clearances revoked because of illicit activity at some time, thing like questionable financial transactions or being influenced by a foreign government or, one person who got an interim security clearance clearance in 2015 was discovered in 2017 to have b

this is the department of defense, and think i think we referred to earlier. this was the $29 million worth of heavy equipment that they lost in afghanistan. you see, they lost that, but we also made the decision as we were downgrading the war in afghanistan after the last surge we did in afghanistan, that we didn't want the other side to have our stuff, so we blew up billions of dollars of tax, you name it -- t anks, you name it. when they counted it up, they couldn't find $29 million worth. if you think about it and thinking how could we have more money for both our national defense and have more money for infrastructure, you hear people talk about infrastructure. republicans and democrats want to build roads, but guess what, there's no money. we're $1 trillion short this year because we passed this clash pans, spend whatever you can, both sides spend it like there's no tomorrow. but you say, how could we change our government? where would in be money we could actually save? some of it is in our foreign policy. we don't have enough for our military to be invo

this will extend government funding until march 23, 2018, while simultaneously funding the department of defense for a full year this ill en-- this will ensure our nation's defense, pay for our proud service men an women who will no longer be in jeopardy for ongoing decisions of funding for long-term spending caps. mr. speaker, we just have come off of rules committee where we had a hearing for several hours where we detailed not only the parts of this bill but also the agreement and disagreement about -- as between the two parties. i want you to know i'm pleased to report today, rules committee favorably reported out this bill and we will be talking about the substance of that today. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from new york is ecognized. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. speaker. i wasn't quite ready but i thank my friend for yielding me the customary 30 minutes and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. slaughter: i'm sorry i can't support this continuing resolution today. the great