so, not just the department of defense. not even just the department of justice. it's homelands a security, veterans affairs. quite frankly, it's health and human services, because there are aspects when we talk about how you go to underlying causes of extremism behavior and ideology. if you're going to go after those policies, it truly takes a whole of government approach. not just the federal government. the federal government working with state, local and tribal governments. working also with international partners. while we're talking about domestic terrorism and extremism, that's originating here, we are beginning to see trans national affiliation. right? think about the raising right wing actions in germany, austria, to name just two countries in europe. so, it's a whole of government approach and that certainly been the focus of the biden administration. and it's also the focus of the congress. >> thank you for mentioning that. the wipeout strategy is so important here. i think it's an important note to end on. so, question for both of you is, that white ho

so, it's not just the department of defense. not even -- it's homeland security. so, frankly, it's helping human services because there's an aspect of underlying causes of extremism behavior and ideology. we're going to go after those pauses t takes the whole of government approach. not just the federal government. federal government work with state, local and tribal government. working with international partners. while we're talking about domestic terrorism and extremism, that's originating in home grown here, we're beginning to see the branchs and affiliation, right? and so, it's the whole of government approach and that's certainly been the focus of the biden administration and it is also the focus of congress. >> thank you for mentioning that. the strategy is so important. so, questions that what strategies past the domestic policies and leading this work and partnering with civil society to tackle the problems and root causes of white supremacy in america, including the military and across society. so, what do you think are some of the key actions for domesti

so it is not just the department of defense, not just the department of justice. it is homeland security, veterans affairs. quite frankly it is health and human services because there are some aspects when we talk about how do you go to about how do you go to underlying causes of extremism, behavior and ideology. and if you're going to go after those causes, it truly takes a whole of government approach. not just the federal government. the federal government working with state, local and tribal governments, working also with international partners. because while we're talking about domestic terrorism and extremism originating and homegrown here, we are beginning to see sort of transnational affiliation, right? think about the rising right-wing factions in germany and austria, to name just two countries in europe. so it's a whole of government approach. and that's certainly been the focus of the biden administration. and it is also the focus of congress. >> thank you for mentioning that. the white house strategy is so important here. i think a really good thing fo

department of defense must adapt to a new set of priorities and constraints and that brings us to today's events. general recently released the book title ever shrinking fighting force which recognizes that despite recompense spending, the u.s. department of defense is getting less return on investment than in the past. the pentagon must transform process down by bureaucracy or trail behind especially -- especially competitors like china translates economic successes into military power, we just saw a test from a hypersonic missile from china yesterday that surprise a lot of people the community. this change is especially important for decision-makers map up the next allergy and determine how to reform rate of performance and greater affordability. u.s. seeks to maintain competitive ads in the decades to come defenses on the advantage national defense strategy continuing to release analyses to help chart the way forward for the department efforts and that is the concept of today. i'm delighted to introduce the worst speakers and moderator. our speakers happen to be part of our atlantic fa

department of defense must adapt to a new set of priorities and constraints. and that brings us to today's event. general punaro we'll hear from shortly, recently released a book which recognizes that despite record defense spending, the u.s. department of defense is getting less return on investment than it didn't pass. the pentagon must transform processes bogged down by bureaucracy, especially as near peer competitors like china translate their economic successes into military power. and we just saw the test of a hypersonic missile from china yesterday that surprise a lot of people in the intelligence and defense community. this change is especially important as pentagon decision-makers that map out the next national defense strategy and determine how to reform the department for greater performance and greater affordability. as the u.s. seeks to maintain its competitive edge in the decades to come, the defenses team projects on seizing the new defense strategy continues to release key analyses to chart the way forward for the department efforts. so this con

department of defense must adapt to a new set of priorities. that brings us to today's event. general punaro, who we will hear from shortly, recently released a book called the ever shrinking fighting force. despite record defense spending, the u.s. department of defense is getting lest we return on investments than it did in the past and the pentagon must transform -- trail behind especially as near peer competitor is like china translate their economic successes into military power. we just saw a test of a hypersonic missile from china yesterday that surprised a lot of people in the intelligence community. this changes especially important as the pentagon decision-makers map out national defense strategy and determine how to reform the department. as the u.s. seeks to maintain its competitive edge on the decades to come and for defenses on seizing the advantage continues to really ski analyses that help chart the way forward forward the department efforts and. that's the context for today. i'm delighted to introduce the speakers and our moderator. our two distinguished speake

the department of defense is not addressing them properly. a failure of effective leadership again and the department of defense. i don't agree with the vaccine mandate for our military. there no operational requirement for it. we send our service members into numbers of areas with viral threats. one is ebola in it africa. we don't give them shots. there is no operational threat for this. i disagree with this mandate. i think it's wrong. i think we are punishing our service members that have served well and long. we have to stop that. >> general, i have heard from sources that the department of defense recruited lawyers to knock down these religious exemptions. that's insidious particularly during christmas. thanks for your time. merry christmas. what is the most dangerous christmas song to belt out while driving? this answer may shock you. "seen and unseen" witha special celebrity guest is up next. stay there. go with simparica trio it's triple protection made simple! simparica trio is the first and only monthly chewable that covers heartworm

thinking behind it. >> in 2018, the department of defense released their cybersecurity strategy. one of the elements of the cybersecurity strategy with this idea of defend forward. how do we operate outside the united states as a department to be able to identify threats? to be able to counteract those threats and be able to make sure that those threats perhaps did not come to the homeland? from that idea of defend forward, outside the united states, we at cyber command developed the idea of persistent engagement. what is that? persistent engagement is really two things. it's the ability to enable our partners and also to act. enable our partners, whether our partners are international or whether they are inter agency partners, whether they are, you know, industry partners -- and that's the ability to act. outside the united states. sending forward teams. being able to disrupt the infrastructure of an attack by an adversary come into the united states. that's the idea of persistent engagement and being able to ensure that we are operating within the

reason it receives a separate appropriation is because veterans have requirements and needs the department of defense does not address. so when we give away our ability to manage contracts and programs to another department, we lose the ability to ensure the requirements of veterans and the v.a. are the top priority. i look forward to hearing from all witnesses today and getting some answers on how to get this program and contracting at v.a. overall on track. notice i did not say back on track because i don't think it was ever on track. not just the previous administration. this has been a persistent issue of not ever having been on track. so my republican colleagues, i don't want you to take my comments about the last administration that that was the only administration that has had this issue. i am hopeful in a bipartisan way we are going to get things on track maybe for the first time. so we can no longer be in a holding pattern making the same blunder over and over again. i am pleased we are in agreement with members in the minority on the committee that this is an important topic. i look forward

presently building on the strong foundation established by the department of defense, the office of space commerce developed and requested congress a prototype space situational awareness system to support civil and commercial space obligations and we are now deeply in the process of preparing for an operational system from the prototype in collaboration with our interagency partners and importantly in collaboration with the commercial industrial space sector and that over the next several years we believe we will be able to make the leap between the prototype and the commercial systems which will be incredibly important for space traffic and coordination. >> thank you madam secretary. and to emphasize the importance of the role of the department of commerce i will next introduce the secretary of transportation between the two agencies, we covered the launch and activities and the coordination you may think of historically how you think of the faa and the regulation of traffic giving a similar adoption of policy and coordination must take place under a coordinated way with the government

s. department of state and defense. their definition of independent may be malleable to say the least. an a s p i are good at what they do, at least for their defense, industry, sponsors. the numbers say it all since the think tank was founded 20 years ago. weapons manufacturers have collected tens of billions of dollars in government contracts. prior to the coven pandemic. the organization hosted dozens of event, some bringing together key players in defense and politics. providing the opportunity for closed door discussions with government departments and agencies. the s p i is so heavily involved with foreign governments and political organizations. it's even registered with the australian governments followed employ transparency register. many were so pleased with the thing, thanks. work. their funding to the organization has grown significantly year on year as have their funds from sponsorship and commercial revenue under the direction of executive director peter jennings. who is himself clear where the blame for in

of defense and president. think of us as doing three things. we defend department of defense networks and weapons data systems. you think, how big is that? we have about 4.5 million end points, 3.5 million users, about 600,000 mobile devices spread across classified and unclassified networks. we were very closely with the federal bureau of investigation and cisa to ensure the security of the nation's cyberspace. the final thing that we provide support to, all of our combat and commanders. whether you are deployed around the world, in europe, in the pacific, if you need cyber support, it will come from u.s. cyber command. that is the cyber command side. let me talk about the national security agency. next week, 69 years old. really, i would tell you we are a global organization. our focus is two part. we do for intelligence, outside the united states, focused on signals intelligence. if it is on a wire, email, transitioning in cyberspace, from our adversaries, we are trying to gain insight. the second piece is we do cybersecurity. this is a part of the mission that

who have sound and valid religious beliefs and their religious beliefs are not being, the department of defensenot addressing them properly. this is a failure of leadership once again, effective leadership in the department of defense. i don't agree with the vaccine mandate for the military, there's no operational requirements for it. we send our servicemembers into numbers of areas with viral threats, one of the most people in africa, we don't give them shots. there is no operational threat for this and i disagree with this mandate. i think it is wrong, we are punishing our service members that have served well and long and we've got to stop that. raymond: i've heard from sources that the department of defense recruited lawyers to try to knock down these religious exemptions among our troops, that is insidious particularly during christmas. what is the most dangerous christmas song to belt out while driving? this answer may shock you. seen and unseen with a special celebrity guest is up next. stay there. >> time for our "seen and unseen" segment where time for seen and unseen where we expose t

s. department of state and defense. their definition of independence may be malleable to say the least. an a s p, i are good at what they do, at least for their defense, industry, sponsors. the numbers say it all since the think tank was founded 20 years ago. weapons manufacturers have collected tens of billions of dollars in government contracts. prior to the coven pandemic. the organization hosted dozens of events. i'm with bringing together key players in defense and politics. providing the opportunity for closed door discussions with government departments and agencies. the s p i is so heavily involved with foreign governments and political organizations. it's even registered with the australian governments. forward inputs transparency register. many were so pleased with the think tanks work there. funding to the organization has grown significantly year on year as have their funds from sponsorship and commercial revenue under the direction of executive director peter jennings. who is himself clear where the blame fo

street lighting and today, hundreds of students including for the first time, students from the department of defense and bureau of indian education schools, their creativity through the ordinance that footing us and because this is a national park, anyone who visits our nations capitol can enjoy the artistic talent and it's a beautiful reminder that there are places that bring us together. my heartfelt thank you to the interior department of employees who helped lend this holiday tradition. i also extend my gratitude to our first responders in our frontline workers in honor to be with so many of you this evening. [cheering and applause]. your dedication to the well-being of others embodies the holiday spirit and whatever your families - i wish everyone a happy holiday. i now have the great privilege of introducing president joe biden and first lady, dr. jill biden. [cheering and applause]. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> my name is joe biden and i am dr. jill biden says bennett and on behalf of dr. jill biden and kamala and others, i welcome you to the christmas tree lighting and thank to the interior secret

paul stockman, former assistant secretary of defense for homeland definance and america's security affairs in the department of defense. and a senior fellow of john -- of the john hopkins university's applied dissics did shall did-physics lab toamplet we are privileged to be joined by my colleague, a.e.i. senior fellow, elizabeth. dr. stockton's service as an assistant second for president obama put him on his current path of support to industry and government to meet emerging challenges and infrastructure resilience, cybersecurity, and strategy planning. >> now that he's left office he provides strategy advice to major electric utilities, trade associations, and the electrical subsector coordinating council to help them strengthen preparedness against cyber threats. he chairs the grid resilience subcommittee of the department of energy's electricity advisory council, and serves on the national association of regulatory utility commissioners task force on emergency preparedness. miss elisabeth braw's work focuses on defense against emerging national security challenges, specifically focusing on hybrid and g

defense contract. so under the freedom of information act, i made 3 requests, one to the environmental protection agency, one to the department of defense, and one to the nuclear regulatory commission to see where the uranium was going in there was being tracked. and so i was told by the nuclear regulatory commission that there are no files. i was told by the p a they would get back to me. and i was actually called by the department of defense a, a crown i'm calling regarding a point in a website. i have a few did no questions. if you can give me a call back. my number 703-699-7576. i appreciate it. thank you. i call them back and they wanted to know why i was interested in mosaic and what i wanted to know about mosaic. they told me to stop that line of questioning and they were gonna delete my request from the database. and i needed to get information on them and nobody would talk. so i decided to go ask my some. so stop by the office as his we closed at the moment. i may not be here yet. so we're going to head up. hi, i was just getting some pictures around the area. i thought i'd stop by and introduce myself. my name is er

and at the department of defense, that means that serious changes to some of the ways that we've doneusiness must be done. so let's face it, for far too long it's been far too hard for innovators and entrepreneurs to work with the department. and the barriers for entry into this effort to work with us in national security is often too steep, far too steep. you know, in my recent travels i've seen some outstanding examples of cutting edge tactic including weeks ago in bahrain where i saw unmanned solar-powered naval vessels that used a.i. to build a sheer picture of the surrounding seas. but it often takes too long to get that kind of innovation to our war fighters. so let's say that some great california start-up develops a dazzling way to better integrate our capabilities. all too often that company is going to struggle to take its idea from inception to prototype, to adoption the by the department. we call this syndrome the valley of death. and i know that many of you in this room are are painly familiar with it. you know, it's bad enough that some companies get stuck in the valley

the people that handed these -- office of personnel management, department of labor, department of defense. things like this. they will not, they will not give you help and find out why your -- you're on disability, workers comp, or why they are short paying me. but i know for a fact they are doing this thing i have been at it since 2000. and i have found out that these people are employees in this thing has done fraudulent activity. host: ok. that's frank in north carolina. about a half-hour left in our -- your top story segment. this will take us to 9:00. if you want to participate you can do so one of three ways. give us a call at 202-748-8002 for democrats. 202-748-8001, for republicans. inpentz, 202-748-8002. you may want to text us at 202-748-8003. post on the social media site, facebook.com/c-span. our twitter feed is @cspanwj. the supreme court's decision or at least the hearing of the case on mississippi's abortion law. many of you in our first hour this morning brought that up as top story of the week. "the washington post" takes a look what it might do for the state depending on

the department of defense has given that message. the partner of choice is the united states.e partners with china by choice, because the capability of their weapons is significantly limited. also the diplomacy that comes with china coming into a country, many countries in the region have seen the practice of it in the pacific and they are concerned. nick: from jordan, israel, even saudi arabia, they questioned the commitment. they've seen multiple presidents talk about wanting less of a footprint in the middle east. >> we do have less of a footprint but we are still here and we are able to decisively alter events. nick: general mckenzie, thank you. >> thank you, nick. ♪ judy: as the united states braces for the unknowns of the omicron. delta variant is still overwhelming to the country. some states in the northeast and midwest have seen sustained, record-breaking case numbers. this look into how it is hitting vermont. >> vermont with its widespread and early adoption of vaccines and mitigation measures was held up as a model for how to handle this pandemic. but the last month

thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today, particularly in person, about the department of defense's approach to counterterrorism. i'm grateful to appear with my department of state colleague and look forward to today's discussion. while we have significantly degraded the terrorist threat, with the last 20 years of sustained pressure we still face a potent challenge this terrorist threat to the u.s. homeland from externally directed attacks is at its lowest since 9/11 but we still face a number of terrorist groups committed to targeting u.s. interests and personnel abroad. these groups seek to take advantage of instability and ungoverned spaces and have a new and evolving set of tools readily available. today's terrorist groups are proficient with new technologies, agile in the information environment career ative in circumventing traditional financial systems and remain ideologically influential enough to motivate generations of new people to join them or conduct independent attacks on their behalf. but let me be clear. the united states has met this challenge at every evolution. ou