that did not necessarily negatively impact dod mission. the historic designation and the cultural site was below the cliff line where the marines planned to live fire training range. the historic designation to be sure complicated the marines' planning efforts. but it was not something that stopped the process. the marines worked with the local community to develop mitigation plans that would allow for access to the site during designated times. as well as improve the trail to visit the village. it was a collaborative effort. yet, this amendment, if it was in place during the debate would have undermined the local community's concerns and input into the practice. and i yield back, mr. chairman. >> further discussion on the amendment. gentle lady from massachusetts -- >> i too would like to speak out would like to reference some testimony of the department of defense before that committee on this very issue where the dod testified that the current processes around the national historic preservation act, quote, work well for dod, unquote, an

nebbia: dod does not control the spectrum. dod remains the regulator on the government side. their use would make it difficult given current technology and process would make it difficult for nonfederal users to access spectrum, yes. there are bands, there are radar bands that have nonfederal radars you didn't hear much about. the defense department works with those people regularly. if you put a mask commercial wireless system in the same bandwidth federal radar, you will have to come up with some new capabilities. whether it is new technologies are spectrum management, to make it work. certainly, the defense department is open to that. if you look at their spectrum strategy that they put out, i think it was the end of 2013 but it is still there, their document right now, part of what they are arguing is there battlefield -- is such that they need to be more flexible. if you for expanded wi-fi to get more bandwidth each of those has become we are working to those issues. and we will see how that goes. >> mr. nebbia: i am not familiar with how they do other calculation, certa

dod does a pretty good job of research. i think the strength is in the private sector, as several speakers had previously mentioned, that barta was the mechanism by which a lot of these orphan drugs and counter measures got through the so-called valley of death. there was a guaranteed customer and that still needs to be done. we're getting back to leadership, i think private sector iks the strength over 85/90% of the health care sector is in the private sector, it's not in government and that goes for r & did as well. we have some brilliant minds in dod research, but i think the cutting edge stuff with regard to development of really new technology vaccines, counter measures, in coordination with dod. i think i would speak in favor of the intelligence community and say that we need the good intel, if you will, to help us to know in which direction to develop these new counter measures. >> i appreciate that, very helpful to us because we've seen different -- we've had different people testify with regard to -- unifying them

further dod has flexibility should the collaborative process not work. in testimony last year before the house natural resources committee, maureen sullivan with always be stated, ethical, if however, we were ever unable to reach a mutually satisfying -- management approach, the acting cost him at a military department to make the final decision of how to manage the property in a way that doesn't diminish our ability to meet our mission needs, unquote. so again dod already has a tremendous amount of flexibility in dealing with the nhpa. now, i personally have an important example on guam where there was a historic designation of a certain cultural site that did not necessarily negatively impact dod mission. the historic designation and the cultural site was below the cliff line where the marines plan to live fire training range. the historic designation complicated the marines planning effort but it was not something that stopped the process. the marines worked with the local community to develop mitigation plans that would allow more access to the site

for preferential treatment while ignoring all other dod civilians.dod has authority to exempt categories of civilians for furloughs to include technicians in the reserves. while the individuals working during the week they are a civilian and when they show up on drill weekend they are in uniform and a military member. so we should not confound what they do during the week with what they do on the weekends and i need to rise in opposition to the amendment. >> further discussion? if not the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from florida mr. nugent. those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. >> hmmm. in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. and the amendment is agreed to. further amendments on this section of the bill? gentlelady from california, miss davis. >> i have an amendment at the desk. >> the clerk will distribute the amendment. >> mr. chairman, i can start, if you want. >> without objection the amendment is considered as read and the gentlelady from california is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much. m

the dod doesn't believe it can do this and thinks it would be very suspect. this is another way of saying that even if we did it it would be useless. if you think cost data looking out to 28 he is any that is what this would do then i would like to sell you some oceanfront property in colorado. the amendment would not result in good oversight and transparency. i urge a no bug and i yield back back. >> further discussion on the amendment? if not the question is on the amendment offered by mr. garamendi. of all those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the no's have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. garamendi is recognized for the purpose of offering another amendment. >> the gentleman is not going to offer as i understand it and amendment 102. does the german was to offer 251r1? if the clerk would distribute 251r1. without objection the amendment is considered as read and garamendi is recognized for five minutes. >> once again this deals with the nuclear enterprise and a piece of that puzzle, a very expensive piece of that. this amendment deals with

this is part of an ongoing battle between congress and the president effectively related to dod frank. and congressional leaders coming under pressure from wall street lobbyists to roll back some of the protective legislation around consumers and lending as part of the dod frank bill. white house has taken a position on both of these bills which relate to lending fees effectively. enough said. we will veto these because we think it's not a good idea at this stage in the recovery to be attempting to chip away at dod frank. expect some more noise and heat on both of these bills. just moving you along, i know this is a story that a lot of people who read and write books are very interested in. we finally have a deal it seems, from harper collins and amazon. the publisher and the online retailer have been at odds for years now over the way that books are being sold through amazon and whether they are sold at too deep a discount as far as the publishers are concerned. well, it looks like they have agreed to bury the hatchet for the time being. we have a multiyear here. harper collins will

>> dod doesn't control any of the spectrum. they have access to a lot but ntia is the regulator on the government side. they have access to a lot of spectrum where their use would make it difficult given during technology and processes; would it make it difficult for non-proal federal users to access the spectrum? yes. there are radar bans with non-federal radar bans you don't hear much about but the defense department works with those people. if you put a mass commercial wireless system in the same broadband with federal radars you will have to come up with new capabilities whether it is new technology or spectrum management networks to make that work. the defense department is open to that. if you look at the strategy they put out at the end of 2013 but it is still there driving a document right now, part of what they are arguing is their battlefield needs are such they need to be more flexible. if you in fact continue to narrow their spectrum and say this is the box that we need to keep forcing dod into a more and more effic

same thing here, same thing for dod, you can download the dod records, and they can carry their records on their phones thanks to blue button and they have their v.a. records and their dod records. peter: is this available now? >> absolutely. peter: is this a free app or does it cost? >> i wish it would be free, but if it were free, we are a small company and we have already spent millions on this app, so -- peter: so is it simply an interface that makes your data more clear? >> it is a way of seeing your records in plain english and this is critically important so it can assemble all of your information like this so you have all of your medications right there and you can look at it up and a can give you an explanation as to what this drug is for, and if you speak spanish, this app can speak spanish to you. peter: thank you so much for talking about blue button permit -- blue button. announcer: you're been watching "the communicators" on c-span. c-span, created by america's cable companies 30 years ago. announcer: on the next "washington journal," asher orkaby discusses the latest on y

i know va is working with dod so that the two can share servicemembers medical records electronically but progress as you know has been slow p.. >> gao cited the lack of progress is an issue and added va to its 2015 high-risk list. according to gao quote the two departments have engaged in a series of initiatives intended to achieve electronic health record interoperability but accomplishment of this goal has been continuously delayed and has yet to be realized. the ongoing lack of electronic health records interoperability limits of va clinicians ability to access records and so on. what kind of progress are you going to be making and when can we expect for you to be off of the gao high-risk list? >> first of all when i met with ahead of the gal isp put on that list. they run the largest largest health care system the country and the crises that occurred i thought it was appropriately run the list. i think the transparency and visibility is important to improvement. secondly we have made a lot of progress on the electronic health record. maybe i could ask staff to go over that but al

actual dod doesn't control any of the spectrum. dod has access to a lot of spectrum, but ntia remains the regulator on the government side. they have access to a lot of spectrum where their use would make it difficult given current technology and given current processes would make it difficult for nonfederal users to access that spectrum? yes. there are bands, radar bands that actually have nonfederal radars in them you don't hear much about, but the defense department works with those people regularly. if you were to put a mass commercial wireless system in the same bandwidth with federal radars you're going to have to come up with some new capabilities whether it's new technologies or new spectrum management methods to make that work. so certainly the defense department is open to that and in fact, if you look at their spectrum strategying that they put -- strategy that they put out i think it was the end of 2013 but it's still there, they are driving document right now. part of what they're arguing is that their battlefield name

so, again, just for the sake of clarification, what we're trying to do is tell dod to come forward with an implementation plan for the recommendations as amended by us from the commission, as amended. come back march of next year with their implementation plan. gives us plenty of finaltime for those who go out on what the currently serving members on what they think the impact will be on future additions to the maililitary military. concerns they might have that we can then address in ndaa next year so we can move forward with an implementation. if we wait in my opinion to get all this done until october of next year or march of next year, then we will delay implementation by at least a year because there's no impetus for dod to start planning to actually implement. it will be another report duplicative of what the commission has already done which will probably give us the same data that the commission did, and i can tell you if you look at the survey tool that the commission used it is statistically valid a very large sample across the country, all ranks, including dependents. so, aga

i use it on dod systems. i use it on our own systems. so the very things we try to use with the public sector, we use ourselves. when it comes to cryptographic standards, to some technical development, we are committed to sharing as much of that as we can. if you look at the -- the website is one of the vehicles we use. we push it directly to a lot of the major vendors, whatever the particular market segment is and say, hey, this is how we use it. let's see. this is from bill hill. at the risk of being on your watchlist -- [laughter] i apologize about the role tied. it's just a conditioned response. [laughter] all right, bill thanks very much. daniel fink are you here? ok. with the competition between private and government sectors for cyber talent, how do you plan to retain your cyber workforce? this is not a challenge that is unique to cyber for the department of defense or the intelligence community. it is purely going to be about money. we are clearly not going to be your first choice for a work voice -- a workplace. but what are the

new technology vaccines, countermeasures and coordination with dod. i would speak in favor also the intelligence community and say that we need the good and tell us you will too help us to know in which direction to develop these new countermeasures. >> i appreciate that. very helpful to us because we have had different people testified with regard to return having a role in offensive than unifying and integrating mutual capabilities for an outcome that is very helpful. we thank you. we thank all the families. ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take a 10 minute break. maybe nine and a half. lunches are outside. dr. irwin will be her luncheon speaker. if you've been in the military you understand what i'm about to say. you've got 10 minutes, so swallow it down into it later. food is outside of the door. we will reconvene at a quarter to 1:00. thank you very much to the panelists. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> so, a brief break in this da

john rhymer the inspector general for dod, was appointed lead ig. since then, we have been coordinating closely. we have a joint strategic plan which we published march 31st which address cans how we're coordinating together. we are in the process of putting together our quarterly report which is going to be published sometime at the end of april. and the way we've set it up is operation inherent resolve outlined nine lines of effort in the initiative to address isil one being governance, another being countermessaging, and there are others. and the way we've split up our duties is to sort of, some of those lines of effort would be within my keelhouse. some of those lines defer to dod, they would be working op those. we're jointly working on strategy, we're jointly working on program analysis and development, and we're jointly working on publishing these reports. we meet regularly. i'm going to be going on a trip to jordan and turkey to see how the state department is addressing isil issues in those two areas. so it's been a robust but difficult bec

she's cutting plane so both in the dod requested budget the president requested budget and in our billso certainly we shouldn't be cutting those of which everybody has agreement cutting cutting plane which i've announce agreement. secondly you know our subcommittee held several hearings on the f-35 including classified briefings abrupt the members if it attended would know that the issues that she's right thing could've been dealt with in our hearings instead of in attempt to do an amendment. i think those on the committee are aware of them on our subcommittee did attend the hearings are the numbers we picked bolster makes it would be the national security goals of the program, and we address the issues and needs in oversight for the f-35. in fact, we did provide some reduction in spending in this program on and at the same time we ensure that the f-35 continues on pace to be able to provide what we need at our national security which would've been part of our classified briefing to the are a number of reasons why this is the wrong cut, a number of reasons why the number in a subcommit

data for any medical center and dod data as well as third party provider data in the same screen. so the data's been normalized, the providers can look at it and they can actually make decisions based upon a continuum of time in terms of what data -->> so what remains to be done? >> so the two next things that need to happen is the viewer that chose that data is just for viewing. we're not able to actually go in and change the data. that's the next generation. >> is that a data base breakthrough? doesn't sound hard. >> it's a two-part. the first part is making sure there are common standards. >> ok. >> so working with onc to come up with national standards where there are no national standards, we work with dod -- >> clinical standards? >> database, so we have the same units, same definition. a lot of effort over the next couple of years to make sure the right standards are in place. the second piece is to make sure the tools there that shows the data at the same time, we can start changing the data at either end. and so -- >> time frame for all of this? >> the enterprise health m

not trusting that the department of homeland security is capable of protecting us. >> i don't think dod would say that, but i'm saying that based on my oaks, that's exactly what's going on here. >> what is the -- you know, without getting into the department of homeland security, what initiatives are in place around the country to upgrade the u.s. aging infrastructure? i think you talked about islands of resilience. what's that about? >> well, each military base back in the 1940s and 1950s was actually created to be a self-sustaining entity. everything from food to power. they could basically do their own power. build -- they have all these things they could do on their own. >> we saw the power go out this week. we know that the internet are real. basically the d.o.d. decide thad we not only have to protect our own equities, but we need to be able to build these islands for the american people to come to should a catastrophic failure of power and internet happen because for goodness saying, they aren't doing it. >> moving to an emp proof bunker. that doesn't bode well for the rest of us

data for any medical center and dod data as well as third party provider data in the same screen. so the data's been normalized the providers can look at it, and they can actually make decisions based upon a continuum of time in terms of what data -- >> so what remains to be done? >> so the two next things that need to happen is the viewer that chose that data is just for viewing. we're not able to actually go in and change the data. that's the next generation. >> is that a data base breakthrough? doesn't sound hard. >> it's a two-part. the first part is making sure there are common standards. >> okay. >> so working with onc to come up with national standards where there are no national standards, we work with dod -- >> clinical standards? >> database, so we have the same units, same definition. a lot of effort over the next couple of years to make sure the right standards are in place. the second piece is to make sure the tools there that shows the data at the same time, we can start changing the data at either end. and so -- >> time frame for all of this? >> the enterprise healt

electronic health records, interoperaability limits va clinicians to readily access information from dod records and so on. what kind of progress are you going to be making and when can we expect for you to be off the jail high-risk list? >> well first of all, when i met with the head of the gao, i asked to be put on that list. we run the largest health care system in the country, and with the crisis that have occurred, i thought it was appropriate that we are on the list. i think the transparency and visibility is important to improvement. secondly, we've made a lot of progress on the electronic health record maybe i could ask steph to go over there that but i would like to offer to the committee that we would be happy to come to your offices and demonstrate the inner op rablt once you see it, you become much more conversant in the progress that's been made steph. >> thank you, very braefly if you wouldn't mind. >> yes, sir. >> we've been hitting on three levels. the first one is moving the data within the existing systems. our future is how do we get all the data in a single view? and

an officer noticed a knife clip dod his pants pockets. they then claim he was arrested without incident. and he suffered a medical emergency in the police van. it's that lack of evidence that has residents demanding answers. >> reporter: in baltimore, a demand for answers into how 25-year-old freddie gray suffered a spinal injury while in police custody. it happened just after 8:40 a.m. on sunday april 12th. >> get off me yo. >> reporter: cell phone video provided by the victim's attorney shows officers arresting gray and loading him into a van. police say they asked for an inhaler. at about 8:46 a.m. they radioed he was becoming irate. at 8:59 they requested another officer to come check on gray and then they called for paramedics that rushed him to the hospital where he remained in a coma where he died. >> our information is he basically had his neck broken and his spine was almost completely severed. >> reporter: friends describe him as jokester who grew up in a rough neighborhood but was not clienlt. >> he was a good person with a goo

this amendment would require dod to make a request for proportional cost-sharing. what this amendment does is require a cost-sharing arrangement and asks dod to seek consideration for expenses related to proportional cost of forward deployed weapons and provide a response to congress. we are modernizing the b6 one in europe which will be expensive. it is about ten to $12 billion over the next few years and nato does not contribute. the united states pays for sustainment and manpower to support these forward deployed -- deployments amounting in the tens of millions of dollars per year nato provides some security at these bases answer infrastructure upgrade. by and large the cost of this entire system is pretty much born by the taxpayer. i am i am of the opinion that nato countries should participate in burden sharing by contributing a fair share of cost and that is my amendment it would simply ask for a better cost-sharing arrangement asked the department of defense to seek this out. i would hope that my colleagues would agree that some cost should be borne by our n

in terms of getting people to join homeland security and dod in the agency, what you recommend in termschanges to recruitment policies and strategies? chairman mccaul: the bill that we passed enhances the workplace, being able to hire and retain more highly credentialed individuals. i would argue with an dhs, this is probably one of the most innovative, most vibrant offices within the department of homeland security. if any of you have been over to ncic over the last five years their capabilities have really stood up. the head of that and the undersecretary both came from mcafee. they bring extraordinary experience. we have a partnership with any nsa -- within nsa where they can learn their expertise. with the legislation that we passed last congress on enhancing the workplace there we are going to get more and more talent. the problem is keeping them. i remember i went to work for the justice department because i wanted to check that box and move on to something else, and that is what i did, but you have to recognize it's a great place to gain great experience, but we also want the mor

i'm inters eested in the dod side of things. i know you interact a lot with them.for them the engagements is a big part of how they hopefully help with the mission. what do you see in terms of what we're getting right and what we're getting -- maybe what we can improve on with respect to the engagements in this vein? >> good question. i used to work a lot with the military. it's fair to say i worked more with them at harvard than i do now, which says a lot. but one of the -- i think that while there is mass atrocity response doctrine, my impression is that there is a ways to go in terms of it being intern liezalized in the department of defense. i think there's been more progress on the more narrow almost tactical angle of protection of civilians, when we think about our training of foreign peace keepers, which occurs largely through contracts at the state department. i think there is much more that dod could do veesis-a-vis on atrocity prevention. i think one of the interesting things is in watching the el evolution of peacekeeping is it's serving so many differen

this would reverse the decision by the dod having negative effects. on on november 1 the department of defense instituted reduced per diem rates for federal employees who travel for longer than 30 days. the dod policy now creates a three tiered rate structure to compensate the workforce for official travel. members of the military who travel between 30 and 180 days. the knew deal 25 percent and 45 percent. and the members of the military receive below 30 30 days. this threatens to erode the morale of the workforce. it also results in civilian workforce having to pay out-of-pocket to travel on official business. we may hear an argument about an offset but the dod said $22.5 million. this is fully offset $1.3 billion. if you wonder why it is because they are the ones who implemented this reckless policy. a spot where they are required to work, to travel for work but have to pay out-of-pocket. civilian personnel the per diem market. this amendment has support from a variety of unions to travel associations hotel associations because they understand how h

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on another note, i know that you are the primary jammer provider in the navy for dod. could you speak about the role of airborne lek p tronic attacks -- electronic attacks and how critical they are and how critical is the asset of our really only electronic warfare capability that is provided by the growler? >> i've been a huge supporter of growler for my entire navy career. the transition of the prowler squadrons which were so significant in many of our conflicts and provide us what i thought was an asymmetric advantage in our air space because of their capabilities. i was glad to see those capabilities and jammer types of capabilities transitioned to, you know basically a fourth generation plus aircraft that can operate effectively in denied air spaces. so in any campaign that i would end vision that would be of a higher end warfare in my aor, electronic warfare attack provides me battle space that i may have to go fight for. and those growlers and to some degree the other higher end capabilities that we have are critical to allowing us to have that access. >> i fina

i use it on dod systems. i use it on our own systems.e very things we try to use with the public sector, we use ourselves. when it comes to cryptographic standards, to some technical development, we are committed to sharing as much of that as we can. if you look at the -- the website is one of the vehicles we use. we push it directly to a lot of the major vendors whatever the particular market segment is and say, hey, this is how we use it. let's see. this is from bill hill. at the risk of being on your watchlist -- [laughter] i apologize about the role tied. it's just a conditioned response. [laughter] all right, bill, thanks very much. daniel fink are you here? ok. with the competition between private and government sectors for cyber talent, how do you plan to retain your cyber workforce? this is not a challenge that is unique to cyber for the department of defense or the intelligence community. it is purely going to be about money. we are clearly not going to be your first choice for a work voice -- a workplace. but what are the ways

. >> i'm interested in the dod site of things.the engagement is a big part of how they help with this mission. what do you see in terms of what we are getting right and what we can improve on? >> good question. i used to work more on the military when i was at harvard and i do now. but i think that while there is the response doctrine, my impression is that there is a way to go in terms of it being internalized in the department of defense. i think that there has been more progress on the tactical angle when we think about our training of the foreign peacekeepers to contract at the state department about what i think there is much more that the dod could do with the military partnership and capacity building on atrocity prevention. one of the interesting things in watching the evolution of the un peacekeeping is that it is serving so many different functions now and i think that it may in fact be an opposite framework to engage rather than necessarily having to do it on a bilateral basis. but it's in the protection of the mission

is higher than the dod.at is interesting for me and i did i know if they get the desk for the camera, the v.a. and dod are right at the top. then it drops dramatically down for any other agency in the cabinet. and i'm curious about sort of the hierarchical nature and structure of those organizations and whether it is a greater challenge to change the environment. i am a so curious and this is to ms. flanz what steps are being taken to foster a more collaborative workplace? i will combine this with my follow-up question. we hear about steps taken here in the dce for improvement but how -- what are the specific steps that are being taken to improve the a culture and ensure accountability on the frontline? step-by-step with the people can protect the lives of these whistleblowers and protect the quality of service of all veterans? ms. flanz: i want to speak to both of those questions. one with respect to improving the culture at the front line across the v.a. system. the veteran health administration has an off

an officer noticed a knife clip dod his pants pockets.rested without incident. and he suffered a medical emergency in the police van. it's that lack of evidence that has residents demanding answers. >> reporter: in baltimore, a demand for answers into how 25-year-old freddie gray suffered a spinal injury while in police custody. it happened just after 8:40 a.m. on sunday april 12th. >> get off me yo. >> reporter: cell phone video provided by the victim's attorney shows officers arresting gray and loading him into a

some are very specific military systems and they will only through dod. but a number of the enabling technologies we talked about today, but also the information technology duty pad undergraduate students going off in starting new companies are established companies adopting names i've basic research. fundamentally at some level the decision has to be made around commercial opportunities. there was a time in the history when we were scaling the arpanet and the internet in this huge number of amazing companies was thinning out mostly from the university research we were funding. i would tell you i think that is a very lucky thing. we are in our six decade. there is a huge amount of it to vivian also a modest amount. it is according to my most markets present themselves in notch burner as does take those opportunities. it goes on today, i was at that level. >> or whether it is secular decline in the ability to pick this up is just over. as >> my sense is much more about what is yours and ask more organic bribes is just a burst of activity or moderate -- som

hundreds of people line asbury a avenue for dod theah parade. included dozens of basset hound and costume characters. even santa claus took time out for his vacation for a day down the shore. the parade is now a 30 year tradition. >>> castle is next on channel six. "action news" continues at 6:00 tomorrow morning with nydia han eva pilgrim and chris sowers. for melissa magee, jeff skversky and the he entire "action news" team i'm walter perez. we will see you right back here, tomorrow night. >> ♪♪ there are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people--psychopaths and mystery writers. i'm the kind that pays better. who am i? i'm rick castle. castle. castle. i really am ruggedly handsome, aren't i? every writer needs inspiration, and i've found mine. detective kate beckett. beckett. beckett. nikki heat? the character he's basing on you. and thanks to my friendship with the mayor i get to be on her case. i would be happy to let you spank me. and together we catch killers. we make a pretty good team you know? like starsky and

now state and dod provided a variety of capabilities to yemeni security forces including some sensitive equipment such as night vision goggles. with the closure of the emphasisbassy and special operation forces from yemen, it's much more difficult to monitor the use of such equipment. what do we know in the u.s. government about the current status of the equipment that was previously provided to yemen? have they fallen into the hands of hoothies al qaeda and the arabian peninsula isil? >> we haven't seen any direct evidence that those items of equipment that we had provided in the past have been taken by the hoothies or by other lctions elements. there is speculation in the press. we don't have independent information. >> thank you. and we've seen reports that coalition forces have he massed along the saudi-yemeni border and that some saudi forces already on the ground in yemen. do you expect to see gcc coalition ground forces in yemen? and what would egypt's role be in such an effort? what role would the united states play in such a scenario? >> based on the discussions that we had wit

subcommittee invited the department of defense to send an official to testify before us this afternoon built dod stated that they were unable to participate at this hearing. and declined to come. but we got the better of the deal because we have you, mr. ambassador. the chair now recognizes herself for five minutes. on september 10th of last year, president obama announced to the american public his plan to degrade and destroy the terrorist group isil. while making his case for america's role in the fight against isil, he highlighted our strategy in yemen and held it up as a model for success to be emulated in the fight against isil. yet, a week later, the iran backed militia seize the the government. they continued to hail our counter terror operations in yemen as a model for success even though we effectively had no partner on the ground since president hadi was forced to flee. but more astonishingly and what can described as larmingly tone deaf and shortsighted when press secretary earnest was asked at a press briefing if this model was still successful after the yemeni central government col

offer something instead of blocking the dod and watching the money it and us being solely responsible for creating a hollow force that this was the one thing we would never do. i use the word disturbing to many times. i did not bring left the source of but it is wrong. with wrong. with that i withdraw this amendment because i no how it will go. >> just to make a couple of comments from last year i voted against the amendment. the reason because it took money out of the overseas contingency account which i did not i did not want to do because that is what was paying for what we are doing now, later in the process we were able to preserve the a-10, and i support that. but to clarify the chairman at the time in a number of us were concerned. the 2nd.i will make i tried to make sure that we did not have a hollow military. frankly i have criticism that we did not put more money in this year's mark a but i wanted to ensure however many people we had we were able to train and support. i agree with the ranking member in many respects that unless we have a different budget situation we cannot

so dod contractors, if you will. and there was, certainly not the chain of command. there was a pretty clear line of authority, a site manager for each company that was providing contract support and those relationships were pretty sound. whether occasional instances of misconduct or the likes sure? just as there are with uniformed members but no gross violations. and i think i don't know this but i would say that probably the ambassadors and those of the africa bureau who oversaw the state department contracted forced would say the same that while there may be instances of individual misconduct or other situations that cause some problems, there weren't any institution challenges between the state department and the contracted forced. >> again, it's a business right? the last thing a business wants to do is alienate the person, whether it's state or dod or whoever, whoever is writing the check. they want to keep that business. they don't want to lose it. >> hi. i wanted to ask with the influence of china on the african continent, where do you see america like having

the last thing a business wants to do is alienate the, whether it's state or dod or whoever who was ever writing to check if they want to keep that business. they don't want to lose it. >> i wanted to ask would the influence of john on the african continent, where do you see america, like having support should the way they changed anything with africa affair with much into pension? where do you see that? i was just curious. >> i will take the first shot at. china is omnipresent in almost every african country but they are present in a different way than the u.s. is. there wasn't a sizable active chinese military presence in most places in africa. their investment, their interest lie in other areas. but there certainly were in some instances where there were compounds or large projects that were being conducted or performed by chinese businesses. q. magazine issue that mark and shauna talked about, again of a private security force that is contracted to keep their workers said, to keep their compound equipment safe. but there certainly, i never encountered any conflicts with any chinese e

subcommittee invited the department of defense to send an official to testify before us this afternoon built dod stated that they were unable to participate at this hearing. and declined to come. but we got the better of the deal because we have you, mr. ambassador. the chair now recognizes herself for five minutes. on september 10th of last year, president obama announced to the american public his plan to degrade and destroy the terrorist group isil. while making his case for america's role in the fight against isil, he highlighted our strategy in yemen and held it up as a model for success to be emulated in the fight against isil. yet, a week later, the iran backed militia seize the the government. they continued to hail our counter terror operations in yemen as a model for success even though we effectively had no partner on the ground since president hadi was forced to flee. but more astonishingly and what can described as larmingly tone deaf and shortsighted, when press secretary earnest was asked at a press briefing if this model was still successful after the yemeni central government co

that's also when my favorite chapters because you see the way the dod tree trust us when we all do. it's uncomfortable, awkward we would rather not talk about. it's not interesting or sexy. geisler making $100 million missile programs rust, i don't wantit, you deal with that, not me. then you get a really stubborn corrosion. there's a guy in the pentagon who is a corrosion ambassador and his job is to change the way the pentagon deals with rust. he comes in and he says you might think the widget is important but we can't just endlessly spend tax dollars making things that fall apart in 10 years. that's not a way that is in a way not good bureaucracy. is a better way to -- >> i'm glad someone is saying that. >> it's tempting to think the highest rank rusts official in the country should be an engineer but he is not an engineer. he studied public administration. he's very funny very loud definitely quirky and personable. and persistent but he is not an engineer. so when he started his job on the guys laughed them out of the room. he can do his job, he's not a chemist, he's not a metal

when you go to the va those meds are not available always that you were taking in dod.ll antidepressants are the same. when you go to the va we don't have wellbutrin, anymore you have to have something else. it takes a long time for the service member to get that on the place. and then to mess that up and they're not seeing the same physician they were. they get an point a month and every month they go in and see another counselor. >> will you stay involved? >> absolutely. this is just the beginning. i'll be in d.c. a lot more often. >> that's great. if you can keep up with patricia who conducts this whole night. duds incredible work and still gets up and does our show in the mornings, that's fantastic. by the way, how do we -- if we want to support the foundation? >> you can either follow me on twitter or armedforcesfound armedforcesfoundation.org. >> thanks for coming in and doing it once again. >> i know. fantastic. i appreciate. back to you in the studio we're have some more people from washington later. >> brian and patricia, and frankie muniz he's malcolm in the m

what is true for dod has to be true for the entire country. it will provide anonymous prospects or jobs and careers for a lot of folks out there is we can continue to make this investment. we will invest in the future train our workers for good, new jobs in the clean energy economy. that is how we will keep our economy growing and create new jobs and more opportunity. we are also going to make this country safer and the planet more secure. we'll make sure the environment we are passing on and the incredible beauty of this remarkable state is passed onto future generations. thank you very much all of you for the great work you are doing and thank you to the state of utah for your wonderful hospitality. i was telling the governor yesterday as we were ready from the airport that i'm going to make sure i come back next time where i don't have to do so much work and i can visit some of these amazing national parks and have a chance to visit with some of the wonderful people here in the great city of utah. thank you very much, everybody. [applause]

host: is proportional difficult. >> for many of our dod customers that we serve, one of their biggest challenges is situational awareness and one that is understandable all the way from the basic 18-year-old soldier straight out of tech school through advanced defenders. you mentioned some portals they haven't dhs and other efforts. what efforts are you making said that i is a private industry can go somewhere and understand the vector threat and how to react even if i have not made a significant investment in i.t. of for structure to handle that? chairman mccaul: the good news is that you just hired the former head of nccic to help you. michael wider is one of the most talented security experts in the country. i was encouraged companies to sit down with the doctor and look at it. your abilities are more unique. it is very open, open information sharing portal that is there for no other reason than to share information. it is not there to do offensive work, it is not there to prosecute, it is not there to spy. it is there to provide threat information to the private sector. i would ju

in terms of getting people to join homeland security and dod any agency, what you recommend in terms of changes to recruitment policies and strategies? chairman mccaul: the bill that we passed enhances the workplace, being able to hire and retain more highly credentialed individuals. i would argue within d.h.s., this is the most innovative, most vibrant office within the department of homeland security. if any of you have been over to ncic, over the last five years their capabilities have really stood up. the head of that and the undersecretary both came from mcafee. they bring extraordinary experience. we have a partnership with any -- with n.s.a. with a detailed program where they can learn their expertise. with the legislation that we passed last congress on enhancing the workplace there, we are going to get more and more talent. the problem is keeping them. i remember i went to work for the justice department because i wanted to check that box and move on to something else, and that is what i did, but you have to recognize it's a great place to gain great experience, but we also

on another note i know that you are the primary jammer provider in the navy for dod. could you speak about the role of airborne electronic attacks and how critical they are and how critical is the asset of our really only electronic warfare capability that is provided by the growler? >> i've been a huge supporter of growler for my entire navy career transition of the squadron which was so significant in many of our conflicts and provide us what i thought was an asymmetric advantage in our air space because of their capabilities. i was glad to see that -- those capabilities and jammer types of capabilities transition to a -- basically a fourth generation plus aircraft that can operate effectively into air spaces. in any campaign that i would envision that would be of a higher end warfare, electronic warfare attack provides me battle space that i have -- may have to go fight for. and those growlers and to some degree the other higher end capabilities we have are critical to allowing us to have that access. >> finally i want to touch on the stresses that we're feeling on