been a longtime contractor with the dod. the dod uses amazon products currently in its office suite. there was some synergy in terms of microsoft ability -- microsoft' disability to say, hey, we know how the government works. technicale the capabilities to meet the demand you're looking for. anlor: naomi, you bring up interesting point. is it healthy to have competition, amazon with the cia, microsoft with the dod, or is it better to have synergy with the same company echo what's the perspective from d.c.? naomi: security officials have been quite divided. it has been quite controversial. people in industry of said, with think the dod another public-sector agencies should be not putting all of their eggs in one basket and they should be using multiple cloud providers in the dod has tried to allay only relying on the jedi for their cloud services and saying we have smaller contracts that could go to other companies and then you have sayrs within the dod you it's really complicated. taylor: what does an amazon challenge look l

with those dod background checks. is there an appeals process for personnel who want to peel some of the things you outlined when ms. powell was questioning you. >> there wasn't until some of tl the immigrants filed a lawsuit, and now there's a lawsuit pending for the district of columbia. the army has decided to institute some sort of process,e due process because the hey immigrants were being kicked out of the military without being told why they were being kickedk out and the army has agreed it will provide some due process, t and again, if you look at these background checks, they're not,o they don't have anything to do s with citizenship eligibility. the military is applying the top secret adjudicative guidelines,. saying anything foreign is derogatory, so it's a mismatch and mistake to apply those gible adjudicative guidelines to t determine whether an immigrant f is eligible to serve in the military. it causes massive failure rates of the background checks because all the immigrants have foreign parents. they h

only touch a little bit on, you mentioned the dod background checks. he said some really interesting things about the challenges with those dod background checks. is there an appeals process for a personnel who want to appeal some of those things that you outlined when you work being questioned. >> there wasn't until some of the immigrants have filed a lawsuit now there's a lawsuit pending for the district court for the district of columbia and the army has decided to institute some sort of process due process. because the immigrants were being kicked out of the military that went out being told they are being kicked out. in the army has a grade that it will provide some due process. and again, if you look at these background checks, they are not, they don't have anything to do with citizenship of availability. military is applying whose top-secret like guidelines to immigrants. and they see that any foreign anything foreign is derogatory. so it is a mismatch enema site to apply those guidelines to determine weather an immigrant is eligible to surf in

with those dod background checks. is there an appeals process for personnel who want to peel some of the things you outlined when ms. powell was questioning you. >> there wasn't until some of the imgranmigrants filed a laws and now there's a lawsuit pending for the district of columbia. the army has decided to institute some sort of process, due process because the immigrants were being kicked out of the military without being told why they were being kicked out and the army has agreed it will provide some due process, and again, if you look at these background checks, they're not, they don't have anything to do with citizenship eligibility. the military is applying the top secret adjudicative guidelines, saying anything foreign is derogatory, so it's a mismatch and mistake to apply those adjudicative guidelines to determine whether an immigrant is eligible to serve in the military. it causes massive failure rates of the background checks bauds all the immigrants have foreign parents. they have foreign bank accounts b

in contrast dod's budget has grown especially for contingencies but there was an expanding patchwork of authorities, a special program every time there was a new crisis somewhere in the world and this led to the fy 17 national defense authorization act reform. it was an attempt to take about based on your definition of what a program is, 80 to 100 different security cooperation programs , all under the department of defense authority, attempt to streamline them, standardize metrics for effectiveness and evaluation. transparency and oversight and bring some comedy to the kind of funding and how we measure fiscal year to fiscal year which countries and whichprograms are receiving what money to accomplish what . so i want to give you an example of how this works in real life . when you're onthe hill , and either the state department or the defense department wants to secure funding for approval for a specific program, they send a proposal to the hill called the congressional notification . so if you're on a committee that has oversight over the state department, you may have questions a

because dod every year is a must past these of legislation. every year no matter what congress going to pass that national defense authorization act. does anyone know the was an authorization act passed for the state department? [inaudible] actually there was the one in 93-94 but the point is 93-94. what were you guys do in 93-94? this is the challenge and some of this is about deal. if you want to force the state department and defense department to do detroit planng and have to work together with members of cogs to come together with an authorization that actually directs the state department to do this and directs the defense department to pay attention to the state department. right now it's highly personal to did then and program depend. if you have a fabulous commander sent, who wants to develop relationships with your some passengers then joint planning. but again personality dependent and program defendant, not because of legislation or because it's institutionalized at this joint planning has to take place. just go spend the rest of m

i think that is something that we and titillate at the dod, and also my old organization spend a lot of time, ensuring that if they turn to that -- which we know w they are, we will spell a lot of time to mitigate that. >> i want to ask one more question before i go to questions from the members about the humanitarian catastrophe, but of very specific part. there are 2000 foreign fighters encamps and more than 70,000 isis women and children. there is lots of hammering about that. i would like to hear specifically, in a concrete and tactical way, how we deal with that. and not to be too practical, that it is not just a humanitarian disaster, but it is setting up all of the perquisites for isis. what do we do? i was at one of the camps in may. i just want to say i deeply believe this is an entirely foreseeable overnight crisis six months in the making. give almost as if -- to you an example -- if we took the northern alliance in 2001 and said, hey, families were told from all over the world, find a way to house, feed, care, and educate them, and the international community's cell phone

it is the latest dod win for microsoft.lso beneficiary of 7.6 general dynamics contract in august to replace it systems with office 365. i think this contract, this competition was closer than some people had been realizing and we're going to see how it plays out. the time line will be long, especially if amazon protests. you can see it play out in stocks. >> i don't know if it is a bigger win than microsoft and loss for amazon. cloud is amazon's thing. they just put h q2 in d.c. a lot of people expected them to win this interesting, i sniffs around on microsoft's side, trying to understand what it means from their perspective. they found out 3:00 p.m. eastern time friday they won the contract, a little bit before the world found out from the press release. unclear exactly when the revenues start to flow, even when the scope of work becomes clear for the first stage of this, but would expect to hear about them meeting with the government, maybe the end of this week, to start the process going. also unclear what's more valua

. >> given the memo from the dod, do you support the initiative to turn up ib pp to adopt a single stackce the overall tax factor? >> that is an easy question for me too answer. i support his decision. i fully support it, i think i understand where you're going, there were alternatives considered but yes i support the chief information officers approach. >> i think that is the last question. thank you very much for coming to be our speaker and our keynote. we are honored to have you sir. >> thank you. (applause) ladies and gentlemen please welcome back the master of ceremony edward the second u.s. navy retired ♪ ♪ >> thank you. we were great panel following up on this about apply chain cybersecurity is near and dear to our hearts. the moderator is john check, the senior director of cyber protection solutions intelligence information and services. thank you for monitoring the panel. joining us on the stage is a director of the national risk management center of the homeland security and beyond marion deputy chief for united states air force, and not very, cheap operating officer. >> thank

service members and dod civilians who gave their lives to fight isis. in their memories, we're glad justice has been done. in their memories we resolve not to back down, but to persist in this fight until we secure the enduring defeat of this dangerous and determined enemy. on another matter, mr. president, on thursday the chairman of the judiciary committee and i introduced a resolution which quickly gained dozens of republican co-sponsors, our resolution states two things, which are very obvious. number one, any process as serious as an impeachment inquiry we which seeks to cancel out the american people's vote in a presidential election must, must adhere to the highest standards of fairness and due process. and number two, what we've seen on display from house democrats has been anything, but that. here is the way house democrats have conducted their inquiry so far. committees at the injury of the inquiry have denied president trump important rights and protections that president nixon and president clinton enjoyed. they've impeded his right to have

only touch a little bit on, you mentioned the dod background checks.he said some really interesting things about the challenges with those dod background checks. is there an appeals process for a personnel who want to appeal some of those things that you outlined when you work being questioned. >> there wasn't until some of the immigrants have filed a lawsuit now there's a lawsuit pending for the district court for the district of columbia and the army has decided to institute some sort of process due process. because the immigrants were being kicked out of the military that went out being told they are being kicked out. in the army has a grade that it will provide some due process. and again, if you look at these background checks, they are not, they don't have anything to do with citizenship of availability. military is applying whose top-secret like guidelines to immigrants. and they see that any foreign anything foreign is derogatory. so it is a mismatch enema site to apply those guidelines to determine weather an immigrant is eligible to surf in t

. >> given the recent memo from the dod deployments, do you support the initiative to turn off ipd for to adopt a single stack of ipv6 in order to reduce the overall attack factor? >> that's an easy question for me to answer. mister ducey runs that and i supporthis decision . i fully support it. i thinki understand where you're going . there were alternatives considered, but i support the chiefinformation officers approach . >> i think that's the last question. thank you very much for coming to be our speaker, our keynote and i'm honored to have you. [applause] >> please welcome back our master of ceremonies , edward devinney the second. >> thank you very much major general crall. a great panel following up about supply chain fiber security, a topic near and dear to many of our hearts read a moderator for this session is john check, senior director of protection illusions, intelligence information and services at raytheon thank you for moderating the panel joining john on the stage is bob kowalski, director of the national risk-management center at the department of homeland security a

budget has, dod's grown, especially for contingencies. there was an expanding patchwork of new authorities, a special program every time there was a new crisis somewhere in the world. '17 reforms.the fy it was an attempt to take based on what your definition of a 100gram is, 80- different security cooperation , standardize metrics for effectiveness and evaluation, transparency, and oversight, and bring some harmony to the kinds of funding fiscal yeareasure two fiscal year which countries in which programs are receiving what funding to accomplish what. an i want to give you example of how this works in real life. and you are on the hill either the state department or the defense department wants to secure funding or approval for a specific program, they sent up a proposal to the hill called a congressional notification. committee that has oversight over the state department, you may have some questions about. yout is something that think is state department funding or a foreign military sale, that goes either to the senate foreign relation

over at dod,ll, they were always searching for a better partner, but candidly, i'm not disputing that the ypg was not the right solution. i think it was the right solution with the conditions that have been set out. this was not meant to be a long-term reliance. there is a reason the ypg wanted to fight with us. they wanted our assistance. know that the conditions that were put in because they had to be the day after to fight , the weapons could not stay in their hands and would pose a threat to turkey. our support was not going to be continuing. interestt was a very focused alignment that we made with the ypg that worked out very well for the united states and worked out very well for the ypg and had it been followed to fruition, it would have been a good deal for turkey, as well. >> we have a few minutes. i see the u.s. representative for the syrian democratic council, the political arm of the stf. we have four minutes left, so if i could ask you to ask your question quickly and let's get some responses in. >> thank you so much. [indiscernible] syrian issue and pkk issue, which i do

amazon is trying to decide to bill up a lawyers to challenge the dod decision but seems like, chairmanare some allies on capitol hill who might have their back or support to challenge this decision. cheryl? cheryl: billion dollar decision it was. hillary, thank you very much. connell: more brexit related news on fox news alert. uk lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to send people of the great britain back to the polls. they sate the election. thursday, december 12th. that will be the next parliamentary election. the vote to call that was 438-20. now it has to go over from the house of commons to the house of lords to officially be signed off. you were talking earlier share about the date. that is holdup. here we go. cheryl: this is victory for boris johnson we should say. we'll see if there is wider victory in the election. we'll see. >> a lot more coming up. playing ball. the ncaa taking action to respond to efforts let college athletes to make money off their fame. will it be enough? that is up next. connell: one texas school not hesitating to put money in students hands. southern method

to share the documents with the committees on capitol hill, by asserting executive privilege, then dodl comply because they are an agency that falls under the white house. big developments. laura cooper is testifying right now. we did not get any indication about what she would say in the testimony but she has had to hire private counsel and at this point the pentagon legal counsel's office is feeling quite overwhelmed with the request for documentation. they say they are a small office and they cannot keep up with the requests from capitol hill regarding this and other inquiries. the one key quote was "we are in uncharted territory." a somewhat emotional briefing and got a bit heated at times as pentagon press corps reporters questioned the defense officials about why they were not able to hand over the documents that the house democrats were requesting. >> martha: we will see if the documents get out one way or another and if she has an opening statement. we have seen those over the course of these interviews begin to trickle out as the day moves on. we'll keep an eye out for that. j

the dod guidelines. this feels a little different. >> a decision made by the president himself. congressman, always good to have you on the broadcast. >> that was a great interview. thank you, jim. >>> overnight, clashes in northern syria raising concerns about what the trump administration is saying is a win, is a victory, is a cease-fire, but what are the turks saying and what does this all really mean because turkey's president is dismissing reports of new attacks that others are seeing on the ground. what is going on? >>> also ahead -- my conversation with the founder of salesforce, one of the biggest leaders in silicon valley, calling facebook the new cigarettes and calling on the company to be broken up as mark zuckerberg tries to defend the fake ads that are running on facebook. >> would you run these ads if you were running facebook? >> no. >> no question about it? >> no question. ft? with the sleep number 360 smart bed you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it h

due to the efforts across the f-35 enterprise, dod operational unit capability increase from 55 percent october 2018 from 73 percent september 2019. we were making progress we are not where we need to be industries commitment on accelerating improvement. our focus is on improved f-35 readiness and with the affordability goals we play a focus on accelerating our repair capability with sleep modifications and improving logistics information systems with functionality and responsiveness as of last month 440 aircraft have been delivered at 17 bases worldwide with 850 pilots and 8200 maintain turkey the f-35 there has been no change to return to the f-35 program the defense system which is incompatible remains in turkey and as i said previously turkey makes nearly 1000 parts and will continue to do so until those responsibilities transfer until the end of march lockheed martin is responsible for that supply chain i will defer any questions to them. in closing i want to reiterate how regrettable it is that we are under a continuing resolution. causing great damage to military readiness to dis

i don't think this was an overt snub of the coast guard, but it was focused on dod. that's a how you pay for the stuff you deliver to the taxpayer every day. we weren't part of that conversation. we've been on about this eight, nine year flat trajectory. first is education. talking about, hey, we are an armed force. we have the same challenges, a lot of capital assets, training, retention, recruitment, those things we talked about already. we do about a billion dollars of work in support of the geographic commanders, the pentagon on an annual basis. we get the same $340 million we got back in 2001, no cost of living adjustment in that demand goes up every year. we're trying to have the appropriate conversations inside. it's what they call a nonemergency defense fund, the background on that. if we could close that gap, i think that would really advance the readiness discussion. on capitol hill, i think our messaging has been effective. i think some of the markups show some sensitivity or awareness of what we're asking for and about those dollars to help us deliver fro

general votel, former commander of centcom we do for commerce and testified, it is not a dod missionto counter iran in syria. it's an american policy to counter iran not in syria. this morning i read our forces are being pulled out of syria and their being redeployed elsewhere including to iraq and the government is saying they can carry out how to isis activities from iraq into syria. so we can carry out counter border operations for lerach industry to counter isis we can't close down the syrians. this is again strategic, a total interest but let's understand where it came from. came from that original alignment with iran. last point that the strategic prize in all of this i repeat is a international orientation of turkey and trying to repair the relationship. president erdogan has signaled this time and time again over the last few years that he could keep doing what you're doing, i have other options. unfortunately, today a doctrine has taken hold in ankara that perhaps it's better for the turks to align with the russians and iranians and solve their security problems in syria in

scheduled testimonies from a number of national security council's professionals as well as among some dod to discuss the ukrainian aid and whether that was and to confirm or maybe stray from previous testimony from l united health and others. >> and white house, have they taken the approach in terms of people who testify, are they taking an individual approach in terms of allowing administration officials to testify before the committee or have they made a blanket statement that no administration pressure. >> no one ministration officials to testify but a lot of showed up anyway area we've seen the white house as send personal letters to some officials, white house and agencies of the state department has sent personal letters to officials warning them not to comply with these subpoenas but a lot of people have done it anyway because it's a congressional of the subpoena area charles government is the first guy to challenge the congressional subpoena and file a lawsuit to try to get out of it, he's trying to resolve what he called the constitutional difference . >> 's position is he's unab

k all of this dod of shootho u.s.credibility in the front, and now russia could become a greater partner of our allies. laura: what does it do to nato? turkey is a key mber. >> there is so analysishat said that the president withdrew these troops because he did not want to get into a direct confrontation with a nato ally. i think that the fact that turkey and the united stbles were notto reach any sort of deal about safe zones or protection of the kurds is concerning about the nato alliance moving forward. laura: thank you for joining us. outoday queen elizabeth was in paiament laying out the government's policies on everything from crime to the environment. hanging over it all was the unfinished matter of brexit. given the prime minister does not have a majority in parliament, many of the bills may not become law. if mps reject the speech, there will be renewed calls for ection. from westminster, laura kuenssberg reports. laura k.: plenty of pomp, but very bizarre circutances. the band playing for the monarch's arriv

are schedule testimonies from a number of national security council's professionals as well as the dod to discuss the ukrainian aid and whether that was confirmed or maybe straight from previous testimony from fiona hill and others. >> and alex wade, is the white house taking the approach in terms of people who testify before the committee, are they taking an individual approach in terms of allowing administration officials to testify before the committee or have a made a blanket statement that no administration can testify? >> trump has made a blanket statement no administration officials to testify but a lot had shown up anyway. the white house said personal letters to some officials in the state department, personal letters to officials warning them not to comply with the subpoenas but a lot of people have done it anyway because you don't want to get crosswise of congress if you can avoid it. charles kupperman is the first guy to file a lawsuit to try to get out of showing up. he's trying to resolve what he calls a constitutional crisis. >> what his position? >> that he is unable to

. >>>> it has been said thahat dod trump p and boriss johnson haven a sense weaponized the w will of the peopople. that is, on both sides of the atlantic, we have seen thahat executive brananch of power -- when they are held to account, when they are questioned by another branch of government, or by a court legally, it is not a normal part anymore of the checks or balances. it is not a normal part of the democratic process playing itself out. it is rather something where it itikes a populist message, is weaponized by boris johnson and donald trump, where it is your own elected representatives trying to thwart your will, trying to prevent your will from being done. in the case of boris johnson, we saw that landmark historic decision by the supreme court in the u.k. a week ago, in which they basically unanimously, 11-0, voted it was unlawful for boris johnson to suspend parliament at such a crucial moment in british history. regardless of his reasons, it was deemed by the judges to be unlawful because it was essentially preventing the parliamentarians from debating, from convening to d

we worked directly within tia, dod and other government agencies and private sector colleagues. often spectrum been analyzed for sharing involves multiple cabinet departments and multiple entities in those departments. over the years and tia has played a coordinated role gathering input from government players, working with industry, leading joint public-private technical work and speaking with a single voice for the executive branch to make greater progress. this process, needed most recently in the initial commercial deployments in the cprs band, a great developer and increasing the amount of mid-band spectrum for 4g and 5g. we are interested in the heightened interest across the federal government and look forward to continuing to work through this process to enable more intensive spectrum sharing. thank you very much and i look forward to your questions. >> we concluded our openings. we now move to member questions. each member will have 5 minutes to ask questions of our witnesses. i start by recognizing myself or five minutes. roberta stempfley, what risks are posed by inte

ed, would you layer on some perspectives from the dod side of things. >> absolutely. the dod makes up a large percentage of the federal cybersecurity workforce or cyber workforce. it really falls into several categories, but a little bit different for us is we have the military members. so we recruit and then have a challenge of retention on the military members. and so what is unique about that model, i think all of the service would stand up and say we do not have a recruiting problem when it comes to cybersecurity. we have people lined up out the door that are ready to come onboard and do the mission, whether it's cyber operations or traditional cybersecurity. so recruiting is a pretty easy turf. the training model to bring qualified candidates onboard, each of the services has stepped up to the plate and is generating a lot of talent, a lot of capability in terms of human capital for the nation. where we do find challenges sometimes is on the retention side. clearly we don't compete well on salary in the military but we've begun to handle that with bonuses, like w

but dod had no access to space. not a good position to be in in the the 1980s. we don't want to repeat that. >> this study are referred to, 2004 study, it seems it established benefits of using sls sized rockets for a lunar landing mission. from emission reliable, reliability standpoint. if that's the case shouldn't nasa be working on completing sls number four since it may be need to help with the moon mission? >> certainly we are, in fact,, we did a letter contract. i think we cited this morning, for additional sls and exploration of our stage. these are underway right now and certainly we have a strong interest in seeing the fourth would be successful. >> you say that was this morning? >> yes. did the letter go out? >> i think the announcement without this morning. the signature was a little earlier i believe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> ms. granger. >> thank you. china is ahead of us in space, and i think we know this. people that are supportive of this request has said to me if we don't move now, china will own space. and who owned space owns the earth a

then we'll havae analalysis of the f former a dod trump foreign policy adviser in the next half hour here my from power stay with us for that.. next controversy over the impeachment inquiry homing in on donald trump deepened this tuesday it's been revealed a key witness has been blocked from giving testimony by the trump administration. the current us ambassador to the u. golden songkhla distal to have important evidence over the trump ukraine phone call sludge trump went on the you can present ukraine president to dig dirt on a political rival joe biden. and on biden's son over his work kia. of the trump used a congressionally approved a package. of some two hundred million dollars as leverage. battle lines are being drawn in washington between the white house and congress as the impeachment process heats up. just hours before gordon son lamb was due to testify the trump administration blocked his appearance. the us ambassador to the european union is one of several officials in a text message chain that appear to show the administration pressuring ukraine. to investigate transport

briefly dod's response and as i said changing our mindset, we seek to regain the advantage and applied towards things that are goes to deter china from to prevail at the outset of a crisis. meeting the china challenge requires this fundamental shift in mindset of our defense establishment. we are no longer period of overwhelming american dumbness but rather one in which our armed forces are adapting to fight against near-peer competitor source fielding sophisticated capabilities instead of expecting to dominate an opponent or armed forces are expecting to be contested ratified while achieving political objectives set for them. national defense strategy in our indo-pacific strategy within the department focuses on a couple of pillars that will be key enablers for us to succeed mainly the first two pillars of our national defense strategy which include building a more lethal joint force and strengthening our alliances and partnerships. the first line of that for preparing a more lethal and resilient joint force takes into account the scope and pace of our competitors and patients in capa

after the gulf war saddam hussein was able to in $9091.00 he was able to restore electricity to by the dod full electricity within 4 days and the rest of the entire country within 2 months. it's been know 16 years since the end of the war and the invasion in iraq and they haven't restored any of the pre-war electricity water senator's ation and in a water delivery to homes since then 16 years and $400000000000.00 of oil revenue money throughout these 16 years is lost to corruption which is why some say that of course it was a deliberate attempt to destabilize iraq in the region as major nations are being blamed for before but of course it's also in the news iraq because trump is celebrating the fact that 2 allegedly. militants have been taken to iraq what you make of the narrative about isis days fighters and what to do with them it's big here in this country because of the british citizen she lost her citizenship of course she will begin i think the european country has made a terrible mistake by just. taking away the citizenship of these people without any due process and leaving them th

topic of exploring different avenues of cooperation and i wondered if this is a subject matter that the dod and the u.s. are thinking about. >> i think as individual partners, we have ongoing work to try to promote those respective bilateral relationships and how they can contribute to promoting a free and open indo pacific. as i said japan has the national defense program guidelines and national defense strategy and we are doing a lot of work to go beyond recognizing the strategic alignment and thinking about operationalizing depths of thinking about the goals and mission and how we can further advance and it really does support the printed mr.'s vision for being more proactive in the region and being a proactive participant and constructive participant promoting the mutual security. you know, there's some debate i don't know where the term comes from and i know our japanese friends would say that actually japan and i will not dispute that but we think we've got a very strong reliable interest and partner in japan in promoting those principles. with taiwan, i think again we see a lot of al

two weeks ago and then to finally have a national conversation we are bringing together dod, hhs, head, the national institutes of health. and finally to reach out and touched the end of desperation. plenty of americans take their lives every day actually that number has been steady for a while over 100 years but the tragedy for us are for those who take their lives with no contact with department of veterans affairs. we have to change that and open our efforts to combat suicide by using the free market and opening up the aperture and providing support to charities and to the localities for those that we cannot touch 60 percent we do not see and it hits all areas but in particular rural america. indian country and those that are hardest for us to touch but we need everyone's help and if we just focus on the last tragic act, this will be another federal report that serves nothing more than a doorstop but if we don't have that conversation mental health why are we doing it? i will conclude the reason we are here since the first shots were fired at lexingto lexington, 41 million americans

in dod, we focus on the military component of china's growing global activities and we take china at their word. they seek to be a world class military by 2049 and they are making progress toward that goal. they're seeking to erode u.s. military advantages, they're working to become a power in the indo-pacific region while under taking plans to sustain operations farther from chinese shores. we see china widening the operational reach to matter what its leaders consider to be the global nature of its interests. press reporting indicates that china that has sought to expand its basing and access in the middle east, southeast asia and the western pacific. xi jingping has called for a system to strengthen protection of its overseas interests. china's defense minister has sited its coordination with other countries. at the most fundamental and basic level, what we're competing for is to sustain a position within the regional and international system which allows to protect a rules-based order. all of this matters because if the ccp and china were to be successful in its authoritarian app

we're proposing a new council that would be managed between nccs and dod, department of defense making that connection on the civilian and federal level. as bridge mentioned earlier, a lot of people interested in serving in the military are not qualified, why shouldn't they then be directed to national service opportunities. and there could be some type of joint promotion with national service programs. so we have

we at dod are grateful for our congress passing a two-year budget agreement that provides the budgetary certainty the department needs to implement the national defense strategy. with that, i'll let the lieutenant general make his statement, and then i'll be happy to answer questions. >> thank you, ms. lord, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your interest in the f-35 program. the agreement we announced yesterday is a significant one for the program in a number of ways, not the least of which are its size and overall value. 478 aircraft and $34 billion. this total includes aircraft for all three u.s. services, our international partners, and our foreign military sales customers, totaling 351 f-35as, 86 f-35bs. i am proud to be here today to represent the f-35 enterprise and to share with you some of my thoughts on the state of the program. our initial development efforts are coming to a close as initial operational tests and evaluation proceeds, but as you are all aware, we are delayed our milestone c and full rate production decision until such time as the joint simulation enviro

we at dod are grateful for our congress passing to your budget agreement that provides the budgetary certainties that it needs to implement the national defense strategy. with that, i'll let lieutenant general make a statement in a be happy to answerll questions. >> take you. and thank you ladies and gentle men for your interest in the f-35 program. the agreement we announced yesterday is a significant one for a number of ways not the least in size and overall value. 170 aircraft and $34 billion. this includes aircraft for all three u.s. services for international partners, and are for military sales customers totaling 351 of 35 a's, 86f30 ladies, and 41 f-35 c's. i imprint to be here today to grab onto represent the f-35 enterprise and to share my thoughts on the state of the program. our initial development efforts are coming to a closeit as this trend initial test proceeds. as you are aware, we have delayed milestone c and full rate production decision until such time as joint simulation environment is available to support the director of operational test and a value since assessm

. >> there is a possibility that amazon could contest this decision, that the dod has made.t president trump had a hand in tipping the decision towards microsoft. the department of justice and have started to look into this more as well as the eu i think for the aws i'd say less from a political bias. >> what does this do to the competition between the two in the cloud? does it legitimize microsoft in way it's needed to be? >> i'm not sure it legitimizes them i think to the earlier speakers comments this is a growing pie i don't think it's deal they might have been in position to lever a couple of years ago. if you think about the opportunity, there's going to be more than one winner and microsoft and aws are in good position i think for micro soft coming at the market where you are a very small portion of the overall market you're dwet ggetting to about half the size making sure people think about you as the big deals come to market i think it helps to prove again it's sort of a validation of the broader strategy >> it's funny you say that you're saying microsoft is about h

we're proposing a new council that would be managed between nccs and dod, department of defense making that connection on the civilian and federal level. as bridge mentioned earlier, a lot of people interested in serving in the military are not qualified, why shouldn't they then be directed to national service opportunities. and there could be some type of joint promotion with national service programs. so we have event held by boston university. it is about an hour and if teen minutes. >> good afternoon. i'm the dean of austen university's school of law, and i'm delighted to welcome you to the philip beck lecture. philip beck graduated having served as

disclosure, not even mentioning how little evidence they can already acquired if they are outside of the dod. but that's one thing we have been trying to fix for the past few decades and we are finally getting a bit closer. we now have some language in the house version that can help reverse and equalize the burden. we are hopeful. >> a lot has happened since the first edition of your book came out in 2006 of course including the financial sector meltdown and other corporate scandals including this ongoing super max. what if anything has changed in the way that the corporate ethics implies since the first edition came out? >> i'm actually working on a different book because i'm looking at this and thinking okay i outlined the seven steps and each case followe followed n steps what are you not getting it's like michigan state, ohio state, the same story. so one day i was cleaning my bookshelf and i decided to get rid of some books. a james bond of the plant, you know, a lot of books and then the 1980s and 90s management books were all lined up, built to last, last forever, from here to eterni

dod, hhs, hud, national institutes of health to finally reach out and touch those american veterans who have reached desperation. plenty of americans take their lives every day. that number has been steady for over 100 years but the tragedy for us, those who take their lives contact the department of veterans affairs. we have to change that. we have 2 open efforts to combat suicide by using free market but opening up the aperture and providing support to charities, nongovernmental organizations and the locality of those we cannot touch, 60%, hits all areas, particularly in indian country, places that are hardest for us to touch but we need everyone's help and if we just focus on the last tragic act in that veteran's life this would be another federal report that serves as nothing more, if we don't have that national organization of mental health so why are we doing it? i didn't open with this but i will conclude with the reason we are here. in april 1775, 41 million americans, more than 1 million. our department was created in the midst of the most pestilential war in american history.

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