relative to dod, the u.s. roosevelt, an aircraft carrier, was taken out of service, placed out of service in guam for quite some time. various exercises were canceled. operation warp speed, the very successful program that brought our vaccines to the market quickly were heavily supported by dod assets, not only in science, but also in logistics. the military supported civilian activities with logistics and medical support in hospitals and various vaccination centers around the country, large support for the civilian efforts. our military labs were supporting other laboratories around the country in diagnosing and finding out just what was going on. a lot of work, both in the military and supporting our civilian colleagues. the question is, as steve mentioned, the title of the paper is extremely refreshing. "the worst is over, now what?" how do we keep them momentum going? in your paper, you said you were going to assess the biothreats to our country through 2035, take a good look at that. we have looked at thr

to nonpublic dod information. of the dozens of tasks we have set out to tackle, we've completed about 30%, and an another 50% are well on their way. others will never really end, like sharing insights from quarterly industry roundtables across dod. if you require mua specific helh from congress. even though we're through the punch list, even then, i am sure there will be more pain pints -- points to address, which we must and will. just as in any enterprise, our innovation focus has a customer, and hear the main customer is the war fighter. we are laser focused from the top on customer needs and clear paths to fulfilling them. that requires resources and it ecosystem innovation that supports scaling fast. we have worked hard on both. this is a complex system of ve systems, a shotgun blast approach will not work, and neither will chipping away one small piece at a time. . so our approach is nonlinear, iterative, comprehensive, and purposeful. you can see that and how we have evolved the defense innovation unit to t

to non-public dod information.dozens of tasks we've set out to tackle, we've completed about 30%, and another 50% are well on their way. others will never really “end,” like sharing insights from quarterly industry roundtables across dod. a few require specific help from congress. and even though we're through the punch list, even then, i'm sure there will be more pain points to uncover and address. which we must and will. just as in any enterprise, our innovation focus has a customer. and here, our main customer is the warfighter. we are laser-focused from the top on customer needs, and clear paths to fulfilling them. that requires resources and an ecosystem of innovation that supports scaling fast, and we've worked hard on both. this is a complex system of systems. a shotgun-blast approach will not work. neither will chipping away one small piece at a time. so our approach is non-linear. it's iterative. it's comprehensive and purposeful. it's devsecops. you can see that in how we've evolved the defense innovation

i think that is a huge challenge and it is a lot to require of the dod by itself. state department, health and human services, whoever else has to be part of that team to allow for that, because they have to be able to operate on their own eventually. >> it actually speaks to the broader bio posture review, whether it is related to laboratory security, research and development, advanced development, and whatnot, was the question that the secretary of defense asked, was very particular to the department of defense. and while we were very cognizant of the important role that the department has in supporting national efforts, it was really saying what is it that we need to be doing for our forces, recognizing the global responsibilities that those forces have. and i think that is an important piece, because so much of the interagency dialogue broadly, work in this area, and we certainly saw this in regards to covid, was that the department of defense has always relied upon to come in when civil authorities are overwhelmed and all of that on an unspoken scale. and that

from dod, special thanks to jennifer nicholson. there has been a lot of support from dod in putting this together. the biodefense posture review -- a few minutes ago, we published here csis -- at csis, my colleague and i published a critical questions piece on the release of the bpr. week -- my colleague and i also released a piece and it began by impacting -- unpacking many factors that feeds the pessimism that they will be little sustained -- against future path again eight -- pathogenic threats. and makes the case that there is reason for optimism and hope based on several factors, survey work that shows strong support for active american government engagement in this area. the appointment of a new senior leadership team at the white house and the cdc and elsewhere, new capacities at the department of state at the white house and cdc and elsewhere. and the defect though bipartisan consensus despite the rancor and noise in the country to better protect americans in -- by investing in new technology. most importantly, in our delib

dod often have label specific two times and origins. transformations, offset strategies, those are just some of the monikers applied to the defense effort over the decades. no matter the name, they all share a simple and compelling, to create and exploit to change as a military opportunity. whether the innovation comes from new technology or concepts for technologies, or new ways to build or buy or use our capabilities, or new sources of such innovations, whether originating with in, or outside, they increasingly do, in the face of our challenges today, we adapt and integrate innovation wherever they can add the most military value. easier said than done, of course. i have heard all of the criticism. i levied many of them myself from the inside and outside. we can't hire the workforce, we can't delegate fast enough. the processes are slow, not enough incentive to change culture, not enough effort to leverage nontraditional suppliers, startups and commercial companies can't figure out how to work with us, the conference won't let us move

any different industries particularly with the dod.reducing emissions for next-generation single aisle aircraft? >> i sure can. [laughter] >> i'm ready for you henry, you and me. [laughter] we are on this journey together because i like it, i like it. think about the next generation than industry has before it a lot over the last number of years but let's think about this way. 787 went to a more electric architecture. a lot of the systems that were hydraulic are now electric if you will. that was one thing and help the fuel burn and help with a lot of things. going forward where we are at is saying if we were to actually able to remove one of the thermal burning enders or something and create a hybrid version of it? think about it like the cars we have out there now the hybrid cars they take some of that use away from the while itself and create a hybrid solution for it. we are working diligently to the same thing for airplanes. we've got demonstrators flying and canada de haviland -- eight part of the program essentially what we are d

i'm actually, and i've been talking a hot with dod on this -- a lot with dod on this, i'm a huge advocateodular nukes, smrs. china that and russia a are trying to promote these dramatically, and one of the reasons why we need to, we have three or four in process in this country, dod is looking strongly at this because what i'm seeing as we move towards sustainability, we are seeing some of the areas that we thought might be, might never have thought they'd be one size fits all, but we've seen the offshore wind industry gogo through a dramatic decline. we've still got our project going off the coast of virginia, but the administration has acknowledged you're not going to get 30 megawatts off the east coast. we can't make it with the current financing. or if you look at solar, i've got a number of communities in virginia where agricultural communities and others are pushing back about these massive solar fields. smrs, which i think are both safe and clean, are one of the things i thought was hypocritical of some folks in the environmental community as, you know, we don't want to do nuclear,

i have been talking with the dod on this.m in favor of small modular nukes, smr's, and duty is looking strongly at this because what i am seeing as we move towards sustainability, some of the areas we thought might be not one-size-fits-all, we have seen the offshore wind industry go into a dramatic decline. we still have our project going off of the coast of virginia, but half the project -- we cannot make it with the current workers. i have a community in virginia, and a couple of communities and others are pushing back about massive solar fields. smrs, which are clean and friendly and what i thought were hypocritical of some folks in the environmental community, they never question sailors being on submarines or aircraft carriers that have nukes. i hope this can be pushed, because it is also a composition with china and russia. andrew: majority leader schumer is leading a push in the senate for sometime next year, you held a closed-door summit with tech and industry stakeholders and we rolled out a feature called the future

the same is true for the dod. we need commuter vision to understand our environments, natural language processing, to navigate the idiomatic language, which is hard for humans to understand. and reinforcement learning for predictive maintenance as well as many other types of algorithms. it is very important to remember ai is neither a panacea nor a pandora's box. if we think about it that way we will not be able to tackle the problem. it is not a one size thing. we need to evaluate the subsidence and encounter dangers on a use by use basis. >> we got wrap it up. >> i'm done. >> there you go. please begin your opening statement. >> thank you all for the opportunity. i would like to know in addition to serving as a department chief information officer, secretary mallorca's name me today is the first intelligence officer. i would like to talk with you today about three concrete use cases where dhs is 30 using ai to deliver clear benefits to the american people. and then share the comprehensive measures we are taking

the same is true for the dod. we need computer vision to understand our environments, natural language processing to navigate the department's policies and idiomatic language which is really hard for humans to understand. and reinforcement learning for predictive maintenance. as well as many other machine learning algorithms. it's important to remember that ai is neither a panacea nor a pandora's box. if we think about it that way, we are not thinking about it correctly and we will be able to tackle the problem. it's not a one size thing. we need to evaluate its effectiveness and dangers on use case by use case basis. >> we have to wrap it up. >> that's my last word. >> i'd like to recognize -- to begin your opening statement. >> thank you for the opportunity today. i like to know that in addition to serving as a department's chief information officer, secretary mayorkas also named me today is the first chief artificial intelligence officer. i'd like to talk to about three concrete use cases where dhs is already u

there were not commissioned by the dod. the dod initially took this very seriously. lloyd austin initially set some policies and they had the, everyone took a day off and did a training on extremism. they implemented a new policy on warning people who were leaving the service that they might be at risk of recruitment. they put in charge a gentleman named bishop garrison who let a working group on this topic and issue recommendations. just so happens that one of his recommendations that the committee issued has been adopted. since then, the dod has largely backtracked on the extremism threats. it is partly because it's receiving, extremism is inherently political act and because of that, there is challenges in addressing extremism and we saw this with countering islamic extremism 15 years ago when muslim communities were concerned they were being targeted and now conservative audiences feel they are being targeted by counter right wing extremism initiatives. because of that, i think it's become inherently political for the military to take a robust effort. that said,

we shouldn't think every time the dod shares or give something up they are losing capacity. we have to find creative ways where we can have more sector needs made available in the mid range and also the dod has what they need to do their mission and i'm committed to working with you and with them to do that. >> thank you, madam secretary. director sethuraman panchanathan. in fiscal 20 one-22, there were 70 grant and two contracts totaling over $45 million, focused on both the, quote, science of countering social media miss and disinformation as well as the developments of digital tools to track miss were disinformation. one of the projects was called expert voices together and it is to quote the nsf, quote, creating a comprehensive system of care that addresses the harms journalist experience due to online harassment. its mission is to, quote, support journalists in moments of crisis while helping the media industry build resilience long-term. in other words taxpayer-funded therapy for left-wing journalists who find actual facts traumatizing. i'm sure people like taylor lore

the report is available on the dod website.ons if i can and then a question. one, the patriots you mentioned are not in addition to the ones you talked about the other, they are the same ones. >> correct. >> the two iron domes, has the u.s. been able to determine how those particular systems can be delivered, because there are caps on some type of weapons systems and the amounts, so -- has all of that been settled. >> on that question, yes, we are working through that process. we are confident that we'll be able to provide those systems to israel. i don't have any details to provide for you today if and when we are able to, certainly we'll get that information out. >> process is ongoing, right. or has it done? >> we are working through the final details of that process. again, we are confident these -- we are going to be able to provide these systems to israel. >> ok. and then my question, on the attacks against the united states bases and personnel in syria and iraq. exactly how many attacks is the pentagon now assess have bee

on behalf of the secretary of defense and entire dod, we want to congratulate ms. cooper on this significant professional accomplishment. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

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today the dod has exhausted nearly all available security systems funding for ukraine. we are already out of funding for the ukraine security assistance initiative, one of the two tools we have. the other tool we need are those funds provided to replenish our military inventory for the weapons and supplies we provided to support ukraine in their fight. we have only one point $6 billion remaining of the $25.9 billion congress provided. we have already been forced to slow down the replenishment of our own forces to hedge against an uncertain funding future. failure to replenish our military services on a timely basis could harm our military's readiness. without additional funding now, we would have to delay or curtail assistance to meet ukraine's urgent requirement including for air defense and ammunition that are critical and urgent as russia prepares to conduct a winter offensive and continues its bombardment of ukrainian cities. for example, a lack of funding now will delay contracting actions that could negatively impact the department's ability to purchase an additio

in summer of 22, just finished the report so more than a year and enormous number of briefings from dodthe intelligence community, department of energy, and i can defer to those, the chair in the vice chair and anything they want to say, the administration was cooperative and major we had the information we needed to carry out our mission. >> and other burned aspects of this report is our allies, we had good conversations with different allies. >> at this point i'm going to turn to some of the audience questions. i'm sure there are a few and if there aren't enough i will go off on my own and administer this ipad. so here's a question. how much emphasis should command and control arrangements be given in terms of strengthening strategic posture. we've seen russia and china develop and test weapons such as hypersonic ride vehicles that pose potential problems for early warning systems, what recommendation does the report make if any to strengthening command and control to do with the nuclear threat the china and russia are posing in the future? >> one of the things we did was to visit the

classified information that may have made a runabout and got back to him. >> the woman working at the dodere is information in e-mail traffic eating with our agc and e-mailing what she should possibly say, certainly more to the story and we will be watching, thank you so much for coming on to explain all of those details. thank you. >> next and update from the israeli defense forces as troops gather at the gaza border preparing for a full-scale offensive. katie: welcome back to "sunday night in america". the hair ween stories coming on the israel with the most important to tell to see the realities unfolding in real time, also to teach us about the resilience of the israeli people. our next guest is from ashkelon in southern israel were the hamas brutality continues. he was able to evacuate and now joins me from paris. thank you so much for being here tonight we are a week out from the horrific start of this entire situation. tell me about your experience and where you are now. >> hello and thank you for having me here i am in paris now -- she said on saturday octobe october 7 i woke up t

these 2 ounces of hidden then musical instruments and turn to street, settling as a means of survival, dod, jaya among the games. and the no problem, i got one day someone told me that i was a musician analysis the and sneered sunamerica. and i responded. the real man provides for his family gone by the never the less my heart is now heavy with sorrows out of of the like the previous rule, the taliban has gained included music in the long list of prohibits which activities its members as close as lemme duty to destroy music, they even mount street musicians in public like this man did not go on for 100 fire. and even then their instrument most of the guns do not consider the music scene, but they do fee of consequences due to the televisions. music been along the direction they might think about the dark. upon hearing the announcements, i managed to control myself, recognizing the importance of my dignity side of my lot going on, you have to cut off. i have no desire to become a target for public punishment for them of us. oh, i keep my distance from it. these days i avoid musical together

>> look, we've passed the dod appropriations bill, we've passed the state and foreign ops appreciations bill. the senate has not taken them up. what i want to see is the senate taking them up, pass them, get them to the president's desk, if he signs them we have everything the president needs to support israel and frankly he also has the presidential draw down authority at his disposal at any time, and i believe that's what he might be using now, either that or the $3.8 billion available today to rush aid to israel, which we know has already started flowing. so everything is in place right now through the $3.8 billion, through the presidential drawdown authority and through the dod appropriations bill that is waiting on senate approval. >> what about the issue of perception? what message do you think it sends to world leaders, especially those authoritarians that are very much against the united states like vladimir putin or xi jinping that congress doesn't seem to be able to reach a consensus over something as basic as the speaker of the house of represe representatives. >> well, chaos

since then the dod has largely backtracked on the extremist threat. partly because it is receiving a lot of, extremism is an inherently political act. because of that there are challenges due to addressing extreme is in. we saw this with confronting islamophobia and islamic extremists 15 years ago. and now they think they are being, the right-wing extremists think they are being singled out. i think the military takes a robust effort. we still do not know how or to what extent the military needs to adopt these policies. most of the terrorism acts that people with military backgrounds have were done by veterans. veteran seems to be the greater risk. you have a chain of command, a unit, have a social -- the people are attached to. they're working hard. they have social connections. there are protected factors and more oversight for mr. terry personnel. you don't have those for veterans. that me make it a more challenging issue. >> okay. can you talk a little bit about the differences you saw i service branch. we had a question related to that. what is d

i would like to put pressure on dod to look for those jobs. i do not know how to calculate the exact number but i have an estimate in my paper. i think we have a lot of nuclear weapons capability in the united states and we've ever fight a nuclear war we have lost before we know the outcome. we also have two countries with big nuclear forces that are simultaneously problematic for us. one of which is willing to throw around its nuclear saver. we have to find a nuanced approach to nuclear modernization. i'm in favor of building the be 21 bomber because it is important for conventional missions. i am in favor of replacing the submarine ores because you have to keep our sailors safe. i am willing to look at things like do we need a second place to build plutonium pits for nuclear weapons in south carolina as we are currently planning to build for the department of energy. we need a long-range standoff weapon, and can we delay the replacement of the icbm? that is a closer call. these are the kinds of proposals i have in my paper, none of which are

i would like to put pressure on dod to look for those jobs. w i don't know how to cackle at exactly the right number but i have an estimate in my paper. the more specific problematic idea, i think we have a nuclearr weapons capability in the u.s. we basically lost before we even know the outcome. on the other hand, we also have two countries with big nuclear forces that are simultaneously problematic for us. one of which is willing to throw around its nuclear a little bit. i'm in favor of building db 21 e bomber partly because it also to is important for commercial missions. i'm in favor of replacing the summary force because you have o to keep our sailors safe undersea. i'm going to look at things like, do we really need a second place to build new plutonium pits down in south carolina as we are currently nd fighting to build for the department of energy to do we really need a long-range missile and can we delay the replacement? that is a closer call but i think it is worth looking at. these are the kind of proposal i have in my paper. ar non

we have posted a readout on the call on the dod website.afternoon, secretary austin will discuss the united states-austrailia alliance and defense initiatives following the 2023 u.s. ministerial consultations this summer. we will share a readout after the immediating. and discussing the status of the aro website and the mechanism for contacting aro to report on unidentified phenomenon or uap. additional details found in the press advisory published earlier today and i would encourage media interested in asking questions on this topic to take part in dr. kirkpatrick's briefing. and separately tomorrow a prescheduled operational test launch of u.s. air force global strike command, unarmed minute man three ballistic missile from california. this launch showcases the redundancy and reliability of our strategic deterrence system while sending a visible message of assurance to allies. for any further questions, refer are you to air force global strike command and finally take a moment to say general eric smith well wishes and speedy recovery on b

in 2020 it seems like another never-ending story of the dod has gone 5g spectrum. this created significant issues in this committee and i am wondering, would you commit to being a strong advocate to speak to avoid these similar issues? work these things out so we don't lay it at the table to decide which direction to go. >> i think collaboration is good way to avoid understanding and rates the r alignment on these issues. >> let me go back -- thank you for that. air service, i can speak from experience is not expanding in terms of availability. there has been different things that have come into play, an area such as mine, you see loss of rural air service and an urgent problem? how can you work to address that? >> i think ithi is a serious ise that needs addressed. i think have a command has been such that it has left our communities beyond the i think we want to encourage as many people into the profession as we can, rising salaries will help draw people in to this profession but we want to make sure we support that effort as well by keeping airports up to safety

and they're not stopping the 20 billion they're getting in oil so this -- and they've got spies in dod i was the undersecretary of defense for policy, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and conflict worked for me the chief of staff is an iranian spy and has not been expelled. and we have this wide open border that was talked about so it's all connected. the incompetence is breath-taking and our national security is at risk and a lot of people are talking about this in the abstract. you've got the aocs, the squad, and all that crowd, they talk about these things as if they're academic exercises. you just said 800 israelis were killed over the weekend and more, probably. thousands were wounded. hundreds were captured. this is not academic. this is not some esoteric thing. this is real life and we have obligations and commitments to our number one ally in the region, israel, and we can't be splitting hairs because we're worried about maintaining power and putting spin on it and those kinds of things. when in fact this administration is just strictly concerned about main

pete: so 14 -- 13 cents of that 14 cents goes to dod you're looking at 10% what you're actually -- byring when you think of our 33 trillion dollars in debt there's no serious amendment to actually level out our accounts payable and accounts receivable as you put it. >> not at all pete and there's $33 trillion that's on current interest rates you're talking 18 ppght 9 trillion just in interest payments over next ten years meaning that next year we're looking at $700 billion just to service our interest that's the equivalent of a dod appropriation bill every single year just to service interest rates. to pay the credit card. pete: let's get to other topic this morning because it is hard enough for you guys to get bills passed let alone fire alarms going off and any consequences if you woke up to provide the context democrat squad member jamal bauman -- pulled a fire alarm while democrats were trying to delay the vote in the house of representatives. he says it was an accident he was trying to open the door, never seen a door that looks like a fire alarm congressman your take. >> bottom

read-outs of these calls will be posted to the dod website later today. with respect to u.s.of aid be again arriving in israel last week and continue to arrive on a near daily basis. this assistance is comprised of capabilities requested by israel to include precision guided munitions, small diameter bombs, 155 millimeter munitions and other categories of critical equipment. iron dome intercepters from stocks that the united states has in country have been quickly provided to israel. in the days ahead, we'll be flying iron dome intercepters so israel has the capabilities to sustained the iron dome systems and protect citizens and cities from rocket attacks. we will leverage several avenues available to us to include our stocks and industry channels that reinforce the united states unwaivering support for the israeli people. as always, the department of defense will continue to support, plan and undertake these critical missions professionally and with the inherent right to protect our force. with that, i'll be happy to take your questions. start with ap. >> thanks, general ry

have evolved, we haven't evolved as quickly as we needed to in terms of our procurement policy with dodeded to focus on what does the war fighter need? what do we need to deter these rogue actors? what do we need to do to make sure we can deter them and not have to prosecute a war. >> the u.s. is now frantically trying to rebuild its military stores. the need for more factories, workers and materials succeeded our ability to supply them. i'm not worried about the military industrial complex. i'm worried an ukraine running out of missiles. the mad in "mad money" doesn't stand for mutual assured deterrence. this is a show about stocks, not defense policy. but if you take hayes at his word, it's likely the big five defense contractors can and will pivot if the pentagon asked them to. recommending them in the face of so many civilian casualties -- but our country's paltry land making capacity makes us a weaker democracy and sooner or later, the white house or congress will change how our defense budget is spent. i think the best might be l3. this company has the foresight to buy aerojet not

. >> we have seen the dod pushing troops on deployment standby, moving pieces of infrastructure intoa. is there a place in the future where there are american troops deployed to the region? >> i have a hard time seeing circumstances in which there would be u.s. forces in combat. when i spoke to u.s. pentagon officials, they said their job is to give the president options, but nobody thinks it is a good idea to have american combat versus engaged. what we are trying to do is get to the post-conflict environment where there is a different future for gaza and israel and more security. i just don't know how quickly we will be there. >> thank you for joining us without analysis, we will talk to you again i am sure. the u.s. treasury department announced new sanctions against hamas on wednesday for the surprise attack on israel two weeks ago. 10 group members, officers and facilitators were targeted as financial sources. that apartment says hamas lies on a small donations through cryptocurrency but these sanctions can no longer access funds held in the u.s.. treasury secretary said they wi

dod spent approximately $93.81 million to procure uh x number of uniforms etc. that means a pattern of issues and almost a 10-year span of period, which would lead me to believe rather than stupidity or corruption. the corruption tainted reconstruction by the us in the afghan army had its roots in the human resource management of the army. in order to put a show of success in reconstructing the afghan army, the us promoted some of the afghan military officers to commander posts in a short period. it takes what 20 some years for us to train a clenel in the army. do we really think we're going to turn around a general officer in the afghan military in six months, you need time. the most. importing result of the measure was the widesspread corruption within the afghan armed forces. one of the most outstanding examples of corruption was the unreal statistics about the number of afghan soldiers, so the budget of the non-existent forces would go to the pockets of the corrupt contractors and military commanders. hell we made the mistake of taking the taxpayers money an