halvorsen: thank you, sir.e have improved the process which gives and brings the company better ability to share data with us, protects them, gives them some protection when they shared that data with us. that has been very successful. we also improved our ability working with industry to work with the supply chain risk management. i will go into everything we have done there, but we are sharing it -- i won't go into everything we have done our, but we are sharing it and putting it in place with industry to see that data better. we have included working very much with industry to include language that is in all i.t. and cyber contracts that require certain levels of security and reporting. all of those things are beginning to show results. one way we impose costs is to raise our basic level of cyber defense and make them pay much higher to play the game. the things we're doing, i believe we are beginning to see some effects in that area about who isn't playing as much anymore and what they are having to pay to

halvorsen. would you like to add anything? >> part of what that unit is doing is bringing a solution to the problem. i think they were perfectly in line. >> follow-up question. is there a consolidated effort to ensure cyber centers, such as red stone, are interconnected with other services and department of defense capabilities to properly leverage knowledge sets and not create stove pipes of information or efforts? >> i don't know that we have a formal -- i know there's regular analytic and collaborative venues where they all get together. i participate and my team participate also in some of those. i don't know that there is a formal process, if you will. i try to synchronize that with each of the service components. hey, we have to maximize effectiveness and efficiency. because there's more requirements and money and time. it's all about how to we maximize outputs. >> mr. work? >> sir, i don't believe there is a formal program right now. we would look at it more in terms of function. right now i can tell you in terms of def

. >> one of the heroic airlift pilots was colonel halvorsen, although he was a lieutenant back then. on his day off, he came across some german children gathered at the edge of the airport. >> it was a tough time for kids in berlin. most of them had single parents. parents were killed -- the war. >> he knew they were hungry. all he had in his pocket to give them were two sticks of gum. he was touched by how the kids carefully broke the sticks into tiny pieces so that each could get a share. that gave him an idea. he told them to watch for his plane the next day. he would wiggle his wings as he came in for landing. >> and i said, "you come back and stand in the space between the bombed-out buildings and the barbed-wire fence, and then the runway. stand in that open place. and when i come over your head to land -- i'll just be in the air a ways -- i'll drop enough chocolate out of the airplane for all of you to have a piece." >> during the night, he turned handkerchiefs into candy parachutes. as he approached the airport the next day, he wiggled his wings, and the legend of the candy b

halvorsen: we will figure out how to get it to you. duckworth: thank you. >> the chair recognizes mr. franks for five minutes. i appreciate people like you, admiral rogers, who put yourself at risk and do everything you can to assiduously protect the homeland. thank you. i'm going to paraphrase. , recent press briefing you said what keeps you up at night are threats to critical infrastructure, and that you have been observing nationstates , spending a lot of time in the power structure of the united states. as you know better than perhaps anyone, the department of defense relies upon the electric grid for 99% of its electricity needs, without which even the department's position is that it cannot effect its mission. and there's 320 million americans also dependent upon it pretty significantly for every day survival. a widespread collapse of the electric grid would lead to gross societal collapse. wearing your cyber comm hat, how protected is the electric grid from cyberattacks and lesser discussed attacks that could come from geomagnet

our guest today is terry halvorsen for the defense department. he oversees the role of the largest computer network. he is accompanied by larry bailey whose role is deputy chief officer for the defense department. he holds a master's in educational technology from the university of west florida. he served as an army intelligence officer and later as a civilian. he was deputy commander of navy cyber forces and then became the navy's chief information officer. he's been in his current role as pentagon's chief information officer since this last march. ms. bailey has a bachelor of science degree from the university of maryland and a master's from the industrial college of the armed forces. she's been a member of the national security work force since 1984. thus ends the biographical portion of the program, now on to the riveting mechanical details. first, thanks to our underwriter, northrup grummond. we are live and on the record here. no live blogging or tweeting. in short, no filing of any kind as the breakfast is under way to give us time to actu

this has been one of cio halvorsen's top jobs.ould ask him to answer the question with more specifics. >> thank you, sir. as you mentioned, sir, we actually have improved the process which brings and gives the companies better ability to share data with us. it protects them and gives them some protection when they share that data with us. that has been very successful. we have also improved our ability working with industry to look at supply chain risk management. i won't get into everything we have done. what we have done is sharing it and putting some systems in place with industry to see that data better. we have now included working very much with industry to include now language that's in all i.t. and cyber contracts that require certain levels of security and reporting. all of those things are beginning to show results. one way that we impose cost on them is to raise our basic level of cyber defense and make them pay higher to play the game. i believe we are seeing some effects in that area about who isn't playing as much an