. >> joan johnson-freese is next on tv. she argues that our war college system is focused and no longer properly educates her senior military officers. it's a little under an hour. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here in cambridge on this rainy night during spring break so i think you for coming and having this opportunity to talk about this book which i am passionate about. i'm very up passionate about professional military education which is why i wrote this book which is as i said my usual arc of search is in security and globalization. so this is a bit of the deviation that one i felt was very important to write about. i want to begin by telling you a little bit about what the topic is and why i wrote about it. professional military education is the system within which most military officers receive their education after enlistment. its congressionally mandated which is not a choice, not an option. all are required to attend to receive what is called joint professional military education credits. specifically in th

joan johnson-free johnson-freese, professor of national security affairs at u.s. naval war college. she's going to talk about the role of space in our daily lives and how the space threats can threaten our national security. we will put our formal statements for senator cruz and mine in the record. your written testimony will be inserted into record. and if you just give us a quick summary so we can get into the questions. please. >> trying to i will confess given this topic today i was disappointed that bruce willis was not available to b the of ts witness to testify on the panel. >> we might get a trailer from armageddon, and show that. >> mr. chairman and members of the subcommittee, i am pleased to have the opportunity to update the committee on nasa's programs and our approach to addressing the risks, impacts, and solutions for space threats. one space threat is near earth objects, or neo's. neos are asteroids and comets that enter the near earth space. their primitive leftover building blocks of the solar system, making them also compelling objects for scientific study. today,