. >> senator largeford. >> admiral, thank you for being here. i appreciate what you bring to this. what else can nsa do to help other agencies deal with cyber deficiencies? we had some public cyber deficiencies of the federal government. what assets can the neace' bring to bear to help on this? you come in to clean up the mess as much as you try to help defend. how do we get pro-active on this? >> what i'd like to do -- nsa will be part of a broader team. i'd like to be pro-active and get ahead of the problem. >> the agencies have responsibility to make sure their systems are protected, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of accountability in the structure of the people, advising agencies. >> i'd be interested in could we build a framework where someone from outside the organization is doing an independent assessment. i can within the dod and also with nsa. i can go into any dot-mill network, anywhere in our structure, can assess it, attempt to penetrate, don't have to give notice to the network owner, as an example. that really doesn't exist on that scale anywhere necessary the gov