mr. bossart: it has already been undertaken. i was with the senator in puerto rico, and i think he is identifying some we already had a solution for. he is identifying a traditional problem between municipal and state government authorities. normally fema and the federal government would provide resources, and they would work it out with the local authorities. you saw this implement it over the weekend, the lack of capacity coupled with this insular, divided by an ocean problem. we provided federal authorities, and fema emergency managers, to stand next to each of those municipality leaders, whether mayors or local authority figures like the water authority figures. there being augmented by federal forces. we have addressed those challenges. that is something that was not necessarily apparent to the senator when he got there. it was a problem already being fixed, and he probably was not able to see it for two reasons. neither of us could get out to municipal levels on monday, and there was a communications error of great import

mr. bossart: mr. bossart: if that is accurate, that needs to be remediated immediately. i want to be careful not to micromanage it from here. i believe that we have enough resources marshaled and deployed forward to make decisions under the right command and leadership models. -- ise did is documented augmented local and state authorities through to the lower levels. there are federal officials identifying the requirements, augmenting the state level to validate those requirements, and providing them. we are in every stage of the identification, validation, and delivery of provisions to people in need. first, people saying 24 or 48 hours problems, it is my sincere belief that food and water will get to them before that deadline and we will save their lives. we have over 10,000 people there now, and they are more -- there are more on the way. i will read the numbers. dotoast guard's, one maritime administration vessel, six commercial ships with en route.n route -- we have 1.3 million meals. that is moving in today, and you're saying the distribution problem unclog. if som

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mr. tom bossart and mr. george barnes. i'm sure you can't wait for us to get started. let me move onto introduce our first keynote speaker. congressman herd. he shares the information technology sub committee. he sits on the committee on homeland security and is the vice chair of the sub committee. in 2017 kang monoherd was appointed by speaker ryan to serve on the house intelligence kmi committee where he sits on the dod and as well as the immerging threats sub committees. i'm sure everyone sheer following the i.t. modernization bill that he authored and is helping to push through and usher through congressional approvals now. congressman herd is one of the most knowledgeable voices regarding cyber security in congress. prior to being elected he served as a service officer in the cia. the only current member of congress with this background -- >> that we know of. >> that we know of. [ laughter ] >> and in industry he was a senior adviser. we thank you for your strong leadership on the intelligence committee and look forward to hearing your perfective and inci insights