mr. reitinger what you start? >> a key element of that was an agreement between the two secretaries that we would one, share personnel and two to actually develop a set of activities under the joint coordination element to really help us understand how we could better leverage what is in the department of defense today. take a good example is the work being done to help with the national cyberincident response plan and then going beyond that, looking at other efforts where we can share both in capability expertise as well as in technology. what we are doing with intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems as we move forward in time so the efforts and where we are going moving forward in time. >> mr. reitinger from a dhs perspective how would you evaluated relationship between your department and dod? obviously part of what you wanted to do was build up your own expertise within dhs but also as i said to leverage on what party exists in dod and nsa. >> thank you chairman. that is exactly correct. we each b

mr. reitinger.n we come to a question of how we protect infrastructure, we've become accustomed to saying 85% of the infrastructure of the united states is owned and operated by the private sector. what would you say that percentage is for cyberspace, if you can hazard a guess? % to 95%.hing from 75fromt i think it varies from country to country. the vast majority in the united states. in many cases, is the state and local government that is often more important on a real-time basis than the federal critical information structure. we need to work closely with our partners, our state and local territory partners. >> so the bottom line, it is clear that there is a consensus that most of cyberspace is owned or operated by the private sector. that makes the parts of this legislation that create and authorize new ways for the department of homeland security to interact with the private cyberspace infrastructure, particularly with regard to the .com networks. my time is up in this round. senator collins.