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Efforts, this is about an hour. Good afternoon, i am Michael Hanlon and its my honor to have the undersecretary of the army, Ryan Mccarthy with us to talk about the armys ideas on modernization of its future. I will ask you in giving him a big brookings welcome then we followup with a discussion between him and me and then go to your questions, all of that by 2 30. Mr. Mccarthy is a proud native of chicago, he went to the Virginia Military institute with a bachelors in history. Then he joined an...

Good afternoon, i am Michael Hanlon and its my honor to have the undersecretary of the army, Ryan Mccarthy with us to talk about the armys ideas on modernization of its future. I will ask you in giving him a big brookings welcome then we followup with a discussion between him and me and then go to your questions, all of that by 2 30. Mr. Mccarthy is a proud native of chicago, he went to the Virginia Military institute with a bachelors in history. Then he joined an Operational Army unit, was depl...

You know him, he is well known us, internationally, and i had the privilege of serving alongside him. That he ask me to define him with one word, i would simply choose patriot. That is what he is. At his very core. And gentlemen, please welcome the secretary of defense, the honorable jim mattis. [applause] thank you. I can find no place near washington dc that i find a place so much like home than being here with you. Those very concerned days after 9 11 in afghanistan, we served together for ma...

Very core. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the secretary of defense and the honorable jim mattis. [applause] thank you. Thanks very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, general. Hes an old friend of many years and its an absolute delight to be here with you all. I do appreciate being invited to Something Like this. I can we found no place in washington dc today that i feel more at home then here amongst all of you. Acting secretary mccarthy, we first met each other in those very uncertain...

I would choose patriot, thats what he is. At his very core. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the secretary of defense, the honorable jim attis. [applause] [applause] secretary mattis thanks very much, ladies and gentlemen. And thank you, general hamm, old friend of many years. Its an absolute delight to be here with youall. I do appreciate being invited to Something Like this. I can probably find no place in washington, d. C. , today that i feel more at home than here among all of us. Mccart...

Because of some strong gains from unh, Johnson Johnson and Goldman Sachs. We will keep an eye on futures this morning as we continue to get the Earnings Reports ibm today lets look overnight in asia. We have seen japan close higher. Youre looking at a gain of almost 27 points, 21,363 hang seng closed marginally higher the hang hishanghai was up by a quarter. In europe, in some of the early trading, the dax is the leader, up over 0. 6 cac up by a half percent the ftse is up by a third of a percen...

Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational re...

Permanent residents, many errors involved. You can watch this conversation on immigration and sanctuary cities any time on line, cspan. Org, go to our video library. We take to you a hearing underway, the House Armed Services committee on the fiscal 2018 budget request and emerging threats. Hearing now from admiral mike rogers, commander of u. S. Cyber command. I think back to the dialogue in the 1980 whz when i first joined first commissioned in the military in the aftermath of the failure of d...

The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging the subcommittee will come to order. This is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber h cyber. This is an increasingly important domain of warfare and an area where we have increased our emphasis on overseeing the departments progress in building and maintaining cyber forts ...

The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee of the House Armed Services committee. With the president budget request released earlier today, this is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber. This is an increasingly important area on overseeing the departments progress in building ...