Democracy. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] good morning. Good morning. If we can get everybodys attention. Thank you. Good morning. This here it is that Senate Appropriations would please come to order we are here for a very important reason and the first is to thank all the young people who are here today for your commitment to coming in fighting for yourself and for many others. To talk about the special Diabetes Program and its critical work that supports Life Saving Research for millions of kids and people across our country and the world who are living with type one diabetes. And in particular we are here today to hear from kids living with type one diabetes about why this program matters. Ill before i started i want to welcome all of you to washington d. C. And to congress but i know many of you have traveled from all over the country to be here today. I want you to know th
Armed services subcommittee. Mr. Gallagher the subcommittee will come to order. I ask everyone to be mindful of our committee rules. We start on time. U. S. Language the average american can understand. And we stick to the fiveminute rule, including on witness responses. With that, good morning, everyone, thank you for being here today for our hearing on the department of defenses cyberspace activities. We ask a lot from the department in this space. From securely operating networks and inherently insecure Weapons Systems to assisting small and large systems. More important than anything else is how prepared and capable we are to hold our adversaries at risk. Ive expressed my concerns about the departments pace for modernizing and growing the ships, aircraft and other weapons for a fight with china. If we accept that we need more time, it is my genuine belief that our ability to robustly use information and Cyber Operations should provide us with the opportunity to buy time to maneuver
impact on the ground. when the chinese foreign ministry indicated that they would respond in the way they were prepared to. and it turns out the other objects are chinese origin, is there a menu of options prepared for how we deal with that? terrific hypothetical. we re just not there yet. on to the relationship issue, the chinese spy balloon, you got china buying more oil from russia. you got china opening up cases in u.s. technology from u.s. universities. and president xi is going to be meeting with the president. and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. again, let me say here, i know i m running close on time, sorry no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at balanci. at the g20, the whole purpose was to move the relationship. the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that. and he wanted to move that forward. and secretary
This week we are at the hospital thats using ai to try and cut Waiting Times for surgery. We are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the Fringe Festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. There is so much scope for error. And theres so much stuff thats not in our control. On tiktok it is actually all in our control. And talking of control, well see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. I said no laughing matter. Oh, never mind. You are back, were back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. It is a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the Edinburgh Fringe. Please, neverspeak to me again. Filled with experimental performance, innovative shows and, my favourite, comedy. One of the beautiful things about the fringe is that it takes over loads of venues i
The 14th annual billingtons cybersecurity summit in washington d. C. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] good morning and welcome to the 14th annual billington summit. With the performance of her National Anthem please welcome to the stage oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hail at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were soaked gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that starspangled banner yet wave or the land of the free and the home of the brave please welcome emcees for the 14th annual billington cybersecurity summit billington cybersecurity chief of staff and director of finance. Thank you. Thank you for that beautiful rendition of our National Anthem. Lets give her another round of applause. [applause] good afternoon and welcome it. We are thri