Good morning, mr. Chairman. I think the witnesses for coming this morning. An incredibly issue an incredibly important issue we need to care about and make a policy on. Your meeting to discuss the state of cybersecurity and the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. And glad to see the doe firm and others taking steps. Our energy grid serves as the backbone to our economy, Touching Every aspect are our lives every aspect of our lives. Reliable grid is crucial to the National Security and a clean energy future. For lawmakers to enable innovative advancements that we can improve the security and reliability of our electric grid, we must work on a bipartisan basis. And, actively engage with leaders as we are doing today. The modernization and innovation of our Energy Infrastructure is already underway. What was once a oneway Delivery System has evolved to a Dynamic Networ
Subcommittee will not come to order. The chairman will now yield five minutes to my great friend. From california. Five minutes. Thank you for getting me the five minutes. I think the witnesses for coming this morning. The incredibly important issue when it came out and make good policy on. We are meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grade originally both the home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and others taking steps to address the growing dangers followed by nefarious actions. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy. Touching every aspect of our life. A reliable grid is also crucial to our National Security. We can improve the security and reliability of our missions electric grid. We must work on a bipartisan basis and integrates with Industry Leaders as we are doing here. Fortunately the modernization and integration of our Energy Infrastr
Subcommittee will not come to order. The chairman will now yield five minutes to my great friend. From california. Five minutes. Thank you for getting me the five minutes. I think the witnesses for coming this morning. The incredibly important issue when it came out and make good policy on. We are meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grade originally both the home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and others taking steps to address the growing dangers followed by nefarious actions. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy. Touching every aspect of our life. A reliable grid is also crucial to our National Security. We can improve the security and reliability of our missions electric grid. We must work on a bipartisan basis and integrates with Industry Leaders as we are doing here. Fortunately the modernization and integration of our Energy Infrastr
Subcommittee will now come to order. I want to thank all the members and the witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee this morning. The chairman will now yield five minutes to migrate friend, mr. Mcnerney from california for five minutes. Good morning, mr. Chairman, i thank you for yielding me the five minutes and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue that we needed to care a lot about and make good policy on. Were meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security in the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy truer. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and ferc and others taking steps to address the growing dangers posed by nefarious actors. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy Touching Every aspect of our lives and a reliable grid is also crucial to our National Security and for a clean energy future. For lawmakers to encourage
Project manager for the rehabilitation of arlington house and worked at the battlefield, George Washington Memorial Parkway and he will be as you just heard the topic is unprecedented discovery of i am looking forward to sharing this unprecedented story with everyone here. I have the great privilege and humble village of be the superintendent of 5000 acres of some of the most hallowed ground. Field to give the obligatory 30 seconds of why it is an important place. We preserve the scenes of two significant civil war battles. The first largescale battle of the civil war in july 1861 followed by 13 months later the second battle of manassas which was much larger and between these two about 4000 men died and tens of thousands were wounded. Those are some powerful statistics. Today we will diving a little bit more beyond the statistics and look at what happened to some of these poor unfortunate soldiers who were killed or maimed as well as the stories of those who tried to save them. I come