Good morning, everyone. My name is melissa and i direct the project here at the center for strategic and International Studies and im divided to welcome you to todays event. The u. S. Approach to security jurisdiction in afghanistan. Before we begin today, i want to share our building safety precautions overall we feel secure that as a convener we have the duty to prepare for an emergency. I will serve as your Safety Officer at this event. Please follow my instructions. Finally take a moment to familiarize yourself with the emergency exit pathways to the room or directly behind you down the stairs if theres an incident behind you we will go out these doors, you follow me and i will take you to a safe location. Today we are delighted to be hosting two distinguished individuals from the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the director himself was sworn in as the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in july, 2012. He has more than 30 years of expe
A quick correction, former Us Ambassador Roy Stapleton will be talking about the party China Congress at 230 eastern, live online at cspan. Org. You can listen with the free cspan radio app. Yesterday the defense of cultivating a recent report about two Navy Ship Collisions in june the uss fitzgerald collided philippine flag container ship off the country of japan leaving seven sailors dead. Over two months later the uss john mccain clapped into a iberian ship near singapore and left ten sailors dead. Here is a look. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i will start with an opening statement. I want to thank you first for the opportunity to be here today and review of the recent incidences involving forces in the western pacific. A copy of the review that examines the systemic issue surrounding these incidences and review the corrective action. Before i begin i must say that throughout this investigative process our first and last thoughts have been with our fallen sailors and their f
2017. Ashton carter and joint chiefs appearedjoseph dunford before the House Appropriation Committee and how other factors are part of the proposal. This is to in a half hours. This is two and a half hours. Good morning. Our committee will come to order. Especiallymembers, the chairman mr. Rogers. Im pleased to welcome the 25th secretary of defense, ashton carter. This is dr. Carters second appearance before the subcommittee, although we know him well from his many years of service to our nation. We also welcome general joe done for, the great marine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and dr. Michael mccord. Secretary, Prime Minister Winston Churchill observed 70 years ago, and i quote, what ive seen of our russian friends and allies during the war, i am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than weakness, especially military weakness. Churchill was referring to the postwar leadership in moscow, and t
Security, certainly the military has used forms of encryption for decades. But can we can you give us a contemporary snapshot of how encryption used by government or nongovernment users protect us against cyberattacks today . We can start over here, please. I will answer the question, but im not at all the expert in this space. I think the other panelists are much more expert than i am in the notion of encryption and protecting our infrastructure. The one point i will say that i tried to emphasis in my Opening Statement is that we shouldnt forget about some of the changes that are happening in terms of the way that infrastructure can be accessed. I think we sometimes lose sight of the fact that phones themselves now are used as authentication devices. If you can break the encryption and get into the phone, that may be a very easy way to get into the power grid, to get into our transport systems, into our water systems. So its not just a question of the firewalls or the access. Its what