Fda commissioner along with the assistant secretary of health and Human Services for preparedness and response, along with an official with the centers for Disease Control. Id like to call this hearing to order, the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. This morning were holding a hearing titled facing the 21st Century Public Health threats, our nations preparedness and response capabilities. Well hear from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the department of health and Human Services, the director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and the commissioner of the food and Drug Administration. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second will be noticed for tuesday, january 23rd. Senator murray and i each have an opening statement. Then im going to turn to senator alexander and senator casey for any opening remarks they might have. After that well in
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On efforts to modernize the army was the focus of discussion covering concerns about increasing Global Threats to military readiness. This is an hour. All right. Thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And today rolling out a report on Army Modernization. Called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. I want to begin thanking the sponsors of that study because without sponsors we dont get to do studies. This was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics, d. R. S. Technologies, part ofley nardo and l3, as well. So we want to thank them for their support. Im going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80ish pages but a pretty quick read with a lot of pictures. I urge you to read the whole thing. Ill hit the highlights and well bring up our dis
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On efforts to modernize the army was the focus of discussion covering concerns about increasing Global Threats to military readiness. This is an hour. All right. Thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And today rolling out a report on Army Modernization. Called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. I want to begin thanking the sponsors of that study because without sponsors we dont get to do studies. This was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics, d. R. S. Technologies, part ofley nardo and l3, as well. So we want to thank them for their support. Im going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80ish pages but a pretty quick read with a lot of pictures. I urge you to read the whole thing. Ill hit the highlights and well bring up our dis