[ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for research and development. Acquisition reform is wup of the most important frustrating topics we address. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technology advantage. I hope you have seen the work on this topic. That is why the department of defense needs acquisition reform. Not just for efficiency or save money. Simply put, we will not be able to address threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I want the witnesses to Pay Attention here. Okay . Were still dealing with a trillion dollar f 35 program that continues to operate in dysfunction. The air force still su
Mark esper, secretary of the army. Heather wilson, secretary of the air force, and james gurts, assistant secretary of the navy for Research Development and acquisition. Acquisition reform is one of the most important and frustrating topics this committee addresses. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technological advantage. I hope you all have seen the work by rand on this topic. That is why the department of defense needs acquisition reform. Not just for efficiency or to save money. Simply put, we will not be able to address the threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I want the witnesses to Pay Attention here, okay . Were still dealing with a trilliondollar f35 program that continues to operate in dysfunction. The air force still subsidizes ula for space launch with costplus fixed fee contracts. The army has sunk nearly 6. 5 billion into wint. And that work that doesnt work. A
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Early in our work with cs21, now contents identified sticks to be the best format for data. New context has begun working with the community and the industry to extend sticks for the grid. Sticks is just the first step. We need the ability to share threats automatically between organizations. Several organizations have begun but we still rely on human analysts. If there was a coordinated attack on grid the analysts would not be able to respond. We need new technology to speed up response. Discovering and ensuring threat to machine is a huge step. The first hurdle in automated response is trust by third party. We need to ensure that theres trust in remediation. Once we have been able to solve the trust, utility, National Labs and agencies can distribute remediation into the grid allowing them to rapidly respond. In summary, identity, trusted data, isolated networks, response and remediation, technologies for defense. Battlefield continues to change. We need to protect find ways to prote