We will be back. I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safe
I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safety Centers for Di
President ial election, lots of thinks to talk about there, talk about people in the room. Talk about obamas legacy a little bit. We will those are the big things, i guess, some of the big areas. Peter just as a reminder, youre going to be bigtime, this is going to be broadcast live on cspan. Larry i know, absolutely. Cspan is so big, it doesnt need h. D. Thats how i like to think of cspan, it doesnt need it. Cspan, you want hfpblg d. , we dont need it. Were cspan, people will watch anyway. Thats how bad cspan is, how bad ass cspan is. Peter Larry Wilmore is not only the host of the nightly show, he is an author and also an executive producer. Whats your connection with the tv show blackish . Larry i helped do the pilot and exec produced the first several episodes. When we were producing the pilot, i got the call to do this show. I wasnt able to finish the whole season. I worked with the creator of the show and we had a great time. Kenya had such a brilliant idea with that and based on
Partnerships to address a broad range of global challenges, building cyber space capability and confronting uncertainty with agility and innovation. This is a particularly difficult job today as we see a resurgent russia, and rising china, challenging us with Nuclear Capabilities, space and cyber space, as well as countries like north korea and iran, seeking greater roles in these domains, proliferation of technology, and information has increased risks, posed by nonstate actors in many of these areas, as well. In short, Strategic Deterrence may be more challenging today than it has ever been. This is why we at the Atlantic Council have been tackling many of these issues head on, including our work in russia, particularly our transatlantic Security Work as we chart a path for a europe, whole and free. Likewise we have been doing extensive programming on Cyber Security and cyber state craft initiative. Ranging from natos Cyber Mission to the recent cyberattack on sony. Our initiative an
[ inaudible ]. Well, right now from my perspective, my bigticket item is that those items need to be in the budget and funded. Ill let the professionals here from the office of secretary of defense and Congress Really work on the noodle on how we need to work that perhaps more holistically in terms of what you just said. That piece of being able to follow the money as you know is very important, to whether its one bin, or one that we pay bins that we pay close attention to, associated with things, because when you work at the ssbn or icbm, is one Mission Associated with things and then you have to have that dialogue of how do you do those things that have dual capabilities. And weighs in that bin, all the way as i talked about before, from outer space to under the water. Sir . Peter sharpman, merrick corporation. The doctrine distinguished between intelligence gathering which we tried to prevent, but not deter, and outright attack, which we visibly and vocally deterred. In the realm of