defending dod networks, providing cyberoptions for our military commanders. and when called upon by our nation s leaders, defending the nation against cyberattacks of significant consequence. as the director and admiral rogers will note, since 2009, the department has matured cybercommand to ensure a clear command responsibility and authity, and growing capabilities essential to our unity of effort for cyberoperations. we also continue to mature our cybermission forces, which this fall achieved initial operative capability or ioc status. this force is providing military capability to execute our three missions in cyberspace. we re building new capabilities and new tools for the cybermission force to use. third, what remains to be done. as much as we have done, we recognize there is much more to do. let me mention just a couple of o those most important tasks