I am honored to be asked to conduct this conversation we are going to draw you into in a few minutes. Each of the to ask directors and Deputy Director for an opening assessmt of their agencies. I will followup with a little bit of detail. We will go to some general discussions, and turn to you. I want to begin with our first public aearance by the new fbi director, christopher wray. How is it going . Justice,ack at overseeing an agency not at a lack for being in the news. What is the privacy echoewhat is working what is the pri vacy . What is working . I still havent figured anything out. Hopefully i will be able to answer as many of your questions as i can. Seconds totook me 10 walk back and fbi building to remember how much i missed it and how great it was to be back. Walking around the building, meeting people with every division, trng to get out in the field. It has been inspiring and reminded me why i love the place so much. Part,say for the most fewer surprises than not. The things that were great about the bureau are still great. Missionfocused, no matter what job they have. They are very passionate about it. They are determined to be the best at what they do. They cover the waterfront. Detail oriented and bring a kind of integrity that i always found so attractive when i was working with them as a prosecutor, and later afte9 11. Noticedthe things ive that have been surprising and encouraging are sort of the strides that have been made since i left. Bit like thee analogy of when you arwatching your own child grow every day, you dont really notice how tall they are getting. But when you see someone else kid, you say, oh my gosh, when i last saw you, you were this tall. There is a little bit of that at the bureau right now. The biggest one relevant to this group is the integration of intelligence. The integration of intligence into the overall mission. People start to take it for granted. 20012005, the fbi in many ways was the Ugly Duckling of the intelligence community. Now, the sophistication of the products being generated, the degree to which intelligence analysts are integrated with case agents, and everything from basic training to the daytoday of the place, is really remarkable. You can see how intelligence is deriving everything they are doinin a way that is fermentable. That is formidable. To book mymarks predecessors in pushing that predecessorsoth my in pushing that along. The area of partnerships, the degree to which the fbi is partnering with state Law Enforcement, local Law Enforcement, the five guys. The five eyes. It was much bumpier in the early 2000s, even though those things were happening. Now, it has become much more a way of life in a way i think it is impressive. The third area i would mention is technology. It is a challenge. As exciting as some of the strides we have made in the technological arena in terms of encountering the threats, and we will talk more about thein a little bit, our adversaries and their progress in technology in my humble view is exceeding our ability to keep up. That is a place where we are going to have to buckle down and work collaboratively in a way we are not quite yet. Different agencies, the private sector, we have a very scary road ahead in terms of the Role Technology for our adversaries. About antion investigation that was one of. Any you have underway one the country is focused on. The investigation you are conduction in the russian inerference conducting the russian interference in the 2016 Election Campaign i want to ask you whether you feel confident and comrtable conducting that investigation, free of any interference or pressure from the white house or the president. I can sayk confidently i have not detected any interference with that investigation. For thenormous respect former director, mueller, like us to work with almost daily in the early 2000s. Work wtih almost daily in the early 2000s. There is a great group of people working on it. I have confidence in them to be able to do their jobs. The fbi has a counterintelligence mission, more geared towards prevention of russian interference in a future election. There is overlapping mission there. I am impressed with the strides we have made on that front. Thank you for responding to that. Let me turn it to admiral rogers. Of cyber offense and defense is at the center of concern for everyone ithis audience. Poor ishing up a up a tour at nsa. [laughter] nearing the final lap. The simple question i want to put to you is, tell us what you have learned in your time running nsa. Tell us how you think your agency is doing. What the audience needs to know about your requirements, what you are looking to the private ctor to help you solve. Years as director, the fundamentals remain unchanged. Two incredibly important missions, generating foreign intelligence and insight are essential for the security of our nation, as well as citizen safety. The second aspect of our mission is generating Information Assurance and Computer Network offenses. The second fundamental unchanged is the great men and women of the organization. The best part of the day for me, to deal with incredibly motivated men and wom could be making a whole lot more money doing other things. But they believe in what the are doing. I did a global town hall with the workforce this morning, and what i said to them was with a motivated workforce, i hope every day you are coming into work feeling incredibly motivated and good about what we are doing and how much it matters. One of the challenges i see is we continue to generate insight. The flip side, it ntinues to be more difficult to do it. The challenges are tougher. With a great workforce, you can overcome lots of things. Partnership remains incredibly important. A much broader set of partners, within the private sector, being the government, able to bring together these partnerships to generate outcomes, that is a real straight. Is a real strength. Sustain a wororce . As you were looking to hire people i was reviewing the hiring plan and i s myself, are we hiring the right people . It cant be about, what are we going to do in the next year. About pushingnk for success in the future. The cuyber piece. I ve been doing that on and off for 37 years. Toughest problem i have ever worked. There is no single solution. Bring together these partnerships at a sustained level . Say this isot the private sector, this is the government . That is not going to work. The National SecurityCouncil Takes a national secury approach harnessing the power of r nation. Recently at aspen, colorado. I know you are deeply concerned about the authorization perhaps you could explain this audience as you think about the future, what would be the nonequences of reauorization in terms of your ability to collect intelligence . The Vice President visited yesterday. We spent some time with him. I said, i know of no ability placerganization has to that which we are able to access because of the authority of 702. Reauthorized, it is set to expire the 31st of december, i cant overcome that. It generatest 702, asignificant segment of ns ability to generate insight into counterterrori, what nationstates other actors are doing. Over the course of the next 90 days, we and others will be part of a broader dialogue hoping to educate and inform as Congress Makes up its mind. Part of a broader dialogue designeto engender a greater sense of understanding statutory is the authority . Conductbles us to collection overseas overseas against nonus persons, and the law outlines a specific set of purposes. And we do this based on the authority granted to us by the court. We have to make sure we are opening the law. There are valid concerns we have to make sure we are obeyi the law. There are valid concerns. I understand that. We go to Great Lengths to make sure we protect privacy. We have put several protections in place from a court of law, congressional oversight mixture we are providing appropriate protections. Sure we are providing appropriate protections. I think this would be h really significant a truly significant act to withdrawhe Legal Authority currently granted to us by 702. Youirector, i want to ask to give us an overview of how things areoing at your agency, with your specific mission set. Changing environment you have to deal with that affects many people in the audience. It is a pleasure to be here. With colleagues and friends. It is always a privilege to represent the men and women of this agency. It is appropriate i follow mike. Ree way to describe where professionals are is to use an analogy that nsa has been through. Missionhink of the nsa set as the world transmission to a digital network, thatconnected network, created great opportunity for siness, education, social s, population, information nsa had to change its mindset about how to engage. Mike just talked about some of but how to engage in a way that lifts up the value that nsa provides. It is not a perfect analogy, but in many ways, Geospatial Intelligence is going through a transition work we once did our with government securitynd control. Ourow live in a world where inteigenceas been reduced to a particular field. Increased players, partners, opportunities. The challenge i have is, how do i advance our value prosition flatter, more world . Ive we can never do our jobs without the partners in this room. The fact that you all bring access to understanding of algorithmic approaches to these new data sets, in this new connectivity, is great. Increate that understanding understanding and insight, we coulnever do it alone. Does, i have these key resources. Human capital, the expertise within the agency. How do we create the right agility to work with you and declutter our process to enable your innovation . Lift the skill set of a workforce that needs to be more data savvy and computationally knowledgeable in a way that provided vantage on the other side . Fundamental has been changed. We hold on to how we did it in the past, and not advance, we put ourselves at risk. Risk, withmission at the respect to protecting the country and our allies. Loved, during the lessons of my friend here. We can benefit from the transition. You had a near monopoly on geo, which has now exploded. 190 satellites overhead acquiring constant imagery. The question im sure a lot of how docurious about is, you keep the advantage for the United States . How do you make it possible for go into toto have advantages in this new . Orld that commoditized and access is more open and barriers to what used to be exclusive are reduced, one can imagine that things couldnt get more equal. We dont want to ben the equal business. We want to be the advantage business. Expertise is the part of our answer. That is the insight created by the lack of data, what it happening that tells us of someones intention or future activity . This room comes into play. Flat and opn a world, we can apply the innovation you create in a time frame in an increment faster than that adversary. That goes to agility. Changed is and wont that it will come down to the software that has the meaning of together,it comes the implication of the corollary mike except that eates a moment of operational mike picks up that creas a moment of operational time when he or she needs it. This agency is consuming the intelligence provided on the stage. Give us an overview of how things are going. My boss would agree. Things are going well. We talk about partnerships. The partnerships are important. Were trying to make them stronger. Wh is interesting for us is that we have found we have had to refocus more of our energy more on what the director considers to be our and fail ssion. Ission. Nofail m korea, russia, violent extremists. We are committing to that. From an intelligence perspective, we have been able to kind of come as you are two different conflicts and pull things together. We are not going to be able to do thaas we face in your face nearadversaries. We have to take advantage of and deal with data. We have to be much more data centric and savvy and how we handle data, volume, velocity, the variety of data. My colleagues are great at sending it our way. Classified and unclassified. There are secrets we have to find. How do you find them . For analysts and collectors to take advantage of that to hone into the next target. There is opportunity here, and we are we committing ourselves. Recommitting ourselves. As we look at Machine Learning and a great analysis, we are examining the role of human . Nalysts with the role, what we look like in 10 years . Imagine, whato does the analyst andnvironment look likin 10 years . Look like . T i am fascinated by that. That is something were trying to explore. Drive us toso making the decision about the kind of ople we hire. Weound that a lot of people we bring in now are very smart, inquisitive. A strong work ethic, tech savvy. They know how to deal with data. We need to give them a real expectation of environment. I talked to folks about, leave your cell phones at the door. Ure not going to be able to download whayou wa. We tryo help them feel like it is not so restrictive. Innovate andys to expose them to the art of the possible. Of the big allenges we have is to keep that creativity alive and create that environment in that regard. Humans . Is the role of what i find personally most valuable is who can interact with that data and say, what about this . That is really what were looking for. The tools let them do this intuitively. Have, someonens i is going to show me this wonderful toll, and i have to dollars to teach people how to use it. That is not helpful. It taxes the creativity on our analysts. I am an old lady, if i caplay with it, anybody can. Not old, but old enough. [laughter] how do we deliver those things that we can work with d play with. One of the things were looking as a business, is one of the is what can we invest ourselves and. Ourselves in. How do we make those busines decisions . Those things we dont lead the industry and may not fall in our mission set. You talked about a specific danger that affects many of your panelists. And is also of interest to the audience. Spacebased assets. Worldwide threat assessment in may was striking when he talked about russia and china, the link he used about the seriousness of their efforts he used aboute the seriousness of their efforts to develop space weapons. Give us a sense about how your agency looks at this problem. Tre is no doubt, the russians and chinese see space as an area they want to challenge. They want to challenge the u. S. And that domain. The effect could be catastrophic, in terms of our command of control, weapon stems, intelligent systems, if they were successful. On orbit and on the terrestrial front. We are interested in both environments. We understand what is going on and how they view that space, and what they need to do . Understanding what their capabilities are in terms of your reversible and reversie. And yourible irreversible and reversible. Our integration continues our efforts to integrate collectors and analysts together, into a spacecounterspace Office Organization to draw more focus and understand what they want to do to us, but also understand their role and abilities. We need to understand that in terms of military conflict. We can try to meet it, but we. Eed to get more insight how is it going at the nro . How do you think about your future challenges. You are facing a world where there is an awful lot of commercial capability area how you deal with that commercial capability. How do you deal with that . We have beenng veryortunate to be able to attract an amazing workforce of engineers and other folks. Year, we have already had two launches. The one onay 1 was our first time on the spacex ride. We have three launches coming up this fall. We are excited about the organizational capacity and capabilities that it will add to the intelligence community. I am developing my next generation of satellites. All of those acquisitions are going amazingly well. That is a big success for us. We received our eighth clean consecutive financial audit. Night. Working on her on our ninth. We are proud of that. We continue to invt in research and Development Almost every year. We have put together a conference of strategy for protection of our space assets and ground assets. If we are not there for the fight, were going to be there for the spite fight of space and ground systems. We are an amazing partnership at the National Space defense center, and the department of defense. That is a Phenomenal Team across all those organizations to understand threats out there and take preventative action and protective action as a unified nation. Our systems are amazing. Able to provide coverage, any, anywhere threat the globe. This is similar to the question i asked director cardillo. Sell and buy overhead imagery. What is the special sauce for your agency . Have been building and taking pictures from space sce the 1960s. If commercial content that up 50 years later and base imagery resolution from lower orbit, that frees us ups a nation to invest in the more exotic things. Capability that will give us an edge in the future. Abs, excited about planet l digital globe. Commercially as a service, which will free up dollars. I want to turn to questions from the audience, to have the procedure for submitting my ipad. It is on this was of special interest to me, cyber threats. Disturbingen a onslaut of information, secret information from our intelligence and contractors. You how your agencies are dealing with this, and in particular, how you can do better in dealing with Insider Threats without creating a Work Environment that is so rigid that he will end up driving away your most creative people that you will end up driving away your most creative people . It starts out with a workforce dialogue. The global town hall with my workforce, i raised this topic. About have a discussion what we are and how important this is to you and our organization. What is the implication in the future tecical, a sees of changes in improvements, but never underestimate the cultural changes. That culral challenges, and i said this to leadership, we have to find a balance. If the pricef security comes that we drive away the very men and women that generate value in the first place, we have a selfinduced missi. A bad place for us. Everything is about generating maximum output. Security is secondary to you project objective. Object that. How do we find a middle ground