strategy which clearly lays out three key dod cyber missions, defending networks, providing cyber options for military commanders and, when called upon by our nation's leaders, defending the nation against cyber attacks of significant consequence. as the director and admiral rogers will note, since 2009 the department has matured cyber command to ensure clear command responsibility and authority and growing capabilities essential to our unity of effort for cyber operations. we also continue to mature our cyber mission forces which this fall achieved initial operating 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 cyber mission force to use. third, what remains to be done? as much as we have done, rerecognize there's much more to