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Last question. The three roles of u. S. Cybercom, one is specifically to look after the security of dod networks, the other two being to support commanders and the third which is in some ways the most difficult and challenging is to defend the nation and how that engages. So cybercom has that responsibility, i think, the challenge if it were to arise would be a lot of the intelligence that Cyber Command needs to do its work comes from the nsa side, and splitting the two out would be highly inefficient. That inefficiency may be worthwhile in the long run, but in the short term i think the judgm...

Areas, and sustaining existing capabilities. But, again, that measure can be better. On the administrative management side, weve made progress in measuring our ability to effectively, efficiently release the funding, monitor programmatic use of the funds, monitor grantee Financial Management of the funds, monitor the closing of the awards and grantee draw down. Were making progress, mr. Chairman, weve got an opportunity to make even more. Thanks. Yes, sir. For us, i think its about getting good, quality information and data for us to make the right decisions on when we issue a card. Its about ...

This process. Ill just this is a long time ago, but ill share an experience with you. I bought a company in puerto rico, put it into four containers, all the equipment. Everything that was there. All four container arrived at one of my plants here. All the seals were there. When we opened the containers, everything of significant value that could have been marketed was gone. But the seals were still there. So the fact is, and that was way before 9 11. That was in the 70s. But the fact is, that people will try to do it. So my question is, is i guess my question is really this, do we have the ca...

Witnesses today. Theres a lot of attendance today. Obviously a discussion that many people are interested in. We do have a series of four votes beginning in a halfhour so im going to be very strict with the time clock today in allowing five minutes to each senator and well be calling on people in order of arrival. So with that, ms. Jones, i wanted to start with you and thank you for sharing your story and being here today to testify. Your story actually really resonates with me. All of my brothers and sisters and i went to college on pell grants and Student Loans to finance our education and i...

Maybe tried, maybe failed, maybe aborted . I do not, sir. There is the general threat that we make every effort to safeguard against. Im not sure if my colleagues are aware of any attempts to produce a dirty bomb using our sources. If you want to followup with a classified briefing on the topic, we could go into that in more detail. Okay. Good enough. And im going to ask a followon question. If this is not appropriate to answer in this space, just say so, but people can go on the internet and learn all kinds of things, including how to build weapons and nuclear weapons, Pressure Cooker bombs, ...