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Welcome. Im delighted to convene this hearing. This is a very important topic and one i know the Ranking Member finds significant. Im happy to partner with her in exploring this subject. I also know the gentleman from North Carolina mr. Jones is attending the hearing with us today, therefore i ask unanimous consent that mr. Jones and any other Committee Members not assigned to this committee be able to participate in this hearing with understanding all members will be regulared for questions prior to those not it is tongue subcommittee. Without objection so order. This morning we continue the ...

Central asia here at the Hudson Institute and it is a pleasure for me to host a market discussion on the hundred year by Michael Paul Sperry is a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and a distinguished defense policy, highranking Government Official and numerous books and china. He served under the Ronald Reagan and george w. Bush administrations. The book which i recommend to everyone in the audience preferably a factually since its founding has a longterm goal to establish the dominance and that michael thinks that it has albert in the United States proces...

This tragedy came to pass but hopefully the Lessons Learned from it will provide a foundation for presenting preventing future tragedies like this one. Lets take just a moment to recap our aaron alexis copy access to the navy are then allowed to successfully enter the facility that fateful morning. In 2007, aaron alexis joined the u. S. Navy, as with other servicemembers he a background check was performed and he was granted a low level security clearance. After a discharge from the navy in 2011, alexis was hired by defense contractor that confirmed he possessed the balance security clearance....

Accountability Office Report has highlighted, a number of internal management challenges have impeded the federal Effective Services ability to protect facilities. For example, the federal protective service must the bleep the Facility Security assessment in a timely manner with the share them offices it protects. This service has been able to do that and other agencies have sought to complete their own security assessments, creating unnecessary duplication and waste. The federal protective service must also do a better job of tracking and overseeing the training of the 14,000 contract guards ...

Friends and family members that were there with us doing this because based on what ive read, human memory is pretty fallible. Eyewitness testimony for example, is notoriously sketchy. Rather than assuming that they have a perfect memory of the past decade, i went out and if you could of the people who were there to get their perception of what happened and check it against my own. And tried to use so the combination of my own members, things i wrote at the time, and interviews of other people to make sure i had as accurate a picture as possible. Thank you. Welcome back. I had a question to if...