As a long-term advocate for cybersecurity within this subcommittee, I am glad we have taken the time to not only discuss the build and operations, but also the infrastructure our cyber warriors operate within every day over the last few…

I mean, that is exactly where I hope that we are going to be and that is what we want to get to.

Can you provide an update on DOD's process for completing the instruction manual for DOD Directive 8140 and when this process might be completed?

I have been one of the biggest proponents of cybersecurity as a critical warfighting domain during my time in Congress.

I highly commend and am very supportive of your vision for the third offset strategy and look forward to seeing how that unfolds.

We have certainly raised awareness. We have come a long way in getting everybody... to understand how challenging and difficult cybersecurity is.

I think that would be helpful, and I am hoping that we are going to see us move in that kind of a direction and have that common understanding.

I believe, has a critical role to play here.

Government nor private sector can do this independently on its own.

I find it appropriate the Department of Defense is involved in building a new IT system for OPM's new National Background Investigation Bureau.

I will be the first to let you know.

My colleague, Jim Cooper, likes to refer to the cloud as the acronym for Chinese Love Our Uploaded Data.

I hope along with all of this we are paying maximum attention to the security of the cloud.

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I think there is very broad concern, and I would suggest bipartisan concern, that we not interfere into any kind of pricing strategies that would interfere with the fair and free operation of the market.

If the market is absolutely failed, then I think there actually is a role for Congress to step in and put some kind of price limits.