Jim Langevin

If we are not failing, we are not learning.

Well, I certainly think that DIU deserves our support. It certainly has mine and we want to continue to leverage the model that they bring to the table and engaging with these small innovative companies.

The subcommittee will come to order.

I couldn't agree more.

Despite this, the FY23 budget request has cut all funding for a critical directed energy effort--specifically the Diode-Pumped Alkali Laser (DPAL)--despite its recent history of success, and the proven value DE technologies provide to our…

As we know, directed energy weapons, such as lasers and high-powered microwaves, can effectively engage a variety of threats with speed, flexibility, precision, and on a low cost-per-shot basis.

This has got to be a priority for us and I hope that it will continue to be so.

I am not certain that a plan which aims to fix a supposedly urgent problem by 2027 demonstrates that the Navy takes cyber seriously.

I have been a big fan of the electromagnetic railgun program for a very long time, and was very disappointed to see that the Navy has opted to pause this program in FY23.

We have heard multiple concerns about the state of the Navy's cyber forces, and the Secretary's 28 pages of written testimony for today's event--meant to reflect the highest priorities of the Navy--doesn't mention cyber once.

Many would agree this is the greatest national security threat that we face or one of them that we face in the 21st century.

I'm very proud that our Nation's finest nuclear submarines are built right in the great State of Rhode Island.

We are disseminating information to the secretaries of state, we are counseling them and providing resources to ensure better physical security.

I have a vastly different view on your service and the performance you and your people are undertaking and doing over at DHS.

If I could for Dr. Plumb and General Guetlein, so to continue to be a global leader when it comes to new and innovative technologies, it would behoove us to think not about acquiring planes and satellites that happen to run software, but…

They cannot go out and collect foreign intelligence in the way that the U.S. intelligence community can.

If you look at a lot of the systemically important entities, these are very well-resourced organizations for cybersecurity.

I applaud you for the work you have done under Director Easterly's leadership and Director Goldstein in standing up the Shields Up Program.

I want to thank you, Madam Chair, for hosting this very important hearing.

I am looking forward to conversation yet to come as we evolve this critical and essential work.

We have to standardize tour lengths. We need to standardize Active Duty service obligations.

I hope you'll have advice for us and thoughts on how we kind of make that--the training kind of uniform level of readiness among all the services so when they get to you, you know, they're at peak level and then you can take them…

We no longer have to debate whether we will fight wars in cyberspace.

Today, cyber is part of nearly every issue that we deal with in national security.

I've seen cybersecurity and cyber issues move from the periphery to the center of national security.