Jim Langevin

Given the shortage of qualified cyber personnel in both the military and civilian domains, in your view, is DOD doing enough to ensure that such personnel are properly positioned within the Department?

East Africa remains, obviously, a key operating and training area for Al Qaeda and associates, and specifically the Somali-based terrorist group Al Shabaab.

Are the lines of command, control, communications, and information sharing adequately defined between EUCOM, CYBERCOM, STRATCOM, NATO?

How concerned is the Department about Al Shabaab's ability to attract and train foreign fighters?

I believe that as we move forward, that is going to be the comparative advantage for the United States.

I would be greatly interested to hear how we refine the education, recruitment, retention and training of the highly specialized personnel that we need.

I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today.

My comments to them is, look, your folks have to be trained and certified to the same standards as the Active Force.

The key thing I think is to make sure that as we utilize the National Guard, we are doing it in not only a uniform way but we are doing it in a way so that we have the advantage in two senses.

How are you planning to integrate our total force capability such as those resident in the National Guard cyber units into a comprehensive CYBERCOM approach, particularly with regard to command and control and authorities?

DOD cyber operations are quite literally a growth business, and it is one of the rare portions of the DOD that will be growing indefinitely into the future.

We must be ever mindful of our responsibility to make the most effective use of taxpayer's investments in these capabilities.

This is obviously an important hearing as our national security is dependent on our information systems.

Your command is promoting a concept of regional SOF coordination centers designed to promote regional SOF partnering...

I continue to be concerned about the capabilities of our bases to withstand a cyberattack directed against outside supporting infrastructure.

I certainly look forward to working with the gentleman to ensure that our intelligence efforts and resourcing are harmonized between the two committees.

It is my goal to make sure that our Intelligence Community is properly resourced between the MIP and the NIP.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing. As you are well aware, the Intelligence Community is an issue that is of great interest to me.

Thank you for your testimony. I certainly look forward to hearing more and getting into the questions and answers.

I have been following with great interest the development of semiautonomous and autonomous UUVs and USVs designed for roles ranging from environmental monitoring to mine-hunting.

I have been pleased to note the Navy's increasing investment in the technologies that I feel will be needed in these environments.

Future threat environments are likely to be exceedingly complex, as threat actors acquire significant capabilities in the realms of UAVs, cruise missiles, and swarming attacks.

I am deeply concerned about the possible effects of the current budgetary uncertainty of the procurement of nuclear submarines.

I am sure that our first hearing will spur some thoughts about, among our members, regarding the future national security environment.

I look forward to working with these gentlemen and ladies as well.