Jim Langevin

I want to begin also by thanking you for your work on cybersecurity at TSA, specifically for your release of two pipeline security directives in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline incident.

I have no further speakers so I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren).

I also thank minority staff, Sarah Moxley. Our clerk, Caroline Kehrli, is departing the subcommittee, and her work has been incredibly invaluable. My legislative director, Caroline Goodson, and military fellow, Juliann Hitt, also made…

I am a bit concerned about the gap I see between the amount of information CISA needs to meaningfully improve the cybersecurity of our critical infrastructure sectors and the amount of information that CISA would receive would--only to be…

I applaud those efforts. That is why I am also a big fan of the cyber core program.

This plan would address changing energy demands, installation resilience, and the resilience of strategic assets.

The Department is moving forward on a number of key concepts that will be vital for competing with a peer competitor.

We want to be prioritizing as many dollars as possible to our capabilities and not to rebuilding things that we could have protected.

We are stronger when we have varied and different points of view and backgrounds that we can bring to the table.

Of the many lessons from the pandemic, we have seen clearly that technology can revolutionize how we conduct our business, whether that is in Congress, or in the Department of Defense.

The subcommittee will come to order. So I want to welcome everyone to today's hearing on the Department of Defense information technology, cybersecurity, and information assurance.

Since this subcommittee was formed at the start of the 117th Congress, our members have been eager and encouraged to see the Department of Defense approach its information technologies with a prioritization that has been lacking in the…

There was a 2019 GAO report entitled, and I quote, the title of it was, 'FEMA Action Needed to Better Support Individuals Who Are Older or Have Disabilities.'

I take you up on that offer. I look forward to working with you on that and many other issues.

I want to thank you for being here today and for making integrated equity into everything FEMA does one of your first priorities.

Where are you making these investments?

I think it is a mistake to be abandoning railgun.

I want to thank you for the important work that you are doing leading the Department of Homeland Security.

I just want to say, I think that that decision from the last administration should be reevaluated.

I'm really pleased that both the Columbia- and Virginia-class submarine programs received full funding.

In your testimony regarding LEU research, you indicated that the NNSA is continuing to look at the viability of LEU.

We need to focus heavily on a workforce development especially where we have significant gaps.

The President's budget request included an additional $700 million for the Columbia above the expected fiscal year 2021 estimates due to an updated cost estimate assessment and a program evaluation review.

Just on your question, Ms. Costello, I wasn't clear on the answer. So how much time are we set back by the Air Force One program right now? Is it significant?