I continue to be concerned about the overall strength and size of the Nation's cybersecurity workforce.

I am encouraged by the clear bipartisan support in the Senate for a full and fair debate on meaningful ways to reduce gun violence in our country. Having experienced a gun accident myself that left me paralyzed more than 30 years ago, I…

as we negotiate these challenging budgetary times, we must attempt to preserve the investments needed to succeed in the future

General, are you confident in the ability of our networks, sensors, and datalinks to operate in the complex cyber and electromagnetic environment likely to be a part of any future anti-access/area denial battlespace, and are you satisfied…

I'd like to touch on a couple operational aspects to anti-access area denial environments.

General, given how sensitive many aspects of cyber operations are, in your view, are we doing enough to ensure we are able to share information and operate jointly with our allies, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, at least to the…

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?

The most important action we can take to provide for the long term health and prosperity of our nation is getting people back to work, and ensuring that those who are employed, stay employed. This can only be done by enacting a budget that…

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

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 thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill, H.R. 803, the SKILLS Act. Mr. Speaker, this is the time to be investing in workforce development programs, not slashing them…

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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