I have long maintained, as you probably know, a strong interest in mitigating vulnerabilities in cyberspace.

Has the privatization of the labs contributed to the loss of senior personnel?

Governance, oversight, and management of the nuclear security enterprise to ensure high quality science, engineering, and mission effectiveness in an age of austerity.

This is obviously a vitally important platform, and we need to do everything we need to do to protect that program and keep it strong.

Ranking Member Sanchez and I have agreed to take a hard look at these issues over the next few months.

Let me say that we all need to recognize that, alone, simply moving boxes on an organizational chart isn't going to resolve these problems.

The impetus for the fiscal year 2012 National Defense Authorization's request for this National Academies of Science study was concerned about safety issues.

What pressures, if any, result from a fee-based incentive system?

It is going to take leadership, both within the Administration and up here on Capitol Hill--as well as a consensus on why NNSA's mission is so important.

I would like to say that, alone, simply moving boxes on an organizational chart isn't going to solve these problems.

I firmly believe America is still dangerously vulnerable to a cyber attack against our networks in general and our electric grid in particular.

A number of employees including the unions who provided testimony to the NAS panel, and at least one former lab director, have expressed concern that the private for-profit model is harming the labs in that many senior scientists have…

Mr. Langevin. Mr. Secretary, do you feel confident that the command relationships between 10th Fleet/Fleet Cyber Command, U.S. Cyber Command, and other Service cyber organizations are now adequately clarified?

I have deep reservations about the proposed shift of Virginia class submarine from the fiscal year 2014 out--to outside the FYDP.

Our Nation sits at a crucial moment, where cyber attacks are common but have not yet significantly impacted or endangered the American way of life. We have the opportunity to improve prevention and response to cybersecurity threats, but we…

According to the May 2010 Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness Plan Status Report, the Air Force noted that its Statement of Budgetary Resources audit readiness will be dependent on the deployment of several enterprise resource…

Secretary Hale, thank you for appearing before us today.

How does the Department conduct budgetary oversight of highly classified programs and what will you do to ensure that they do not become black holes on the balance sheets?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I find it thoroughly unconscionable that House Republicans are preventing Congress from working its will by stifling a vote to support a bipartisan Senate compromise to extend unemployment…

I am proud to support the 2012 Intelligence Authorization Act. In particular, this bill includes funding to accelerate implementation of an insider threat detection program and requires best practices implemented in the Army to be reviewed…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1540, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. I would like to begin by thanking Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member Smith, and my subcommittee chairman, Mr…

As a former secretary of state for the State of Rhode Island, and now a Member of the United States Congress, I have serious concerns about this bill. Mr. Speaker, voter participation is the cornerstone of our democracy and a fundamental…

First of all, I want to join with my colleague from Rhode Island, Mr. Cicilline, in extending my condolences to the family of Julius Michaelson, former attorney general of Rhode Island, a dedicated public servant, someone who truly made a…

One of those is, obviously, our fiscal security. Right now, obviously, the Nation is challenged in that we have a weak economy, and we have exceptionally high budget deficits.

The Internet obviously has changed the world in so many ways, not the least of which is our Nation's sense of use it in the military and how it has affected modern warfare.