00:00I now recognize the ranking member, the gentleman from California, Mrs. Swalwell, for his opening statement.
00:05Thank you, Chairman.
00:07And, Chairman, that was an elegant, impactful, artful statement, but you buried the lead.
00:15Our Chairman of the subcommittee has been selected by his colleagues to be the Chairman of the full committee
00:22with the resignation of Chairman Green, effective earlier this week.
00:28So, congratulations.
00:29I'm excited for what that means for the full committee.
00:33You and I have worked quite well over the last three years on this committee,
00:37especially to take on our cyber challenges.
00:40And to have somebody at the full committee with your cyber knowledge and expertise
00:46as our cyber threats are only escalating and AI has made that even more challenging
00:53and the threat of quantum computing and what that means for cryptology,
00:56you're the right person to help lead the committee to do that.
01:01So, looking forward to working with you.
01:02And I think I speak on behalf of my colleagues that we congratulate you on that win.
01:07Earlier this summer, Chairman Mark Green and I went out to my congressional district
01:14and visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
01:17And committee staff from both sides were there as well.
01:21As you know, Lawrence Livermore National Lab is the nation's premier research and development facility.
01:26It attracts the best and brightest minds from around the world
01:29and helps keep the United States on the cutting edge of innovation,
01:32particularly related to national security technologies.
01:35Lawrence Livermore and our national labs are indispensable partners in our national effort to defend cyberspace,
01:41keeping their finger on the pulse of our adversaries' tactics and motivations
01:44while helping to develop novel technologies to detect and disrupt malicious cyber campaigns.
01:51We saw Lawrence Livermore works firsthand.
01:54And it's critical to national efforts to secure critical infrastructure our constituents rely on every day
01:58and the operational technology that underpins it.
02:02The lab's work is paying off dividends,
02:05especially related to the Chinese threat actors like Volt Typhoon.
02:08And I'm pleased that the lab today, through Dr. Gleason's testimony,
02:12will talk about its important work.
02:14Notably, the lab is a key partner in CISA's Cyber Sentry Program,
02:18which places sensors on private sector networks on a voluntary basis to monitor for and detect cyber threats.
02:25The lab contextualizes data from the Cyber Sentry Program with other intelligence feeds,
02:31generates unique insights into malicious cyber activity,
02:34and provides network defenders the know-how to kick out the adversaries.
02:38The knowledge derived through the lab's work benefits programs and activities across CISA,
02:44and I'm eager to learn how Lawrence Livermore and the national lab community
02:48can continue to support federal efforts to better secure operational technology.
02:53Additionally, I'm interested to learn how other programs at sector risk management agencies and CISA,
02:59like the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, JCDC,
03:02support efforts to mature our collective approach to security.
03:06It's incumbent on the federal government to collaborate with its private sector partners
03:10to bring security resources to bear to these under-resourced sectors.
03:15Also, at this point, I want to just remind the committee and the public
03:20that CISA can only function when it is fully staffed.
03:25It should not be free from reforms, but currently it has lost approximately 1,000 employees
03:32since the doge cuts began to take place.
03:35That affects its ability to work with the private sector and be responsive.
03:39Fewer brains and reduced funding means less capability, less capacity, and less collaboration,
03:45which is detrimental to ongoing efforts to mature operational technology security programs.
03:49And also, I'd like to reiterate my strong support for the reauthorization of the other CISA, CISA 2015.
03:57Stakeholders have referred to CISA 2015 as the most successful cyber law ever passed,
04:02and I was a part of writing it and passing it in 2015 as a member of both this committee
04:07and the House Intelligence Committee.
04:09We cannot allow this critical authority to lapse.
04:11Toward that end, I was pleased to see a clean 10-year extension
04:14included in the Senate Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026.
04:19It sends a clear message to our partners and our adversaries
04:22that cybersecurity continues to be a bipartisan priority in Congress.
04:27I look forward to working with my House colleagues to provide non-federal stakeholders
04:31the certainty they need to continue their strategic collaboration with the government
04:35by passing a clean authorization before it lapses later this fall.
04:40With that, I yield back.
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