Transcript: Briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities - Open Hearing: April 19, 2023

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1 The scientific community, technical community, is going
2 to look at it through the lens of what is the data telling
3 me, what is the sensor doing, what would I expect a sensor
4 response to be, and back that out.
5 Those two groups give us their answers. We then
6 adjudicate. If they agree then I am more likely to close
7 that case if they agree on what it is. If they disagree we
8 will have an adjudication. We will bring them together. We
9 will take a look at the differences. We will adjudicate why
10 do you say one thing and you say another.
11 We will then come to a case -- a recommendation. That
12 will get written up by my team. That then goes to a senior
13 technical advisory group, which is outside of all of those
14 people made up of senior technical folks and intel analysts
15 and operators from retired, out of the community, and they
16 essentially peer review what that case recommendation is.
17 They write their recommendations. That comes back to
18 me. I review it, we make a determination, and I will sign
19 off one way or the other and then that will go out as the
20 case determination.
21 Once we have an approved web portal to hang the
22 unclassified stuff we will -- we would downgrade and
23 declassify things and put it out there.
24 In the meantime, we are putting a lot of these on our
25 classified web portal where we can then collaborate with the