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

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1 state of the art in development across the S&T community.
2 What is -- what are the DARPAs of the world doing? What are
3 our -- what is the horizon scanning of emerging technologies
4 appropriate to this subcommittee?
5 What is happening out there, and if somebody could
6 accelerate that capability how would that manifest itself
7 and what would it look like and do those signatures match
8 what we are seeing?
9 There are emerging capabilities out there that in many
10 instances Russia and China -- well, China in particular are
11 on par or ahead of us in some areas.
12 So previously I used to be the Defense Department's
13 intelligence officer for science and technical intelligence.
14 That was our job was to look for what does all that look
15 like. And then my last several years, of course, in Space
16 Command doing space.
17 The adversary is not waiting. They are advancing and
18 they are advancing quickly. If I were to put on some of my
19 old hats I would tell you they are less risk averse at
20 technical advancement than we are. They are just willing to
21 try things and see if it works.
22 Are there capabilities that could be employed against
23 us in both and ISR and a weapons fashion? Absolutely. Do I
24 have evidence that they are doing it in these cases? No,
25 but I have concerning indicators.