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

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1 Senator Ernst: Thank you. I appreciate that and that
2 is why it is so important that you are working with the
3 intelligence community as well because you have the science,
4 the data background, but you also need to know from various
5 sources what adversaries may be working on, correct?
6 Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you,
7 Madam Chair.
8 Senator Gillibrand: Senator Rosen?
9 Senator Rosen: Well, thank you, Chair Gillibrand,
10 Ranking Member Ernst. This is a really important hearing.
11 I would like to thank you, Dr. Kirkpatrick, for your
12 service to the country and as a former systems analyst
13 myself I really appreciate your flowchart, the description
14 of the process, and particularly the trends analysis, going
15 forward, how that is going to help us and you talked about
16 language, the large LLMs -- the large language models of
17 artificial intelligence. That is really going to help us in
18 the hunt forward, predictive analysis, I think, to some of
19 your point what we worry about.
20 But I want to focus on Nevada because I want to talk
21 about the impact of UAPs on aviation safety. So when it
22 comes to unidentified aerial phenomenal -- phenomena, excuse
23 me -- one of my first concerns is really about the safety of
24 Nevada's military aviator.
25 So we have airmen stationed at Nellis Air Force Base,