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Cyber Warfare & AI: The Future of U.S. Army Strategy
Feb 4, 2025
We discuss the evolving threats to U.S. cybersecurity and the Army's strategy to counteract them, highlighting the importance of AI and collaboration with innovators. Discover how the Army can lead in cyber defense and offensive capabilities in this crucial discussion. #CyberWarfare #ArmyStrategy #AIFuture #USNationalDefense #Cybersecurity #InnovationInDefense #SiliconValley #TechPartnerships #MilitaryInnovation #CybserThreats
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I've said um that the United States
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military is the greatest civil rights
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organization in the history of the world
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what do you think about that my
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experience Senator is the exact same yes
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having served in the Air Force that's
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been my experience and so I do
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appreciate that Senator
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Peters thank you uh Mr chairman Mr Mr
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rcll congratulations uh on your
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nomination to serve as the secretary of
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the army and and I want to thank you uh
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for your Serv to our nation as well as
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uh thank you for the time that we spent
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in my office earlier we addressed a
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number of concerns and I think it had a
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very u a very fruitful discussion so I
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appreciate that um as you know senior
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officials and combatant commands have
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testified before this committee uh on
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the severe threat that's posed by PRC
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sponsored cyber actors the threat is
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evidenced by the salt typhoon the recent
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infiltration of us telecommunication
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companies
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that left civilians uh service members
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and installations vulnerable to these
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attacks the attack is part of a broader
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pattern of PRC cyber aggression
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targeting uh us infrastructure uh across
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the country the US Army plays a critical
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role in deterring these threats uh
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through defensive cyber operations
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through intelligence uh integration with
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us cyber command uh as well to protect
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uh us so my question for you sir is do
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you agree with the Army's current cyber
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strategy um Senator I think the Cyber
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threat to this country I was actually um
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beside the um one of our elected
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officials when we found out our phones
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were hacked and I was reflecting with
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them that all that we do to protect our
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information and keep it classified if
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things like our Verizon cell phone
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network are um going to be compromised
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we have to think through a lot of the
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ways that we've designed our information
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Protection Systems um I cyber With The
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Changes occurring with Quantum computing
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the changes with generative AI these are
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fundamentally going to alter how
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soldiers fight Wars how information is
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exchanged on the battlefield how we
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prepare and then the kind of gry Zone
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activities that our peers like China are
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able to do through cyber are scary I
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have not received a formal brief but my
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understanding is that the Army actually
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is taking steps in the right direction I
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look forward to learning more and
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working with your office as I know this
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is close to your heart to make the Army
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as effective as it can both on offense
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and defense and cyber so it say
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specifically about the strategy because
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certainly we're in total agreement with
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the statement that you made but as far
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as the strategy that the Army is using
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now I mean what what's your assessment
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and would you uh change anything uh to
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support operations with what you know of
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the strategy now my understanding now uh
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Senator is that our offensive
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capabilities um are um perhaps not where
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they should be and I think our um
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adversaries are being much more
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aggressive with us than we are with them
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and I would want to take a deep look at
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that the intelligence systems play a
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pivotal role uh in informing Commander
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decisions and the adoption of AI is
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changing that
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dramatically uh question to you is about
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the AI implementation strategy that the
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Army currently has uh do you have any
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changes or do you believe the Army is
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adequately uh evaluating uh this threat
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and uh adapting accordingly um Senator
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that my understanding of how AI
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implementation is occurring is that it
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is siloed right now um I think that this
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is the type of work that should occur
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across to different um uh Services U our
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lessons learned for the Army will apply
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to the Air Force and apply the Navy and
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so I think we need to be focusing on
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this AI threat because the the speed and
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the pace of the uh the growth here is
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unbelievable I don't know if you read
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the article about the Chinese startup
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that basically was able to I think it
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was between $4 and10 million one one
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10,000th of the cost or 1 1,000th of the
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cost of what some of our American
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companies were able to develop six-month
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trailing it is not going to be the the
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pacing and the timeline on this is not
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going to allow us to be slow and so
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we're going to need to be at the front
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curve of it so that leaves the question
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that how do we stay at that front curve
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because you're right things are changing
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dramatically uh traditionally the army
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or any of the services uh innovation has
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not moved as quickly as that has in the
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civilian side and civilian side
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innovation's only accelerating including
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our adversaries as you mentioned so how
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would you engage uh with small
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businesses and other innovators to uh to
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shake up the procurement process and
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make sure we're on the Forefront of uh
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AI uh development for example um I'm
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optimistic Senator I think um from from
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what I've seen since um being the
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president's nominee we have had a lot of
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interest from Silicon Valley and other
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places in the country for innovators at
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small companies medium companies and
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some of the big ones that want to get in
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the game on behalf of our country I
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think having very deliberate
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conversations with them about how do we
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get into their R&D pipeline how do we
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partner with them early on so as they're
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training these models the Army as I
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understand it today is getting access to
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these models once they go public China
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and our other threats are also getting
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access to those models there's no reason
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that um from my understanding we
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couldn't be getting access early
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and so instead of having a six-month
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lead perhaps there are ways we could
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have a 9 or 12 month lead on these
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things um and so I think those
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conversations could be important and I
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would look forward to working with your
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office to have them great thank you
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thank you Mr chairman thank you Senator
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Peter senator
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