Your testimony arrives at an inflection point for how the Department of Defense fights, decides and wins. This hearing is fundamentally about war fighting. The digital backbone of the Department of Defense is no longer a support function. It is a weapons system. Our tanks, ships, aircraft and ground forces depend on connected, resilient and secure networks to operate at the speed and precision across vast distances. (00:26–00:34)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Department of Defense's digital infrastructure is considered a weapons system.
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