Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4322-1011212227-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:20:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12579 invoked by uid 510); 16 Jan 2002 20:17:14 -0000 Received: from n11.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.61) by all.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 20:17:14 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4322-1011212227-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.191] by n11.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Jan 2002 20:17:07 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 16 Jan 2002 20:17:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 41376 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 20:17:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Jan 2002 20:17:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.98) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 20:17:06 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g0GKIJ829849 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:18:19 -0800 Message-Id: <200201162018.g0GKIJ829849@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:18:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Thornberry.Renews.Call.For.Transformed.National.Security.Infrastr.ucture] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit InsideDefense.com January 15, 2002 Thornberry Renews Call For Transformed National Security Infrastructure The government must retool the bureaucracy that has delayed the urgently needed transformation of the national security infrastructure, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) said today. "The most important requirement for transformation is not systems or new technology," he said at a Precision Strike Association forum in Arlington, VA. "It's new thinking." Acknowledging that "change is hard," Thornberry said a new outlook is needed before it is "too late to overcome the natural bureaucratic resistance to change and the protection of self-interest that goes with [the Defense Department], Congress, and industry." Citing renowned nuclear physicist Edward Teller, Thornberry said, "Technology develops much more rapidly than the human mind accepts new ideas." While the theme of the event was the transformation of military capabilities, Thornberry focused his remarks on "overcoming the bureaucratic resistance to change" by modernizing and updating the organization of all departments and government agencies to reflect a new national security model. "We entered this war with a national security structure set up more than half a century ago in the National Security Act of 1947," he said. "The structure of the State Department, Defense Department and intelligence agencies were all designed for the Cold War." The congressman cited the Hart-Rudman Commission's contention that "serious deficiencies exist that only a significant organizational redesign can remedy." The panel, known formally as the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, last year recommended creating a new Cabinet-level department for homeland security and combining agencies responsible for border security, cyber-terrorism and emergency response. Last March, Thornberry introduced a bill designed to integrate those capabilities. He said today he hopes the idea will be part of the president's fiscal year 2003 budget request. The Bush administration considered the Hart-Rudman proposal but decided instead to set up an Office of Homeland Security in the White House, led by Tom Ridge. Thornberry also advocates revising Pentagon personnel policies to target key technological skills, protect innovators and promote technology specialists, and reforming the processes by which the government develops and fields new weapon systems. -- Emily Hsu ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Secure all your Web servers now - with a proven 5-part strategy. The FREE Server Security Guide shows you how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/uCuuSA/VdiDAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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