Thank you, Chair, and thank you, General Beare, and General Loos.
In the eighties when I was at graduate school, I had the opportunity to participate in a discussion on combat readiness in the north Pacific. This was before the new age of cyberspace and these very high-tech communications links now.
What I'd like to know is, in our ability to defend our sovereignty as well as our geography in the North Pacific, do we have coverage in our cyber capability to maintain a division of the geography and the coastline, as well as the ability to communicate with our assets on the ocean and on the ground?
Let me put some specific samples in place. What happens if there's another Exxon Valdez type of oil spill? How do we respond to it? Are we ready for the next potential rogue state firing a missile from North Korea or are we ready to respond to a zone 3 earthquake off the ocean coast, thereby creating a tsunami through the Pacific north coast? Perhaps you can share your thoughts with us on that.