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DOD Officials Testify Concerning Emerging Threats and Capabilities

  • Defense.gov
  • Feb. 11, 2020 | 01:02:02

Al Shaffer, the deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and acting assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs; Theresa Whelan, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security; Navy Vice Adm. Timothy G. Szymanski, deputy commander of U.S. Special Operations Command; and Vayl Oxford, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, testify at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on intelligence and emerging threats and capabilities titled “Reviewing Department of Defense Strategy, Policy and Programs for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction for Fiscal Year 2021,” Feb. 11, 2020.