1997年国会听证会情报和安全
1997年国会听证会Today, the subcommittees on Military Procurement and Research and Development meet jointly to receive testimony from the Department of Defense on the DoD�s policy and programs for establishing and maintaining information superiority by U.S. armed forces on the 21 st Century battlefield and in the supporting Department of Defense infrastructure, implementation of these programs by the military departments and defense agencies, and measures being taken by the Department to protect the defense information infrastructure.
信息时代已经来临。迅速发展的信息化技术和竞争日益激烈的全球环境已经推进到信息社会，政府，和战争舞台的中心，随着我们接近21世纪的开始。沙漠风暴行动强调美国军队对信息化技术的日益依赖，战场情报，规划，机动，火力，指挥和控制，物流这些技术的力量。在总结经验教训的冲突和信息系统和信息技术的进一步发展都造成由各军种增加这些技术的应用。
信息化，信息化技术已经成为普遍和影响军事行动的各个方面。事实上，它们会影响我们国家生活的各个方面。信息已成为一种战略资源，对国家安全至关重要。越来越多的复杂的信息系统被集成到传统的军事操作学科如流动性，物流，命令，控制，通信和情报。但是，集成是很简单日益一体化的信息和信息技术进入美国国内和国际环境的反映。的信息的每一口与其中的数据可以被传递和处理的效率越来越低的成本使利用信息技术高效的并作为信息系统的功能扩展到用户的空前数量的成本效益。Broad access to, and use of, these information systems enhances military operations and is a key �enabler� in the potential military technical revolution that we began to see in the Persian Gulf War.
在我们的军队信息和信息技术在美国国防部和我们国家生活中的应用和配套基础设施建设带来了巨大的能力。但是，它也造成潜在的严重漏洞，作为国家权力的军事和其他元素变得越来越依赖于信息系统和信息功能。漏洞可能被对手一心要破坏美国的军事能力或破坏美国国家生命攻击者通过攻击信息基础设施，关系这个国家一起。It is both the promise of information technology and how we shall use it as a key �enabler� to achieve and maintain superiority on future battlefields, and the vulnerabilities that the use of information and information technology bring and how we plan to protect ourselves from these vulnerabilities that are the focus of today�s joint hearing.
Today�s hearing will be conducted as a series of panels. The first panel will address the DoD�s policy and programs for establishing and maintaining information superiority on the 21 st Century battlefield and in the supporting defense information infrastructure. The second panel will discuss the implementation of these programs by the military services and how the military services are applying information technology on the battlefield. Panel 3 will review the results of the recently completed Defense Science Board Task Force on Information Warfare-Defense. We�ll then invite all the witnesses back to the table for the question and answer period.