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2008 Congressional Hearings

September

The Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee will meet to hear testimony on Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida and the Way Ahead.
September 18, 2008 - House Armed Services Committee - Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee

• Subcommittee Chairman Smith's Opening Statement
• Dr. Seth Jones, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation Author of How Terrorist Groups End and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
• Dr. Michael Scheuer, Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Author of Through Our Enemies' Eyes, Imperial Hubris and Marching Toward Hell
• Dr. John Arquilla, Professor, Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Author of Worst Enemy: The Reluctant Transformation of the American Military

July

The full committee will meet to hear testimony on Implications of the Supreme Court's Boumediene Decision for Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Administration Perspectives.
July 31, 2008 - House Armed Services Committee

• Mr. Daniel Dell'Orto, Acting General Counsel, Department of Defense
• Mr. Greg Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice
• Colonel Steve David, Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions, Department of the Army
• Ms. Sandra Hodgkinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs, Department of Defense

The full committee will meet to hear testimony on Implications of the Supreme Court's Boumediene Decision for Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Non-governmental Perspective.
July 30, 2008 - House Armed Services Committee

• Chairman Skelton's Opening Statement
• Mr. Stephen Oleskey, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
• Mr. Neal K. Katyal, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School
• Mr. Richard Klingler, Former Senior Associate Counsel to the President, National Security Council General Counsel and Legal Advisor
• Colonel Morris Davis, USAF, Former Chief Prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, Department of Defense

April

The Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee joint with the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education of the Science and Technology Committee will meet to hear testimony on role of the social and behavioral sciences in national security.
April 24, 2008 - House Armed Services Committee - Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education

• Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Smith's Opening Statement
• Research Subcommittee Chairman Baird's Opening Statement
• Colonel Martin Schweitzer, Commander, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg
• Dr. André van Tilborg, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Science and Technology), Department of Defense
• Dr. Mark Weiss, Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation
• Dr. David R. Segal, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland

The Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee will meet to hear testimony on the Holistic Approaches to Cybersecurity Enabling Network Centric Operations.
April 1, 2008 - House Armed Services Committee - Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee

• Subcommittee Chairman Smith's Opening Statement
• Dr. Seymour Goodman, Chair, National Research Council Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the U.S.
• Dr. James Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Mr. Franklin Kramer, Distinguished Research Fellow, Center for Technology and National Security Policy

March

Fiscal Year 2009 National Defense Authorization Budget Request - Department of Defense Science and Technology: Responding to the 21st Century Irregular Warfare Threat Environment.
March 13, 2008 - House Armed Services Committee - Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee

• Subcommittee Chairman Smith's Opening Statement
• Mr. Allan Shaffer, Principle Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense
• Dr. Thomas H. Killion, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology
• Rear Admiral William Landay III, USN, Chief of Naval Research
• Mr. Terry Jaggers, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition
• Dr. Anthony J. Tether, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Fiscal Year 2009 National Defense Authorization Act Budget Request from U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Northern Command.
March 5, 2008 - House Armed Services Committee - Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee

• Subcommittee Chairman Smith's Opening Statement
• Admiral Eric Olson, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
• General Victor E. Renuart Jr., Commander, NORAD/U.S. Northern Command