Hey folks,

thank you for having me.

I might seem like a little bit of an odd duck on this panel with this distinguished panel with operational cybersecurity experts, right? What does the Science Committee do in cybersecurity? We do a lot actually.

We're more on the standards and guidelines and workforce side of the equation, but our committee oversees the National Institute of Standards and Technology, whom you all know.

We oversee the National Science Foundation, OSTP, and we're really focused on a lot of the critical and emerging technologies.

While AI is a very big topic over the last few years, our committee actually passed the first AI bill back in 2020, the National AI Initiative Act of 2020, that created a lot of the intergovernmental structures that are still around today for how we think about AI, how we do R&D development and testing for these programs.

It created the NIST RMF for AI, for example.

Alan? Is that Brad Pitt?