SILVERADO NEWS

CYBERSECURITY: Silverado’s Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch participated as a panelist at the 2022 International Conference on Cyber Security.

TRADE & INDUSTRIAL SECURITY: Silverado’s Executive Director Sarah Stewart participated as a panelist at a National Security Institute-hosted discussion on how to protect American supply chains.

ECO²SEC: Silverado’s Deputy Director Adina Renee Adler moderated a US-PECC Policy Forum panel session on how the U.S. can leverage its chairmanship of APEC in 2023 and its leadership role in advancing the IPEF to promote and inclusive trade agenda in the Indo-Pacific region.

GEOPOLITICS: In a new episode of the Geopolitics Decanted podcast, Silverado’s Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch speaks with Retired UK Air Marshall Greg Bagwell, former Deputy Commander of Operations at RAF Air Command, about how the West can overcome training, logistical, transportation, maintenance, repair and other challenges to provide Ukraine modern aircraft platforms such as F-16s.

Here’s what caught our eye this week:

KEY ADMINISTRATION ACTIONS

The White House:

• FACT SHEET: National Cyber Workforce and Education Summit
• FACT SHEET: President Biden’s Executive Actions on Climate to Address Extreme Heat and Boost Offshore Wind

Department of Commerce:

• Statement from Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Samsung’s Potential $200 Billion Investment in U.S. Chipmaking
• Secretary Blinken and Secretary Raimondo Co-Host Supply Chain Ministerial and Stakeholder Forum
• Supply Chain Ministerial Forum Joint Statement on Cooperation on Global Supply Chains

Department of the Treasury:

• Statement by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on Debt Service Relief by Group of Creditors of Ukraine

Department of Justice:

• Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco Delivers Keynote Address at International Conference on Cyber Security 2022

Department of Energy:

• DOE Announces $96 Million for Advancing Clean Vehicle Technologies to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Department of State:

• Remarks: Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at a Virtual Supply Chain Ministerial Forum
• Readout: Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Ukraine’s First Lady Zelenska

Export-Import Bank of the United States:

• EXIM President and Chair Reta Jo Lewis Visits Singapore; Highlights EXIM Support for Clean Energy with U.S. Energy Secretary Granholm and Singapore Second Minister of Trade and Industry Tan See Leng

CONGRESSIONAL ACTION

Senate Finance Committee:

• Upcoming Hearing: Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Douglas J. McKalip to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the United States Trade Representative, with the Rank of Ambassador

Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs:

• Portman, Hassan Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Prepare for Quantum Cybersecurity Risks & Strengthen National Security

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission:

• Upcoming Hearing: Challenges from Chinese Policy in 2022: Zero-COVID, Ukraine, and Pacific Diplomacy

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Chairman Schiff, Ranking Member Turner Laud Passage of 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act

Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

• Menendez, Rubio Bill to Boost U.S. Security Engagement in Western Hemisphere Advances
• Upcoming Hearing: U.S. National Security and Economic Statecraft: Ensuring U.S. Global Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

House Foreign Affairs Committee:

• Upcoming Hearing: Countering Gray Zone Coercion in the Indo-Pacific
• Postponed Hearing: Accountability for Atrocity Crimes Committed by Russia in Ukraine
• Hearing: Assessing the U.S. Economic Policy Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
• Hearing: Russia in the Western Hemisphere: Assessing Putin’s Malign Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee:

• Senate Takes Decisive Action to Advance United States Leadership in Tech Innovation
• View the CHIPS+ Legislation

House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology:

• Upcoming Hearing: Exploring Cyber Space: Cybersecurity Issues for Civil and Commercial Space Systems

Senate Committee on Armed Services:

• Reed and Inhofe File Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act