The luncheon address was provided by Senator Thad Cochran , who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services and the newly created National Security Working Group.

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Creating greatly improved opportunities for real "advice" on the part of the Senate -- in particular via its new National Security Working Group (the successor to the Senate's Arms Control Observer Group), chaired by Senator Cochran -- during the crafting of negotiating positions and the conduct of the negotiations themselves.

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BSIMM3 describes the work of 786 Software Security Group members working with a 1750 additional people to secure the software developed by a total of 185, 316 developers.

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