The false Emergency Alert that occurred in hawaii on januar january 13, 2018. Second, you will consider a second report in order to excuse me, order on recon to enhance the effectiveness of wireless Emergency Alert including improving the geographic accuracy of these alerts. Third you will consider an order addressing the remaining issues raised by parties for the committees order implementing the connect america phase two auction 903 in which Service Providers receive support for up to 1. 98 billion to offer voice and Broadband Service in unserved high cost areas. Fourth, you consider a Public Notice establishing procedures for the connect America Fund Phase ii option which will award up to 1. 98 billion over ten years to Service Providers that commit to offer voice and Broadband Services to fixed locations in unserved high cost areas. This, you consider in order to establish an office of economic and analytics and six you will consider a notice of proposed rulemaking proposing to eli
They have sensors equipped on them so they can detect vibrations. Using vibration detection, you figure out when a bridge is likely to fail and intervene before that happens. This has huge implications. We saw in minnesota the collapse of the bridge there. Recently i10 outside of los angeles. This is a huge problem in the United States. Using connected devices to get realtime information about which bridges, highway structures should be replaced sooner. I pressed the button everyone told me not to press. I press it again. Hows that . The other thing transforming homes. This is really interesting way. People are familiar with the net thermostat. Now net has whole line of devices. They have along with that, my favorite is a, they have a smoke alarm and Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide detector. This is not just a Smoke Detector connected to to the internet. Why does that even matter right . Working together with the rest of your home system, if there is fire detected in your home for e
Right. They are going make this work. When you talk about a broadbase group, theres one or two people that wake up every morning and say that we now have this infrastructure in the city no no one else has. We have a headstart. We have to take advantage of it. Its a resless innovation spirit and if we dont do this, other countries are going to do this. Singapore, correspondence korea. The other thing that im saying [laughs] [inaudible] there are often developers that know how to do this. A question. Yeah, go ahead. Thank you. [applause] we are going to talk about whats actually going on in the service. Joining us is kelly sullivan. We are working together and they did a great job of working with us and putting us together. Let me introduce Kelli Sullivan with the u. S. Postal service. You want to walk around. You want to use this . Were flexible. We can do whatever you want. We are here to make you happy. Thats my job. All of you are customers. Good morning. So we were having a conversa
Counsel of the department of Homeland Security commented on the fact Homeland Security is a discipline and we see this in our law schools and undergraduate schools around the country were Homeland Security is taught today and we will be holding not on a penal josh will be moderating later. Celebrations and anniversaries come in 10 year intervals. Youre part of History Today with this 10th year program. The program really had its genesis to serving the general counsels office many years ago. So it is only appropriate today introduced the keynote speaker who is the current general counsel of the department of Homeland Security. The bible is the current general counsel and has served with distinction they are the last many years. Hes the chief legal officer of the department of Homeland Security and see if i lost track of how Many Employers you actually supervise, but it is probably somewhere in the vicinity of 1800 lawyers. I recall as many as 600 lawyers are sure the wash d. C. Area. I
Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent the travel of the foreign terrorist fighters the secretary r