Half. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. To those oflcome you who are watching online and to viewers on cspan. I am seth cropsey. A senior fellow here at hudson. Welcome to our conference on chinas recent actions that aim to establish their own order in the Taiwan Strait. As you will hear in greater detail from our panel this morning, china unilaterally changed the status quo of aviation routes in the taiwan week of thee first share. Changes were made despite agreements between taiwan and china that were reached in 2008 in 2015. And again consultationd any change in aviation routes. Is part of an larger, brighter pattern of chinese revocation in the region. Broader pattern of chinese revocation in the region. China had a ship go our. During chinese jets have circled taiwan nearly wants per month. The is consistent with chinese policy that seeks to enjoy the benefits of an International World order for the purpose of replacing out world order with one of their own making. For example, c
Well get started. Good morning, everyone. Today represents our second dialogue for 2017and we look forward to welcome you all back for additional events throughout the year. We would also like to thank in a special way, Lockheed Martin and huntington engles in make thanksgiving series possible. Before we get underway, for big events like this, just a brief announcement, safety announcement. We dont expect any difficulties, but should there be anything as convenor, make sure you know, we have exits here in the back on both sides and downstairs down the front and both myself and anthony bell in the back will be your responsible officers to direct you in the right way, just in case anything should ome up, look for one of us. So for our formal introduction to get us started, i will turn over to vice admiral peter daily, retired, chief executive officer of the u. S. Naval institute, were happy to have him here and partner with s i. Okay, welcome, those who dont know me, pete daily, ceo nava
In order to ensure each can deliver two ships per year. Today the lcs program is on budget and blows the congressional gao to actually read the gao report which is not a friendly one. They conclude cost isnt the issue. Strategically, what are we talking about . Why do war fighters keep asking for it . It is not only an ideal platform from which to employ Unmanned Systems to increase important in the future, it can go places tanker ships cant. The commander of logistics in the western pacific said they can go places and do things no other american ships can with flexible large payloads that enable easy integration with Regional Navy for mandatory missions. There are 50,000 islands across the philippines to sri lanka. Larger ships can visit 50 ports, the lcs can darken 1000 ports. Admiral harris was invoked, in a meeting with chairman thornberry, myself and many members of the delegation who had to leave for no fault of your own told us the lcs is playing an increasing role in the pacifi
Special way Lockheed Martin and Huntington Ingalls industries for their support in making this series possible. Before we get underway, wed also like to make just a brief announcement. We dont expect any difficulties, but should there be anything, we just want to make sure you know weve got some exits right here in the back on both sides and stairs down the front. The chief executive officer of the naval lockheed hard tmartin. He holds degrees from George Washington university and a Naval Nuclear engineering degree from mit. There a Major Program manager for Aircraft Carriers and Program Executive officer for submarines, peo subs. Finally, last year in june, tom moore assumed command as the 44th commander at fc. I point out theres over 75,000 uniformed and civilian employees of nafc. They are responsible for all the super vising of navy ship and submarine shipbuilding and responsible for the maintenance and the systems that go on those ships directly. So we welcome admiral tom moore wh
Will the guests please rise and arrival. Anding for the military honors for the president of the United States, our National Anthem, in the invocation. Forelcome the band assisting us today. Ladies and gentlemen, our platform guests. Ms. Mary baldwin. Greg willard, white house staff assistant to president ford and commissioning committee cochairman. Mr. Byron cavaney, commissioning committee cochairman. Mr. Douglas devos, committee cochairman. From Huntington Ingalls shipbuilding, mr. Matthew mulherin and, who most recently served as president of newport news shipbuilding. Rear admiral bruce lindsey, United States navy, commander, and Naval Air Forces atlantic. Rear admiral brian antonio, United States navy, Program Executive officer, Aircraft Carriers. Vice admiral thomas moore, United States navy, commander, naval seas shipments command. Vice admiral michael shoemaker, United States navy, commander, Naval Air Forces. Admiral frank caldwell, United States navy, director, Naval Nuclear