Brought to you today by your television provider. Our moderator today is col. Andy heard, retired air force. Is a special assistant. Integrates University Departments to expand expeditionary opportunities to students. So that you a learn what its like to travel abroad and to lead abroad. He is done a tremendous amount of things here at the university of part of that has to do with him being station here for rotc but also for his folks and helping each one of you become better leaders. Also leading here today as a moderate of this panel. I can spend a lot of time reading about some incredible things that he is done but it will keep it short. As i mentioned, is a retired United States air force, he went to the academy and at the university of north carolina. His military career include three commands, for those of you who will be aviators, 6000 flying hours and combat missions and informal conflicts. Lets welcome the col. [applause]. Peter thank you for attending this writers symposium.
Reauthorization act of 2018. In this portion of the hearing, Committee Members hear testimony from deputy faa administrator, among others. From september this runs about 3 1 2 hours. Good morning. I want to thank the witnesses for joining the hearing on the implementation of faa authorization act of 2018. One year ago this committee wrote comprehensive Bipartisan Legislation to raise the bar on aviation safety, improve the flying experience for the flying public, better prepare and diversify the aviation workforce and foster innovation in the usair space. Todays hearing is a critical milestone in the subcommittees oversight work to ensure the timely implementation of the law in accordance with our intent and to address new challenges. Although the faa has made some progress on fulfilling the laws directives, ongoing implementation delays threaten the important work needed to advance u. S. Aviation and aerospace and maintain our global leadership. Our first panel of witnesses are dan el
What that means now in the policy and the security space. Im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Weve got heather conley, our vice president. We have john. We have sara glasser, the Deputy Director of secure fisheries and amy lair, the director of our human rights initiative. Thank you to the panel, and im going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and well start off with heather. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about that intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways the arctic is telling us, actually, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming two to three times faster than any place on the planet. And in many ways we are now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact, our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it in part bec
Good morning. And i want to thank the witnesses for joining todays hearing on the implementation of the faa reauthorization act of 2018. One year ago, this committee wrote comprehensive Bipartisan Legislation to raise the bar on aviation safety, improve the flying experience for the traveling public, better prepare and diversify the aviation workforce and foster innovation in the u. S. Airspace. Todays hearing is a critical milestone in the subcommittees oversight work to ensure the timely implementation of the law in accordance with our intent and to address new challenges. Although the faa has made some progress on fulfilling the laws directives, ongoing implementation delays threaten the important work needed to advance u. S. Aviation and aerospace and maintain our global leadership. Our first panel of witnesses are dan ellwell, faas deputy administrator and joel savat. Mr. Elwell and zavt, i expect your testimony administrations efforts to swiftly implement last years law. I would
Hes done a tremendous amount of things here and part of that has to do with him being stationed here and also for his hopes in helping each one of you to become better leaders and also today being the moderator of the panel. I could spend a lot of time reading about the incredible things hes done but i will keep it short. He is retired United States air force and went to the air force academy and university of north carolina. The Courier Logistics and airlift included three commands and for those that will be aviators, 6,000 flying hours in combat missions. [applause] thank you for attending the university military writers Symposium Panel at the 21st century future battlegrounds you and i are very privileged today at the peace and war center and organizefor center andorganizede with experts of the 21st century conflict. The experts on the panel are global thought leaders intimate with the battle both in planning and direct action. From their professional experience yours is to develop