Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be determined, whats the best practices and how of this is an it investment versus Homeland Security grant. Id have to go back and ask. Our role is funding states i met with a big city Emergency Managers a couple of weeks ago. This is at the top of their list. They were talking about what to do during communications in an emergency. We said what would happen if communication went out and they said thats our earthquake plan. We get our units to go out and start patrolling the area. If the center cant
Coming up today, a discussion about the humanitarian situation in libya. You can watch the panel live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. And then live at 1 15, National Security advisor susan rice will give a keynote address. Shes expected to talk about the link between trade and exports and National Security. This saturday is the 2015 White House Correspondents Association annual dinner. Watch our live coverage starting at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. President obama will address the more than 2600 attendees in the ballroom. This years entertainment is from saturday night live. Saturday starting at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Next a Senate Homeland security hearing on u. S. Northern border threats and security. They discuss challenges such as unaccompanied minors and illegal immigrants. This is two and a half hours. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. Senator carper is on his way and his staff informed me that we could get underway here. I would like to without objection enter my opening comm
Liaisons situated and physically present at each of our different targeting centers to be able to facilitate that exchange of that information. We also do a lot of what we call rules sharing or joint rule creation where as we sift through the reservation data and airline information, we create rules on what were looking for what we would consider to be activity we would want to look closer at and sit down with the canadian government and come up with giantjoint rules between the two of us so we can go through on an north american approach on how to do that. I will submit questions i have for the cbp regarding racial profiling racial profiling, specifically Excessive Force issues which looks like i wont have time to ask here but i would like to submit them and get those responses. But the last question i really want to ask is just, again the resources were applying to the challenges. And you all, again are exhibiting extraordinary leadership and commitment in our canadian partners, extr
Done whatever good i did do, i would have done less well if i hadnt been here. Thank you. This is from dorea a sophomore in the college. Sort of two pronged. Where do you see this generation of young adults going in in what way is our path going to be dirnt than before . What has happened in technology to this day, it will look like childs play. Over the next 20 to 30 years. I think most of you will live to be 90 years old or more, unless some accident where you have an environmentally caused cancer we dont know how to treat yet. I think that you will live in a time where the technological revolution will extend into Artificial Intelligence and well be able to do things weve never been able to do before. I think the combination of Nano Technology and improvements and the continueing of the genome will lead us to have affordable four times a year health exam that will basically involve going into a canister and being scanned and i think one of the biggest debates in Medicine Within 20 y
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