Eastern. Next, representatives from the faa and the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration join two assistant transportation secretaries to talk about new technology and government regulation. The Transportation Research board hosted this event. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. I hope youre all doing very well today. We are all very much excited to be here with you. On behalf of secretary elaine chao. To present to you on laying the foundation for advanced Transportation Technology. Ill let our panelists introduce themselves in a moment. We want to let you know we appreciate you. Youre a critical audience for us representing researchers and thinking that goes into laying the foundation for a lot of tho these advanced transportation technologies. Trv is a fantastic event. People who attend trv tend to be a wonkier crowd. Understand what were saying more times than not. Hearing from you helps inform everything were doing. Were very much looking forward to this panel today. W
In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t
Exception of bloomberg who has not cited that as a reason but why are all these other candidates coming to New Hampshire . Watch sunday night at 8 pm eastern on spans two and a. Next, representatives from the faa and the national highway tree Traffic Safety administration join two assistant transportation secretaries to discuss new technology and government regulation. The Transportation Research board hosted this advent. I hope you are doing well today. We are all very much excited to be with you. On behalf of u. S. Lingered. A little careless introduce themselves human just we do know we appreciate how much it ought you taking the time to be here with you today or to be with us today, youre a critical audience for us us, representing the researchers, for advanced transportation, trv is an fantastic event. You tend to be a lot of people that understand what were saying more times than not and hearing from you helps to inform everything were doing. We appreciate everyone who came to th
I hope you are doing well today. We are all very much excited to be with you. On behalf of u. S. Lingered. A little careless introduce themselves human just we do know we appreciate how much it ought you taking the time to be here with you today or to be with us today, youre a critical audience for us us, representing the researchers, for advanced transportation, trv is an fantastic event. You tend to be a lot of people that understand what were saying more times than not and hearing from you helps to inform everything were doing. We appreciate everyone who came to the Human Trafficking panel earlier today. With safety being a top priority its something we need to take action on here and now. We look forward to you coming back later today. Well be talking about the secretarys top priority, to engage with these Innovative Technologies to ensure, to foster innovation while ensuring that the publics legitimate concerns over safety, security and privacy are kept on the forefront. My name i
Coronas outbreak and the federal government coronavirus outbreak in the federal governments preparedness. And the federal governments preparedness. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you, secretary azar, for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated, but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. I think you will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget. My first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully, that will be the case again this time. But you propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the Health Care Workforces and preparedness progr