Meet with all the time, we understand in politics that you have to say things over and over again for them to penetrate. You in the news business, we tell you once, and weve given you the news. Therefore is no longer news and we dont have to report it again. These things that matter need to be on the front page day after day. With interesting angles and different takes and new perspectives. We get some of that. I dont wnat to shortchange the journalism out there. We need more of that if we are going to get people to focus on what is important. [applause] if we could thank our panel for this clicks on american on American History tv, we will washington journal with guest craig shirley, author of reagans revolution. At 10 00 on road to the white house rewind, in 1976 Republican National convention, and a close race between gerald ford and Ronald Reagan for the nomination. Acceptancefords speech and remarks from Ronald Reagan. I believe the Republican Party has a platform that is a banner
The middle part gets more interesting and relevant for today where the secretary spends time in boston and other corporations working in the field of technology and innovation. That is what he brought with him back to the pentagon and part of what is at the core of what he is tried to do. He was a distinguished fellow at Stanford Hoover institution. He was an advisor to goldman sachs. At Harvard Kennedy school he was the professor of science and international affairs. Of a miterhe boards corporation. , longer ago, even longer ago, he had his degree from yale where he studied physics and medieval history, of course. Before he gets medieval on all of us, will let him get to his speech and hear what he has to say. A round of applause for secretary of defense. [applause] thank you, kevin, thank you for having me here and organizing and extort nearing and extort nearing gathering and writing on the airplane with me. We do very much appreciate that. I want to thank all of you. s fromyou part
Who are within the department. In the labs, schools, on the battlefield. You heard from some of them today. Our innovators, our Senior Leaders involved in both of these critical and interconnected missions. Alongside the Many Technology and business and academic leaders who joined the discussion today, they play a Critical Role in accelerating the spirit and innovation we need to maintain our edge in a complex and changing world. What i wanted to do is describe the logic of my commitment to this agenda. The actions we are taking to pursue it. Describe how these efforts and they continued creativity and engagement of so many of you will enable us to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Now, when i began my career as kevin pointed out in physics, most technology of consequence of originated in america. Much of that was sponsored i the government, articulate he the much of that was sponsored by the government particularly the , department of defense. Today we are still sponsors, but
Fraction of a second. As the seat comes out and hits the wind blast, it begins to decelerate. If you wait just a fraction of a second before you put that main chute out, the seat has decelerated enough so when the force of the parachute comes out isnt as severe. To get to that solution, we are putting a switch on the side of the ejection seat, so when the pilot climbs up into the cockpit, can set that at heavyweight or lightweight. There are a number of ways we could have solved that problem. We could have put an automatic sensing system into the seat, much like when you sit in your car on the passengers side and the seat knows youre there and the air bag gets energized. We also could have put a switch on the seat that would have had the maintainers put it in the heavier or lightweight position. We went back to the war fighters and said, what solution do you want . We can solve this problem in a number of ways. They said we want the pilot to be responsible for moving that switch. We wa
No, it did not. I mean, were always were always assessing our posture and where we can put our assets. Not something we normally get into much detail on but we always want to make sure weve got our assets positioned properly. As we see where, you know, the focus of our strikes are based on the fluidity of our battlefield maybe we need to reposition our assets to make sure where were spending more time in the air weve got an asset closer to respond if needed. Hi, colonel. As a followup to this question, given the different tactical capabilities of the f16s and a10s is this deployment indicating tactical change in the mission as well or will they do exactly the same thing that f16 did . And the secondly, you mentioned about syrian iraq coalition. What is your understanding about the Syrian Forces . Patrick asked this question last weekend and he said he would look at it. What is your understanding about this new form and is this indicating the same thing or Different Group or can i get y