Years. The u. S. Has been without a defense secretary all year since the departure of former defense chief jim mattis in december. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Our meeting will come to order consistent with our policy to start on time. We will be doing that. Good morning. Today were considering the nomination of dr. Mark espy to be secretary of defense. We thank you all for being here today. We anticipate during your opening remarks, dr. Espy, that you will introduce any members of your family who are here and other support groups. It is standard we do have the eight required questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. Have you adhered to ethical regarding conflicts of interest. Yes, sir. Have you taken any actions which would prepare to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising legislative and oversight responsibility makes it important that this committee, its subcommittees and other appropriate committees of congre
Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
[inaudible conversations] good morning. The subcommittee on space will come to order. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, title an update on nasa exploration systems develop. I now recognize mist for an open statement. More and asia means expanding our reach as humans. It is a civilization and as country the arm opt our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. The ability to carry out this critical strategic endeavor will rely on a few key capables. From the launch, the space launch system in order to push beyond low earth orbit we minimum fish developing the orion capsule in order to operate in deep space. And we must upgrade our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and an expand exploration agenda. The nasa goal in the nasa transition authorizing argentina is to extend human presence through the solar system. The space launch system in orion are the strategic capabilities that wil
[inaudible conversations] good morning. The subcommittee on space will come to order. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, title an update on nasa exploration systems develop. I now recognize mist for an open statement. More and asia means expanding our reach as humans. It is a civilization and as country the arm opt our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. The ability to carry out this critical strategic endeavor will rely on a few key capables. From the launch, the space launch system in order to push beyond low earth orbit we minimum fish developing the orion capsule in order to operate in deep space. And we must upgrade our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and an expand exploration agenda. The nasa goal in the nasa transition authorizing argentina is to extend human presence through the solar system. The space launch system in orion are the strategic capabilities that wil
Nasa, this pages, and the orion spacecraft. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, they could declare recess on the subcommittee at all can anytime. Welcome to todays hearing, an update on nassau exploration systems development. I now recognize myself for five minutes of an opening statement. Exploration means expanding our reach as humans. As a civilization and as a country, the ability of our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. Our ability to carry out the strategic never will rely to carry out the strategical endeavor will let us push beyond low earth orbit, we must finish the override capsule in order to operate in deep space. We must update our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and expanded agenda. Nasas longterm goal is laid out in the 2017 nasa transition authorization act, to extend human presence throughout the solar system. The space launch system in all right and have strategic capabilitie