Hamiltons vision is alive and well because his letter to those commanders resonates with each and every person in the coast guard. Ill now read my notes no, actually im done with that. And what id like to do is open it up to question and answer. [ applause ] and now the fun part. Some of the questions have been quite interesting, admiral. Lets see. Senate Armed Services Committee Members are concerned that russia has 40 arctic icebreaker ships and america has one. Is that going to change and when . I know you addressed that a bit earlier. Yeah. So as i stand before you today, i have one of my vice admirals is with the National Security staff up in the arctic to see firsthand what some of the challenges are up there. When youre up in barrow, alaska, you now see berms being built because you used to have a natural berm, a barrier, if you will, by all of the ice. So youre seeing a lot of coastal erosion. Youre seeing a nearly threefold increase in human activity up there, but you look at
Are moving away from a hardwareladen approach to more software to having digital things early in the cycle. Thats kind of like maybe a crude summary of what you said, but can you elaborate on what you need by that and implications for how the u. S. Does business in that field . Because the three questions were put so succinctly. There was one more hand and ill bring that into the mix and then well just wrap up. Hi. My name is steve barron. Im a soldier and defense fellow though my remarks are my own here. Would i like to see if i can get remarks specifically as they relate to 3d printing and energetic materials. As we look forward we head a lot of discussion about cold. Ry and carts i was wondering with airdrop munitions so they can be more tailored and adapt adaptable and more efficiently placed in the hands of the war fighters. To kind of zero in, opportunities and efforts, whats going on right now that you know of merits of this kind of research and effort and lastly Defense Industr
At some point come to stumble when im assembled leaders and you typed a lot about what is going to land in what is going to use. What can lose is for structure. All the Service Chiefs are grappling with this he dilemma. How do you modernize and made team for structure at the same time . 80,000, 31,000 of them are all volunteers, coast guard auxiliary. Whatever you multiply by zero, you get zero. They provide millions of free manhours sorting Coast Guard Missions that dont involve putting themselves at risk, mostly Recreational Boating community, but i cant come for structure. Maybe make difficult decisions about operations do not cut appeared with always defined itself by love and Statutory Mission and some pages get rid of one of those missions. Each one of those has a mundane line when you divest of omission, all you have at the end of the day is a smaller coast guard. 100 years ago was when the coast guard first came into being. The first commandant of the coast guard was under atta
Hot today at 74 to 8 around noon, and 72 at coast to 92 inland and 68 to 84 is the spread at 7 00. Our morning commute . Leyla . It is nice on 80 headed between concord and Pleasant Hill and up to highway 24 and if you head further south into the San Ramon Valley you are still looking at top speeds, clear conditions, and drive time traffic is 580, westbound, tracy to dublin, 34 minutes and a couple minutes tacked on to the commute with some slowing building away from 205, and 16 minutes from dublin to mission boulevard south and highway 85 in the south bay from 101 to cupertino is 17 minutes. Firefighters in san mateo are looking into the cause of a fire in an apartment complex that was the scene of a fire a few months back. Our reporter, amy hollyfield, is at the scene with the latest. Amy . The fire is out and there is no smoke or smoldering. Silt knocked out. Shear how the fire looked last night. They tweeted out a picture of emergency crews of san mateo firefighters faced when they
What we know right now is one juvenile has been arrested, that juvenile is a nonstudent that came on to the campus and stabbed a student. That happened all at 9 00 this morning here at the high school in east san jose. Lets go to a view from sky7 so you can see whats going on here at theigat h neahr cunningham havenue and king roa. San jose police are here on campus. It is not an lockdown, it is still a shelter in place because police are collecting evidence. Were not sure if a weapon if a knife has been recovered yet, but basically what weve been told is that at 9 00 a. M. , a nonstudent came on to the campus behind the gymnasium area. It looks like this might be a little off campus. Its unclear but that juvenile apparently stabbed a student and it was witnessed by other students and staff members. They intervened. Thats what were told by the superintendent and San Jose Police immediately responded and took that juvenile into custody. They are not giving us ages but te u the victim wa