Much. I want to begin by thanking your chair, kathleen. Congratulating her not only on her degree but her work of many years to enable more young peope to go to college. President snyder, thank you for welcoming me here and for your service. And for doing it with such remarkable energy. I want to thank congresswoman maxine waters. And her husband, ambassador sidney williams. Maxine for her service and devotion to this district and her longtime friendship to hillary and me which means more than i can say. There are a lot of proud parents in this audience. People who are in public service. I do want to know that the senator from wyoming and his family are here because his daughter is also in the graduating class. At least two of your alumni are very important parts of your administration. I want to acknowledge the former secretary of defense, rudy deleon, and a man who is not here, tony quellen, who served in the commission for people with disabilities. I am here in two capacities. Not j
Skulduggery. He u. S. Is a diverse nation this is one of the many things makes us great, despite the legacy of the genocide of the native people and slavery. The Census Bureau and not spike lee says five years and now, why children will be a minority. By 2049, white folks will be outnumbered by nonwhites. This is happening, people. Here and now. It is time to start embracing. And no matter how one might wish it to be otherwise, we are not making America Great again by going ,ack to eisenhower, jim crow and leave it to beaver. [applause] it having now is the time to seize the day , take a of this unique moment in history, and build bridges amongst us. I am talking about gender, race, religion, and nations not walls and let us build bridges of love versus walls of hate. Sidebar number one. , i am amongst some of the greatest minds in the world here at Johns Hopkins university. People who are a lot smarter ask, can somebody please educate me, me, somebody from the public of brooklyn, new
That we normally dont have heard namely 25 fuel efficiency as an example. We very much would like to have competition on all of our programs. Continues,estration its compounding effects, we may be forced to down select earlier than we would like. That is the risk of sequestration, ok . I would like to give an example that is exactly what had happened on jack comes program. Joint air to ground missile it 30 million mark and then a 69 sequestration on top of that. It is not that we wanted to make the cut, but we were forced to cousin budget shortfall. General posten would you like to add . It is critical not only because as you say we have fuel savings, 25 there. It also has a maintenance savings. It is key to our developmental programs in the future. We are working to get that in the current platforms of and apache but it is also tied to our joint multirole aircraft. Sequestration places this program at risk of having to do it early down select which will, appearsntinue and it that we w
Answer it in two parts. The two takeaways are the terms. Ncertainty and inflexibility uncertainty is the budget environment we are in right now. Not knowingnty of when we are going to have a budget or with the budget is going to be. As a navy, we are asked to with capablence ships to do our nations is this. To do that, we have to plan. We have to plan a strategy, a budget. Aviation andan for ship depot maintenance. We have to train our people and we have to have a plan for that. We also have to have a maintenance schedule. With the uncertainty, it is comes toid, when it the planning. With the inflexibility that we budget environment now, we haveht already seen what happens in 2013 and when we look at 2014, the combination of a continuing resolution and a sequester will impact our training. Its going to reduce the number carriers that we can effectively train. Had two carrier rings then had to go to reduce training. In 14, its going to be more than twice. Half of our carrier air wings w
That understand what is it they want to focus on. Whether they agree as to the most important things people then, ad to see number of organizational things. How to get money to finance it is one of the most difficult issues. How to best organize it to see what they want. There is a lot of organizational work. You need to find partners in russia, belarus, anywhere that share your interest. Recipe that is the best as of today. Thank you. 22 years after the breakup of the soviet union, we have a very different global world. It is very different than it used to be during cold war. Relations are quite different. Diplomacy is quite different. Capabilities are very different. And the level of danger is quite different. They often dont understand it. One of the biggest problems in u. S. Russia relations is a lack of fresh ideas. Lack of breakthrough ideas. Kind of intellectual deadend. We have great experts on u. S. Russia relations and one of the conclusions from today is, these too can get r