Good morning. Im adam segal, correct the digital at Cybersecurity Program has the council just want to say a few words of thanks and a few words of welcome. First let me thank shannon and lauren and alex for helping put this together and making sure that it runs smoothly. We want to thank pwc which is provided the funding to help us run this as as a number of othr programs in the digital cyberspace policy program. Like many of the other think tanks were doing more and more work in this space, on Information Operations and russian Information Operations in particular. This month we published a cyber brief giving some policy recommendations to liberal democracies and how they can counter russian Information Operations. If you happen to have seen that please take a look. Its available on the website. Also last month we rolled out a Cyber Operations tracker. Thats the website you might is seen when you walk in. It is a list of publicly revealed state Cyber Operations. So espionage, more di
Thusburg maryland book festival. Starting at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, not the cleaver family. At 10 35, Melvin Goodman author of whistleblower of the kraimt yts author Sharon Weinberger at 12 15 p. M. Discussion her book the imagine nears of war, the untold story of darpa, the Pentagon Agency that changed the world. At 1 0015 eastern, the decisive years, 1970 stoichl 1980. At 2 15 p. M. Sidney blumenthal, the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1849 to 1856. And at 3 15, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his familys quest to bring him home. Watch our live all day coverage of the book festival starting saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2s book tv. Next, the Inspector General for the Transportation Department gives an update on the federal aviation administrations nextgen projects to modernize and change to a satellitebased air Traffic Control system. Other topics include whether the air Traffic Control system should be partially private advertised. Congressman bill shuster cha
Thusburg maryland book festival. Starting at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, not the cleaver family. At 10 35, Melvin Goodman author of whistleblower of the kraimt yts author Sharon Weinberger at 12 15 p. M. Discussion her book the imagine nears of war, the untold story of darpa, the Pentagon Agency that changed the world. At 1 0015 eastern, the decisive years, 1970 stoichl 1980. At 2 15 p. M. Sidney blumenthal, the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1849 to 1856. And at 3 15, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his familys quest to bring him home. Watch our live all day coverage of the book festival starting saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2s book tv. Next, the Inspector General for the Transportation Department gives an update on the federal aviation administrations nextgen projects to modernize and change to a satellitebased air Traffic Control system. Other topics include whether the air Traffic Control system should be partially private advertised. Congressman bill shuster cha
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Meeting. In the financialtimes is it was not the most friendly meeting. In the Financial Times is a story that so many people will have been thinking about. British airways faces inquest into stranding passengers to eternity problem. We spoke to the executive today. There was a complete contrast to fear from a Consumer Relations Point Of View and a business Point Of View. To have a Back Up System that did not work, all by businesses need a Back Up System that works of the initial system does not work. This is compounded because no one can then fly, this seems to have been a lack of information. The jobs have gone from the It Specialist here and it has gone to india. But we have not really had a real explanation. This Article Points out that British Airways does not seem to have learnt from the experiences of other airlines that have had similar problems, like delta air and us airlines, they face similar disasters in terms of Fail Safe Systems and they have not really learnt from that.