Including Broadband Access during coronavirus expanding broadband to rural areas telehealth funding and president trumps executive order on social Media Companies. Three hours 25 minutes. Good morning this hearing will come to order todays hearing on the oversight of the fcc. And they are here today and a special welcome to our a distinguished panel for appearing today we will hear from sec chairman pai commissioners. The sec is the nations primary regulator interstate and International Communications networks a core part of the agencys mission is to ensure all People United states have access to rapid and efficient nationwide Communications Services at reasonable prices never before has the responsibility to achieve this mission have been more important covid19 spotlight on the Communications Networks in the American Peoples access to Broadband Service since march there has been a dramatic and sustained a surge in Internet Usage us networks have performed well and we are much better t
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v
About the process. As you were doing the validation , the baselines that have been established, are they going to change, or are they going to be modified . And how soon will you be establishing those . Are they in the same priority that was mentioned in terms of which ones are going to be focused on first . I would say it is in the same priority. So backing into it, our goal is, by the start of the next fiscal year, july 1st, to have established what those metrics are so we can begin to collect that data right away and report on it. In order for us to do that, getting back to january, we need to have some sense of which ones are looking like they are going to be doable and validated so that we can come back to the table as a network and say, okay , here is the potential universe of data that has been validated. Of this, how much of this support are true north pillars and particularly some of the metrics we have already identified . We feel the metrics we have now are appropriate and h
Going to be modified . And how soon will you be establishing those . Are they in the same priority that was mentioned in terms of which ones are going to be focused on first . I would say it is in the same priority. So backing into it, our goal is, by the start of the next fiscal year, july 1st, to have established what those metrics are so we can begin to collect that data right away and report on it. In order for us to do that, getting back to january, we need to have some sense of which ones are looking like they are going to be doable and validated so that we can come back to the table as a network and say, okay , here is the potential universe of data that has been validated. Of this, how much of this support are true north pillars and particularly some of the metrics we have already identified . We feel the metrics we have now are appropriate and has been a 1 1 match within epic in our pre epic sources, we would be continuing along that journey anyway. So it is not as if were loo
Leadership for us to be able to have some informed discussions and make some decisions. That is great. Thank you. Commissioner guillermo . Thank you for this report. I had a similar question to commissioner green with regards to the ability of in your validation process, which ones would be easier to transition across from. I guess it is a similar question about the process. As you were doing the validation , the baselines that have been established, are they going to change, or are they going to be modified . And how soon will you be establishing those . Are they in the same priority that was mentioned in terms of which ones are going to be focused on first . I would say it is in the same priority. So backing into it, our goal is, by the start of the next fiscal year, july 1st, to have established what those metrics are so we can begin to collect that data right away and report on it. In order for us to do that, getting back to january, we need to have some sense of which ones are loo