Watch our live coverage starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Former Deputy National security adviser ben rhodes on the rise of chinas global influence. He joined the ucla center for International Relations for a broad discussion on Foreign Policy and National Security. Everyone. Rning, it is a pleasure to have you back for one of our webinars. Today, we have the pleasure of bening as our special guest he will speak and then he and i will have a conversation. To postrage you all questions through the q a feature. Limited to the second half, i will begin to wrap up our discussion and i will start posing some of your questions. This will run about one hour. I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security Deputy National security advisor. Of pensee the world and a
About his recent atlantic article aboutthe end of the 9 11 era in a few minutes im going to introduce been. Ben will speak and he and i will havea conversation. We encourage you to post questions through the two and a feature. And we get to the second half of the hour i will begin to wrap up our discussion and start posing some of your questions then and we will run about one hour. So i also want to mention next week, next wednesday in fact were going to do i think our last webinar for the summer. Which will be with our partner, peter singer of near america talking about his new novel burn in which is a kind of look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare in particular so peter does a fantastic thinker and writer and i look forward to seeing that so for today as mentioned ben rhodes. Ben is former Deputy National security adviser in the Obama Administration. Lcurrent cochair ofNational Security action. Cohost of pond save the world which i highly recommend. Both organizations and
Work on a more normal basis, well continue to try to meet remotely so that we can play our part in slowing the spread of covid19. I want to also announce a couple of reminders to the conduct of this hearing. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, and members are responsible for their own microphones. Just be mindful that you probably have a little bit more responsibility than usual than if we were in a regular meeting space. And please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking and finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, email them to the committee clerk. But if you dont have it, we can make sure you do get it. I welcome you to the science, space and Technology Committees First Virtual hearing. Today were discussing the impact of covid19 on the Fire Service Community and how we can best leverage existing federal programs to expedite assistance to Fire Departments during the pandemic. I appreciate our witne
First responders during the coronavirus pandemic. The house sign space and Technology Committee is hosting. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We can understand more clearly what we are facing. Significant n to local estate tax revenue. And other sources of support for Fire Departments. Facing some departments the hardest decision for firefighters in this crisis. We are in the middle of this health guide trips Health Crisis that at the same time the country is addressing longstanding racism. We are also in the early days of [inaudible] paul. Are not on mute, im sorry . [beep] ok. Thismain in the middle of health and economic crisis at the same time our country is confronting racial injustice. On top of that, we are in the early days of an honest wildfire hurricane season. This is a time of great uncertainty. , people are counting on us to ensure our First Responders have the tools and support they need to do their job well and safely. I look forward to Todays Congress andout help
Emerging 5g technologies an effort to secure networks while the transition begins. The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say the equipment and services that make up a Communications Network. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief executive office of the competitive carriers association, mr. Jason boswell, head of Security Network Product Solutions at ericson, ms. Asha katie, Corporate Vice president and general manager of next generation an