Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birthday. Today admiral zukunft will discuss the challenges for the coast guard such as congressional budget struggles a welldebated Cyber Security plan, maintaining a zero tolerance for Sexual Assault and a fleet in high need of modernization and sheer numbers to tackle the next 225 years. Please give a warm National Press club welcome to the commandant of the United States coast guard admiral paul zukunft zukunft. [ applause ] jeff, thank you for the flattering introduction, and i had a chance to m
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
Muslim minorities are a particular focus of our International Efforts to make sure we protect people. Not just in this country but around the world. If you are not willing to call the threat by the name it is, we are not willing to confront it and we need to confront it. Ms. May c 51 does not do what the Prime Minister said. It fails to bring any efforts to confront the risk of radicalization. Can abort terrorist plots without c 51. Toronto,e 18 in arrested young people about to leave montreal. That was before c 51 was passed. 61 creates a secret police. Espionage groups, not knowing what the other is doing. The legislation must be repealed. Look at the recommendations to anyone here. I hope to play a key role in parliament. We must look into the recommendations from the air india inquiry. Use those recommendations as the basis for drawing up legislation that could work. This is a disaster. Esther wells are you surprised by the result mr. Wells are you surprised at the reaction to libe
President for research. He previously served heritage as Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies and director of our davis institute. Hes a Founding Editor of the annual index of economic freedom, which has become a signature heritage publication, from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holmes. Kim. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Its a pleasure to welcome all of you here and to welcome our distinguished guests to talk about the refugee policy. We just recently were refurbishing this room, so youre one of the first guests to see how it turned out. The United States Refugee Admission Program has been, as all of you know, the subject of significant discussion and legal battles in the last year. Of course, some of these legal battles have ended up in the supreme court. Which well hear arguments this fall