Institutions, on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements. Help guide ourld ship of state through some of the most perilous moments in human history. With kennedy at the helm, the cuban missile crisis was resolved peacefully. Under democrats and republican president s, new agreements were forged. A nonproliferation treaty that prohibited nations to develop Nuclear Weapons. Start treaties that abound the United States and the soviet union to cooperation on arms control. Averted. Conflict was but the world avoided nuclear catastrophe. And we created the time in the to win the cold war without firing a shot at the soviets. The agreement now reached by the International Community and the Islamic Republic of iran builds on this tradition of strong, diplomacy. Polic we have arranged a detailed arrangement that permanently prohibits iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon. It cuts off all of irans pathways to a bomb. It contains the most comprehensive inspection and verification re
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
At some point come to stumble when im assembled leaders and you typed a lot about what is going to land in what is going to use. What can lose is for structure. All the Service Chiefs are grappling with this he dilemma. How do you modernize and made team for structure at the same time . 80,000, 31,000 of them are all volunteers, coast guard auxiliary. Whatever you multiply by zero, you get zero. They provide millions of free manhours sorting Coast Guard Missions that dont involve putting themselves at risk, mostly Recreational Boating community, but i cant come for structure. Maybe make difficult decisions about operations do not cut appeared with always defined itself by love and Statutory Mission and some pages get rid of one of those missions. Each one of those has a mundane line when you divest of omission, all you have at the end of the day is a smaller coast guard. 100 years ago was when the coast guard first came into being. The first commandant of the coast guard was under atta