Assistant commissioner alles. Assistant commissioner alles thank you, sir. And good afternoon, sir. Good to see you again. You may recall we last visited our site in Corpus Christi in january. Thank you for coming down to see that. I would encourage any members of the committee to come visit our sites. I think thats very beneficial in understanding what we do better. As you noted, the office is a critical component of our later border strategy. The personnel operate 257 aircraft, 283 vessels and Sophisticated Network across the u. S. , puerto rico and the virgin islands. Oams critical and Maritime Missions fall into four areas, main awareness, investigation, interdiction and Contingency Operations and national taskings. We not only contribute to the security of our land border, but facilitate efforts with the coast guard to secure the coastal shoreline through the coordinated use of integrated air and marine forces. Since the consolidation of air and Marine Assets 11 years ago we have
We conclude it was not the right system to go across the entire border and was much too expensive. We scaled down our ambition somewhat and selected and much more modest portfolio of systems that the Border Patrol selected and tailored to each area of the border. We focus that on arizona because thats what action was at the time. We are in the throes of completing a plan, it consists of everything from small handheld longerrange binoculars like sensors to more complex systems on hightowers with radars and cameras that are connected in a commandandcontrol center. The purpose of the systems is to get the Border Patrol better information about whats on the ground, what the threat of that activity is, whether its a microburst somebody carrying a weapon, and more options for how to respond. Outside of arizona the Border Patrol as indicated to us that his activity there is migration because weve done things in arizona, traffic has migrated over a variety of other reasons. South texas you kno
Anne, john and your wife dana congratulations and thank you and thank your families for your willingness to continue serving our great country. And again i want to thank the general and admiral for their accomplishments. General mille and admiral richardson are wellpositioned to build on that progress. I look forward to working with them and other d. O. D. Senior leaders as we drive change, build the force of the future and help the president with Real Solutions for the National Security challenges we face. Thank you. This weekend the cspan cities tours partnered with comcast to learn about ft. Laurderdale, florida. This was cultural tourism. When they would set up their villages along the way, the buses would stop because here was a tourist attraction. The seminoles camping by the road. So when they came into the Tourist Attractions they were getting food, a weekly allotment of food and they were also getting the rental of sewing machines where they could rent and use them when they l
The security implications of extending the Nuclear Agreement with china. Federal investigators say that the amtrak train that crashed in philadelphia on tuesday night killing at least seven people was traveling at 106 Miles Per Hour before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit is just 50 miles an hour. More than 200 people aboard the washingtontonew york train were injured in the wreck. Lawmakers gave their reaction during hearings and on the house and senate floors. Were going to show you just a couple of them now. Before we begin today id like everyone to keep in their thoughts and prayers the passengers, employees, First Responders, victims, families who were involved in last nights derailment just outside of philadelphia. A number of agencies in this bill, the department of transportation federal Railroad Administration, amtrak, philadelphias Transit Agency partially funded through the federal Transit Administration and the National Transportation safety bo
Not only is she a best selling author but shes releasing her new book today called move, putting americas infrastructure back in the lead. Thank you so much for joining us. The book really explains with compelling details many of the health costs and even social justice impacts of our outdated infrastructure system, and i want to get to some of those today. First of all, can you please give us a brief synopsis of where we are today and how were fairing versus other countries . So theres only one indicator in the transportation and infrastructure area in which the u. S. Is number one and that is number of available airline seats. Thats because weve made it cheap and we like to fly. Impact, americans like to fly. Europeans will take the train. Thats one reason we dont have a good enough rail system in america, Passenger Rail system. Otherwise, we are way down on the international indicators. My friend Rodney Slater whos here today former secretary of transportation, went to japan recentl