The communicators is on location. This week well look at some of the new technologies coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. Well now we want to introduce you to Ulf Ewaldsson with the Erickson Corporation Senior Vice President group chief Technology Officer. Mr. E waldson, before we get into what you do, just want to make the statement that erickson is not the Consumer Product corporation that it was a few years ago is that a fair statement . Guest absolutely. We are not in consumer at all. But being here at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas you can really see how relevant networks, which we are doing, are becoming to just basically, every Consumer Product out here. Host for a while people owned erickson phones. Do you even manufacture them anymore . Guest no, we dont. Host so a more of a business to business type . Guest we are the Global Leader in infrastructure for networks where we provide bot
Days. And following 9 11, officers were mandated 12hour shifts every day, all days off canceled. That was because there was a National Security issue and you just couldnt leave. Nobody cared about what it did to your brain, and were seeing that now. But, for Public Safety reasons you couldnt leave. So that has to be considered also. In the regular course of policing, the eighthour shift is enough, and you want to go home after that. And sometimes after seeing what you see, its tough to go home and have dinner with your family. And as dr. Violanti said in discussing what youve done in your workday, you have to relive it. So, were taught to compartmentalize some of the things that we deal with. But being able to open the doors of that compartment and let it out, and let some steam out of the valve before it bursts is really important. But, getting back to your question regarding shift time maximums, i know the pushback from the guys would be on the economic and financial part, you know,
Deport people who are the highest priority to leave this country and make sure there is a system of solutions that recognizes a lot of these folks are living in the shadows. I would urge people to look at the utah compact it is online. The colorado compact. These are basic goals. Im not endorsing one part or not another part of the president s executive order, but the bottom line is, the notion to try and make communities safer, the notion that we will try to keep close families together, that we are going to recognize the Economic Vitality and trying to expand our economy, that is what he is trying to accomplish. He were nodding your head about the filibuster. Democrats are saying, why not fully fund dhs now that the administration is saying that. What is your thought about continuing this fight and only partially funding dhs . This was a question brought up the he might consider asking Senate Democrats to vote on the bill for dhs and give it an up or down vote. And then deal with imm
Operation enduring freedom. We are now past 13 years in that enduring fight and that resolution, of course was also the basis for the justification of our actions in somalia in yemen and the administration is saying quite clearly that they oppose the repeal of that and that the operations that are going on right now to my in fact, are consistent with that 2001 resolution. Now, that causes great problems to me and many members of the community because even in the absence of the passage of a knew aumf the administration is maintaining that they have the authority to continue as they have for 13 years under Operation Enduring freedom. So that obviously is a problem for us because it sits there as an underlying authority for the next president , democrat or republican who is sworn in on january 20 2017. Most of us we will be sitting here then as your successor is sitting here and perhaps not with the same interpretation of the word enduring. So my questions and then go to, is this going to
Michael levi is the david m. Rubenstein senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the council on Foreign Relations. He was previously nonresident science and Technology Fellow at the foreignpolicy studies at brookings and the director of the federatifederati on of american scientists are teaching security projects. He is the author of the power surge, Energy Opportunity in the battle for americas future. On Nuclear Terrorism and the future of arms control. He received a bachelor of science with honors from Queens University in kingston in mathematical physics and his ph. D. Is from the university of london. Treat please join me and walk coming our authors. [applause] our format this evening is going to be a little different than usual. Im going to start by asking a few questions and then we will turn it over to the audience. Michael, elizabeth its nice to have both of this evening. I would like to start by setting the stage for us. Why did you r