Our August Mitchell institute forum. Today our subject is the next Generation Air dominance. For those of you i havent met, im the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Power studies. We are plead we are pleased to have the president of the air force association, general bruce right, amongst a set of distinguished visitors to include general mike low, force former vice chair of air force staff. We have an expert panel to discuss this topic. Say again . [laughter] [inaudible] they are all youngsters, sir. Forlanned this Panel Feedback and discussion. I will offer remarks to set the stage for the discussion. Ability tority, the deny enemy forces access to key portions of the sky, is today a bedrock mission for the department of defense. Everybody over there and each one of the services, understands that the viability of soldiers and marines on the ground, ships at sea, space and cyber installations, logistics lines and command and control facilities are fundamentally dependent on
Program that culminates in a student competition. Students are encouraged to choose a topic in history and that can be anything, world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between. As long they are interested in it. Then they go out and find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history, so they are going into archives, into museums, into libraries, and they are sifting through primary sources, secondary sources. And then they are thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to an annual theme. And this year is the theme of triumph and tragedy in history. And then they present their findings in different formats. Of course, one of the categories you see behind me, that is the exhibit category. Then there is also the paper category and there is dramatic , performance, documentary, or website. So history day gives kids an opp
Mr. Chair, you have a quorum. I would like to acknowledge commissioner lopez who has joined us here as well. Madame clerk, are there any announcements . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copy of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you. I wanted to also make a quick announcement which is this is intended to be a committee where everyone, commissioners, trustees, supervisors can bring forward agenda items. For anyone who has an agenda item that they would like to have heard, please send those to myself, as well as to one of my staff so that we can track those , and there will be, unless something changes, a meeting in july, which will be on july 12 th. If you have any agenda items, if you want to bring it to that meeting or future meetings, please let me know. We will not have a meeting in august because this entire building shut down and there are no Committee Meetings in aug
Mr. Chair, you have a quorum. I would like to acknowledge commissioner lopez who has joined us here as well. Madame clerk, are there any announcements . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copy of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you. I wanted to also make a quick announcement which is this is intended to be a committee where everyone, commissioners, trustees, supervisors can bring forward agenda items. For anyone who has an agenda item that they would like to have heard, please send those to myself, as well as to one of my staff so that we can track those , and there will be, unless something changes, a meeting in july, which will be on july 12 th. If you have any agenda items, if you want to bring it to that meeting or future meetings, please let me know. We will not have a meeting in august because this entire building shut down and there are no Committee Meetings in aug
Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copy of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you. I wanted to also make a quick announcement which is this is intended to be a committee where everyone, commissioners, trustees, supervisors can bring forward agenda items. For anyone who has an agenda item that they would like to have heard, please send those to myself, as well as to one of my staff so that we can track those , and there will be, unless something changes, a meeting in july, which will be on july 12 th. If you have any agenda items, if you want to bring it to that meeting or future meetings, please let me know. We will not have a meeting in august because this entire building shut down and there are no Committee Meetings in august. You can go on vacation or schedule accordingly, and again, thank you, it is great to have this Committee Meeting on a regular basis and it is good t