That last session. Im so honored to introduce commissioner Nathan Simington pic he was nomin serve as commission of the sec by President Trump several years ago, and he joins us last year here at the policy summit. Have him back. He previously with Senior Advisor at ntia and in this role telecommunication policy including spectrum allocation and planning, broadband access, and the u. S. Governments role in the internet. He also has a long private sector experience which i think can be so crucial to understanding understd the needs of the private sector and consumers. Prior to joining the commission he was senior counsel to bright star corp. International mobile Device Services company and in this capacity he lit a negotiator Telecom Equipment and Service Transaction with leadi prior to joining bright star he worked as an attorney in private practice. Hes a graduate at the univsihool and he holds a degree from university of rochester and lawrence university. He grew up in saskatchewan canada did i sayhat correctly . And he became u. S. Citizen and now lives locally in mclean, virginia, with us, you so much for joining us commissioner. We look forward to hearing from you. [applause] thanks for much for that kind trportunity to speak today. I plan to focus my remarks on the Satellite Service sector both what i see fords future and what the fcc can do to its. Satellite Service Providers are Industry Leaders in Cutting Edge Technology development as we sit in the market place and the depd and underserved areas. There are countless direct to sell deployments lodging press literally as i speak in ngso highspeed Broadband Service coverage gaps all over the United States and abroad. Satellites divide and abundance of essentialervices communications tracking, navigation, weather forecasting and imaging just to name a few. Governments, industry, Emergency Service responders and consumers you satellite and Satellite Networks are everything from highfrequency trading storm tracking and missile guidance using google maps to navigate atest date of the salad Industry Report sia states in 2022 the global space economy bf Settlement Services making up 113 billion. Thats incredible and with the burgeoning launch making lunch and provision satelli s more affordable we will surely only see this number grow. Theres so much going on in satellite sector it can be aosec policy goals to touch on today, ill focus on three areas where the American Leadership is a must. Sell in industry trends, streamlining of the license application process, specifically fcc, a c our Market Access rules for horrible debris. There are discrete policy tweaks the sec can take to bolster u. S. Competitiveness as a csgs. Starting with directives so or ses in sec terms are pleased to see f flexible framework that allows the United States to take the lead on policymaking for this new service while ensuring we do not constrict innovation proscriptively and harm fledgling business models. A stronger flexible regular framework is the best way for bolstering both americas leadership and industry success particularly because its not certain yet which models are going to be the most successful in the short, medium long terms. Our next tec in many satellite d other spectrum bounds under consideration. Im excited to see this Technology Evolve and grow. I believe its vital to the longterm future of broadband appointment in hardtoreach areas and for connected is generally in the short term. Direct to sell will currently is allowing people to commit get remote areas take with Emergency Authority where before there was no way to comedic it at all. It starts with getting the fight the middle of nowhere and may one day lead to use transparent always on multimodal connectivity everywhere. We all remember the promise of idiom that the iridium 1980s when everyone was to get the heavy lift a building all the necessary till after an cell towers and equipment infrastructure. Would it be easy to provide from space . Its very hard to predict exactly what the future would bd of always on connectivity capability has been a dream for many of in our cell phones for a long time. Ght now the svices are literally saving lives at anything headed in the right direction and a happy to see it. Turning to streamlining of application process, i think the most important thing the sec can do is ensure swift and efficient action on its part. This is the only way to maintain american leadersp in the satellite to munication services industry. It will nurture the growth of broader space sector which includes new and innovative manufacturing processes, robotic, or surveillance and expiration and other yet unknown innovation. Streamlined rules provide necessary certainty ndusty and are invaluable for ensuring we do not need to see throw the brakes on a budding industry by laying a regulatory track that encourages anticompetitive gamesmanship. All too often policymakers with good intentions get in the way of innovation, and yet those same regulators never seem to realize much less suffer the dutch meds cause by these supposedly good intentions. While its important the sec and other policymakers get things right as i said before, and enemy of the good guy for a continuous drumbeat from u. S. License companies the delays navigation processing are to entertain other countries with poor industry friend and expeditious lysing processes. The application stealing rethinking such plans. The bureau is often a great start with adopting shot clocks for placing applications ofuntig practices for greater transparency. I look forward to swiftly moving to execute on rules for final action shot clocks and take any of the steps necessary to change our rules in order to reflect the current realities. In this the fcc require ongoing whole of Government Support for Ta International coordination but must continue to press actively for this within the federal government i continuing to drive its own internal process. Finally i would like to ev ive said to the preceding and in several speeches to industry we should apply the same both u. License providers and Market Access licenses which are foreign license entities who provide service in the usa. The sec must ms a high priority policy goal. Our current process allows nonu. S. License space stations is that if it horrible mitigation plans for the space stations for which the u. S. Market access has requested are subject to direct oversight by the country which they are li be sound. In practice it often places u. S. License providers and thus ultimately american as pollster leader at a companies should not be penalized for complying with the rigors and advance domestic regime that stemporary rather into account. The u. S. Government should not tolerate behavior for Market Access for domestic licenses. The current processndirectly approves debris mitigation machines that are typically not as robust as americas disadvantage in american license providers. This is why i have■e and will continue to advocate for extending the fccs orbital debris rules to Market Access providers. Is that only levels of Playing Field but also actss a regulatory hook for creating default rules for all commercial operators. The market power of the american entre Satellite Services market gives the sec and internationally unique degree of leverage to implement cutting edge scientific knowledge for American Space expert agencies allowing us to set the de facto international standard. So we can create a unitary set of clear flexible rules for safe commercial Space Operation for all countries which will make se meaningless. I therefore again urged the fcc to reconsider the current approach so we can up the u. S. Global leadership on herbal debris mitigation policy and encourage a global responsible approach to mitigation of space industry. The popsicles are canceled or they should be top priority for the sec and government as a whole. We do not get our ducks fallingd of the countries in the space sector and broadband opponent of hardtoreach areas and in Communication Technology policy. We should buckle down and carefully dip with all of the tools in our tool belt to get there. So thanks are much for the opportunity to speak today. This is an eiting tim talk with such an esteemed group. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the summit. And are we taking questions . Yes. Im to take questions or discuss any of the points just mention or for that matter anything else anyone wants to bring up. Thank you, commissioner. I did not read all the preceding on the latest in terms of subjecting Market Access licenses the u. S. Orbital the tt subjecting them to our rules on orbital debris . Thats a great question. ■l sure. Not a problem. Thats a great question and i wish i had a really solid answer for that. So just to recap for people who might not be as familiar with the history. Its been settled since about 2004 that the sec is entitled demand orbital debris filings and an orbital debris mitigation structure as part of the u. S. Licensing process. The thinking is where responsible for defending the ingrstems that we license a part of that means taking orbital debris into account. The difficulty is until recently satellite constellations were much smaller than they are now. There were just many, many fewer satellites up there. If you look at the total world summit population we many of the keyas in the low hundreds, perhaps 300, 400. Now there is a individual and of people, its a we doing the small constellation, only 300. Its a different world, so the secs interest in horrible debris used to be much easier. You administer satellites to think about, they were higher, in many cases, in fact, to the present day much of the debrises jurisdiction, defunct soviet rocket bodies, things of that nature. Debris in five it is in part adapting to the much indentured legal population as well as to the lower let characteristic for the first time about giving credit for constellation behavior rather than treating each individual satellite as an uncorrelated collision risk. So all this is unexplored territory at the sec and its easy actors in the rest of the federal government to city sec is not, in fact, a Rocket Science agency. Its not an expert space agenc kind of thing. This one calling for whole of government approach anything that begins to answer question. Because with the whole of government we can for the first time take the secs jurisdiction and leverage that expert knowledge with else were in the■ federal government through the secs licensing power which has the ability to Reach International operators who are not in anyway subject to nasa for the fa or anyone else on shore. As for why this wasnt a dress i think its a big change in the thinking of how weve traditionally done things at the agency midsemestacer and welcome one we should adopt it and we should close engage with extra agencies to make sure this becomes the new norm. This is Chip Pickering added to have a question by want to thank you for coming, coming last year and the year your focus on issues that sometimes get left behind at the sec is greatly appreciated, and especially as relates to satellite and space and the critical work you are doing. So thank you for coming. [applause] take a quick break, timmons and be right back. The break, a number of team members with congress, commissioner carr representative weber gre to finish the day. So enjoy the break. 2 p. M. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations]