transportation secretary elaine chao joins the governors in a discussion on infrastructure. this is an hour. [crowd noise] [crowd chatter] >> good afternoon. i am terror of the development and congress -- commerce committee. today is closing the plenary session. i want to thank all of the governors for joining us and making time in your agenda. let's get started. states continue to be the debaters of innovation and innovative policy. no place is that more true than policies that states are pursuing to prepare for the nation's transportation networks. as new and innovative technologies truly revolutionize the sector. as we see change occurring at an amazing rate, the governors are reshaping how states consider infrastructure investments. we will examine the challenges and opportunities for states and innovative technology as it becomes an integral part of the nation's infrastructure. i'm hoping this conversation will provide a chance to examine policy solutions, spurring the safe transition and implementation of new technologies into our roadways and share success i know many of you have already had. in colorado, with regard to autonomous vehicles, we have been working hard to seek a better balance with the promotion of innovation and protecting public safety with our department of transportation, the state patrol cooperated with the first fully successful autonomous beer delivery in the nation. appropriately in colorado. just another reason why colorado is a great place to live. we are working towards smart infrastructure to communicate with fully automated vehicles driving on colorado roads. we call it projects mark 25. smart ramp meters to help the system operate at peak efficiency. it has been used already successfully in australia to increase capacity. the u.s. is having this introduced now. i think we are beginning to see early success in our state. just a few of the things we are doing. i know many of you -- we will hear discussions of what you're working on. i will turn it over to governor ducey, who i have the pleasure of serving with as edc leadership this year. governor, i look forward to hearing about the great work you -- your administration is doing as well to spur innovative infrastructure investments. >> thank you governor hickenlooper. it is great to be here today, and secretary chao we are thrilled you are able to join us. i will revise and condense my remarks so we can have the maximum amount of time with you. i know so many governors here have questions around infrastructure and the opportunities. in arizona, we are embracing innovation that exists around transportation and infrastructure. we look at these as opportunities in transportation, in water, and in telecommunications. we are doing our best to lay the groundwork for a bright future in all of those categories. in arizona, water is especially an incredible concern. we built the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the middle of a desert. it is because we are good with water and with the 16 year drought, although it has been an incredibly wet winter and i hope it continues. we continue to look for ways to conserve and augment our water supply. we are proud in arizona today we use less water than we did in 1957, and our economy has grown 19 times since then and six times in terms of population. it is something we planned for and something we think about every day and something that really outlasts the term of any elected official. i can tell that water is not as great a concern in other parts of the country by the water pressure in the hotel rooms. [laughter] we also want you to know uber and lyft are two organizations and technology in terms of ridesharing apps we embraced in arizona. we like to think of ourselves as the kitty hawk for driverless technology. not only do we have uber testing in arizona, we also have gm and google through an enterprise called waymo. i had the opportunity to drive in three autonomous vehicles from three different companies. this is a technology. i can tell you it is on its way and will be here soon and something that will affect all of our states in terms of how we will handle it. i think in arizona we have been fortunate because we have been focused on regulation and safety, but not in overly aggressive regulation. we were able to put 86 million additional dollars into our transportation budget last year on some focused projects, but transportation funding is something i think is a question all the governors have as to what federal spending is going to look like in the next four years. on telecommunications, we are paving the way for 5g technology that will give us faster download speeds and bring this infrastructure out to our rural areas. one other thing i want to talk on in arizona that i think is something we like we are seeing all across the country and the sharing economy, uber, lyft, airbnb are something topical in arizona with city and local government having power to regulate industries. we have gone out of her way in arizona to make sure we are as welcoming as possible both from a state and local perspective. we put a bill out that states that governments are not allowed to regulate a new industry as if it were an existing industry without explicit legislative authority to do that. i will give you a quick example. when i first came into office, the super bowl was going to be held in arizona in the first month. we heard from our director of weights and measures that his plan was to sting uber during the super bowl and shut them down with the regulations written for taxicabs. we quickly got a new director of weights and measures, and we lifted those regulations. we don't want to see the heavy hand of government being used in an overly aggressive way to stop these new innovative ideas that will provide such conveniences for our citizens. that, along with p3, we are focused on in the state of arizona. i'm excited to hear from the secretary. >> thank you governor ducey. i am going to do a brief introduction. this could well be 20 pages long. when i first met our new secretary of the u.s. department of transportation elaine chao when i was the mayor of denver. she was the secretary of labor. they were doing some of the most innovative work and labor certainly ever done at that time. we worked together on two different projects, and her staff really was a treat. we are going to have a great partner, i think. secretary chao has long and distinguished career public service and the private sector and the nonprofit sector as just about anyone i know. prior to serving at the department of transportation, secretary chao served as the secretary of labor from 2001 to 2009, where he focused on increasing the competitiveness of the workforce in the global economy, but also piloting competitive programs and grants to really get states to compete and try to create innovation on their own. secretary chao's extensive public service record includes positions, and this is a remarkably broad array of a career. ceo of united way of america, the director of the peace corps, deputy secretary of the u.s. department transportation, chairman of the federal maritime commission, deputy maritime administrator and white house fellow specializing in transportation and trade. when not dedicating her time to the public sector, secretary chao has worked as vice president of syndications at bank of america and at citicorp. i think we are all looking forward to hearing from her about the direction of the department of transportation in the coming years. hopefully, we will have a vigorous dialogue here. without further ado, i will turn it over to secretary chao who was sworn in just three weeks ago. sec. chao: thank you very much, governor. [applause] sec. chao: i have to say, governor, when you are running through my resume i was thinking to myself, these people are going to think i can't hold a job. [laughter] sec. chao: thank you very much governor ducey and thank you to all of you for inviting me to discuss innovation and infrastructure with you. we really appreciate the opportunity. but i have to also give a big shout out to my home state governor, governor matt bevin of kentucky. [applause] the new automated technologies have the potential of dramatically changing commercial transportation and private travel, expanding access for millions within our borders. the private sector is driving these innovations, working with cities and states like yourselves. in addition to the commercial applications, automated technology can also help expand access to transportation for underserved populations, especially the elderly and disabled. i know that governor hickenlooper and governor ducey have ridden in automated vehicles and have been leaders in the technology. we want to thank you for your interest and leadership. over 35,000 people perished in traffic crashes in 2005. this is a 7% increase over the previous year. research shows that 94% of fatalities are due to human error. fatalities and crashes. automated technology has the potential to help eliminate human error and reduce crashes and fatalities significantly. there is a lot at stake in getting this technology right. to promote research and development, the department has d 10ar proved -- approve applications for automated vehicle proving grounds. drones are another exciting technology. companies are testing numerous commercial applications for drones. ubs is testing a delivery drone in florida. but drones also play an important role in safeguarding our infrastructure. rail lines already use them for safety checks on equipment and tracks. they also have been used in emergency response in united states for more than a decade. in kentucky, firefighters are using drones with thermal cameras to fight fires, locate the lost, or help in disaster recovery efforts. drones can also be used to inspect pipelines for leaks, protect first responders from -- in accidents involving derailments, and hazardous materials. and also help save lives in many emergency situations. in september of last year, the national highway traffic safety administration issued a federal automated vehicle policy. this is a set of guidelines, not a set of rules, and this administration is evaluating this guidance and will consult with you and other stakeholders as we update it and amend it to ensure it strikes the right balance. we will also be asking for your input as the faa to develop standards and regulations to ensure that drones can be safely integrated into our country's airspace. we want very much to work with you and other stakeholders to ensure the federal government is a catalyst for a safe, effective technology. not an impediment. america is a beacon throughout the world because of our innovation, our creativity, and our forward-looking manner which is so much a part of what america is all about. i want to work with all of you and all of your states on emerging technologies, but i also want to issue a challenge to silicon valley, detroit, and all other auto industry hubs to step up and help educate a skeptical public about the benefits of automated technologies. one of the biggest obstacles to deploying this technology is consumer acceptance. and as regulators and public policy makers, we need to work together to educate and address legitimate public concerns about safety and privacy. so once again, let me conclude that i look forward to working with all of you. the future is so full of promise and we have got to use every tool available to modernize our infrastructure so that our country's economy will remain competitive, grow, and produce good paying jobs for america's families. i look forward to our discussion. thank you. [applause] >> i will open it up for questions from the governors. bright light everywhere. >> i have one question, and i think that in colorado and around the country a lot of skepticism about autonomous vehicles, cars and trucks. as you just described, the human error involved in accidents and fatalities is 94%. it's astonishing. how can we confront that skepticism? and also, when we have autonomous vehicles in accidents where the technology breaks, how do we make sure that is not -- the skepticism increases even though overall we are saving lives? sec. chao: i tried to address those issues by saying technology can do so much to improve the competitiveness of our country, the quality of life of our residents and citizens. but there is great angst and anxiety on the part of many people about emerging technologies. how they work, what they really mean, what it means for privacy. i think this is a wonderful forum each of your states that we all take a collective effort to recognize the very legitimate concerns and begin to talk about them, raise them up so we have a national consensus and how to proceed with some of these regulations that we all entrusted with him for many and promulgating. >> governor? >> thank you for joining us. there has been a lot of talk in anticipation around infrastructure plan out of the administration. we are still a little on the preliminary side of that, but any insight you have for this group on the infrastructure plans coming out of the administration. sec. chao: the administration is just getting started. we are beginning -- we are in discussion about various infrastructure plans. we are open and welcoming ideas. tomorrow the president will be speaking with you and looks forward to discussing with you your ideas about infrastructure. this is a pivotal time for our country. this is a transformational time. there is no better time in my recent memory than now for the recognition that the infrastructure of our country is critical. and i believe many stakeholders involved in a critical infrastructure plan are in place. there seems to be bipartisan support for addressing the infrastructure needs of our country. so if not now, when, and i believe the time is now and you will have a great discussion with the president tomorrow. >> governor wolf? from pennsylvania. >> i would just like to say to the two guys on either side of the, there is a lot of autonomous vehicle research being done pittsburgh, pennsylvania with uber and google and ford has made a big investment. sec. chao: i have actually been to pittsburgh. >> well that's great, we would love to have you back. on the infrastructure, this is a time when a lot of focus on what we have not done over the past years. i think the administration is focused on infrastructure is important because we have a lot of catching up to do. by some estimates $4 trillion nationally. it also seems to me a good time to do a reset on infrastructure. you are talking about autonomous vehicles, but there are other things other nations have done in infrastructure like high-speed rail, pipelines. while not completely autonomous actually help the transportation system in ways the old-fashioned roads and bridges don't. how should we be that pennsylvania is the keystone state with a lot of east-west traffic already. there seems to be a lot of infrastructure investment that can help the whole country. how can we as a commonwealth proceed to help baby think more broadly about this? sec. chao: i should have mentioned high speed rail. we have a number of very impressive high-speed rail projects around the country. most recently i received a visit from people involved in the dallas-houston high-speed rail. another one for the governor of other states as well. i think that high-speed rail is part of the thinking of the future of transportation systems of our country. this is not to say they are without problems. eminent domain is a huge issue with any of the high-speed rail projects. we also have desires to make certain parts of existing infrastructure, rail infrastructure, high speed rail that is more difficult. primarily because high-speed rail needs a straight away. to be able to gain the speed necessary to qualify it for high-speed rail. there has been a lot of talk in recent years about amtrak and how do we increase the speed without sacrificing safety. in the northeast corridor. i think these are very valuable and very legitimate concerns. we should be just addressing them. they may not be currently applicable, but as we talk about a future infrastructure project and a future infrastructure for our country i think there should be consideration. there needs to be consideration of different kinds of travel alternatives. for commercial and passenger use. and technology will enable us to achieve a futuristic look. that is much, much more in the future. we are thinking about short-term infrastructure needs. medium-term and researcher needs and ultimately longer-term. the president is very futuristic looking. he's thinking about a transportation system, and infrastructure system that includes not only transportation but other aspects of critical infrastructure that will make us more competitive internationally. you will hear more about that from him tomorrow. there will be other aspects. but all of these issues i think our exciting, interesting, but they also present challenges. if we are to be futuristic and looking towards the future, we need to discuss them in a way that may not yield consensus right now but we need to be talking about them. you and your various states have an excellent opportunity to start some projects on a trial basis and see whether they work or not. the purpose of a meeting like this is to study best practices where we learn from you, you learn from one another, and there is a lot of valuable information to be shared. >> great. i have governors snyder, baker. the governor of rhode island? >> nice to see you again and think you for joining us. nice to have another woman around the table. first a comment and then a question. i agree with you that much of the concern or trepidation as a relates to autonomous vehicles comes from consumer -- either misunderstanding or lack of information. although i will also say i think we have some work to do with our public safety departments. i know in conversations with my state police force who patrol our roads, there is a lot of questions coming from them as well. how will this work? to the extent you could work with us as we go through this process to really integrate public safety and the discussion of autonomous vehicles, i think it's a lot of work to do. i would welcome any guidance and advice on that. secondly, i wondered if you could offer us any guidance around the administration's view in your view of the role of user fees as a source of revenue for transportation projects. in rhode island last year i worked with the legislature to pass a multibillion-dollar transportation package and i was totally opposed to increasing the gas tax. we already have a high gas tax. we as a component of our plan instituted a user fee on large trucks. a toll for 18 wheelers and above. i am curious to know where in your plan they are planning user fees coming into play as an alternative for raising taxes. and in particular with passenger fees at airports. we all know the airports need to be rebuilt. thank you. sec. chao: everybody wants a better transportation system, but very few people want to pay for it. that is the big conundrum. there are a number of ways for improving critical infrastructure. the pay for's are going to be hard. if we want to come together and find some ways. the pay for's will not be an animus. some will like them. some leaders on the other part will not like it and propose their own. there will be a lot of discussion about pay for's and that will be a tremendous challenge. i think if we all decide that there are things we think are very important, we all need to come to a national consensus about how to do that. the pay for's are very difficult. >> governor snyder of the great city michigan. >> thank you for being with us, madam secretary. i am excited to accept your challenge as a partnership opportunity. we have been doing a lot of great things with the department of transportation on this topic already, given that michigan is the world center of the auto industry and emerging world center of a mobility industry. i want to thank you for your partnership. we have been doing a project for several years now doing vehicle to infrastructure communication with traditional vehicles. we have over 3000 vehicles on the road. thanks to a partnership with your department, we are implemented smart highways. putting infrastructure sensors in and communication systems that are not been seen before. also thank you for being one of the 10 proving grounds. we are to have the best proving ground in the country. we are creating the american center for mobility. these are great opportunities. you are right. we need more education to our consumers. one of the things we did this last year in north america international auto show, we get an industry week but we created mobile-i-d. we had over 200 start up companies taking the entire low-level of cobol hall. they wanted to expand that to the user experience. people can see this wonderful, exciting technology and how the convergence is going on around the world. this ain't the with opportunities to give people more exposure to see how wonderful they can try these vehicles. they can have real life experiences. i look forward to that partnership. the other thing i would like to partner with you on, we are already starting initiatives to deal with the insurance industry issues, other regulatory issues, the health care issues, and also the retraining issues. what this could do for truck drivers and other issues. we need to be looking further out about what career opportunities as we see these autonomous vehicles emerge. how do we make sure we're playing far enough ahead so we don't create job loss opportunities for people. but we do it in a smart way. thank you for your leadership on this. i am fired up to work on this topic. sec. chao: thank you for your comment. >> governor baker and then governor bevin, williams and hutchinson. greator baker from the state of massachusetts. >> thank you very much, governor hickenlooper. just two quick thoughts on the autonomous vehicle issue. the first is we have a number of companies located in massachusetts who work on this. wasn't particularly interesting is i thought we were doing this because we had a lot of smart people to know a lot about technology. it turns out they are locating in massachusetts because our roads suck. [laughter] >> they basically said, if we can figure out how to move autonomous vehicles around the commonwealth of massachusetts and the city of boston, we can do it anywhere on earth. we also had a lot of conversations with folks in the department of defense about this. there is a huge interest, at least i think there is a huge interest there and how autonomous vehicles and autonomous flight devices, all the way up to airplanes, and maybe even fighter jets, may end up being autonomously driven at some point. i'm just curious to know what you think about the safety question, is there a big role for the department of defense in terms of knocking down barriers on that? governor snyder brought up my second question. i can't urge you enough. we would love to work with you on this one. autonomous vehicles have tremendous opportunity, but at the same time there is big-time workforce issues associated with that. i think it's important for us as a country to be thinking are enough ahead so we don't end up creating just a tremendous amount of economic hardship along the way. sec. chao: to answer your two questions, the army corps of engineers has a huge role to play in this infrastructure discussion we are having. number two, on the issue about technology displacement, as a former secretary of labor i'm very concerned about that. we do have to transition people and keep that in mind. thank you. >> we will try to keep these questions or we will run out of time. we will save governor bevin for last whether you like it or not. the governor of north dakota? >> madam secretary, it is refreshing to hear about your technology on the front end of this. one of the implications of automated technology in vehicles is going to change how we think about infrastructure. we have a culture in america built for the last 70 years run around automobiles. and with automobiles comes parking. the dollar value of parking in america on an aggregate basis is larger than the dollar value of all the vehicles. the average city has between 10 and 12 parking spots for every automobile. when it comes to the sharing economy, we will not have that need. one of the things i'm worried of is we will spend $1 trillion on infrastructure around yesterday's transportation models as opposed to tomorrow's because we will have these costs and maintenance costs that will be a burden on taxpayers. we have to think about that. we have been asking for states have a lot of flexibility on healthcare. in transportation dollars, it often comes it percent federal, 10% stake, 10% local. i'm 100% local control because i know the cities were not in the way the government would have asked them to. built around, are faster.e move cars moving more cars faster often has a detrimental impact on local sales tax, local property values, and ruins the local tax basis and spreads their cities out. if we want small, efficient government and use of taxpayer dollars, have to have small, efficient footprints in our cities, even our rural areas. that is one thing to think about. in north dakota, autonomous vehicles, if you're writing the rules to make sure there is exclusion for off-road because it keeps our farmers in productive. >> thank you very much for your comments. >> governor hutchinson, from the great state of arkansas -- >> thank you, madam secretary. thank you for joining us. i agree that the state matching formula with the federal government, federal highways money, please continue to rely on the states to set priorities in highway construction. that is very important. there is been some debate. you asked for an infrastructure lists, that these decisions be made at the national level, but the states need to set the priority in terms of highways in our areas. remember that it's about the other projects, as you know and mentioned the corps of engineers -- if we simply channeled and it has been an approved project by the corps of engineers, deep in that channel for the arkansas river from 9 to 12 feet, expense commerce, and it gives us great opportunity. it's been a core project that has been idle for some time. broader range of topics there, though we appreciate your theort for the role of states. >> thank you. >> great. now, the most patient governor in the room. >> thank you for your gracious comments, but thank you for your long service to this nation and your willingness to step back up again on this front. a quick question, you mentioned both short term, midterm, and long-term goals and visions for transportation. one of the short-term ones is that many goods are moving about on the existing infrastructure and it is aging even where it is sound, it is becoming functionally obsolete. bridges in northern kentucky with cincinnati, the bridge corridor. there is anywhere 4% of the nation's gdp mulls over this. it's outdated, 50-some years old. as one example of others that exist around the nation. what would you tell us as governors who have these as of the infrastructure like that, that must be updated from a short-term, what kind of expectation should we have from your administration for this administration and your cabinet for interface? the old days of expecting the federal government to build a new bridge, those days are gone. it will require collaboration from a state like ourselves and ohio and the federal government. as we think about the short-term, immediate needs, how best can we, any of us, work with your cabinet, and what advice would you give us as to how to move forward on shovel ready type projects? >> i'm not surprised that the governor from kentucky would mention the bridge. but it is emblematic of some of the deteriorating infrastructure. as we come in to office, we hope to find new ways to innovate, to find additional resources, but also some of the existing infrastructure of which you have talked with the previous administration on. some of the answers will remain the same as well. as we go forward, we do look forward to public-private partnerships. that is not the answer for everything, because there is a cost to that. and there is consumer lack of aceptance for toll roads in certain areas. i think all of us have a responsibility. pay-for's all of the and some of them are not attractive. and find new, innovative ways to supplement, augment that which is available, and in so doing, educate the public. i think we as public policy makers can only go so far, and if our population of our states are not with us, we are limited in what we can do. the same thing is at the national level. i can only go so far as you will allow me. i would depend on you in finding acceptance within your states on the ways to go forward as well. i look forward to working with you. thank you. >> what a great foundation to start with. i can speak for everybody here, we look for it domestically to -- we look forward optimistically to building on that foundation, and your vision of a transportation future is one that everyone of us share. we would love to be active partners with you and make sure together we get it done. sec. chao: thank you so much. thank you for the opportunity to be here. [applause] >> so now we will go to the second panel. secretary chao, thank you so much. the second panel joining us is the president and ceo of its america, and the director for autonomous systems at lockheed martin. regina was named president and ceo of its america in may 2015. prior to joining its america, she served as president and ceo of america's natural gas alliance. before that, vice president of u.s. telecom and vice president of the american trucking association before that. she was a correspondent for cbs news, where she covered the white house and anchored the overnight broadcast. at its america, regina is working to advance the research and deployment of intelligent transportation systems to build a safer, smarter, and more efficient transportation network. next, after regina we are jimmy -- we have jamie adams, the director of autonomous systems at lockheed martin in colorado. at the head of lockheed martin's autonomous systems from, jimmy -- jamie focuses on strategic research and development to support lucky's development of autonomous technology across air, land, sea, and space. prior to joining lockheed martin, jamie had a distinct career at nasa where he served as the associate division chief of nasa's software robotics simulation and engineering division, and at boeing, where he was able to join the international space station program. at lockheed martin jamie is tasked with developing unmanned airborne and ground systems as well as designing the intelligent systems that will manage them. we look forward to hearing how these technologies will impact our infrastructure network. regina and jamie, thank you for joining us today. regina, i will turn it over to you. regina: thank you, all of the remaining governors who are here, thank you so much, and to secretary chao, thank you so much as well. we at its america are somewhat unique in that we were created, chartered from the federal government to work with dot, to advance intelligence transformation and transformational technologies 26 years ago. here we are today and someone said to me a few moments ago, what is it like to be in intelligent transportation? i said, it is like having the spotlight on you. everything today is about transportation and the transformation. governor mcauliffe, we know you worked hard in the area of cyber security, and this will be one of the most important issues we have to address in moving these issues forward. we really are in a whirlwind of elevation right now when it comes to advances in cloud computing, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence, which is something you will see highlighted here in just a moment. we have on our board for you governors, about every single one of your state dot ceo's is on our board of directors are working directly with us, to advance these transportation technologies in a way to where we avoid a patchwork of legislative and policy regulation across the united states, and also in cooperation with the federal government. so, this is really about not just overlaying our current technology, our current infrastructure with new technology, but also integrating into our systems this technology. secretary mentioned figures from 2014. about 2015.ell you 40,200 people died on our roads in the united states in 2015. it was a 14% increase in two years. while the governor of michigan is not here at this particular moment, his head of dot said to a group at ces this year, so how many is ok? how many fatalities is ok, 12? 15? 100? and a young woman who was sitting in the back of the room working in technology and was not working in transportation said, i'm sorry, but i think the answer is 0. zero should be our goal. so, that is what we are trying to move toward. board here,on the intelligent transformational transportation systems can do a lot of things, but it can promote safety. why is this so important, because it pulls everything together. mobility is equity for all of our systems. security and privacy do go together great sustainability, no matter which side of the aisle you may come from, for our informant is important. and accessibility for our seniors, disabled, and youth is critical. technology has and will continue to change everything. we have talked a lot here already about smart vehicles, whether connected vehicles to vehicles, connected vehicles to the infrastructure, or automated vehicles, and moving from ground transportation into air transportation. our shared economy, many of the governments of talked about uber and lyft and the new business models adapting themselves into confluence through the internet of things as it moves into our smart cities and communities. so, what we did is we sat down with all of your dot heads, with research facilities from across the united states, and private industry. we said, how can we develop a public policy infrastructure that will allow us to diploid, will allow us to remove the roadblocks to deployment, and to deal with these critical infrastructure financing issues the lay before us. we went to our membership and totaled about 90 projects happening across your particular areas. the survey really was a snapshot, and the need for new long-term funding as we all know, and we grouped those into mobility urban congestion relief, improve traffic safety, national homeland security, energy efficiency, and of course, the environment. this is what we came up with as far as the priorities with regard to accelerating technological deployment and research. you will note there that artificial intelligence, which was not talked about in the previous panel, is very important if you have any interest in 3d printed cars, you know the local motors, which is in a lot of jurisdictions but certainly here, in the washington, d.c. area has worked with ibm walkman and moving together artificial intelligence and 3d printed technology for automated vehicles. removing the roadblocks, secretary chao and you talked about the importance of building public confidence trick it is so true. governor hickenlooper, i hope you will tell everyone about your elevator analogy and how the elevator actually was able to run by itself for about 50 years. i think you told me. but nobody felt comfortable in that elevator unless it was a human being moving it. only a labor strike resulted in the fact that elevators became autonomous. we know there is a need for public confidence. increasing infrastructure investment. is this an easy question? no. we are trying to work with you and find innovative models of financing. urban is different than rural. large cities are different in small communities. but we are working in a way to try to pull it all together to do a smart city and smart communities initiative that will help drive. i come from the northwest corner of arkansas, governor hutchinson, where my father developed the first bridge in the state -- i'm sorry, the first tunnel in the state, and had it not been for that tunnel, these little companies like walmart, tyson's chicken, university of arkansas in fayetteville, would not have developed in the way they developed had it not been for the infrastructure needs of that tunnel and opening of the northwest corner of arkansas to the rest of the world. so, we know that infrastructure >> every state here has done a lot, and i will stop here. colorado, governor hickenlooper talked about the things he had done. the governor has done some interesting things in his state. all of you, i know, have. we want to work with each and every one of you to move the deployment and development of these systems forward. i stand ready to take any questions. >> thank you, regina. jamie? jamie: regina, thank you so much. governor, thank you. thank you for inviting lockheed martin to be here today. a very important component of what we do and where we are headed in the lockheed martin strategic investment as where we are going. so thank you all for having us , here. i'm not going to go a lot into the details of the charts we have here because i know we are limited on time, and we really want to move forward, but there is a critical component of what we do with respect to autonomy, and autonomy is a key strategic pursuit for what we do at lockheed martin. so you can see this in the first , chart. there's a long history of what we do and what we have invested in over the years, and really significant components of what we do and what we want to do forward with respect to what we are investing in, what are -- what our strategic investments are. so, 2017, we have a target team that is invested in lockheed to autonomy steering committee, autonomy investments going forward. this is a big deal for us. so there's a lot of strategic , investment, a lot of corporate involvement relative to what we are going to go do. the chart at the right, kind of through that in there as a -- this is not something that is new for what we do and what we invest in in states, and what we invested as federal government, -- invest in as federal government, and across the whole spectrum of investment, and so you can see back to the left there and all the way to the right, we have a lot of things things that we do in autonomy and autonomy investment roadmaps, strategic investments relative to what we need to go off and pursue. the biggest point i would take away from this chart is that we need to really think about, we need to consider as an agency, as a government contractor, and as our state, how we invest in how we go forward with respect to our investments into the autonomous architectures, our autonomy investments, and partnerships as we go forward. let's go to the charts here real quick. next chart. so, a couple of charts, so i like to do videos. so, videos are talking lessons, and actually showing videos, are more important. on the left side of this chart you see that we have a , significant investment in lockheed martin with respect to our autonomous vehicles in the military aspects. the middle chart shows the estimates program, which is basically -- almost a sign of a golf cart sort of product, that follows this person, does route planning, does replanning, and incorporation into what is going on in that respect. on the far right, we get -- come upon to jersey barriers, road obstacles, etc. these are very specific things we are going to have to deal with as we go forward into the technologies, and our investments in technologies. i don't want to focus on the bullets that are in here, but moreover, there is a tremendous amount of investment and tremendous amount of capabilities that we deal with in the world that we work in, in my group, in autonomous systems, so commercial vehicle partnerships. we have several we have been working with. we work with the mining industry. and the work we are doing, we work with the railyard industries, so we go across the domains of all of the applications for transportation systems, and so it's very important, and i think it's important to this group that what we do is vitally important to not only the infrastructure and some of the conversations we've had over the last few days relative to what's important for us and what's important to lockheed martin, with respect to our investments, but moreover, what's important to solving the problem of transportation and innovation, which are very many of the things we are going to go deal with. so if you have got this chart up , here, these are a few of the that we are dealing with an commercial vehicle hour partnerships. the bottom line there is that we are dealing with and we have created a partnership with ford, so they have a very aggressive approach to getting their vehicles on the roads, getting to full autonomous capabilities between 2018 and 2021. these are vitally important to the group that we support. >> if you could wrap up, i want to make sure we have time for a least one or two questions. jamie: yes, yes. i'm sorry. i said i would go fast, right? safety. safety is of vital importance to what we do. working to standards, regina and i were talking about on the side, about making sure that we work standards and understand understand standards from the state and federal perspective, of how we go about making sure that we can trust the systems to work on our roads. and lastly, the thing i wanted to really impart upon the group is, we have a lot of partnerships relative to what we are doing in lockheed martin, and so these are here. so -- >> awesome. >> thank you both. [applause] >> we have time for about two questions. yes. >> thank you both for the good presentation. i completely agree this is an exciting time with autonomous vehicles. i remember when cruise control came out, and i was talking to my grandfather about it, he told me this wonderful joke about the first autonomous airplane. everyone got on and said, welcome to the first autonomous airplane. nothing can go wrong. nothing can go wrong. nothing can go wrong. [laughter] >> my question is we have the , internet of things, and we have these computers on wheels. are we keeping track with the cyber security in terms -- we can make these autonomous vehicles do amazing things, but we also keep track of cyber security at the same time, and your level of confidence with that? >> i'm happy to answer. regina: the answer is probably at this point, we need to be. right? because as testing continues , throughout the different test grounds, this has proven to be the most important issue. there's a difference between cyber and privacy, but both of them are extraordinarily important. i had one person say to me yesterday, where the great -- one of the great things about these particular vehicles is if you take large trucks and bridges, you can move a lot you , deal with an ability to move them at a less economic cost, more efficient way. but at the same time, it can also create a terrorism issue if right, if you don't know you are dealing with cyber issues. one of the things we are trying to do is pull together from a local, state, and federal perspective what the standards around cyber implications should be. we could literally be here another three hours, just going through all the various aspects of what those are. but i can tell you that last week, we are out in california rsa, which is a large outer ring of individuals on this issue. the answer is yes. people are working on it. we need to be very concerned ofut this issue now, and one the things governor mcauliffe is doing in putting forth the cyber initiative in bringing this to light, and now i'm glad to know we are going to be able to work with the governor and others in moving those issues forward. >> great. i know how much you have to get to the next session at 3:00 and , we have one special, important award. let me first thank regina and jamie. thank you for being here. regina: thank you. >> they will hopefully hang around a bit afterwards, if anybody has additional questions to come up and answer. turn it over to our great chair, terry mcauliffe from the great state of virginia. >> this has been a great three days, very informative, exciting. i first want to thank all of the mga staff and -- the nga staff. i want to thank our great ceo. this is not easy putting all these schedules together. if we could give him a great round of applause. [applause] >> we look forward to seeing everybody in road island. -- rhode island. tomorrow we will be on capitol hill all day with leadership. tomorrow morning we will be at the white house with the president for an early morning meeting and all day in the afternoon with congressional leadership to go over issues in health care, cyber security, and others. i appreciate all the great work . 3:00 to 3:30 today, governors only with the director of the national security agency upstairs. we will move that immediately. before i adjourned, i do have special presentation. onecome on up governor branstad. , [applause] so, on behalf of the national governors association, we would like to commend the governor of iowa, 1985 through 1999, 2001 through 2017, the longest-serving governor in the history of the united states of america for his outstanding leadership and dedication to the vision that has guided the association since its founding in 1908. so, let's give a great round of applause to governor terry branstad. [applause] and now, i formally adjourn the meeting of the 2017 winter meeting of the national governors association. >> congratulations. [indistinct conversation] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] ♪ >> the nation's governors were in washington, d.c. this weekend for their annual winter meeting. today's session included at a job growth.n among the speakers, former white house economic adviser, jason furman, who