[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning to this roundtable of the secretary of affairs will come to order. I want to welcome our participations we will call them, witnesses, where we have the honorable elaine duke, claire brady, george scott and john kelly from dhs, as well as the office of Inspector General. This roundtable is to discuss the attempt to reauthorize dhs, the house is past their bill and they had a memorandum of understanding to consolidate that entire process under the department or committee of Homeland Security in the house and its been a little more messier here in the senate which is not unusual in the Commerce Committee was taken up in past authorization of tsa and coast guard and we have a number of components and my staff keeps telling me the summer of 40 or percent and that is what we are here to talk about today. I think its accurate to say that with the house authorization does is and this is what we do in the
Fraction of a second. As the seat comes out and hits the wind blast, it begins to decelerate. If you wait just a fraction of a second before you put that main chute out, the seat has decelerated enough so when the force of the parachute comes out isnt as severe. To get to that solution, we are putting a switch on the side of the ejection seat, so when the pilot climbs up into the cockpit, can set that at heavyweight or lightweight. There are a number of ways we could have solved that problem. We could have put an automatic sensing system into the seat, much like when you sit in your car on the passengers side and the seat knows youre there and the air bag gets energized. We also could have put a switch on the seat that would have had the maintainers put it in the heavier or lightweight position. We went back to the war fighters and said, what solution do you want . We can solve this problem in a number of ways. They said we want the pilot to be responsible for moving that switch. We wa
Senator as chair of the joint board in the february open internet decision, the commission expressly extended the referral to the joint board. As you probably know under section 254 of the law, assessment for universal service is on the basis of interstate Telecommunication Services. And we are charged with making sure that that fund has specific, predictable, and sufficient support. The joint board is tasked with trying to figure out how to update that support mechanism, but the underlying terminology associated with Telecommunication Service is now the subject of litigation in the court of appeals. So the commission decided that it would defer decisionmaking on that until the Legal Environment is more stable. But pardon. Are you concerned that the title two order is not going to withstand litigation fully intact . Well, i have no crystal ball when it comes to the decisions of the dc circuit, i have confidence in our decision as it was made. We are resourceconstrained, it would not be
Could help the internet of things really flourish. Do you think that would be the main thing then that the fcc can do is to maybe step back to offer more encouragement in many of those areas . Yes, i dont think we should be overly aggressive at this point. I believe we should allow experimentation with the internet of things. And i think thats how well see its possibilities grow. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, senator fisher. Senator daines. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Its good to see you here today, commissioner. And good to see your family here as well. Caroline frances is one of my favorite girls name. We have a girl named caroline as well, shes now a big girl. And emmet joseph, thats a sharplooking tie as well. Thanks for coming to montana last month to participate in the telehill workshop, where im sure you saw firsthand the opportunities that technology truly can bring to Rural America. In your statement, the committee, you mentioned one of your Top P
We need them most. Second, universal access. No matter who you are or where you live in this country, for a fair shot at 21st century prosperity, you need accesccess firstrate modern communications. That means we need policies that foster deployment and adoption in urban areas, rural areas and in between. Third, competition. Competition increases innovation and lowers prices. Fourth, Consumer Protection. Communication services are multiplying, but the marketplace is also bewildering to navigate. So we should always be on guard for ways to help consumers make good choices. These values derive from the law and they have informed my work at the commission to date. In light of them, i am especially proud of Agency Efforts to strengthen 911 service, and i am proud of our work to increase access to broadband in schools and enhance opportunities for digital age education. I also believe our spectrum policies for licensed and unlicensed air waves have made our wireless markets competitive, inn