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Build upon and leverage what were doing here. Communications, that was one of the first things. Its different with our active duty forces because you see here, we send our aircraft all around the world. We cant necessarily just invest in some components in the aircraft and call it good because those assets may be gone and deployed but we have work arounds for that. We are looking forward to that as well in addition to the training. Lastly is we again kind of relish the opportunity to participate...

But we have work arounds for that. We are looking forward to that as well in addition to the training. Lastly is we again kind of relish the opportunity to participate in the operations against an active enemy. At least here, its fire. We appreciate the fact we can go ahead and enter a Tactical Command air control. Those are operations that are familiar to us and they are, its a great exercise for us tactically as well. We are able to integrate with cal fire itself with the objective being the f...

Friends and neighbors. Sustainment is, its important to us and well maintain it especially on the region side. Were able to have these longstanding relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the ongoing efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. Just to follow on that, the Navy Squadrons that provide Fire Fighting capability are a combination of active and reserve components. One benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in...

This is a few miles. That would be a cool ride. And your short excursion would take you around the moon and back. Ok, im going to talk about Lessons Learned in my career. Informal chats are more effective than formal meetings. I have always found that it be of a meeting with a lot people and youre sitting down, the meeting is not worthwhile. This is a chat at oshkosh. People want to understand about airplanes. They want to share stories about the airplane they are flying. I said, lets just have ...

Fires in california, but if you look at a global disaster perspective where you have a hundred thousand victims like a tsunami or a large scale event, we have yet to experience that in this nation. I think the agreements we have here today and the relationships we develop today are going to be key to mitigate that. The other scenario that we are concerned with is a coordinated aerial incendiary attack by al qaeda. One of the things weve seen already in the European Union is suspect of al qaeda s...

Vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u. S. Forest service. So twofold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a Public Education stand point. What we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be selfsustaining and selfsupporting. They need to be prepared. We try to educate them in respect that we say well provide the offense, you p...

Communication but the iceu, which is a mobile communications platform, is ideal in events like this to push out to help. Any other questions . I have one. Back in 1992 when it was a big fire season and there was a lot of grass, they came to us and i was down at Camp Pendleton and they asked us it train marines on shovel work. What happened about 6 months later, they ended up sending two battalions to yellowstone. I havent heard any discussion at all, do you expect the military, the guard or the ...

Aerospace safety advisory 2013, they recommended for that competition be maintained until safety is achieved. With these dealing safety considerations . If we are going keep the process open for competition, how do you inject safety . We put the competition in and write contracts that allow us to get into the facilities and levy additional regulations if necessary. We are confident right now. We just went through a contract process. It involves commercial crew capabilities. It is a contract that...

If i can get the chart up because it would be helpful. In order to get to mars, there are things we dont have. We do not have sufficient propulsion to take cargo there. To usenot want to have your crew vehicle to get cargo there. It would take multiple sls missions. We need increased capability and Something Like solar propulsion. We need to be able to test it. Our proving ground is the earth moon system, where we intend to take the asteroid so we can interact with it. We can fly orion there. We...

State. Its a dependable source of education for nasa. We have asked them to extend level,ork into they k12 where they were very comfortable at first, but as a result of working with us on the summer of innovation, which is probably where the young man in school has learned about Stem Education we now have a consortium. They are making sure it is in their states over a time. Do you expect that is going to be cut . No, one of the things i never have to worry about is weuctions in space grant. Ask ...