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I was telling my kids about this conference yesterday and they were reminding me of the movie back to the future and that wonderful moment where marty mcfly is talking to the scientist professor and he asked him something about the future. And he said in the future, Ronald Reagan will be president. He said, the movie actor . That is crazy. Our politics have changed. We have a wonderful panel here, for superb, exciting papers that do fit together, it will be my job to talk about that in the discu...

I was telling my kids about this conference yesterday and they were reminding me of the movie back to the future and that wonderful moment where marty mcfly is talking to the scientist professor and he asked him something about the future. And he said in the future, Ronald Reagan will be president. He said, the movie actor . That is crazy. Our politics have changed. We have a wonderful panel here, for superb, exciting papers that do fit together, it will be my job to talk about that in the discu...

Find it so strange. He seems so normal in contrast to our politicians today. We have a wonderful panel here, four really suburb original exciting papers that do fit together. Thats going to be my thought to talk about that a little bit. Each speaker will present for 13 to 15 minutes, 15 minutes maximum. I will cut them off at that point if that go beyond 15 minutes. Ill give comments for five, six minutes and then well open it up for discussion from the entire audience. We have a lot of experts ...

Find it so strange. He seems so normal in contrast to our politicians today. We have a wonderful panel here, four really suburb original exciting papers that do fit together. Thats going to be my thought to talk about that a little bit. Each speaker will present for 13 to 15 minutes, 15 minutes maximum. I will cut them off at that point if that go beyond 15 minutes. Ill give comments for five, six minutes and then well open it up for discussion from the entire audience. We have a lot of experts ...

Question who is working at their homes. And big plans for the far east. Norths koreans are celebrating the birthday of previous leader kim jung il. The launch is widely regarded as a long range Ballistic Missile test. People laid flowers at the foot of kim jung ils statue. His birthday is a national holiday. State run tv aired a performance an all women band at an event to celebrate the launch of the rockets. Kim jung il was lauded for making north korea a Nuclear State with the possession of sa...

Xray imaging of the containers, whether it is high, medium, or low energy, it still takes human intervention to analyze the results of that scam. So you have a radiation portal monitor that is a very ineffective and passive system and will tell you if there is a source emanating from the container of concern. You then need to take it the 2nd step to have the Xray Technology see what is inside. Most countries in the world use a risk approach like we do and only inspect those highest of concern th...

Enforcement, technology, and intelligence to detect, deter, and interdict potential threats. Treaties and agreements with foreign governments to conduct corporate enforcement efforts at force overseas. The last five years to successfully enter for attempts by criminal gangs with suspected russian ties. We can talk about that either in this panel on the next. The successful disruption of the sale was a positive result, however the desire to obtain materials for a dirty bomb or the extreme materia...

Our borders from other transnational threats, our operation is based on layered security where we attempt and i have described earlier some of the partnerships that we have with regard to Port Security to inspect port facilities for their security regime overseas. With regard to specifically the source and transit zone for narcotics we also have significant partnerships with countries in south and Central America that allow us to board their flag vessels on the high seas, recognizing that many o...

Devices to alert the team to the prejudic presence of radiation. In 2004 we developed a maritime Radiation Detection program and maintain a close relationship to standardize the equipment and enhance the National Capacity for detection with multiple levels of capability including the ability to reach back to scientific experts for more information. We do this in conjunction with cbp and with tsas visible intermodal response. Many of our units including our coastwide sectors and our Deployable Sp...

Tests. These tests found problems with officer noncompliance with policy, equipment failures, an officer error due to lack of training. We followed up on systemic corrective make sure actions were taken. They did not consistently track to fix problems. We recommended that they do so, and they have actions underway to do that. Mr. Chairman, in some respects our findings mirror some of the themes we have seen over the past several years. In general, the u. S. Has made significant process combating...