Thats our homeland, our way of life. I think the answer my personal answer is yes. And so im an optimist about this. Not without our challenges. We continue to deal with those challenges. Weve got the best and brightest people. I can tell you. I wish you could meet a lot of them. Phenomenal people working these issues. Im really proud to work with them and be their deputy director. Im humbled to do that. Theyre doing some really important work. And i thank you all again for your contribution to this debate debate. Look forward to your questions. Thank you very much. Were going to open up the questions. I think weve heard now repeatedly just how much the how much the conversations changed in the past decade and change. That its no longer a question of whether, but how and what way and talk about if you walked through just many of the systems that were actively deploying. I guess one word that didnt come up is sequestration, that 13letter word. And given everything budget wise, i wonder
Any capability, maybe not designed to catch every single thing that they could lob at us. But long enough to buy our leaders some time to be able to make an assessment and have options, if you will. The nation would have options. So i continue to believe that were on the right path. Thats part of a larger continuum of capabilities. And i dont think we ever want to give up on the idea that we have some capability in the Missile Defense tool kit. All right. I think well take one more question right here. Wait for the mike. Yeah. Im anna wilderman. For the first and only time in history, i attended the 35th reunion of the graduates of the Philippines Science High School 1970, and this is, i call it learning trips, okay . And this is what i learned because theyre assessing, because im an american, okay. And this is a reminder to me by the general, joint chiefs and economic minister, remind the americans that to us zerobased budget is zero, nothing. We dont have anything to spend at the end
They are they are becoming a critical partner for International Cooperation as well. One of our most significant cooperative efforts in codevelopment is with the advanced version of the sm3, the 2a, and that is being produced in japan. South korea is obviously has an immediate proximate stake in preventing missile strikes from north korea. Weve worked closely with south korea to ensure that as an alliance we can maintain the capacity to do that. Ive already talked about some of the things we bring to south korea. Patriot pac 3 batteries to defend both our forces deployed there as well as south korean forces, but south korea is also taking steps to enhance its own air and Missile Defense, including sea and landbased sensors, upgrading its patriot missiles and also pursuing its on indigenous korean air and Missile Defense capability. U. S. And australia, long Cooperation Partnership on Missile Defense research and development, most notably with regard to sensors. In the middle east we ha
Government shutdown, but more and more lawmakers are making another offer in the meantime. Danielle leigh joins us on capitol hill with that. Reporter good morning. So many federal workers arent getting paid so we. Ed to find out what are lawmakers while the shutdown continues. At least 108 of them have said they will go without pay as long as the shutdown continues. 56 republicans, 52 democrats and among those are five lawmakers from maryland and virginia. One is eric cantor is refusing pay. Also john delaney says hes going to donate his pay to charity. Tim kain is asking his salary be withheld. Now if youre wondering why with the shutdown wasnt their salary removed, they are paid by mandatory funds, not discretionary funds. Live in capitol hill, im danielle leigh, back to you. 4 32. Leaders at university of District Of Columbia is trying to come up with a contingency plan. They held an emergency meeting last night. They received federal funding. Its the only Public University in the
So thank you. So we are at 1 30, so im going to draw us to a close. I want to thank my panelists here today. Thank all of you for being here and for your contributions today and for, most importantly, for the work that provides the basis for you to comment today. I want to thank don graves for being with us and setting the stage so nicely. Thank the annie e. Casey foundation for their support for this event. I want to note a couple things. One is that the papers and not just the microenterprise ones, but there is a web site, big ideas for jobs. Org, and you can find all of the papers there. We are the second event here at aspen focusing on a couple other papers for the series. Theyre not focused specifically on the opportunities and policies that could support the work that social enterprises do, that anchor institutions like hospitals and educational institutions and others can do to create jobs, again, specifically focused on individuals and communities that have the largest challeng