Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v
Week on the communicators. Mr. Purdy, what do you do for huawei as chief Security Officer . Guest my primary role is interval although ive been doing more extra things in the last six to 12 months but my responsibilities have to do with sharing a committee of the key parts of the company in the United States that tries to assess and manage and control risk, help support our overall ethics and Compliance Program so we can make sure we protect huawei, protect our customers and continue to do business and manage cybersecurity privacy risk. Host what is huaweis legal and commercial status in the u. S. Right now . Guest its kind of the moving target. We have National Defense authorization act. We have pending rulemaking pursuant to an executive order. Right now we cant sell to the u. S. Government. We cant sell to use contractors, and theres pressure for our small carrier customers, wireless and wireline customers, to rip out huawei gear. So theres legislation pending that would provide fun
Economic opportunity of jobs, of Educational Opportunities for our kids and these counted cuttingedge innovations we hear about cognitive cars to cities and the internet wont work or wont work well without 5g. A lot of things we have to do right and government to secure u. S. Leadership in 5g. One goes to your question which is spectrum. We have to put out a lot of new spectrum bands to enable all of these great new inventions to work on a 5g platform. See ban is one component of that which touches on what we called mid ban spectrum. The secure 5g leadership we need low ban, mid ban and a high ban. This announcement is a good win for the u. S. By pushing more mid ban spectrum out there into the marketplace. Host isnt that mid ban spectrum being used by Satellite Companies . Guest all the spectrum we had is being used by someone right now but the question is how do we make sure we put it to its highest and best use. The idea were putting forward at the fcc is a way to protect and preser
Digital affairs. Fcc for greater access, the latest attempt to fight sanctions, but does that have legs . Our top story. Back to amazon. Bloomberg has learned investigators are looking into its massive Cloud Computing business. Sources say the agency has been asking Software Companies about practices around aws. The unit is one of the backbones of the internet and has a Cloud Computing market share of 50 . Rival microsoft is 16 . Anning us to discuss is analyst from rbc capital markets, and in washington, the person who helped to write the story. Regulatorsprised seem to be looking at almost every portion of amazons business . I think this is as surprise. Complaints about amazons Retail Business are well known. Independent sellers have been talking about ways they think the company is not treating them fairly on this platform, but complaints about age of u. S. Have been quieter, so the fact they have seized this as an area of concern is significant, especially because aws is such a lar
Digital tax when we talk to the countrys minister of digital affairs. Tech giant huawei sues the fcc for greater access, the latest attempt to fight sanctions, but does the case have legs . Our top story. Crackdownovernments on big tech and back to amazon. Bloomberg has learned investigators are looking into its massive Cloud Computing business. Sources say the agency has been asking Software Companies about practices around Amazon Web Services. The unit is one of the backbones of the internet and has a Cloud Computing market share of more than 50 . Its next biggest rival, microsoft, is 16 . Joining us to discuss is an analyst from rbc capital markets, and in washington, the person who helped break the story. Are you surprised regulators seem to be looking at almost every portion of amazons business . I think this is a surprise. Complaints about amazons Retail Business are well known. Independent sellers have for years now been talking about ways they think the company is not treating