Long as they are present in the hearings to be counted and members are responsible for your own microphone so please keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. Finally, if they wish to submit documents for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing and thank you all for joining us. So good morning everyone and welcome to todays remote hearing on our support healthy air travel, to support healthy air travel in the covid19 era and beyond. I like to welcome our witnesses and thank you all for being here. Marshall air travel is an essential part of the fabric of our society and economy. It employs a Critical Role in business, commerce, education, travel and tourism. We take for granted that we can now easily travel vast distances by air and reach destinations that were once reserved for imagination. And just over a century, air travel moved from our imagination to a reality that has changed the way we interact with
Eastern. Next, representatives from the faa and the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration join two assistant transportation secretaries to talk about new technology and government regulation. The Transportation Research board hosted this event. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. I hope youre all doing very well today. We are all very much excited to be here with you. On behalf of secretary elaine chao. To present to you on laying the foundation for advanced Transportation Technology. Ill let our panelists introduce themselves in a moment. We want to let you know we appreciate you. Youre a critical audience for us representing researchers and thinking that goes into laying the foundation for a lot of tho these advanced transportation technologies. Trv is a fantastic event. People who attend trv tend to be a wonkier crowd. Understand what were saying more times than not. Hearing from you helps inform everything were doing. Were very much looking forward to this panel today. W
Welcome the Senior Vice President of seatac at the us chamber of commerce. Good morning great to be here, great to see you. I want to thank christian and his team for organizing such an excellent program. I have enjoyed working with christian on a number of important issues to seatac and our Member Companies but at seatac the Chamber Technology Engagement Center we are working to establish a National Data privacy standard that protects allamericans equally and promote policies that enable emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, Automated Vehicles and Unmanned Aircraft to thrive. Our goal is to see a workforce that is skilled and prepared for the digital economy. A Common Thread running through our work is the issue of data. Without a thriving Martin Communications network none of this is possible and that is why i am happy to be here today to introduce chairman ajit pai. He is the son of immigrants the rose through Harvard University and the university of chicago law school
Welcome the Senior Vice President of seatac at the us chamber of commerce. Good morning great to be here, great to see you. I want to thank christian and his team for organizing such an excellent program. I have enjoyed working with christian on a number of important issues to seatac and our Member Companies but at seatac the Chamber Technology Engagement Center we are working to establish a National Data privacy standard that protects allamericans equally and promote policies that enable emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, Automated Vehicles and Unmanned Aircraft to thrive. Our goal is to see a workforce that is skilled and prepared for the digital economy. A Common Thread running through our work is the issue of data. Without a thriving Martin Communications network none of this is possible and that is why i am happy to be here today to introduce chairman ajit pai. He is the son of immigrants the rose through Harvard University and the university of chicago law school
Developing space projects. Please welcome christian, the executive director, procurement council, u. S. Chamber of commerce. Good morning. And welcome to the u. S. Chamber of commerce and to launch the space economy, our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are a team effort and we deeply appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrup, rocket lab, oneweb, hawkeye 360 and ascent. We have been busy over the past year from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and the orbit assurance, to opportunity aboard the iss and future gateway. And we even convened the need for greater use of space enabled surveillance of the water ways. The procurement and council has an ever expanding set of policy pursuits. Fortunately, we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo here at the chamber. Tom donohue wrote an article, he wrote, harnessing the economic expansion of space is no easy feat. It took years for the maritime system and nearly a hundred years for