Regulator doesnt guarantee success when you transition to high technology. I want to follow up a little bit, if its okay . Go ahead. You go and i have a question for marla after that. All right. Sometimes its easy to blame congress on funding issues. But i also think when we started the process of next didnt gen there was a lot we didnt know. Theres been a sense we are ready to do nextgen. Its a matter of funding. As we have gone through the panels at an industry level, we recognize, boy, we need to really be careful here. We dont necessarily know. And so in some cases i think what i have heard from congress is, we would like next didngen. What do you need to make it a reality . Im not sure the faa or even the faa and industry together have always consistently arctticulat that. I dont think we have always said, if you give us an extra billion dollars, here is what we would buy, here is when we would deploy it, here is the benefits we would receive. That was particularly acute to me whe
The United States has the best air Transportation System in the world. Its kind of interesting, one thing that you emphasized, in all the work we do, and we all sit on a mutual Advisory Boards and technical committees and working groups and everything else, i think especially when you look at a board like i think folks kind of come in from a much more kind of performance based and outcome based objective as opposed to a lot of other groups where its something that is something that prompts them to kind of stake a position and kind of draw a little bit of a line in the sand. But i think that the one thing we can all agree on is that we have to do something, regardless if we just refine the system that we have or take a much more transformative approach. With that in mind, mel is right in the epicenter of where all this change is happening. Hes actually one of the agents of change management, and also the fellow that makes sure that the car still stays on the road, doesnt back up and doe
The Intelligence Community to try to increase the amount of transparency about what that community does but thats running against the culture of that community and its a challenge because there are legitimate security reasons you dont blab about what you do but i do think that the lessons the last two years are that to the extent to a much greater extent than in the past the Intelligence Community would benefit from Greater Transparency about what its doing and why. Which is easy to say and hard to do. Do any of our panelists have any comments on the usa freedom act pending in congress and the differences between the house and the Senate Version of the bill, one of our questions related to the provision thats not in the house bill but in the senate bill regarding the special advocate for to be present before the fisa court. There was a provision in the house bill thats somewhat different than the senate bill. So i mean the house bill also had its not exactly special advocate. What it i
To be our last question. Hi. Hows the reseptember economic struggles impacted how states align with federal support and ability of the federal government toates align with fe support and ability of the federal government to give support . So here is the bottom line. There is a lot of downward pressure economically at all levels of government. And so, states and their political subdivisions, we have seen an increase in request for federal assistance, both inside and outside of the disaster declarations, to help offset the impact on budgets. Ill give you a great example. When it snows, there is a need to do removal of snow and ice from the roads. One would expect that most states and local governments would plan and budget for that. As a policy matter we generally dont provide assistance for road treatment unless there is a record or near record know fall. That policy is meeting resistance because record or near record snow falls, governments are struggling to meet their snow removal bud
For example, if we have a Truck Company that needs training on how to drive trucks, it is it makes more sense if theyre driving trucks that they can also, for example, haul goods and water or whatever to benefit perhaps a relief effort than to just take their empty trucks and drive around in circles on a military base and benefit nobody but themselves, so, a lot of assistance is provided as an incident to training or operations. And the distinction there is that it has to be a training operation. The primary purpose is training and the incidental purpose is the assistance. Even though to the recipients of that assistance that may be everything in the world to them. But, again, for lawyers, you know, you have to carefully make sure that its captioned in the right terms because otherwise you run into fiscal issues when youre using training money for nontraining purposes and finally have state active duty. And thats per state law. And state law is a little different. Normally speaking the