Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birthday. Today admiral zukunft will discuss the challenges for the coast guard such as congressional budget struggles a welldebated Cyber Security plan, maintaining a zero tolerance for Sexual Assault and a fleet in high need of modernization and sheer numbers to tackle the next 225 years. Please give a warm National Press club welcome to the commandant of the United States coast guard admiral paul zukunft zukunft. [ applause ] jeff, thank you for the flattering introduction, and i had a chance to m
Hamiltons vision is alive and well because his letter to those commanders resonates with each and every person in the coast guard. Ill now read my notes no, actually im done with that. And what id like to do is open it up to question and answer. [ applause ] and now the fun part. Some of the questions have been quite interesting, admiral. Lets see. Senate Armed Services Committee Members are concerned that russia has 40 arctic icebreaker ships and america has one. Is that going to change and when . I know you addressed that a bit earlier. Yeah. So as i stand before you today, i have one of my vice admirals is with the National Security staff up in the arctic to see firsthand what some of the challenges are up there. When youre up in barrow, alaska, you now see berms being built because you used to have a natural berm, a barrier, if you will, by all of the ice. So youre seeing a lot of coastal erosion. Youre seeing a nearly threefold increase in human activity up there, but you look at
Are moving away from a hardwareladen approach to more software to having digital things early in the cycle. Thats kind of like maybe a crude summary of what you said, but can you elaborate on what you need by that and implications for how the u. S. Does business in that field . Because the three questions were put so succinctly. There was one more hand and ill bring that into the mix and then well just wrap up. Hi. My name is steve barron. Im a soldier and defense fellow though my remarks are my own here. Would i like to see if i can get remarks specifically as they relate to 3d printing and energetic materials. As we look forward we head a lot of discussion about cold. Ry and carts i was wondering with airdrop munitions so they can be more tailored and adapt adaptable and more efficiently placed in the hands of the war fighters. To kind of zero in, opportunities and efforts, whats going on right now that you know of merits of this kind of research and effort and lastly Defense Industr
Students going why are we here were supposed to talk about race this is really hard. The other student said because you came because this is the first time and maybe the only time you wouldve talk to someone that looks like me. So, i see hope. These are not always for everyone. I do not think you have to worry as much about getting everyone in the conversation as starting the conversation, and bringing the students in an wielding these conversations out with real in and wielding these conversations out. If we think every time we meet we have to change the curriculum or redo everything, we will not make progress, but its every time we meet we have an income until idea, we try it, tested, put it back in place, students will come, start believing in the process. I think carolina conversations is one step and stay tuned i will come back next year and tell you about the rest. It is pretty important. I think almost every campus in america is probably going to be doing something more trying S
Second, they may be inhibiting their ability to explore world markets. And i dont care what country you are, even if the Global Economy is bigger than you are. Dont cut yourself off from access to it. The same message needs to get to the european who is are struggling with a Single Market which at the same time may be accidentally preventing themselves from participating in a Global Market and letting the Global Market participate in the european one. So my message has always been economic. It is in your interests, mr. President , to invest in the internet, to keep it as open as possible and to allow your creative population to make use of it. No country has a corner on creativity and invention. Its uniformly distributed throughout the population of the world. Its just that the people with these ideas dont always have the wherewithall and support in order to explore those ideas. I will give you as a concrete example of that, how many folks come from india to the Silicon Valley or seatt