Atlantic council. Good morning thank you for joining us for todays events. I am christopher director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative here at the Atlantic Council. Its my distinct pleasure to welcome you women peace and security and shifting Security Landscapes. Todays event is cohosted by the Atlantic Council Transatlantic Initiative and the strategy and security. Our secure future women make a difference. The center works to sustainable outline partisan strategies to address the most important security challenges facing the United States its allies and partners we honor the legacy this ethos of nonpartisan commitment to the cause of security support for u. S. Leadership cooperation partners and dedication to the mentorship of the next generation of leaders. In keeping with this mission are trans atlantic Security Initiative shapes and influences a debate the greatest security challenger space in the north atlantic and lions alliance and its key partners. Our partners for toda
Everyone in this room is so incredibly efficient. [applause] very excited to be here these past the first test. I am 2024 president of the american society. I want to thank our distinguished guests for joining us today. We have rick larson Ranking Member of the house transportation and infrastructure. I am very excited to continue to Work Together historic Infrastructure Investments Congress Passed and they are working to ensure implementation make sure of the success. We published yesterday in the Infrastructure Investment need to act on federal investment will protect the industries from losing more than 1 trillion in economic output and help avoid more than 600 billing dollars and gives American Families an additional 550 billion in disposable income. I could use that, i dont know about you guys. 237,000 american jobs for the same. The right path for improving Critical Infrastructure network but our work is not done. We regard to keep this economic ecosystem an attractive investment
That may or may not exist, but certainly, the u. S. Has tried to be as transparent as possible with regard to Space Programs explaining even in the face of narratives that certain of our capacities are weaponized when theyre not, so i would refer you to some of the Good Communications what were doing in space, the clarification and transparency provided both by the space force you can finish watching this at cspan. Org. We are going 0 to take you to an infrastructure conference. Live coverage on cspan2. Inside this beautiful space, thank you all for taking the time this morning to be here with us. I love seeing a room starting to get slowly filled up with a bunch of infrastructure nerds like myself. Thank you, fantastic. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024, exciting, yes, amazing. [applause] im ross, leading from my post at accelerator for more action. And many of you have been with us since we take the rains two years ago, a fantastic two years leading this wonderful coalition of orga
The supply channel start immediately after this panel so we dont have movement back and forth between rooms while the supply chain people see the partnership otherwise known as cfat will happen after the drone panel. We are doing that because we want there to be adequate time for this panel which we are delighted with. I want to thank the colonel for being the injury behind putting this panel together because we thought about the panel. Thanks to your persistance we have a topic that is interesting. People look out to see the geese and i am fine with them. But like this can be a different issue. We are delighted to start this panel. I want to make one more reminder to you which is our Cocktail Reception will follow after the panel and if you have not had a chance to mix and mingle hopefully some of the faculty will stay. We have in access of 80 faculty so hopefully some of them will stay and cards can be exchanged if you are in private practice or government. To that end, we are always
The countrys borders as a way to protect u. S. Citizens privacy. So Higher Standards have accompanied the collection of information on citizens on domestic soil under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. The problem is that our communications no longer stay window midwest i can bounds. So in 2008 the government made a strong argument that it didnt make sense any more that if communications outside the United States, if you had a bad guy in london calling a bad guy in paris, traditionally under fisa you dont need to go to the court to get a warrant but now if those same two actors use email and it happens to go through the United States, the government has to go to a court to intercept those communications. A very strong argument for 2008 fisa amendments act. The problem is it works two ways. Now if im sitting in this room and i email jen and it goes internationally, now it can be collected. So data is not territorial and not bound by countries borders in the way traditionally wev