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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] my name is david tula, dean of the institute for aerospace studies. Joining me is cohost, the editor of war in iraq, ryan evidence. Our topic this morning is the future of air superiority. Over the next decade and a half, the United States is at risk of losing its ability to control the domain in combat. Budget pressure for delaying key investments are adversaries continue to advance. With this in mind, Brigadier General alex brenna which led a...

With traffic. Lets check with the toll plaza here and quiet and nothing going on here. Its backed up beyond west grand and a little crowded here but not bad. Highway 4 recovering from two earlier accidents and the drive looks better to concord and at one point it was over an hour and a half and now to 40 minutes. So leave early this morning. We just updated it now, 16 minutes here and well have an update in a bit. 7 00 a. M. Now and teachers and students are concerned as they start a new school ...

Obviously are very personal opinions. As a member of our military, i truly believe that there are some things that are more important than me, which is why necessary, if sacrifice myself for the things that we believe in as americans, our constitution, freedom, democracy, our rights, our way of life. And i know that theres a certain amount of risk thats inherent in that, not necessarily as being a service member. But democracy is necessarily open. That is one of the Cultural Values that we have....

For his best friend. Steve admiral dave thomas, as you reflect on the morning of september 11th, 2001, how did your day begin . Admiral thomas i was in the navys defense review. I had been there for about well this was culminating an 18 month project. So ive been on the job for about 17 and a half months. My day began with a series of meetings and i was representing my boss in a meeting with another admiral in the pentagon. And we were discussing the navys contribution to National Defense and re...

You reflect on the morning of september 11, 2001, how did your day begin . Admiral thomas i was in the navys defense review. I had been there for about well there was a culminating 18month project. So i had been in the job for about 17 and a half months. My day began with a series of meetings and i was representing my boss in a meeting with another admiral in the pentagon. And we were discussing the navys contribution to National Defense and really just putting the finishing touches on our input...

In 2015,pa december, as it relas to jcpoa. I specifically want to point to negotiations that went on from november 30th through the passage of the omnibus. These were negotiations between the white house, state department, Homeland Security and members of the house and senate. During on New Hampshire 30th, dhs asked to travel in the post 2011 time frame. The negotiations went on for quite n some time on november 1, december 1st, december 1st, december 2nd, december 3rd and agreements finally rea...

Its really going to depend on the local environment. So, how how about southwest florida . Well, this is one of the reasons we need a supplemental to give resources so we can look at mosquito populations, trap them, analyze them and then sometimes larva siting can have an impact on mosquito populations. Your point is quite correct that the outdoor spraying may have limited impact, if any, on the mosquito population, but were looking at different ways of doing mosquito control. And in some circum...

With republicans on. And theres also some increased money for things like Cancer Research and clean energy. The cancer part is of course associated with Vice President bidens Moonshot Initiative and that is one of the other things that the omb, office of management and budget within the white house has said they hope they can work with republicans on. Just to give an idea here, this is usually they try to target initiatives like these like rifle shots. These are arguably even tinier than rifle s...

Likely drive the focus of our planning, programming and budgeting processes. The first two challenges were considered to be the most significant shift in the future security environment and that is to return to an era of great power competition. Today we are faced by a resurgent russia and rising china. Both are nuclear powers. Both are fielding advanced capabilities at a rapid rate. Both are permanent members of the u. N. Security council and both take issue with some aspects of the principled ...

Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us as we roll out the fy 2017 Defense Budget. The Defense Budget request totals 523. 9 billion in discretionary funding for our billion in and 58. 8 overseas Contingency Operations for a total of 582 billion. That sustains the National Defense strategy and the figures conform to the budget levels found in the bipartisan budget agreement. When building this program that informs the budget that we are going to talk to you about today , secretary car...