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
This hourlong event was cohosted by the air force association and Mitchell Institute for aerospace studies. The executive director, thanks to our panelists for making it here. The fall of the soviet union brought in a number of aircraft. Most some areas were reduced even further. There is the actual combat command the remaining aircraft. The capitalization efforts for to our delays, the trend that accelerated with 9 11. The notion of pure competition was provided with an updated way of king. Today the air force finds itself the smallest, oldest aircraft fleet and its history. Near the mission area with high demand with nonstate actors still posing a threat on the low end of the spectrum, nations like iran and north korea remain in contention, china and russia presenting a scale not seen since the cold war. There comes a point when a small number of aircraft can only be stretched so far. This is exactly what the secretary of the air force talked about when she made a for 386 operation s
That passed almost 200 days ago. With the Mass Shootings that weve seen. The fall of the soviet union, a number of aircraft fell. Like bombers reduced even further. Command withmbat y aircraft the capitalization efforts were too often delayed. A trend accelerated in the wake of 9 11. The notion of pure competition is an outdated way of thinking. Today, the smallest, oldest aircraft fleet in history. Area withry mission actor still posing an interior threat. Nations like iran and north korea. China and russia presenting threats on a scale not seen since the cold war. A smallmes a point when number of aircraft can only be stretched so far. What the airly force was talking about when she made her call for 386 operations squadrons. Congress was concerned about the size of the air force. Studies to multiple assess inventory requirements. That brings us to our panel here today. We are pleased to have mark and dave join us. A congressionally mandated effort. Also deputy chief of staff for str
Includes author interviews with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg on her book, my own words. The heartbeat of wounded knee. Sharon robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. Rick atkinson author of the british are coming and Thomas Malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super mines. The National Book festival Live Saturday august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on the tv on cspan2. In a short time ago President Trump sent out several tweets about china, the chinese ebony announced in response to u. S. Tariff hikes on chinese goods. China will impose additional tariffs on u. S. Goods worth about 75 billion starting september 1. Resident trump tweening our country has lost stupidly trillions of dollars for china over many years. They have stolen our intellectual property and rate of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and want to continue. I wont let that happen. We dont need china and frankly would be far better off without them. Vast a
Politics and prose. We welcome all of you as does our fabulous staff. Before we get started, i just want to mention a few housekeeping matters. If you do have a cell phone or device that may make in our own welcome, please silence it. We would appreciate that. I also would invite you if you have a question to please come to the microphone right here. We are videotaping this. We also have cspan here. Its really helpful if people can hear the questions. Lastly, you do not need to fold up your chairs at the end. Usually we ask you to, but, but we do have more events today. Please just leave them. Alex will do a signing at the end. I think you have seen his book right here. Its terrific. We have plenty of copies. I hope you will buy it. Its upfront if you havent had a chance to pick it up yet. Lastly, for those who are using our coffee shop and know its under renovation, we have installed a temporary coffee cart downstairs that is operating during the day. If you are feeling desperately in