Transcripts For CSPAN Health And Homeland Security Meeting 2

End. We talk about a meteor hitting the earth. This time there is a top of a meteoric destroying the earth. One of lincolns friends is certain it is going to happen. Lincoln chide him about it 12 years later. He tries hard to get this job. He fails. It is a good thing. Not counting he is the Republican Party are moving this. He probably never becomes president. He went back to his hotel room. He cannot move. He thought it was the end of his career. As we all know, history has Something Better in store. He ends up leaving washington. He went as though something happen. He arrived in washington in 1847. Today at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Cspan is like today at the National Governors Association Meeting here in washington, d. C. A discussion about Cyber Security. Martin omalley will be heading of the discussion. We would hear from the person in charge of Information Security from the web site zappos and the chief Security Officer for the state of michigan. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan. [general conversations, in audible] like the good afternoon. This meeting is called to order. Thank you for joining us. The books were sent to governors in advance and include the agenda and background information. The proceedings are open to the press and all attendees. If you all please take a moment to ensure that your cell phones and other Electronic Devices are silenced. I would like to compliment governor omalley. It is a privilege and an honor to serve with you, sir. Before moving on to state and Cyber Security, we will begin with an executive briefing on the nationwide safety of a Broadband Network. Last Year Congress passed legislation to reallocate the radio spectrum to Public Safety and provide 7 billion to Fund Construction of the first inoperable Broadband Network for Public Safety. This is intended to modernize communications by giving First Responders reliable access to Broadband Technologies like video and email. This also established the First Responder Network Authority to oversee the construction and maintenance of the nationwide network. As they continue to develop and construct a nationwide network, the governors will be required to make the decision of whether to move forward or to offset out and construction there own network that meet the requirements for an opera ability upper ability operability. Mr. Finn has worked here for more than four decades. Beginning in 1960 as an engineer with at t. He won in he went on to serve as chairman from 1988 to 1984. He is currently a Senior Adviser at green hill and has served on several boards. He will be providing an overview of the conceptual design. We will also discuss how they intend to engage was state to ensure the nationwide network is a success. Hes also joined here today by several other members in our audience. Fire chief jeff johnson. New york city deputy chop spoke to the governors about the importance of this meeting. Mr. Ginn, we are pleased to have be here to discuss plans for the network and how states can Work Together to ensure the success. But after know. Thank you. It is a real pleasure to be here. I would like to think nga, heather, and her staff and all of the governors to worse on the passing of this legislation. It actually allocated 7 billion so that we can engineer a nationwide network that is interoperable, secure, reliable, and most of all, local control. If you think conceptually about what were trying to do here, we are trying to put wiffi across your entire state and then you can plug in the capabilities you want and the degree to which you want them and the amount you want them to run your state. It is important to say this. The first question we typically get is this is going to be a nationwide network and we will lose local control and we will not be able to run our own operations. That is that conceptually what we are talking about here. We are are detecting a national network. That is the only way you can get into our ability not only from police to fire to emergency to medical but across state lines. If you send a crew from my home state of alabama to colorado to fight a forest fire, you want the instrument they take with them. The Communication Systems to be able to work when they get to the colorado fire. This takes on a new term here. To do this we are going to need your help and your cooperation. We have a significant Outreach Program that were putting in place that asks you to appoint a state coordinator. We are going to come out and make a number of visits to your state. It is very important that we understand the facilities that you have and the requirement that you want so we can take those back and feed them into a national architecture. When you think about it, this is the Largest Telecommunications projects in the history of the United States. It is going to cover every square meter of land in the United States. It is going to be able to penetrate the basement of manhattan and cover the forest fires in sierra nevada. We have an enormous challenge before us here to construct this network. You have to be a part of its. You have to make sure that we understand what your boots are and we can construct the system to meet your needs. I need to say a word about the board. I could say it is a wonderful combination of people from Public Safety and private equity. On the technical side, you can have confidence in our technical capability. We have people that have built a wireless systems all across the United States. They have a belt systems in spain, italy, japan, korea, and india. And probably a few that i have forgotten. I want you to have confidence that we have the Technical Expertise to deliver this system to you. What you need to do for us is make sure we understand your needs. Another point i would like to make is one that may be not so obvious. This system and biz transformational. This system transformational. You have been pushing for voice transformations. What we are going to do is put a massive data capability right at the Public Service working level. What that will do is allow you to develop services that will lower the cost, and answer your customers better. Let me give you a simple example of a situation in california that happened a few months ago. It was a fire chief in a restaurant. A person had a heart attack and died in the same restaurant. Had he known about it he felt he may be could have saved a life. Es went back to his cpr classi and as civilian volunteers if they would volunteer to let a dispatcher know of the location so that when another call comes in the dispatcher can look up and call the closest person to the heart attack victim and essentially have a better chance of serving saving their lives. That is a simple application. My prediction to you is that a decade from now you will have thousands of those applications and that it in your Public Safety experience. It will transform how youve served your citizens, the cost structure, and the service capability. I encourage all of you to work with us, be our partner, help us define the requirements of this system. We know how to architect it. It will be a good job. Thank you, governor, for this opportunity. Do you have any questions on firstnet . This was a big win for this organization. Democratic and republican governors came together with our organizations, Law Enforcement, and First Responders to make sure this was reserved for perce responders so we could finally build out an this. Thank you for this and for the panel you have convened. As i understand, at 7 billion, has that been appropriated or are we using a different spectrum to borrow money to get the 7 billion . Does it cover the cost . Can you give us the time frames. Fit to be a and coulthis, key component to have a sitting governor on the committee it would be a key component to have a sitting governor on the committee. I would do the first part. In response to the funding, the legislation that read all reallocated this it did so. It is not a new revenue. It is going to be auctions conducted by the federal communications commission. The proceeds will be provided as having been a dedicated specifically to fund the nationwide network. There may be additional funds. 7 billion is currently earmarked. They also directed treasury to loan us 2 billion to get the project started until the options came to take place. Are we selling part of that d block . But what are we taking from this . Is a totally different sections. It is other spectrums that will be auctioned for commercial purposes. In terms of representation, although it is not a bad idea, i appreciate the outrage youre asking for. I think that is your request of us today. How do we stay involved in terms of governors . The board appointments are made by the department of commerce. The next time there will be a couple of openings, they are one, too, or three years. This is something that is dependent upon the department of congress. We do not have a current or former governor on that. What we have done is to advocate with the board. They have been happy to work with us. We are on the executive committee for the Public Safety advisory committee. N ga holds one of the vice chair seats. Just to follow up, it would be great to have a governor on the board. In terms of timing, what is happening in the next year . Is it a threeyear plan . Give me a sense of where this is going, at the timing of the state to present grant requests. Is it half now or half later . The grants are handled by ntia. You will be getting funds to organize with in your state to communicate. This has been an interesting experience. I am at a commercial guy. I am not accustomed to working in the government world. It is an interesting experience. We started out with a board of directors that no employees. And no Strategic Plan and no management systems, and nothing. We have been in existence for four or five months now. Were beginning to put those structures in place. We are coming on very nicely. We have the Technical Expertise to get this done. The other thing i want to mention is conceptually we are a company with a board of directors owned by the government with some independence to build the system. I think that is important. I think you are right. The board of directors are in a position to greatly influence this. We are developing requirements. We have a basically architect ied the system. We know what it will look like and now we need to build in the pieces. We should be able to do that within the first year. Thank you. Thank you for that. I think there is a lot to this. I think have their will have heather will have to see how we can be actively involved. To the expense looks extraordinary to me, especially in wyoming, which is one of the most rural states in terms of our population and land mass. When we talked about opt in or opt out, when gov. Omalley worked on the d block issue, and the concept is very important. The details will be important. Our objective is to cover you do not hear me say our objective is to cover every square plans. It is 65 or 70 . If you can do that in wyoming, youre making tracks that have not been made before. It is going to be a challenge. We may do that by satellite. Thank you. Any more questions . With the state and local authorities have control over this in their state . That is part did the criteria part of the criteria. As those this is another part, it because of Broadband Services will be less than the current ones . There is no reason why they should not be. The couple of reasons why he probably you probably pay 5x. We will have failed if we do not build this cheaper than you can build it. As we are building this out, there will still be the expenses that state and local governments have to come with the dollars in order to build up their own. I hope theres some accommodation. If we are going to control this with in the local and state, i hope youll give us the capacity to give us priority to give us the preempt and allow us to raise 7 at local level so we can invest. Could be individual states to do that better in negotiation with at t or sprint or verizon . Could we cut a better deal nationwide . You want to put the savings back into this structure. Which then goes back to the fact we should have a governor on the panel. Ricoaetna she said puerto was included. On behalf of my colleagues, territories are included. Thank you. Lonely are all connected, we will get through these nuances. Anything else . Thank you very much. Thank you for your comment. We should consider sending out another letter. This will be an issue in terms of maximizing the value of this and whether it becomes something that is intercepted by the governments, whether we actually have it so we can in chief interoperability among our First Responders. The next topic which is going to be the balance of this meeting. Were also joined from the governor of arizona and we think her work on these issues. Be we have a number of distinguished presenters here he will be talking to us about the Cyber Security imperative that we face as a nation and as a state. Last month Janet Napolitano warned that a cyber 9 11 could happen at any moment with the potential to cripple our nations technical bridge. There have been attacks on Cyber Networks that have increased the frequency, that have increase in their sophistication and have the potential to inflict more serious damage on our serious infrastructure such as our Water Treatment facilities and so on. Attacks have emerged as one of the nations greatest threat. It requires all levels of government to Work Together. All of our State Governments are the trustees of sensitive personal information. We control services for citizens, supporting a Emergency Response, supporting private sector partners. All of these things require a new level of vigilance in this era where people can potentially enter our networks, is still secret, and also leave back doors and other avenues that we may not have even anticipated in the future. In addition to, i also want to make this other announcement. There is no one size fits all solution. We recently announced the creation of the Resource Center for state Cyber Security. We want to thank our corporate sponsors, ibm, hewlettpackard, a semantic. Working with Public Safety entities in the private sector, it is the hope that this Resource Center will help examine the roles states can and should be planning to ensure the security of state based networks as well as keep Critical Infrastructure that impact the operations of our state and their economies. It is our hope they will identify best practices. We all like to be the best at doing something second. If someone has figured out how that is like accomplishing the research and development for those of us in State Government. We have one other announcement. Tomorrow wall governors are invited to a topsecret briefing from 4 00 to 5 00 p. M. It will build on a session today and will provide governors of information on the current cyber threat environment and how this thread may affect our states. I want to encourage all government urged governors to participate. It happens between our last meeting and when we are supposed to be at the formal dinner at the white house. I can assure you that anybody who comes in a tuxedo we will keep james bond jokes to a minimum when you show up. We have a number of export experts. I would like to ask governor stand of all for many opening remarks he may have on its Cyber Security. I appreciate the opportunity to give these remarks. Cyber is security is attack on the table on a daily basis. It is one of the most pressing issues we face. In addition to storing data, we rely on these to conduct activities including critical Homeland Defense in response operations. Improperly coordinated attack can destroy a multiple state agencies are multilevel some of government, preventing this from reaching our citizens. This past october the National Association of the chief Information Officer sellers bridge officers released a report that the majority of states are not adequately prepared or equipped to combat and respond to a sophisticated cyber attacks. According to the report, while states have made progress, shortages of qualified personnel and resources have left states unable to address the growing number or against nature of the attacks the face. Without proper resources in place, states have had difficulty putting procedures in place to effectively respond to a potential breach in their networks. In addition to compromising personal information, mitigating these breaches could further strain on state budgets. Our success in defending our nation against the threat is dependent on our ability t