Hello. So I didn't make my 10 o'clock speech. So I want to say a couple of words here before we introduce the man.  At least I think you're here to see General Alexander, aren't you? Yeah. So this is something in our 20th year anniversary. I mean it couldn't have come together any better. First of all I never thought I'd be doing this for 20 years. And second of all I never thought I would have a director of the NSA and cyber command at the same time. So for me it's something I've been trying to do for almost 15 years. More than half of the life of DEF CON I've spent trying to get someone from the NSA. And why the NSA? Well they're kind of the spookiest kind of least known about it. I grew up reading the puzzle palace and all my collection of spy novels. And you know much like with hackers people sort of fear what they don't know. You know and we've all been through that. You guys are hackers. You can probably like walk through walls right? You can sniff wifi with like you know your fillings in your teeth.  And something I try to do with DEF CON is I want to expose you guys from the very first DEF CON to people you don't normally see like I'm sure you guys just don't hang out and have coffee with the general. And neither do I. So to me it's really eye opening to understand you know the world from their view because I want to expose you to a larger sort of perspective. We're going to hear all this technical sophisticated attacks, latest trends but you probably won't really hear it from the horse's mouth how any of that fits into a larger world view. You know I mean I grew up thinking about the internet as a global space. You know it was my local community who I knew and it was the world. And I didn't spend a whole lot of time thinking about my nation. Because that's like a geographic thing and I'm all electronic. But you know the reality is today yeah we live in a geographic space and we have a country and other people have countries and now the internet has grown to such a space. We're starting to have country to country conversations about well what does it mean? What's internet governance about? Do we have cyber treaties? You know how is this all going to work going forward? And so like magic on our 20th anniversary and the NSA's 60th anniversary this is all come together. So with that said I'd like to give you a have you give a warm welcome to General Alexander. Honor to be here. It's an honor and a privilege to be here. You know one of the things I want to talk about is the freedom domain, the internet and what we can all do to work on this. And so I've got about six hours of presentation and slides that will cut down to to some meaningful time for you and I do want to give a chance for you to ask some questions. Hopefully they'll be easy ones and I have a crew here that can answer the hard ones if I need to. To Jeff Moss thanks thanks so much for the invitation out here and thanks for all you do to bring this community what I consider the world's best cybersecurity community together. Let's give them a big round of applause. That's absolutely superb and this is something that I want to hit on in a few minutes. Gail Thackeray was just up here. Let's give her a big round of applause for what she's done and dead at it. Where are you? Thank you. Let's give him a round of applause too. Okay so to show you that we have a sense of humor maybe first this was Ken Olthoff. Many of you know him. What happens to the feds that get spotted here? They get to clean up afterwards and so you know he was the first one that was spotted out here I think in Defgun 1 the first year and he's almost off that sentence. You can see he's on the last row in the parking lot so 20 years of clean up and that's what happens to guys that get caught. We'll talk about that a little bit more. I have had a great time here this morning absolutely superb. Oh it's stuck. Does anybody know how to operate this thing? You do? You know how can you come up here and help me out with this? You know it just seems to be stuck and you know I'm not sure how to get it to the next slide. Right. Oh well that was good. What's your name? Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi.  Come on up here. So I don't know how many of you know Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi we had a chance to go out to see the Defcon kids this morning. I'll tell you absolutely superb you know to see these young people and what you've said up there and Sci-Fi and a couple of others who are the other two? Chloe, Olivia and then Kryptina we saw. Yeah so those are the three that we saw this morning absolutely superb and what Sci-Fi has done is she won the zero-day exploit. In fact she gave me a t-shirt and said I had to wear it right and I thought well what about the freedom domain and she goes there's nothing more important than Defcon kids and what they've done and I'll tell you from my perspective there's nothing more important than what you and your folks have done so don't get nervous. This is Sci-Fi's t-shirt. Sci-Fi zero-day absolutely superb and I'll tell you we have great people like Sci-Fi all over and in this audience all of you and what it takes we put up here on on this slide it takes great people to to really bring together what our nations need all our nations better cybersecurity so this is for you thank you let's give her a big round of applause okay all right she's gonna go down so I'm my own again so one of the things I wanted to talk about I did have a chance to to actually go out and see everything around here I didn't get to spend a lot of time I am absolutely impressed with some of the stuff that's going on here for barcode the blood code stuff that's set up and the fact that let's give them a big round of applause you know that that you would that you would come together for somebody who has a need and give blood I am really impressed that that's absolutely superb you should all be very proud of yourselves I am and I'm proud to be associated with you what I want to talk about cybersecurity education in this room this room right here is the talent our nation needs to secure cyberspace and there's some issues that we have with cyberspace when you look at it first you know we need great people like sci-fi that can help educate older people like me and some of the folks who don't really understand this you folks understand cybersecurity you know that we can protect the networks and have civil liberties and privacy and you can help us get there now some of the things that we're going to talk about is how do we take the next step you know there are some things that I'm working my way through to understand cybersecurity I want to walk through those with you and see what we can do together to help secure cyberspace build better tools train and educate the American people and our allies and other nations on better cybersecurity what does it take to get legislation I had a chance to meet up with some of the EFF folks and some of you know here and can help us show the world that you can actually do intrusion detection and prevention systems and ensure civil liberties and privacy showing that the world is absolutely important because we can do both and we need to do both back on my own just a minute sci-fi we might need you here in a second oh look at that so when you look at what's going on and you look at the stuff here you know I was just looking at the phone system that you all set up here you know this is absolutely superb you have your own little phone system and it's running and they handed out the phones to everybody what is it called the hacker hacker net ninja net so you set up your own phone look at the phones and where they're going the mobile devices just about everyone in here owns a mobile device actually most of you own two three or four you have your iPhones or your Android you have an iPad you have a wireless and wired devices and you have all this great technology and what's going to what's going to happen over the next several years it's going to continue to grow look at what's what's happened over the last few years where we've gone from last year there were over four hundred and sixty million cell phones sold this room bought half of them and great opportunities when you look at the the calculation and capabilities in this equipment for solving some of our our nations our allies in the world's problems especially in health care think of the things that we're going to be able to do in a few years we're going wireless the ability to connect to that networks absolutely superb I had a chance to go over to the wireless section and walk by that and see what you're doing tremendous vulnerabilities that we've got to address so there are tremendous opportunities that you can see on here and I think and I put on here deaf con kids from my perspective the greatest opportunity educating the next generation that's going to come on beyond us like sci-fi and her teammates there this is our future and what you're doing here to help train those folks absolutely superb and you should be very proud now there's some there's some tremendous vulnerabilities out there when you look at what's going on in the network there's a lot of companies with tremendous cyber security experience that are still getting hacked and I put some of them up here and just to give you some insights when you look at some of the ways those have hacked those zero-day exploits that sci-fi made and she's going to help me out because she did hers in a game to actually run it faster in time or to get out in front of it in time and that can help me beat my kids but it's also those type of exploits are used to get into some of these companies that are the best in the world at cyber security from my experience what we find out is they're the best they know they've been hacked there's more than ten times almost a hundred times more companies out there that don't know they've been hacked tremendous vulnerabilities and we've got to figure out how to work together to solve that okay I'm getting better at the sci-fi that training session help so we have some shared challenges and you can see those here a global community with great risk from exploitation disruption and destruction what do I mean by that and why am I putting this up here you can see that the last decade plus has been exploitation cyber hacking penetration testing and you see disruption distributed denial of service attacks and my concern is that's going to flow into destructive attacks they could have significant consequences on our nation's critical infrastructure government networks the internet itself and we've got to figure out how to secure that so we have a joint challenge because the reality is this is the community that helped build many of those tools that we're going to need you understand this you understand what's going on you know I had a chance to go over to capture the flag stuff that's going on going there this community better than anyone understands where this is going and what we need to do to help our nation and our allies fix this so let me go to the next slide so we also have some shared principles and responsibilities and I've listed those out here because I think from my perspective we all have the same approach to this and you can see what we've laid out I think from from my perspective we all share this responsibility this is not the government can fix it this is not private industry that's going to fix it this is we're going to fix it and that's what it's going to take a team approach we have to be collaborative how do we do that one of the things that we can't do today is very easily share between government and industry for protection of critical networks that's part of the cyber legislation we need to address that and you know from my perspective watching what's going on in Congress I think both parties see this as a significant problem they're debating this today it's ironic while we're out here they're debating cyber legislation that would allow us to share information and take it a next step what are the standards that we should jointly set industry you all government that critical infrastructure and network should have to ensure their security how do we do that and one of the things I point to is well look at the sands critical 20 network configuration and settings that we ought to do those are things that we should look at and we should address that and from my perspective this is all about our future and there's a lot of things that are going on here we can sit on the sidelines and let others who don't understand this space tell us what they're going to do or we can help by educating and informing them on the best strategy for that benefits all of us and our nation and that's the real reason I came here solicit your support because from my perspective if we had everybody in this room for a few weeks working together on this we could solve many of those issues you have that's right you have the talent you have the expertise yeah that's right thank you and you know and I look out here and seeing some of the stuff that you're doing absolutely superb I know you're waiting to see if I turn around with us on here and tear it up so let's talk a little bit about the technical side of this I know that's what you really want to hear you know we have great folks in the government just like you as Jeff said we have some tremendous folks and when I look out at some of those folks and some of the things that we've developed you can see it up here some of the tools that you've developed think about it snort that intrusion detection system and how that's used and that the backtrack system metasploit nesses these are great tools for penetration testing and hacking and from my perspective when I look at those this community we develop those we need to take it to the next step now I know what if he couldn't be here one of the key guys on the internet along with vent surf you start to bring some of these guys together they're the ones that help build it and we've we've had some folks that have done some great things too and I just want to talk about that for a second so you know where we're coming from from a government perspective because it doesn't need to be a separate set of objectives we have a joint mission here I think so I put I started out with World War two no I did not fight in World War two let me just I was only nine at the time no when you look at World War two the fate of our nation and our allies hung in the balance over some of these codes that you see up here the Japanese codes purple JN 25 and a series of those and when you think about it those are the codes that allowed us to win in the Pacific Midway Google that not all at once but when you look at it some cryptologists were able to to confirm that the Japanese were going to attack at Midway allowing our Navy to get a strategic advantage and they did it based on people like you who broke the crypto thing Kryptina and we're able to read that mail a nigma a nigma there's a great story here on a nigma the allies our allies Poland France Britain broken Igma the three rotor system and we've got a couple out there three times ten to the hundred and fourteen power I was told to memorize it I'm not sure why think about the possibilities so to speak and when you think about a nigma by our ability to break that code oh I thought you know I was the airborne training so normally that means get ready to jump out of the airplane ten minutes okay we could that we'll do some of those Jody calls in a minute that's right boom it's better if you're going to go to airborne training it's better to have a shoot on your back I'm just telling you so enigma let's think about enigma and what that did the three rotor system gave us a strategic advantage we sank many of the submarines that were sinking our ships that help our allies in Europe Admiral Donets the German Navy realized something was amiss and he tried to get the engineers in Germany their crypto people to change it and they said there's no way this can be broken it's impossible to break it haha you all know we do the impossible every day and so he added on a fourth rotor the fate of the world swung in their balance for nine months while the allies worked on breaking that and there are some great stories about people who gave their lives to break that code some Navy folks who went aboard a sinking submarine and died getting enigma she machines to help us win that war and think of this if the Germans knew at that time that we could break those codes they would have changed it and the war may have come out vastly different that is one of the key reasons the government has to keep secrets not to keep them from you it's to keep them from our adversaries but if we share them too widely everyone is going to know about those and when you look at the the Tiger teams and things that we've set up starting in the 1970s for for people to go out and work on the networks to actually get out there and see what could happen with these machines it started in the 70s people realize we've got problems coming up in cybersecurity and that started all in the 70s building out these teams going to DES to follow on an AES encryption I want to mention the Dib pilot because I think the Dib pilot and our partnership with DHS and FBI that's your government cyber team and you had Mark Weatherford here earlier I'll tell you Mark is great to work with be nice to him he's a good person he's got a tough job on the DHS side and FBI tremendous people director Bob Muller absolutely one of the finest people in this country absolutely superb his heart is in the right director what do we do as a team when you think about that team FBI has the law enforcement the criminal side DHS is the public face to work with industry in the private section NSA and cyber command our job is to protect the nation from a cyber attack and foreign intelligence now here's the issue if we can't see a cyber attack how do you stop it we could write essays on this right if you don't see a cyber attack how do you stop it well that's a good one because that's where we are right now ironically NSA does not sit around our come our country and look in we have no insights if Wall Street is going to be attacked so the Dib pilot is a pilot of how we can work with industry and get tips and cues think of this is the 911 we can give them information to help protect their networks and they can tell us from their intrusion detection systems when an event occurs at network speed the reality and those of you familiar with ideas IPS snort and all these systems know that you can use these data files event files and other things and all you need to pass is the fact of a signature and IP addresses in real time and we can take it from there so think of us as the firemen on the network or think of this is the easy pass as you're going up the highway all we need that beeping was me that's because I was backing up just kidding my wife does that to me all the time so when you when you think about that an easy pass is a great way when you go down the highway and you go through the easy pass lane right all of us got those easy pass no I know you guys can break it we'll talk about that later but as you're going down what you're doing is just sending that code that that system is not looking in your car seeing who's in your car getting facial identification or anything like that reading the mail on that or intercepting anything it's just getting that code and what we need for cybersecurity is something analogous to that that's one of the things that I dash you to work and help push between folks here I think that'll be very important you know about se linux and se android so I'm gonna skip over those it shows that we're willing to push stuff out to industry to help provide more secure stuff here we are no I'm not gonna say who's who but we're separated at birth with a common cause I know I got a long ways to go if I'm gonna work out so I'm perhaps halfway between Danny and the other guy there I put this up there I thought it was funny but I also think it kind of sets the tone for what we should think of you know we have a common set of shared values many of the people that we that work for us have also worked with you and go back and forth Becky base look at what she did on intrusion detection systems and how she helped start a lot of the things going on in the company that she is now formed Dave Ato Ron Gula great people working significant stuff that started out at NSA and now work closely with many of you think about Deb Frankie who worked at PNNL she got funding from Becky base and now she's the deputy of research at NSA and you know other folks like Mudge and other ones like that that are in the government we need great talent we don't pay as high as some of the others we're fun to be around so think of it like that but I do think that we have to have this interchange so some of things that I want to talk about here and I'm going to get the hook is shared principles the principles upon which we should secure cyberspace and I think these set those and I just hit the last one here because sometimes you guys get a bad rap from my perspective what you're doing to figure out vulnerabilities in our systems is absolutely needed we've got to discover and fix those that's hard work takes technically swabbing the boner folks like you and you do a great job at it and you got to know the line there are some great books out there and I know all of you know those lines and I know y'all adhere to that so that's great well mostly but on the internet I think the third bullet down is what we really want to do is innovate freedom how we're going to look at where we take this next this is a great opportunity for not only our nation but for the world and you know one of the things that I'm really proud of saying is when you look at vent surf and the others we're the ones who helped develop we're the ones who built this internet and we ought to be the first ones to secure it and I think you folks can help us do that so we have that shared responsibility we have a shared responsibility to fix that and I want to talk briefly about what we're doing from my perspective and you can all pile in on this and I know Jeff has got a great way for for getting your feedback and getting that to me but when you look at it there's five things that I'm trying to do is both the director of the national security agency and the commander of us cyber command first how do you see cyberspace how do you visualize it where is the graphical user interface for cyber defense we haven't yet made the transition that the gaming industry and others have done in network security but there are opportunities here that are superb defensible architectures when you look at some of the networks in government you know the defense department's network has 15,000 enclaves how would you like to have my job defend those 15,000 when you know others are configuring those based on what they feel is right even when we pass guidance it's hard to do that so we need to come up with a more defensible architecture from my perspective we need to reduce the attack surface by going to things like thin virtual cloud that's not perfect but it's it's a step in the right direction and it helps us in the mobility area we need to look at the command and control how are we going to work with other government agencies and within the defense department here we need to set the authorities and I think that's where cyber legislation that's going on right now is so important for our country both for the information sharing side and setting the standards and perhaps the most important and what you do tremendous here and what I would like some feedback from you is training and educating people on this you know and I look at some of the courses and some of the things that you're doing from the defcon kids all the way up to capture the flag and some of the things that Jeff and you all have going what are the lessons learned on how we should now train our military and civilian force for defending our nation what are the standards that we should set what are the types of courses and the abilities that they should have to do the job that you depend on them and our allies depend and how do we share that that's one of the great things that we need to do and that's one of the things that you all can help us do and that you all makes it sound like I'm from the south and I am on south side of Syracuse so so the future what future do you want how are we going to get there from my perspective you all can help us set that future what what I want you know I have four daughters two are computer programmers one's an aeronautical engineer suede a little bit from the trap the path there one's a social worker and we need her she's she's great at it I have 14 grandchildren I know that's a lot yeah and I'm only what like 30 and you look at it it is so impressive to see the two-year-olds with D the playing with the iPads and the other systems today those things that you're helping to build they're playing with they're going to be much better educated than I was they're going to advance this a lot further so what you're building is absolutely good for our future so thanks thanks I have a couple more slides we can take cybersecurity to the next level what we need from you how we educate and train people how we see cyberspace how we build the tools of the future those tools that can help you do much more than there than we're capable of today because today it's one-on-one and when you look at cyberspace and the number of problems that we face it's one on many how do we visualize that how do we set that up for the future these are the things that we're really going to need to push on and we absolutely need you to help us do this truth and lending so as you know I told Ken you know he's out there sweet in the parking lot and he put his broom down for me says you know you're going to go out there and they're going to know that you're a fed I actually now have that t-shirt too and I didn't even get out of the parking lot before they had me sweeping the South 20 there so everybody serves that you know the reality is I want you to know from my perspective I think getting government people out here to talk and have this this dialogue is absolutely vital for our country how do we take it to the next step and I think having EFF having the social engineering having everybody here together we ought to discuss this you have great insights and we ought to help our nation solve that problem I'll tell you from my perspective it was a privilege and honor to walk to this morning with Jeff Moss and his folks and see all the great things that are going on stand up one more time sci-fi let's give sci-fi a big round of applause you know I everybody said that I was important that's the most important person for our future and the kids that you're training so Nico absolutely superb what you're doing it was a privilege and honor to meet you so thanks okay with that questions no questions I'm out of here not so lucky are these multiple choice I'm going to start with the easy one so and it's probably one of the top requested one so does the NSA really keep a file on it everyone and if so how can I see mine I'm curious to see what's in it does this mean all six billion people no just the United States just the United States you know at first there's so many things you could say are funny but I think this requires a very serious answer first no we don't absolutely not and anybody who tell you that we're keeping files or dossiers on the American people know that's not true and let me tell you why first under our agency we have a responsibility our job is foreign intelligence we get oversight by Congress both Intel committees and their congressional members and their staffs so everything we do is auditable by them by the FISA court so the judiciary branch of our government and by the administration and everything we do is accountable to them and within the administration it's from the director of national intelligence it's from the Department of Justice it's from the Department of Defense I feel like when I was a kid growing up and some of you may feel like this to you know you might get in a little trouble you're supervised a lot maybe had to spend time in the hall well that's the way I feel today we are overseen by everybody and I will tell you that those who would want to weave the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people is absolutely false let me take it to the next step under the FISA amendment act we are authorized to collect foreign targets think of terrorists outside the United States and that law allows us to use our some of our infrastructure to do that we have to we may incidentally in targeting a bad guy hit on somebody from a good guy because there's a discussion there we have requirements from the FISA court and the Attorney General to minimize that which means nobody else can see it unless there's a crime that's been committed and every one of those are auditable by all those branches of government and so from my perspective the the people who would say that we're doing that should know better with another thing think of that 260 million dossiers or how many you'd come out let's see if you're trying to maintain those dossiers I'm not a real good mathematician but let's say we have 20,000 people working that how many files do each of us have to work and I'm not that kind of a guy that's going to work all those files so I think from my perspective this is absolute nonsense next so where do I get my file again okay here's a question I want to mix it up here's a question from the Twitterverse from smart alec how has military thinking progressed to consider a million front war is such a war winnable a million front meaning online right well I think today and I had a chance yesterday to be out to ask when I was asked where do we see the defense of our country in cyberspace and we have some issues we can't see that so right now on a million front war smart Alex is probably what it was Alex with an X like Alexander Alex when you I was a joke I'm sorry I work it oh I can go slower when you think about it first we've got to be able to see it then we have to have the ability to share that information and then we have to have what we talked about is the tools to actually take on a million front and that's where you're gonna have to come in and help us and that's where we're gonna have to work together because that's not something today that we're ready to do and one of the other questions that goes along with it is the offense does it have the advantage and especially if you can't see it yes they do so those are the things that the government both parts of Congress and the administration are working to address right now so so you're in a very unique position on stage on stage right at my conference in that there's never been before a single person in ahead of both the NSA and a newly hey watch I've got to pay for that and a and the newly formed cyber command so do you have sort of a split personality you wake up sometimes at night you know cyber command NSA how do you decide or how is that line made and and is that a productive way to go forward with the defense of the country yes no which hat was which actually I think it absolutely is the right way to go just you know two hats I don't get to paychecks I found that out last week actually when I came into the job I've been in the job now almost seven years and you might wonder why is he been in the job so long first they said you have to do a few things that are important before you can leave so I'm gonna be there for a while when I came in I was actually the director of NSA and the commander of the joint functional component command that warfare so I was always dual-headed or triple headed because we count the chief's central security services a third hat and so from my perspective the team the Defense Department and the intelligence community team that works on the network that helps defend the network NSA has both the foreign intelligence in the information assurance side so that team that has those skills cyber command needs to work with and if we couldn't leverage that team we'd have to go build another team and it doesn't make sense because we could never build the capability that we have at NSA we couldn't rebuild it we couldn't afford it would take us years so we need to leverage it many of our allies are doing similar things and it makes a lot of sense in fact what that really gets us to is this cyber team concept so within the Defense Department we built that team together within our government we have the FBI DHS Cyber Command and NSA that's the government cyber team then we have industry and now you that's the team our nation needs and then we need to work with our allies to secure cyberspace and that's where I think we need to go yeah that's actually a perfect feed into my next question which is how does NSA cooperate with others not just you know our allies or our favorite friends but people who are maybe on the fence you know you still have to share information so do you see that as a critical component of future success is actually information sharing and reliance on other people is you can't do it all yourself you know what we as I said we have great people and you know some of these great people and what they take to their heart is we have a couple of missions that we have to perform we don't want a terrorist attack on our country and that's first and foremost in our mind we don't want a cyber attack on our country we don't want your critical information getting hacked into in bank accounts and other things going down when we look at vulnerabilities and we discover those we look at those and we share those with industry now it might not be with a big NSA moniker on it we would actually work that with DHS and FBI push that out to them for the good of the country what I am really proud of is the way our people look at that and do that for the good of this country so when you see a lot of these vulnerabilities that are getting fixed many of those our folks have found and many of our folks found those by working with you so thank you okay I've only got a couple questions left so it's organizational question from Dave I tell and how big should cyber command be ultimately bigger than the Navy bigger than the NSA well that's a good question big enough to do the job I clearly do not see it bigger than the Navy or any other service in fact I do see the mission growing and the real issue is for the good of our country we have an economic crisis many of you may not heard about that one of the things that I and many of the folks in government feel is that we should fix that on our wives so we don't want to grow the military and other things way up to solve a problem so one of the issues that I would throw back to you all this help us come up with the tools that would allow us to do this not one on a million everybody taking one of those million which would mean a million person cyber force but how do you do this and scale it and how do we get the talent and the people that we need from my perspective I believe that when we look at the cyber community that we have today what we're actually building together is our ops and defend people bringing together with the exploit and the attack people and what we're looking at is the ops and defend people under our legacy system is really big and so if we could go to the new architecture you would need less of these type of people say sis admin in this kind and more that we could then train to be full spectrum cyber security folks trained to your standard that would know how to find people penetrating the networks and that's what I think we've got to do so what I would like is to try to actually evolve our community and shift it to where we need to be not to grow it per se now will we need to grow in some areas absolutely but we'll shrink in others and I think at the end of it when I look at it what I've told the chairman of the secretary of defense I think we can actually do both missions with less people in the future with some of the technology that we have coming on and with your help so that that brings me up to a personal question which is an automation so we're a pretty big country 300 plus million or so but botnets can have millions of nodes and if it's a one-on-one type of game you know we're gonna lose if it's a one on one of our defenders against one of their attackers you'll never win that game so you have to automate and so so to me and I'm curious does NSA see the future as is sort of automation automate everything you can and then learn how to automate everything else so we keep humans doing the human jobs the challenging jobs that computers can't do is that's in my view is probably only the one way that we can tackle this problem is there sort of similar thinking well I think you've hit it on the head I would tell you that and you would work your way through it just as you did there that it makes sense to automate where we can and as many of you know who automate things to have people who can reverse engineer it and say is this a viable concept this automation or do I have a real problem you know I built an enigma machine and then find out that somebody broke through it when I trusted implicitly that this was good to go right and the reality you know so this is secure nobody can hack into it and then we find out as everybody's hacking into it and the only one who thinks it's secure is me right that would be a big problem so I think what we want is the combination automate where we can have real time capabilities to defend and have people great people trained to a standard that can help bring all that together and continue to grow this so as you look at what you do here every year you get a chance to look at evolving technology look at what's happened in the 20 years that you've had your folks here and we've brought this group together and look at what you discussed 20 years ago and the state of the art and look at where the state of the art is today it's superb this is phenomenal one of the greatest things going on right now and the trend for the future you know you guys are the greatest demand in demand for our nation and so when you think about that now the thing is so we would want to automate and we want to move it to the next step and we want to people that can help us get there and continue to climb that that road share it with our allies build the best network in the world secure the freedom domain that I started out with I think that's what we will all want to get to and I think we can get there along the way it doesn't mean that people aren't going to throw rocks at it and try to take it down and we've got to be able to stop that go ahead yeah so here's your final question so if you could have a perfectly secure internet or a nicely insecure internet which would you choose I would I would choose this the perfectly secure internet here's why I think it is in our nation's best interest look at all the intellectual property that we've lost over the past decade it's huge that's our nation's future that's the future for young folks like sci-fi and others that means others will take advantage of that intellectual property at our expense and same with our allies they're having the same thing happen and so if we could fix that that would help us on our economic growth this would be huge for our country and this this area that we're talking about is the fastest growing area in our nation for the past three decades look at what makes up our the Dow industrial the NASDAQ look at all the companies that deal in this sector that's what fuels our economy that's where we need to be so from my perspective for my grandchildren for you all for us that's what we need to do and I think it's doable it's not going to be easy and I think we should go at it with a thought of it'll never be perfect we can't get to perfect but we can come really close I didn't mention in one of the slides that our nation created two cryptologic systems SIG ABBA and SIG Sally these were both data and voice communications that were used during World War two we were able to crack our adversaries communications and protect our own we can do this in cyberspace and continue to build towards a perfect internet that would be good for the world and we ought to all push for that and I think when you bring in not only our great talent here but those of our allies I think that's absolutely superb all right that brings this session to a close so let's have a round of applause for general


All right, it's four o'clock. I'll call the Planning Commission to order. Roll call, Mayor Swanson's here. Olderperson Mitchell, are you online? Ryan Sazema, Jerry Jones, Marilyn, Dave, John. All right, we got a quorum. For those present, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Any conflict of interests that we need to identify today? All right, seeing none, we'll move along. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from our previous meeting? I'll make a motion. Sorry. Motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the minutes, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. The minutes are approved. All right, 3.1, Application for Conditional Use with exceptions by Stratford Sign Company to install new signage at the Oscar Apartments at 1509 EPC Way. Steve? Okay, thanks, Mayor. Is there anyone on the phone for this item? Stratford Sign Company for the Oscar Monument Sign? I am, this is Jody Gates, Jody. Jody? Craig with Stratford Sign here as well. Okay. All right, thanks guys. I'll go through this real quick. What we're taking a look at is monument signage for the Oscar Apartments. As the Plan Commission is aware, those that is under construction right now, and some of the things that they were looking at was development of a monument sign. They have a couple of different ways of accessing the site, but they've always talked about Broadway Avenue being the main access to the property. So there's secondary accesses on the north side of the site at 15th and 16th Street. And so what we're looking at today is a section along Broadway, and what's referred to as EPC Way, which is the private road that's gonna be utilized to access the apartments. If you take a look at that site plan, you can see that lot B, if you remember, is where QuickTrip is going to be under construction. And so the reason why the monument sign is before you today is that technically it's going to be installed on QuickTrip's property, and we do not allow for off-premise signage. As I've indicated, the Joel Oliver from Oscar, from Green Street Development throughout the Oscar development has indicated that this was to be the location. They've gotten an easement with QuickTrip and they've always shown this site as the area that the monument sign was going to be proposed. So the sign itself is approximately 22 square feet. It's about four and a half feet tall. It's interior, lit, and double-sided and would advertise the Oscar apartments. So there is the variance, the variance is that allowing to have the Oscar monument sign on the QuickTrip property and staff was recommending approval of the sign permit as proposed in variance. So I can answer any questions and then there are some people on the line that may want to address this as well. Any questions from commission members at all? Anyone online like to add any additional comments? Steve did a great job covering it, thank you. Any motion? I make a motion to approve as presented subject to staff recommendations. I'll second. Motion by Jerry, second by Ryan. Final comments? Seeing none, all those in favor of approving, please stay down. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That item's approved. Thank you. All right, 3.2 application for conditional use with exceptions by CJ Concepts LLC to operate first floor multi-tenant retail store with two second floor apartments at 1627 Indiana Avenue. Steve. Thanks, Mayor. Craig Latour and Jennifer Fiberger are here and are the owners of what is to be CJ Concepts at 1627 Indiana Avenue. As you may be aware, this was previously owned by Dick White and was White's carpet for many years. It's been vacant for a little bit of time and CJ Concepts has purchased it and what they would like to use is kind of have a mixed use development out of the site, meaning right now there is one apartment on the second floor. And as if you can see from the drawings here, you can see that this is the existing way the apartment is. They are proposing to have two apartments. One would be one apartment on this side over here with a studio apartment. So they're gonna convert the one apartment into two and then they would like to then have commercial development on the first floor and you can kind of see it's a phase development as they would improve the space over time. But the concept is, and I'm sure you guys will be able to explain this a little better than I in just a minute, but is to kind of have vendors that would have the opportunity to lease space in the first floor and have this person selling antiques, this person selling pictures. You can kind of get a little bit of a gist in terms of what the proposal is in terms of the different vendors using the space. Let's see here. So the business model is to rent the remodeled first floor retail space of vendors who will stock and decorate their areas. They are planning to have one employee at the site at all times. Their hours of operation would likely be Wednesday through Sunday, 9 a.m., 5 p.m. to start. And they're hoping to have phase one of the storefront of the retail split space completed in the summer of 2022. So again, that's just taking a look at this and this would be that phase one. And as they got to business and they had improvements, phase two and three would come at later dates. Again, they're looking at the apartments. The new apartments would be a one bedroom, one bath and then remodeled in 2021. And then apartment two would be a studio apartment that would likely be completed in late 2021 and the beginning of 2022. Some of the improvements include complete remodel of the apartments, updated electrical, possible replacement of the storefront windows, paint cement block portions of the building and replace all the upper windows, update the building awning and eventually new signage. Let's see. Again, we're talking about a phase development. So the applicants would just need to work with building inspection in terms of that phasing and what spaces could be occupied over time. The property does have parking on the west side of the building and in the rear along the alley. And in addition, there's a detached garage. Presently, there's no dumpster on site. And if there's a dumpster that would be located on site, it would have to be screened and enclosed. At this point in time has not provided any sign information but that could come in with working with staff at a later date. And this property has been vacant for some time. So remodeling and the building and having the mixed use appears to fit well with this section of Indiana Avenue. So staff was recommending approval of the conditional use permit and the applicants are here and there is a neighbor here as well for this one. Do the applicants have any additional comments you'd like to add? Would the neighbor have anything to add? Any commissioners have any questions or comments, Jerry? Thank you. I live not too far from here. So this is gonna be a welcome addition because this has been an eyesore for a long time. Just a question on the parking. How will you allocate the garage and the parking in the rear of the building and on the side? Is that per, you know, for the apartments? Do they get the garage or the retail gets the, because I just wanna make sure we address that before we have any on-street parking issues over in that area. Excuse me, would you be able to come to the mic because we have, we have people on the phone and it's the only way we can hear. So thank you. No surrogion plan is to let each apartment have one space in the garage. And then an additional space in the back of the building dedicated for them. And then the rest would be for customers. And how many spaces are back there, Steve? I couldn't tell from the drawing. I don't know, Craig, it looks like you have about one, two, three, four, five, six, about six or seven that you have actually striped. Does that sound all right? Yeah, correct. And I wasn't exactly sure if we could go to at an angle on this side of the building. That would be the best situation, but everything I saw online, it would be real tight and I'm not sure if we could squeeze that in. Provide more spaces, but. And there's a little bit of green space left between that driveway and the back parking lot. So whether or not there would be any need to add anything, there might be, you know, the ability to. Ten spaces all together. That was, that I measured out. Okay, great. Thank you. Additional comments, Ryan? What about the dumpster enclosure that Steve mentioned? So the dumpster enclosure, my original thought would be right next to the garage and just build a fenced enclosure next to the garage. And Steve, that would obviously satisfy. Yeah, they would need to work with staff with regards to the dumpster and where it's going and what it looks like. And that's a commission of approval. Thank you. Additional comments? Just want to add, you know, thanks for giving this area a little TLC and a little love. So. Oh, absolutely. I make a motion to approve subject to staff recommendations. There's been a motion by Jerry, second by Dave. Further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. Thank you. 3.3 application for conditional use with exceptions to Petra to construct and operate a cousin's drive through restaurant at 2108 North Avenue. Steve? So what we're taking a look at is the North Avenue at the intersection of North and 21st Street is a former loan max. It was the Kentucky fried chicken previous to being loan max. Loan max has subsequently vacated the property. And now Petra is here on behalf of cousins looking to remodel the existing building and add some small cooler additions and vestibulo addition on the east side of the property. They came to architecture review board last night and did receive approval for their proposed building improvements. So what we're taking a look at is the structures approximately 2000 square feet. They're looking at approximately about a $350,000 investment in the improvements. A typical corporate cousin subs hires about 15 to 25 employees. Typical operating hours are about 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Many of the paved areas of the parking area will remain. There are some improvements that will be taking place as far as the site that I'll get into in just a minute here. Along the south side of the building they are gonna remove a little bit of parking to create a new outdoor patio fenced in dining area. A portion of the existing parking lot along the southeast corner will be removed to make space for a grass area and planting beds as well as the location of a new monument sign. So that's the area at the intersection of 21st and North Avenue. And then the current access to North Avenue will be eliminated and a new shared access will be created to the west property connecting to the existing driveway and the existing parking which will offer existing access to North Avenue. So what you have here is presently when you take a look at the site, each of the individual lots has, you can see there's two driveways, one that leads into the cousin site and one that leads into the vacant green undeveloped area. So basically what's happening is they are working with the owner so that there will be an access to the easement and what we'll do is we'll eliminate the two and create one shared driveway in that particular area. So I'll talk a little bit more about that. The existing pole sign will come down and as they indicated, they'll put a monument sign closer to the 21st street. Knows they haven't submitted that at this point in time but that staff will work with them on that. Cousins looks to redevelop the site, giving it new and vibrant life in hopes of contributing for years to come to the Solid Commercial Foundation already placed in North Avenue. And Cousins looks to build upon its reputation as a solid partner and friendly destination in Sheboygan. So again, the size of the store is about 2,000 square feet. There'll be about 21 parking spaces on the site. The existing driveway connection at North Avenue will remain and that is the one on the north side of the site in this area. So that remains, applicant will be closing the existing driveway and creating parking spaces and then utilizing that shared access drive with the neighbor to the west. There'll be a cross easement to allow that to occur. And then there is a dumpster enclosure on the site that's a little bit weathered and they intend on doing improvements to that as well. The building facade will undergo extensive updates conforming to the current architectural standards. This is just a rendering to give you somewhat of an idea as to what you'll be looking at in the near future. The owner of the property will be the next item on the agenda is a certified survey map that we'll be reviewing. And basically what that will be doing will be creating two lots out of the Lone Max lot and then the green space site. So we'll be looking at that in just a minute. And then this would give cousins the opportunity to purchase their lot. Let's see. So again, I think one of the critical aspects of this is just getting rid of those driveway movements. And so they will be asking for a zero foot paving setback with that easement so that we can share that driveway. There's a number of different turning movements in this vicinity and to reduce the driveways down to one is much safer from a pedestrian vehicular perspective. So staff is glad to see that. Again, requesting two variances. One is to have the zero foot setback to the West property line. And then the second one is from the locational landscaping requirements. So staff was recommending approval of the proposal subject to the conditions and the applicant is here for this matter. I don't know if there's anyone on the phone for this one. Did you have any additional things to add, sir? Hi, Steve Esser, Paterra Architects, representing Cousins Subs, Submarine Sandwiches. Yeah, just to follow up on what Steve said, we're really excited about this taking this building and upgrading it and making it look nice. We're also real happy that we're gonna be able to bring some of the landscaping back, bring the corner, that'd be the southeast corner right now is just open parking. That's gonna be cut back.  And like Steve very articulately brought up with a single axis coming off of North Street. That's a really big improvement. I did visit the site just before I came here just to inspect the dumpster enclosure. It is a masonry enclosure and it is in bad shape, so we are going to have them repair that, replace the fence and it's always was scheduled to be repainted to match the building. So that also will be done as part of this project. And if you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Comments or questions from the commission members, Dave? Yeah, I'm just curious, are you gonna be ripping out all of that concrete and old asphalt and putting in new? No, there's some limited repair. A lot of it's in pretty good shape. Okay. So not the intent is not to replace it all, mostly right by the entryway where we have to cut back and redo the drive area and then cutting off at the corner where we're gonna be adding the landscaping. Other than that, the rest of it is pretty good. Thank you. Additional comments? Yeah, I would just say it's a problem there with the parking that in the two driveways we've been looking at since KFC and Burger King were there for years and there are so many points of conflict, it's nice to see that going away. So I'll make a motion to approve subject to recommendation. Second? Motion by Jerry, second by Ryan. Additional comments? Just like that, I think this is another space that's gonna look a lot better instead of a Lone Max store there. So Shiana, major kind of artery of the city. So thanks for the work that you're putting in. And tasty food. Okay. I can't take credit for that, but cousins will. All right, all those in favor of approving, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That item is approved. Thank you. So we'll just jump right along to 3.4 application for conditional use with exceptions in certified survey map by North Calumet LLC to create a new parcel at 2108 North Avenue. Steve? All right, thanks Mayor. So this kind of ties hand in hand when I was talking about splitting the two parcels. So right now, if you can see on the screens, you have a lot two, which is the cousins parcel and lot one, which is the vacant green space. So these were are all part of one lot at this time. There's a couple of things in here that you can see there. It talks about the easement for the access for the driveway. There's an easement with some stormwater which with the property to the west. So this would allow for cousins to develop on lot two and purchase that property. And then it will also allow for the plan commission the owner to potentially develop the lot to the west with additional development. So this is just kind of a preliminary plan of what you could see. They would have to also come to the plan commission and architecture review board similarly to what cousins is doing here for the construction potentially of another commercial development in that area. So basically what we're doing is taking the one lot and we are splitting it into the two that you see right here. And so staff was recommending approval of the certified survey map. And I believe there may be people on the phone for this item. Is there anyone on the phone for this item? Hi, Leah Wyant is on. I'm with the property owner. Happy to answer any questions anybody has. Any questions? I just want to, I'll make a quick comment. I appreciate the splitting of this and exploring any possibility of putting another piece of development on this plot. So thanks for doing that. Any motions then? I'll make a motion to approve the, what was- Certified survey map. Thank you, yes. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That is approved. All right. Thank you for your time. Yep, thank you. Next meeting, July 13th. We've exhausted the agenda. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Motion by Jerry, second by Ryan. All those in favor of adjourning, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. We are adjourned at 422. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. All right.


Corporations aren't legally required to maximize shareholder profits and therefore have to oppose public health policies that could threaten profits. I mean, it's just how the system is set up. Unequivocal long-standing evidence shows that to achieve this, diverse industries with products that can damage health have worked systematically to subvert the scientific process. Take the sugar industry, for example, internal documents so that they were concerned that health food faddists were becoming an active menace to the industry. Sugar was under attack, and many of the poor unfortunate public swallow the misinformation broadcast by the propagandists. What were books like Yudkin's Pure White and Deadly Saying? All of the propaganda is to the effect that sugar is a non-essential food. No!  Next, they'll be saying it's not really food at all. And that was the sugar industry's line. Sugar is a cheap, safe food, and this coming from the founder and chair of Harvard's Nutrition Department, Frederick Stair, long known as Harvard's sugar-pushing nutritionist. Not only did the sugar industry try to influence the direction of dental research, but heart disease research as well, paying Stair and colleagues to write this review to help downplay any risk from sugar. Now to be fair, this was five years before we even realized triglycerides were also an independent risk factor beyond just cholesterol. The main reason attention stayed focused on saturated fat is not because of the might of the sugar industry. There was just not as much data to support it. In fact, even more powerful meat and dairy industries loved the anti-sugar message. Who do you think sponsored Yudkin, right? In fact, on the first page of Pure White and Deadly, he thanks all the food and drug companies that have provided him with constant, generous support. Who paid for Yudkin's speaking tour? The egg industry, of course, to try to take some heat off of cholesterol. Hegsted, one of the co-authors of the funded review, wasn't exactly an industry cheerleader. He recommended people cut down on all the risky stuff. Less meat, less saturated fat, less cholesterol, and less sugar, less salt. It wasn't the sugar industry that got him fired for speaking truth to power. It was the beef industry. The sugar industry was able to conceal its funding because the New England Journal of Medicine didn't require a disclosure of conflicts of interest until 17 years later. These muck-raking researchers suggest policymakers should consider giving less weight to food industry-funded studies. But why is the food industry funding studies at all? When it comes to the corporate manipulation of research, ultimately conflicts of interest don't just need to be disclosed and managed, but ideally eliminated. Things may not change until public health researchers start refusing to take money from the junk food industry, period. It worked for tobacco. Many prestigious medical and public health institutions have instituted bans on tobacco industry funding. But wait, can't scientists remain objective and impartial, even the face of all that cash? Apparently not, as industry-funded research has been shown to be up to 88 times more likely to produce funder-favorable outcomes. What, do we think corporations are in the business of just handing out money for free? The classic example is the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, who accepted a million dollar grant from Coca-Cola. Before the grant, their official position was that the frequent consumption of sugary beverages can be a significant factor in the initiation and progression of dental cavities, which after the grant changed to scientific evidence is certainly not clear on the exact role the soft drinks play. As CSPI's integrity and science project put it, what a difference a million dollars makes.


The City Council for this confirmation of your unwavering commitment to fostering a city where every individual is valued and respected. As you can see, Rotodon holds a special place in the hearts of Muslim Americans and its observance is deeply rooted in our cultural and religious heritage. It's a time of reflection, self-discipline, and communal unity. It is a time where our children connect with their heritage and traditions of finding new ways to carry these traditions forward into the future. As I was growing up here in the Bay Area, our Rotodons were observed privately and no one at school or in my neighborhood really knew about what was such a special time for me. So I'm proud to see that not only are our traditions being recognized by the city, but we're able to freely share who we are and be wholly who we are as Dublin Muslims within our larger community. In the multicultural tapestry of America, Rotodon serves as a beacon of diversity and inclusion. Muslim Americans come from all walks of life. We're proud of two barriers of a tradition that includes the Bravery of Muhammad Ali, the literary works of Samatha here, and legal the acumen of Keith Ellison in bringing justice for George Floyd. It is these examples of service leadership that we extol for the richness of our tradition and the universality of our values. So we invite you to share in the spirit of Dublin with us in the Dublin Muslim Community Organization. We'll be hosting an Eagle Fither celebration and we'd like to invite all of you to join us. As we embark on this Ramadan, let us embrace the cultural significance of this journey as a time of renewal, gratitude and connection. Let us build bridges of understanding and friendship enriching our collective experience as residents of this wonderful city. May this Ramadan life bring peace, blessings and fulfillment for all. Thank you. The three ladies that came out this evening and the reason why is because it's your voices that make a difference. And I know Siemens is extremely involved here in our community of Dublin also with the schools and just making sure that you keep your voices being heard. I know the library, I have reached out to them with regards to they were already going to display about the Sun Levit. You're able to connect with them and make it a little bit bigger. So this is the proclamation of the City Council to Ramadan, whereas Islam is one of the world's major religions and part of our shared human heritage. And whereas the Dublin-Muslim community is one of the most diverse with ethnic and cultural backgrounds that span the globe. And whereas Muslims have contributed to social movements throughout the history of the United States to work together and also towards justice, civil rights and fair inclusion for all. And the Muslim residents of this city, which bearly at their work and contributions to medicine, science, information, technology, education, law enforcement, military and many other fields have been benefited from enriched Dublin's open, tolerant and economically vibrant environment. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar year and the annual holy month of fasting to again regain discipline, self-restraint and greater incentive to good and avoid wrong. Now therefore, to create results, the video Dublin does hereby acknowledge the onset of Ramadan impact test on March 10, 2024 and express its deepest respect to Muslims across our state and throughout the world on this significant occasion. Thank you so much for coming to the TV. Hello, members. I'm Erin Adams. I'm a distinguished guest. For our Canadian members, we are deeply honored to accept this proclamation on behalf of the Muslim community here in Dublin. On behalf of all Muslims, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to the City Council for this recognition of the safety of the people of Ramadan and our community's contributions to the rich tapestry of the city. This proclamation not merely is a symbolic gesture, it embodies the inclusive spirit of Dublin and its commitment of embracing diversity. As we embark on the month of Ramadan, a time of spiritual reflection and communal solidarity, your acknowledgement reaffirms our sense of belonging and strengthens our bond with unity within the city. Your support and partnership is truly valued and appreciated by us all. Thank you, Erin. Ramadan is a time when people come together to break fast, share meals, strengthen bonds of friendship, community and family. Through acts of charity and service, we reaffirm our commitment and calling to show compassion and empathy for those less fortunate in our communities. This Ramadan, we plan to host a series of events citywide. Our community outreach efforts are underway, and we've already collaborated with the Dublin Library, where not only are there displays and books related to Ramadan and Muslims ready for viewing, but we also invite you and your families to two specific events at the Dublin Library. One on Wednesday, March 6th, tomorrow, and the other on Monday, March 11th, where Hinnah Khan Muathar, a local Muslim educator, storyteller and writer, will engage our younger residents and their families in an interactive hour after school to learn about the shared and the rich traditions and practices related to Ramadan. As we engage in fasting prayer this month, we are encouraged to reflect on the principles of empathy and understanding that unite us all. We are particularly sensitive to those who are suffering from food insecurity and hunger. Dublin City Council, your cooperation and support have even mobilized our youth to lead efforts in the city of Dublin. And with this, I will ask a few of the youth to just speak for a couple of minutes. They are called Heroes of Hunger. Heroes for Hunger, sorry. Hi, I'm Kajani, and I'm the founder of Heroes for Hunger. We are a group of seven youth members, but only us three are representing the organization today. Hello, I am Mamari Ma, seventh grade. Hello, I'm Ma, I was seen after I was 10 years old. In coalition with the Alameda County Community Cooping, Heroes for Hunger has formed a Ramadan food truck that lasts all 30 days of Ramadan. As many of you may know, Muslims around the world are fast during the month of Ramadan. This leaves us with a heightened sense of empathy and understanding. So while we are fasting, Heroes for Hunger has vowed to make sure nobody goes hungry in the city of Dublin. Many of you may think nobody's hungry in Dublin, but we spoke to the Alameda County Community Cooping, and they told us that just last year in 2023, they gave 209,000 pounds of food to people suffering with food insecurity in Dublin. There is a need, and we have a goal. Only with your support can we stamp out hunger in our city of Dublin. You can help out by dropping off cans at designated participating schools. You can donate a dollar to feed somebody for one day, or $30 to feed somebody for all of Ramadan. Dublin, this is your time to step up. Number one, to build a need within our community. Number two, you can donate us or sponsor us. If you're just spreading the word, anything you can do is appreciated more than we can articulate. With that, we will be passing a fire out, and before any of you guys leave, please help us kick off our campaign. Finally, Mayor Hernandez and Steam Council members will come by and give you all a few gifts. Thank you. Thank you so much more than when I was younger, and it's just so great to see you there. So did you guys have a food drive last year as well? No. Okay, so this is your first year. We send a lot to you, and you'll have to give us the results and let us know how much you collect from someone. But thank you so much for coming to see me. Thank you.


So we're here at the ETAM booth right here. So hello, so who are you? My name is Kostuk. I am representing ETAM. I work as the senior manager. And right here, yeah, you have a solution. It's based on the Intel solution right here, right? And you are doing real-time 4k HEBC HDR10 on a Xeon processor. Yes But you have different Intel solutions. Yes So we work with Intel and their eco-partners. So we have solution based upon HP Moonshot We have based upon artisan boards and we are showing a live streaming from E3 based processors It is streamed live to a playback and the playback is getting shown here So did you say HP Moonshot also? Yes, but which which CPUs in there? These CPUs are Intel's latest E3 processors These are Skylake machines, which are extremely efficient and less power-consuming But they have the full Is it a GSP? What is it that you use for doing the encoding? Okay, so these processors are called as hybrid processor where they have CPU and an integrated GPU People generally have a discrete GPU, which is separately on the machine Intel's with new technology has an integrated GPU, which is inside the chip. So you use the GPU? No, there's no DSP. There's no video encoding chip. Everything is on a GPU. Yes, it's purely on a GPU But your technology and your company ETM, do you have it also running on discrete GPU? Yes, so for example We have a scalable solution which will run on a single GPU Solution or like artisan it will run on multiple distributed GPUs for example artisan has Capacity to have 24 GPUs. So we can run same solution on their hardware, which will give a better quality also and so right here it says So the who's the customer for this kind of solution typically we are looking at OTT OTT manufacturers or the guys who are looking for live encoding These are major companies which we generally target as customers. So 4k real-time faster than real-time. How do you do this kind of technology? We we have our innovative algorithms Where we can do 4k 30 real-time because exactly that's the biggest challenge doing on a single device Now we have done through our expertise on optimization on various platforms We use heavy assembly and intrinsic optimization, which is given by Intel Processors and we utilize them effectively to do a 4k real-time encoding solutions and Are you the best in the world to do encoder? Definitely our customer base will show and we add a value in terms of we are in this industry for almost 17 years and We have multiple customer bases and they are with you. They stay with us. That's a repeat business So definitely we are among the best in this industry, but video is very very difficult thing, right? this is not Just you don't just take mpeg mpeg for h264. It just you don't just what's called You have to do lots of optimizations customizations And some magic a little bit Yes, so so with our past video experience on earlier before Intel we were on DSP processor also We have an expertise on algorithms which are giving better quality at the same time They will optimize So we first properly understand the standard we study that carefully and then we optimize to a maximum So we know all the integrities of mpeg 2, h264 or HEVC standards We always be remain on top of that. How about VP 9 or is it VP 10 now? What's the next one? Did they have something good over there? Yeah, we are working on VP 9. We have already optimized our VP 9 solution And along with Netflix Google, we have open source the entire stack We are also a member of a lands of open media and We are working on the latest standard of VP 9 as well, which is called as AV 1 AV 1 yes, and is that the best in the world? They are trying to be so that standard is better than h265. Yes, they are trying to be better than it is The standard might get finalized by this year The big challenge is to get a very high compression, but easier to decode also, right? Yes So the h265 is not so easy to decode sometimes It's to 65. Okay, not much challenge in decode and AV 1 also is trying to go in the similar way So decoder won't be challenged though encoder is complex But the big processors like Intel will definitely help to do a real-time encoding Is your company able to make new codec? Can you do you have some ideas for new codec something new? To make the best one in the world. That's not your job. No No comments at this point


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question today. The first and the last terms of an AP are 17 and 350 respectively. If the common difference is 9, how many terms are there and what is their sum? Now let us write the solution. Given to us as first term A is equal to 17, last term L is equal to 350, common difference D is equal to 9 and we have to find N and S. Now we know An is equal to A plus N minus 1 D. Where An is given to us that is the last term which is 350. So substituting the values it implies 350 is equal to 17 plus N minus 1 multiplied by 9 which implies 350 is equal to 17 plus 9 N minus 9 which implies 350 minus 8 is equal to 9 N which implies N is equal to 342 by 9. Now this gets cancelled by 38 so it implies N is equal to 38. Now sum of N terms is given by S is equal to N by 2 multiplied by A plus N so which is equal to N is equal to 38 so 38 by 2 multiplied by A is given to us 17 plus L is given to us 350 which is equal to this gets cancelled by 19 so 19 into 367 which is equal to 6973 so S is equal to 6973 hence N is equal to 38 and sum is equal to 6973 I hope you understood the question bye and have a nice day.


Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Admiral Bill Moran and Fleet Master Chief April Beldo held a live all-hands call yesterday. They answered questions from sailors stationed all over the world via satellite, telephone and social media. CNP spoke on the future of tuition assistance and said sailors need to take advantage of this benefit now. I got cash to loan you for tuition assistance and we're not eating into the cash at the rate we expected. So if you're thinking, even thinking about signing up for courses, doing certifications, do it now. Get it signed up for while we still have that cash available. He also spoke on uniforms saying all shipboard sailors can expect to see the new fire retardant coveralls by the end of the summer. If you missed it, you can catch it on Navy.mil. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Tyrell Morris.