that's another promise of nextgen. so we are making progress but i won't be here when the bell rings to stay nextgen is done. but you're going to see nextgen capabilities all throughout the next couple of years. >> good evening. tom clark. you made a lot of great points this evening, mr. secretary thank you very much. to a particular vested with me. one is the link -- the length of the surface deprecation bill and the others funding highway trust fund. what you see as the optimal length of the bill, number one? and number two, is the consideration in this bill for a mileage-based user fee alternatives to be considered? not pass the source of money but to at least to some additional study on it and where do you stand on that? thank you. >> thank you. i think we've got to have at a minimum a four or five year bill. we proposed a four year bill last year we're going of a new in dash to a new and improve six-year bill this year. but you've got to have multiple years of funding otherwise you're not going to get the benefit

that's another promise of nextgen. so we're making progress but i won't be here when the bell rings and say nextgen's done. but you're going to see nextgen's capabilities all throughout the next couple of years. mr. slade: this man right here. >> good evening, tom clark with parsons corporation. made a lot of great points this evening, secretary. two in particular resonate with me, one is the length of the service transportation bill and the other one is the funding . what do you see as the optimal length of the bill, number one. and number two, is there consideration in this bill for a mileage base user fee alternatives to be considered not passed as the source of funding but do some additional study on that and where you stand on that. thank you. secretary foxx: i think we've got to have any minimum of a four or five-year bill. we proposed a four-year bill. we're going to have a new and improved six-year bill. you've got to have multiple years of funding, otherwise you're not going to get the benefit of any single ye

that's another promise of nextgen. so we're making progress but i won't be when the bell rings and say nextgen's done. but you're going to see nextgen's capabilities all throughout the next couple of years. host: this man right here. >> good evening, tom clark with parson's corporation. made a lot of great points this evening, secretary. two many particular resonate with me, one is the length of the service transportation bill and the other one is the funding that it just fund. what do you see as the optimal length of the bill, number one. and number two, is there consideration in this bill for a mileage base user fee alternatives to be considered not passed as the source of funding but do some additional study on that and where you stand on that. thank you. secretary foxx: i think we've got to have any minimum of a four or five-year bill. we proposed a four-year bill. we're going to have a new and improved six-year bill. you've got to have multiple years of funding, otherwise you're not going to get the benefit of any

nextgen capitalizes on existing technologies such as g.p.s. capability provided by the department of defense satellite network, and what it will do is make our air traffic control systems safer and more efficient. mr. president, how that works is right now we have a series of resource and the resource, if it is an up to date radar, it will go around every 30 seconds. so you know where the airplane was but you don't know where it is for the next 20 seconds until the radar comes back around. and if it's where it should be, it's in the path that was filed by the crew. what the next generation of air traffic control is will track that aircraft from satellites so there is a continuous feed of data from the aircraft to the satellites back to the controllers on the ground, and because of that, they can space aircraft closer they can give them a direct route into the airport instead of a lot of the circular patterns that they have because of the delay of the continuous tracking. as a result, they can save a lot of money for the airlines because they c

andrews, what are you doing to further the nextgen 911 operations in coordination with firstnet? >> that is a great question. one of the things we've done is between, a partnership between conakry the public safety communications research program which is our effort to really push forward into the next generation of public safety communication. as you know as well in tia addresses the nextgen 911 program at something we're working on. >> then we should invite senator gardner to join our 911 caucus. it's very exciting the group. [laughter] [laughter] we have a lot of emergencies that we respond to. my last question ms. swenson, i understand minnesota was the second state to its consultation with firstnet last september. what are some takeaways from that meeting with the stakeholders? >> i think as indicated earlier i think it's important that we learn from each of the states, the individual circumstances. every state has a set of circumstances that are very different. your typography is different, where your priorities are different and we are learning and each of those consultati

as you know as well ntia administers the nextgen 91911 program that's something we are working on. smack very good. we should invite senator gardner to join our 911 caucus. it's a very exciting group. we have a lot of emergencies that we respond to. my last question ms. swanson i understand minnesota was the second state to have its -- with firstnet last september. what were some of the takeaways of that meeting with the stakeholders? >> as i indicated earlier it is important that we learn from each of the states the individual circumstances. every state has a set of circumstances that are very different. your topography is different and your priorities are different and we are learning and each of those consultations what exactly is unique to your state so we can incorporate that into the rfp process. >> okay very good, thank you very much. >> thank you senator klobuchar. senator udall. >> thank you very much chairman thune and thank you for focusing this hearing on this very very important topic. let me first just say that i want firstnet to succeed, ensuring our nation's first r

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setting that now happens in icao but innovations in asia continues to me to be worked through such as nextgen and a lot of a discussion that we have had because of recent flights that were lost in some cases about the use of technology and tracking planes. and so there's a lot of innovation that i think is still out there to be embedded in the world. and again i think the u.s. role is both as innovator idea generator bringing innovation into the marketplace but also just the sheer importance of our physical infrastructure can't be understated because we literally help the world move. >> well mr. secretary knievel defense secretary now for about a year and have and a half but you've obviously a very, very busy secretary. let's talk about beyond traffic, which is a very impressive document, all 300 pages of it. there is but it would also a shorter version on the web if anyone wants it is just jam jampacked full of trends and impacts on our system from those trends and all the choices we need to make. so maybe share with us a bit about the content content of the document, what it is. >> so yong

raised $45 billion in revenue meeting all the funding targets including fully funding firstnet and nextgen 9/11. considering this new reality and the massive appetite for spectrum by wireless carriers, hasn't the fcc been liberated from these fully funded objections and its reconsideration of its previous decision on the size of the spectrum reserve in the incentive auction? >> that's what issues that we're going to be addressing again as the together the final rules for the auction. i understand your point that we have now lived up to our committed obligations and this is an issue that we'll be dealing with the next couple of minutes. >> commissioner clyburn commissioner rosenworcel, to you have comments on that for a briefly? >> one of the things i joke about and -- all predictions were wrong that two and a half three times the amount of money that was predicted was raised. your right to say that we've met our obligations and we will continue through other options including incentive auctions to deliver spectrum to the american people. >> i agree with chairman we'll be looking at this in

under the nextgen program, the adsb does give us information. we used it in this.ave the fourth did i mention. we used to know where it was laterally. >> we are making some progress. >> now we know where it is going. that is streaming data. >> another conversation we've been having a lot on "new day," for you juliette why not install cameras inside and outside? three-part. cameras inside the cockpit, outside the cockpit and changing the protocol. >> this is not a new debate. there has been at least for a decade a discussion about putting cameras in the cockpit. there is a fight with the pilots unions et cetera. >> it's archaic that we don't have cameras in the cockpit even for an investigation purpose. a camera is not going to stop someone who's hell bent on killing 150 people. >> but it will answer a whole lot of questions. >> it does serve as a deterrent. how can technology help us in safety and security? this is actually one in which it will at least help us determine what happened and may serve as a deterrent and if someone's watching the cameras might trigger

billion to bring our air traffic control system into the 21st century by accelerating deployment of nextgen technology that will make our skies safer and our airports more efficient. and anyone -- as many of us do who travels or flies a whole lot knows that our airports need to be more efficient than they are. bottlenecks at our marine seaports which handle 95% of all overseas imports and exports cause delays that prevent goods from getting to their destinations on time. the same is true, perhaps even more so, for our inland waterways which carry the equivalent of 50 million truck trips of goods every year. my amendment will invest an additional $1 billion a year to clear the backlog of projects needed to improve inland waterways, coastal harbors and shipping channels. our businesses simply can't compete in the global economy if they can't move their goods and supplies to, from and within our country more efficiently. right now more than 4,000 of the nation's 84,000 dams are considered deficient. 84,000 dams considered deficient. not in need of a few repairs but deficient, serious problems.