far behind he has the guardian has uncovered that the defense advanced research projects agency or darpa you know the good folks behind the creepy backflipping robots and other such horrifying things we've seen online well darpa has invested roughly one hundred million dollars into genetic extinction technologies making the u.s. military now one of the biggest funders of gene drive research in the world. i think on that lovely lovely thought as we start watching honks. what. it looks like. it's like. the bottom. like you that i got. with. with. this. we. welcome everyone to watching the hawks i robot and on top of the wallace who did creepy i mean i'm all for finding new ways you know better living for science this idea of finding something that can. can you know get rid of things like malaria yes but. i think nothing with mosquitoes. this is an out of engineering text thirty all i mean i don't know that it's let me break this down for you because it's like you're saying just a message and as if you are right so this is basically that's kind of like the militarization of gene research is

and uncover of the darpa funding of this gene and he said quote the fact that gene drive development is now being primarily funded and structured by the u.s. military raises alarming questions about this entire field now tab the answer back to us from a doctor spokesperson who they told the guardian that quote it is critical for department of defense to defend its personnel to preserve military readiness and it is incumbent on darpa to perform this research and develop technologies that can protect against accidental or intentional misuse. basically to have their say and like hey we need to study this in case somebody else gets this and starts trying to like you know. read genetic code people and can kill the last of the mobs of people reporters and water you know it's really creepy stuff well i'm just confused about the idea of why the heck on things that they're they should be able to wipe an entire species out because these mosquitoes could give malaria and they have to make sure they're soldiers in the field. so years and over one hundred million dollars probably a year to do to.

and darpa responded to some of the concerns raised over its genetic research it says that the project's been mischaracterized and that it's committed to being fully transparent. well that's the way the world looks at this hour want to call it bright join me again for your next hour to world news update in about forty five minutes from now so that. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it loving you like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going to have no phil saviano maybe they're saying they're old john without a telescope or they should be the only palestinians is gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision did not only could do this. and not fizzle off out there it's got to this lady of the muscle that you had an identical t.v. in the doesn't seem to do more almost lost there don't put this off. with no make this manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect thems

advance research projects agency or darpa was a product of that commitment and it was there at darpa that a bunch of government and government-funded researchers created the g internet. in the intervening decade what started in that government agency provided the building blocks for what we experience as the internet today. creative mind in government, colleges, universities, businesses in homes, garages all across the country toyed and tinkered and pushed us into the digital age. today internet use is nearly universal. although internet access remains limited in many rural and low-income areas, students of allo ages go online to access educational tools and conduct research for many school assignments. entrepreneurs and smallnd businesses sell goods and transact business online. families come together to watch their favorite movies or shows. the internet and broadband services have become an important part of our lives. government is just as important now as it was back when the internet was created. by enforcing and implementing america's communications laws and rules, the federal

defense department darpa agencies has seven research groups on this at the moment all working on the biological engineering but many of its activities are believed to be kept under wraps in the interest of national security jim thomas again describes how the development of genetic modification technologies has progressed over time. we knew that the u.s. military was interested in june drives and we were funding to a certain level but what's become clear is that probably the major funder of gene drive research and development files seem to suggest that they have in the case of darpa the defense advanced research projects agency around one hundred million dollars worth of funding the idea of a gene drive which spreads a genetic trait through an entire population is a potentially very powerful carrier for a bio weapon they say the reason they're interested is so they can pick up this bio weapon if it was used by hostile actors that they could be able to detect to monitor and disable gene drives as a bio weapon but what's concerning of course in the process they're actually building this

wipe certain pests including malarial mosquitoes but there are major concerns about the technology darpa is helping to develop including that it could be used to create bio weaponry to collect. it's concerning about a gene drive genetically engineered organism that's designed to spread and it will spread in the next ripley until it takes over an entire population so that means you just have to release one single specimen of this organism say a single mosquito or a single mouse and then through sexual reproduction it spreads straight until it takes over there is a strong concern that you could use a gene drive system to stretch to spread a deleterious trait you could for example try to cause a first to fail or there have been suggestions that you could genetically engineer a flying insects such as mosquitoes to potentially deliver something that's harmful and then spread that through a whole population skeeters if you have a military agency or a couple of military agencies in the driving seat of a technology that could be used as a very powerful carrier for a bio weapon. obviously the que

sure almost guaranteed to get darpa funding that's horrific don't freak out the odds of you seeing that paper is slim anyway it's especially since the un convention on biological diversity is the beginning whether to impose a moratorium on the gene research next year that's a good thing if someone doesn't stop this will well be an imperial. nation that can just do irreversible damage to another country's ecosystem by swift which means in their insects considering we don't care about another country's civilians i can't imagine we care of their bio admitted to using bio warfare or the army admitted the secret open air germ warfare tests on americans so just spreading clouds of bacteria over san francisco is full of bacteria on the subway tracks to see how they spread through new york city but there's no way you can prove the bacteria wasn't already on the new york subway. as a matter of fact if i had kids it would almost be irresponsible of me to not force them to let the subway railings the build up their immunity. that's definitely abuse now and again on. the other countries we don't ju

darpa responded to some of the concerns raised over its genetic research it says the project has been mischaracterized and that it's committed to being fully transparent. that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes with your headlines you are watching our to international what have you if it's. just. come to. the now corporations are levying taxes on on people no it's not exist without representation worth my representation on amazon stock and less i get a commands or a share of amazon stock to participate in the growth of this corporate takeover i'm under no obligation to fulfill this is ya from just based on. a partisan push on taxes can mitch mcconnell get a text mildewed president before the new year. and what happens to the economy if he does the experts weigh in on this edition of politics. rather than politicking on larry king thunders faces a busy week in washington which includes avoiding a government shutdown and for the g.o.p. attempting to reach a deal on a text package following the senate's passage of a one point five trillion dollar tax bill the end of

was guaranteed to get darpa funding that's horrific don't freak out the odds of you seeing that paper a slim anyway it's especially since the un convention on biological diversity is the bait and whether to impose a moratorium on the gene research next year that's a good thing if someone doesn't stop this will well be an. realistic nation that can just do irreversible damage to another country's ecosystem by swiftly switching a couple of genes in there insects considering we don't care about another country's civilians i can't imagine we care of their biodiversity not to mention the fact our own military admitting admitted to using bio warfare on our own citizens over forty years ago the army admitted to congress they conducted over two hundred thirty secret open air germ warfare tests on americans so just spreading clouds of bacteria over san francisco i mean yeah and i suppose they also broke lightbulbs full of bacteria on the subway tracks the see how they spread through new york city but there's no way you can prove the bacteria wasn't already on the new york subway. as a matter o

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far behind me has the guardian has uncovered that the depends advanced research projects agency or darpa the good folks behind the creepy backflipping robots and other such horrifying things we've seen online well darpa has invested roughly one hundred million dollars into genetic extinction technologies making the us military now one of the biggest funders of gene drive research in the world think on that lovely lovely thought as we start watching the hawks. it's a. real.

the major fund drive research and development files seem to suggest that they have in the case of darpa the defense advanced research projects agency around one hundred million dollars worth of funding the idea of a gene drive which spreads the genetic trait through an entire population is a potentially very powerful carrier for a bio weapon they say the reason they're interested is so they can pick up this bio weapon if it was used by hostile actors that they could be able to detect to monitor and disable gene drives as a bio weapon but what's concerning of course in the process they're actually building this technology and acquiring the the ability to use that although it's known that there's these military potential uses the field is always described as being about trying to deal with malaria or trying to be conservation uses but what we're now discovering is the u.s. military that seems to be significantly in the driving seat. darpa has responded to some of those concerns raised about its genetic research and it does say the project has been mischaracterized and that it's committed

darpa was a product of that commitment and it was there at darpa that a a bunch of governt and government funded researchers created the internet. in the intervening decades what started in thaten government agency provided the building blocks for what we experience as the internet today. creative minds in government, at colleges universities, in business and in homes and garages all across the country toys in tinkered and pushed us into the digital age. today internet use is nearly universal. although internet access remains limited in many rural and low income areas, students of all ages go online to access educational tools and conduct research for many school assignments. entrepreneurs and small businesses sell goods and transact business online. families come together to watch the internet and broadband services have become an important part of our lives. and government is just ass important now as it was back when the internet was created. by enforcing and implementing america's communications law and rules, the federal communications commission, the fcc, plays a critical role in ma

darpa was in northern virginia. a lot of other communications innovators were in the d.c. area. d.c. played a significant role in that. the center of gravity shifted from networks and on ramps to software. i'm expecting it will have more regional entrepreneurship. detroit, pittsburgh, atlanta, minneapolis, st. louis, all kinds of cities developing on the expertise they have, trying to attract the capital and talent, and in the process create the jobs that are so desperately needed. >> what are you finding beyond the coast? >> it is very encouraging. i wish more investors in new york city or san francisco would get on planes to visit. they are great ideas, great companies. there are examples showing breakout potential. in baltimore with under armour, we started there. there's a company in indianapolis called exact target. $3 billion, nearly 2000 employees in indianapolis. in detroit, the company that tried to displace -- take displaced autoworkers, retrain them to build watches and other products. they are growing like gangbusters. the story is not just about tech, silicon valley

the portfolio initiative is being explored at darpa. the open lab initiatives r&d laboratories engaging new partners in the way new mechanisms for cooperation. the department has been engaging with top universities across united states and world. in korea, i see similar appetite to engage korea's creative community to cave create new capacities in korean small and medium enterprise. in my visit to korean universities, have seen a growing interest in entrepreneurship, strong desire to find new ways to bring technical capabilities to realization, and a great interest in challenges relevant to strengthening. both nations are exploring ways to use defense innovation is economic driver with impact beyond the security sector. building skill, capacity, and industry and then are workforces that will increase competitiveness in commercial markets as well. i see significant opportunities to grow richer u.s. korean research development corporation. they're currently strong areas were national investment priorities closely line. such as, strong mut

in expanding the best practices demonstrated by darpa and more recently the defense and the distributed capabilities office. meanwhile the new secretary will maintain our focus on joint system to maximize the affordability of sustainability systems in the health and welfare of our industrial base that supports it. given this principle will have a direct result to both feature under secretaries while -- this process of reform and reorganization is not easy but they recognize the imperative house begun the process is committed to the rate success will be working together with the police. today is were reminded of the coldest winter were reminded that the powerful deterrent by the u.s. republic of security alliance has kept the peace for the past 64 years. we are in committed tour ensuring the security alliance more important today than ever continues to grow in strength to cooperative exchanges as that hosted here. so thank you for your visit in exchange, and more importantly to your alliance. i look forward to answering questions here. >> thank you. if you can send stage will have her se

in expanding the best practices demonstrated by darpa and more recently the defense and the distributed capabilities office. meanwhile the new secretary will maintain our focus on joint system to maximize the affordability of sustainability systems in the health and welfare of our industrial base that supports it. given this principle will have a direct result to both feature under secretaries while -- this process of reform and reorganization is not easy but they recognize the imperative house begun the process is committed to the rate success will be working together with the police. today is were reminded of the coldest winter were reminded that the powerful deterrent by the u.s. republic of security alliance has kept the peace for the past 64 years. we are in committed tour ensuring the security alliance more important today than ever continues to grow in strength to cooperative exchanges as that hosted here. so thank you for your visit in exchange, and more importantly to your alliance. i look forward to answering questions here. >> thank you. if you can send stage will have her se

to, darpa being an incredibly successful agency within the defense department to launch science andense innovations. what would hrpa look like? >> think of harpa as the navy s.e.a.l.s. the navy probably said when they originally came up the navy s.e.a.l.s, why do we need these people we can take care of this thing and i imagine it went through hell to get through that now of course it's the flagship of what they do. navy s.e.a.l.s takes on projects that are not disclosed to the navy, necessarily. until they're -- take on very hard projects. darpa takes on extremely complex, scientific, in this case, it would be medical science or treatment or early diagnosis of things like that. in the case of pacifncreatic cancer, 85% of the people are diagnosed at stage 4 so there's no chance. >> it's not caught early enough. >> if we can improve that by 10%, that's 5,000 people would be saved just to get them to stage 1. so there's a lot of room almost everybody dies within two years. 55,000 people, two tleer years everybody's gone. >> what you and suzanne have done with autism, autism speaks is

this is something darpa has used it were delighted to have for our common fund and for all of us the position medicine, it makes things possible much faster. >> where do you want that you don't have it? >> we could use this in the opioid crisis. we have a big play because want to move forward quickly. this would be a a great advante to have as one of the tools. >> senator murray and senator blunt i i believe that for the third consecutive reported out $2 billion increase in nih funding. can you summarize in less than a minute why you believe that as we appropriate money for opioids, that some of that money to go for research into nonaddictive pain medicines? >> the critical solution for the future is to have alternatives for opioids, for people who suffer from chronic pain. there are 25 million of them in the united states right now that happening every day. we need a better alternatives. there are ways to get there with exciting new drug targets that have emerged working with industry, with a lot of contributions from nih. we believe we can accelerate that process particularly with

the richard stallman sort of people and richard stallman was the very first early days of arpanet darpa net and you know he was a hacker the original sort of hackers he was testing the system for the mit in the military and the people developing the internet and we saw that in twenty eleven twenty twelve and twenty thirteen we saw a lot of you know. the system became more anti-fragile based on all of these that attacks on the system and now we're starting to see more of the you know now we look at the internet you think of google and facebook and amazon and you know big professional sort of organizations but at that time back in the seventy's the late sixty's early seventy's it was richard stallman oh and when we come back let's talk about that what i consider to be the story of the year. so i don't go away stay right there much more coming your way. with. all. the. snow we're. stupid to a t. in the. east oklahoma. into. the so in the fall colors coastal. in some american cities the police. cling to refutation of people who walk on the streets of the united states who are at risk from t

of arafat so there were there was that was shut down but we were we were hearing that was actually darpa the defense. project research arm but we were doing it inside the cia as we did we sort of dodge this bill is a process that really you know prediction markets such as the years i think predictive analytics where you're looking at the data and you are using algorithms and you are sorting through the data to try to pick up on patterns and and this is all internal it's not out there people are not buying and selling protection contracts us we're not running production market run appear to violence but the science is when we do on the there's a lot there's less there than we see out there was no crowds wisdom of crowds really good if you want to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar the average of a thousand people would know mathematical understand well actually be pretty good guess the weight of the car like an old english fare that stuff works good but the more complex the problem the less the wisdom of crowds works and for example even in markets where you have a lot of to spatial

are you fully knowledgeable of darpa to make sure everybody is pulling in the same direction? we are enormously excited and we have worked quite close widarpa for people who are paralyzed to carry out robotic control. this involved nih and darpa and nsf and the department of energy and some international partners aims to do, to figure out how those 86 billion neurons between your ears do what they do and these complicated circuits we're trying to take apart and understand better. we would like to go from where we are now, sort of an empirical effort to get this to work to know exactly where the place those electrodes to get the maximum sophistication of the move of that robotic arm. >> last topic, we have done got bipartisan effort on plastic is in the ocean. issuing a unanimous statement of concern about plastics. plastic doesn't biodegrade and just breaks down in smaller and smaller points and microscopic creatures can consume it and it begins its track up the food chain. never in human history have we had to experience that kind of plastic loading into our diet. it's now fo

in fact, there are two key programs going on within darpa and osd that are moving along. i would be more than happy to come and have the technical lead brief you on those. >> if you could provide us an update where you are with this effort. >> yes. >> senator, could i add one thing to that? >> surely. absolutely. >> on hypersonics, there are two demonstrators where the air force and the navy is working with darpa and at a promote type and experimentation effort that we're using the authorities you all gave us for experimentation and testing. so we didn't wait for extensive requirements kinds of things. we're moving forward on an experiment for hypersonics and through the authorities you gave us. >> secretary guertz, i want to talk about the role our defense labs play in the acquisition process. i've been struck by how integrated they are in not only innovating new capabilities to meet requirements but testing and verifying for the navy throughout the private acquisition process. i'd love to get your view of defense labs as a vital player in the ak zbis systcquisitions. >>

are you satisfied you're going in the sachl direction with darpa. >> yes. we have worked for -- to control a robotic arm. this is a big part as well as departmentov of energy and real aims to do, to figure out how the 86 billion neurons do what they do in these complicated comments. we would like to go from where we are now to really understand it so well that you knew exactly where to place the electrodes. >> last topic, we have done good bipartisan legislation here. the u.n. just issued a unanimous statement of concern about plastics. plastic, as you know, doesn't bio degrade. it breaks down to the smaller and smaller point. creatures can consume it. it begins it track up the food chain. never in human history have we had to experience that kind of plastic loading into our diet. it's now found in tap water. it is found all over the place. it is obviously going to be in our food. is it something they should begin doing basic researching on so it is certainly a new experience to have to digest that kind in the food chain there. >> absolutely. the one locate

yes, we have worked quite closely with darpa in this whole yie idea about how you could begin for people who are paralyzed to control a robotic arm to carry out fairly sophisticated activities including the one you mention said. this is a big part of what the brain initiative, which involves nih and darpa and as well as the department of energy, as well as international partners aims to do, to figure out hout the 86 billion neurons between your ears do what they do in these complicated circuits, which we're beginning to take apart and understand even better, because we would like to go from where we are now, which was sort of an empirical effort to get this to work, to understand it so well that you knew exactly where to place the electrodes to get the movement of the arm. >> last topic. we have just done some good bipartisan work on plastics in the ocean. the u.n. has issued a unanimous statement of concern about plastics. plastic, as you know, doesn't biodegrade. it just breaks down to smaller and smaller points. and then microscopic creatures can consume it, and it begins its track up

. >> we are deploying a system that we've crosswalk from darpa, it's radiation detection that are smartphone enabled and real-time transmitting data, that's a huge leap from what we had just a few years ago, but the question is what you do with that data. for example, in the ports, we are starting to play smarter technology. the amount of time they can be affected by nuisance alarms is a really big deal because it just takes, if you have a bunch of sensors and are too sensitive and you're responding to every time nothing triggers, then you're not able to do your job so, a big part of this is going to be building the algorithms in the background to be able to look for anomalies rather than look for specific things. it's similar in the bio space as we feel detectors, the materials in the air are different than in washington. so having better sensors and having better inputs is interesting, but you have to have the big data analytics in the background running to do that. that's where the integration with the targeting center and duties big data turning will pay big dividends because we don

darpa has been one of the most successful ways to use technology and deal with very difficult subjectsver the years. that's where the internet came from, it's where gps came from, it's where sonograms came from. it is an endless night vision, stealth vision, applying those same techniques to medical care, to medical breakthroughs and putting it inside of health and human resources as independent entity is a home run. i don't know why it wasn't done 15 or 20 years ago. i suspect a lot of pushback from the nih thinking it's a competitor. it's not a competitor. uses the resource that is the government invested in and basic research, national science foundation and nih and we've got the people lined up to do it. it's just -- stuart: get it done, bob. >> a huge change. i want to say one thing, one thing because i know -- this is about the tax bill. people don't understand that as a result of this, we are going to decrease by 50% the number of people that itemize deductions and we are going to end up the situation this year, 85% of the people that are filing tax returns are going to be doing

on a hypersonic start to demonstrate for the air force and the navy as well are working with darpa and is a prototyping experiment effort that is, where using the authorities that you all gave us for experimentation and testing. so we didn't wait for extensive requirements, kinds of things. we we're moving for an experimet for hypersonic and it was through the authorities you gave us. >> secretary geurts, i want to ask you through our defense labs play in the acquisition process. i spent a lot of time, i've instruct how integrated are not on innovating new capabilities to meet navy requirements for testing and evaluating and verifying systems developed for the navy by private industry throughout the acquisition process. i'd love to get your view of defense labs as as a vital plar in the acquisition system. >> yes, senator. in coming to the navy i really impressed with their warfare centers and the labs and how well they are tied. having an organic capability as spatial as we got this rise of commercial technology and commercial products, that organic capability to take them, testing qu