act dedicates funding to ssa ssa and -- funding to ssa and r&d.e look forward to witness testimony on issues about how it about how to advance u.s. interests in space and space traffic management. i emphasize are grateful we are to take time here today -- grateful we are to you to take time here today. i take parochial privilege to recognize first the professor from the university of colorado boulder. he has been a thought leader on stm and ssa and space related topics. he led the 2019 office of space commerce workshop on ssa at the campus in boulder. we also have karina, of the commercial spaceflight federation. commercial space companies are represented by the spaceflight federation. we have a number of companies in colorado, but these companies are all over the united states. it is a national issue. she coordinates activity with federal agencies for the in-space servicing of satellites and safe access to low-earth orbit. we have seen examples of that in recent days. we have kevin o'connell of space economy rising, director of the office of spac

observation from diverse ssa tracking networks and sensors is required to build a robust accurate ssa system. number five, open architecture beta repository. today's satellite operators contribute data relevant to space safety on spacecraft including positional time histories and predictions, maneuver plans, launch, early orbit and re-entry data. commercial entities continue to lead the development and implementation of these capabilities. this data exchange model must be extended globally. number six, availability of information. ssa and stcm data must be available to all operators whether commercial or government regardless of mission, altitude or nationality. as such, sia recommendations the following actions: number one, action and funding are needed now. the commercial satellite sector is quickly innovating, driving u.s. leadership in space. the u.s. must act now to implement a modern ssa, spcm environment to support innovation including leveraging commercial and government capabilities to yield a u.s.-developed cutting-edge space sustainability model. number two, the framework s

ssa and rnd.o part of the subcommittee to carry out duties swiftly and certainly we look forward to hearing testimony from witness, issues how to advance u.s. leadership in space, how to protect federal and commercial interests with space traffic management. i have reemphasized how grateful we are for your time here today. we have witnesses say i take parochial privilege to recognize first professor from the university of colorado in boulder and he has been a devout leader on ssa and all manners of space related topics. he let the 2019 office and space workshop of ssa the missed campus in boulder. also therese -- commercial space companies are represented by the federation, a number of these in colorado but these companies arm all over the united states, it is probably a national issue and she can speak on industry activity with federal agencies in space servicing satellites the society of space act, safe access in that recent base andn then kevin o'connell, space economy rising, the office of spa

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closed the one campaign said the amount of money raised was "underwhelming" — falling short of that ssawon't raise around $5 billion in pledges here, it'll be the $a billion total. if you speak to organisers, they'll say look, that's inevitable, a lot of pledges come in over that period, different countries have different budgetary timescales. if you talk to the aged charities, they say that's a reflection of the letter a, other priorities and economies dealing with health, they also say the uk's decision to cut the aid budget has flattened appetite amongst other countries. why should they do that when the uk cuts there is? so there's that political debate there, but $a billion over five years they hope will make a real dent in getting 175 million children back into school. the charity aims to use the money raised in particular to help girls missing out on school around the world. many who don't complete their schooling end up being married and getting pregnant at a young age. nobel laureate malala yusufsai spoke by video link at the summit. if we want a stronger, fairer world, we must

what we used to call the ssa, sector specific agencies, that are working, so d.o.e.s an important role and has needs to continue to do that and cisa can help enable that. the new national cyber director we finally have a head coach, someone who can bring together the offensive coordinator and the defensive coordinator on to the same field with the same playbook, and all i ask is that congress enable chris to do his job as national cyber director. >> i appreciate that. mr. chairman, i yield back and i thank you all for your expertise today. >> thank you. the chair recognizes the children from new jersey for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and ranking member katko, thank you for having this hearing andd i think the witnesses for testifying. as you all know we are truly living in extraordinary times. threats of all supports whether cyber, ransom or physical greatly threaten the safety and security of our great nation. in the past six months we have had, seen ransomware attacks like we had never seen before. water treatment plants, meatpacking facilities, you n