Roger Wicker

I want to congratulate Mr. Ryder for his nomination and thank him for his willingness to serve on this important Board.

The FCC's action to streamline environmental and historic preservation reviews designed for large cell towers... will accelerate 5G deployment.

I will tell you that almost one-fifth of the U.S. Senate attended this hearing today.

That alone won't solve the question that Senator Klobuchar asked about rural coverage?

The map is utterly worthless in terms of giving us good information.

What decisions, what policies?

That common sense proposal would slash the costs to deploy these by a third and would shave months off deploying each of these.

The map misrepresents the existence of 4G LTE service in many areas

Far too many Americans remain unable to access high speed broadband Internet access and we have much work to do.

There is still a disparity in broadband deployment across the country, particularly in rural America.

Broadband connectivity is the digital engine driving investment, innovation and productivity in virtually every economic sector in the United States.

Hearing held on March 13, 2018.

Thank you very, very, much, Mr. DeBroux.

This legislation expands the principal duties of your position to include sustainment and maintenance of ships, aircraft, and other weapons systems.

We are going to need that improvement, if we are going to sustain this 355-ship Navy.

Would the savings be in the nature of $1.7 billion?

It has everything to do with national security.

Thank you. Before I recognize Senator Hirono, thanks for pointing out that the requirement is not just something that was arrived at by the seat-of-the-pants.

You had to read the footnotes.

On that, let's keep our thinking caps and look for innovative approaches.

Very positive developments.

I believe we can go faster.

Given that the NDS emphasizes the Services prioritize capabilities suitable against China and Russia, why is the Navy deciding to increase funding to the program when DOT&E has found it not operationally effective for those scenarios?

Does the current program of record provide sufficient capability and capacity to support the NDS priority of China and Russia?

Discuss the roadmap for Marine Corps unmanned systems.