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our adversary. They see one connected
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battle space with a great number of
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seams, right? Seams that they want to
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exploit. Port is really the textbook
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example. They represent how we move
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material, how we move equipment. It's
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the nexus of economy and national
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security. Approximately 80% of cranes
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that we use at US ports, right? Material
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handling equipment are are purchased
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from Chinese companies. In an
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increasingly connected world where
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platforms and infrastructure are now
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talking to each other, you've got a a
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bigger problem on your hands that needs
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to be looked at closely.
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We're saying it has the potential to
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impede the ability to project power,
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deploy forces, move material, move
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people. And not only on the defense
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side, but economically, how how
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significant are US ports to our economy?
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Well, over $2.1 trillion dollars of our
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economy on an annual basis is dependent
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Yeah. Trillion dollars. Let that sink
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But it doesn't need to be a devastating
1:00
attack. It needs to be a disruption. It
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needs to be a distraction. It needs to
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be something that we're worried about.
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So 80% of cranes that we use on a daily
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basis that every port you take the port
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of Long Beach right the largest port on
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the west coast um it doesn't take a lot
1:18
to make you worry about throwing things
1:19
off balance on our economy and national
1:22
and then if we just look back to COVID
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uh how significant that was from a
1:26
supply chain but Brad jump in
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as Dave talked about those commercial
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ports are using OT equipment some of it
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is running Chinese software and it's
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and you know impact on you know a cy a
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major cyber event as we've seen in
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Singapore as we've seen in Seattle where
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there was a ransomware attack that
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certainly disrupted port operations
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those ports get drup disrupted in in
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wartime it's going to impact our ability
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to fight and and and impact our military
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which is everything I mean there's the
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old adage amateurs talk strategy
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professionals logistics but at the end
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of the day ports are at the hub of all
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logistics right now definitely If you
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can't move people, food, equipment, game
