If American Schooling Is Inadequate Now, Just

Now, A Lot Of What We Are Doing Right Now, Quite Frankly, Is Because Of What Happened On Christmas. Many Of The Things Were Kind Of In The Works. We Were Already Planning, For Example, The Purchase And Deployment Of Advanced Imaging Technology. You Call Them Body Scanners. We Call Them Aits (advanced Imaging Technologies).

It's Always Been Government's Role To Protect The Security Of The Nation. And Cyber-attacks Is A Security Issue, From Our Perspective. And It's A Security Issue Of Particular Concern With Respect To The Nation's Core Critical Infrastructure, The Infrastructure Everyone Relies On, The Energy Sector, The Telecommunications Sector, The Banking Sector.

If American Schooling Is Inadequate Now, Just Imagine How Much More Obsolete It Will Be When Today's Kindergarten Students Graduate From High School In Just 12 Years.

As Part Of Our Layered Approach, We Have Expedited The Deployment Of New Advanced Imaging Technology (ait) Units To Help Detect Concealed Metallic And Non-metallic Threats On Passengers. These Machines Are Now In Use At Airports Nationwide, And The Vast Majority Of Travelers Say They Prefer This Technology To Alternative Screening Measures.

You Can't Imagine A World, Quite Frankly, Without A Safe And Secure Aviation System. And So Our Job Is To Really Focus On That, And What We Need To Do To Keep It Safe And Secure.