investment and acquisitions are jeopardizing the nation's most sensitive technologies. lastly i'd like to spend a moment on the counterintelligence threat to our national academic research and laboratory construct. what's the scale of the problem and what's the fbi doing to fight it? finally, director cardilla, we've come to associate nga with the modernization of the intelligence community. the adversaries of this country are investing in innovation faster and with fewer constraints than we are. the threats we face are multidimensional, decentralized and global. ngas play an essential role in pushing the envelope with new ways of tackling problems like having more data than you can feasibly analyze. as the ic edges closer to automation, machine learning and eventually artificial intelligence, the computer learning and computer vision work at nga will be a bridge to help us get there.