It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret