Good morning. My name is peter and on behalf of the nea aan roa i want to welcome you to our list of seminars on ballistic defense arms control and defense policy. We are honored today to have uzi ruben to as many of you know is the father of an arrow system and Ballistic Missile defenses in israel and he will be talking to us about what he called the gaza missile wars and some aspects of iron dome. I also want to let you know that our Seminar Series continues on the 25th of this month with general quality who is vicechairman of Strategic Command and we will also have scheduled Tom Dagostino the former head of mnsa and he will be speaking to us on october to a day to be determined. Our space series continues again on the 19th of this month. The new Space Commander general will introduce our two speakers. Our our speakers are congressman Brighton Stein from oklahoma a member of the House Committee on the Space Committee and he will be joined by highranking air force Space Acquisition of
Information on the contest, the three branches and now. Today the Defense Department honored michigan senator carl levin and buck mckeon with a military parade. Theyre the chairman of the senate and House Armed Services committees, and both are retiring from congress this year. Defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chief chairman Martin Dempsey spoke about the legislative careers of the two chairman. This is just under an hour. Please be seated. Block [inaudible conversations] the department of defense medal for distinguished Public Service is awarded to the honorable carl levin for distinguished Public Service as plane of the United States senate from january 1979 to january 2015, and as chairman and Ranking Member of the senate Armed Services committee from january 1997 to january 2015. Senator levin has consistently been leading the a leading proponent for the Strong National defense, an advocate for Service Members, veterans and their families. That spans from the cold war to the