Currentthinking and future challenges facing the navy, the marine corps and the coast guard. Today represents our second dialogue for 2017, and we look forward to wrel come you all back for additional events throughout the year. We would also like to thank in a special way Lockheed Martin and Huntington Ingles industries for their support in making this event and this series possible. Before we get under way for big, vents like this we also like to make just a brief announcement, safety announcement. We dont expect any difficulties, but should there be anything as a convener and we want to make sure that we have exits right here on the back on both sides and stairs down the front and both myself and anthony bell in the back will be your responsible officers to kind of direct you in the right way just in case anything should come up. Just look for one of us. And so, for our formal introduction to get things started ill turn to vice admiral peter daly and were happy to have them here and