Good morning everybody. Thank you for being here today and jim miller president and ive had involvement with Missile Defense over a number of decades. Starting on capitol Hill Services committee in the late 80s and early 90s. And continuing on through my time including undersecretary defense of the obama ministration. We have a great panel here today. Youve already met some jericho who is senior fellow here in International Security program at csis. Tom will talk about in particular his important missiledefense next steps. Doctor greco, thank you for being here today as well. Scientists in the Senior Security program. Also support we will. Guest that and a number of other issues i think. Our third panelist today Major General retired ron. Director strategy plans and policy for norad. Then also has up several commands for an air defense and at one point was director of tests for the Missile Defense agency as well. It is a great group. I want to thank you general especially for coming to