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Proxy forces, misdirection plays, propaganda, a different way of exerting power . Sec. Carter exactly right. And we need to counter that, too. And we need to fortify our european allies to counter that. So weve got a lot to do, and thats just another way of saying that we need to continue to be innovative. We innovated a lot when it was came for iraq and afghanistan. They were new kinds of one of the things im really proud of in our Defense Department is a long history of innovation. It goes back you know, i started my career in science and technology. As you said, we were doing stealth at that time. We were doing a whole lot of stuff in space. Missile defenses, all those were new capabilities. And those of you who are in High Technology industry know im trying to reach out to our industry, building those bridges. Mr. Seib i wanted to ask you about that, as a final thoug ....
Happy that all of you could come out and join us, you know, on this evening. My namey. The director of the night rover challenge. Im going to kind of be the moderator for tonight, as we go through this firstever challenge america summit. So ive got just a few things that, you know, i wanted to do with everyone, before we get into the program. First of all, i just want to take a minute and have everyone just look around this room. In this room, we have amazing people that are corporate, nonprofit, and government, all focused on challenge driven innovation in some way or another. This is a really powerful,interf people that are gathered here to look at how competitions can drive innovation. Thats what tonight is all about, is, you know, the next step in creating a real wave of innovation. My job tonight is just to give you a little bit of background on what we are, what were tiqp q s that we have. Roup of so just to get going with that, i want to tell you a little bit about this thing ca ....
We were waiting for the nfls announcement. We got that tuesday. Now we can talk more. I want to acknowledge chris kelly, pat gallager, jim wonderman, we are expecting ron conway and mary murphy to join us. I also wanted to turn the microphone over to mayor lee to talk about why we are here. That is to unveil our logo, social media campaign. We will have rich silverstein, the head of this amazing ad Agency Working the past month to come to this point. We are going to hear from the ceo of the 49ers, jet york as well. Supervisor mark ferrell, who will be our key liaison to the board of supervisors here in San Francisco i want to acknowledge mayor reeve and williams werent able to make it. We are committed to the effort and our theme of bringing the bowl to the bay. That will be important because we cant do this alone. We are excited to work with them as well. Without furthered ad ....
Microphone over to mayor lee to talk about why we are here. That is to unveil our logo, social media campaign. We will have rich silverstein, the head of this amazing ad Agency Working the past month to come to this point. We are going to hear from the ceo of the 49ers, jet york as well. Supervisor mark ferrell, who will be our key liaison to the board of supervisors here in San Francisco i want to acknowledge mayor reeve and williams werent able to make it. We are committed to the effort and our theme of bringing the bowl to the bay. That will be important because we cant do this alone. We are excited to work with them as well. Without furthered adieu i will ask mayor lee to come up and perform, talk about the first tweet and our social media campaign. Great, thank you. Thank you, daniel. [applause] thank you very much for your leadership on this as well. I knew that when we ....