 Hi Navy Facebook fans. I hope you are joining us here at Sea Air in Space. And with me right now we have Rear Admiral Minnazer, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for warfare systems. How are you doing today, sir? Doing fine, Amberlynn. It's great to be here at Sea Air Space. Alright, so earlier we were chatting about systems of systems. Can you tell me a little bit about the systems of systems approach and why that's important for the Navy as we move into the future? So the systems of systems approach takes the capabilities that we bought in individual platforms and combines the capabilities to get to a better result. The challenge technologically is each of those things we bought was built by a manufacturer or two but the challenge technologically is to be able to connect the system built by one contractor to a system built with another contractor to take the technical capability and put them together to get to a higher result. In order for us to capitalize on the synergy of those systems you have to think about an integrated warfare construct which is normally called system of systems. Got it. Okay, and now I know also in your speaking event that you just left you were talking about live virtual constructive training. Can you tell us some of the benefits? Sure, so let me define live virtual constructive for you for a second. So live is the live airplane or a person on a live bridge on a ship and to be able to take their experience and connect it to a virtual environment which would be a simulator. And then those live players and people in simulators are now connected in the same constructive environment, so computer generated environment. Think about a game like Halo or Call of Duty, a game that everybody's immersed in. Some of the players are actually in live platforms. My greatest technological challenge is to be able to use an NSA certified wave form to be able to take the information off the live node to the airplane or the ship and move it into the virtual environment to be able to protect the information coming off. We are already using the virtual constructive environment to immerse warfighters in the environments they're going to be fighting in and connecting them across geography. So across coast or across large geographic areas. The other piece about live virtual constructive is we have to go into that realm to be able to train to the high-end level that we're going to have to go fight in this competitive world because we can't quite train in the open air. We will divulge our capabilities if we do that. So the combination of the security aspect of doing it immersed and also the geography limits that we have with our ranges makes us go to this live virtual constructive training. This sounds like some pretty innovative stuff. So I know Siena talked about innovation yesterday, but in your new role, what are you most excited about in regards to innovation? So what I'd like to do in my new role is energize the community that's out there with all these new technologies. So if you walk around the floor here at CR Space, you see these wonderful ideas. I get business cards passed to me by the hundreds. You've got to come see this. You've got to come see that. How do we take those innovative technologies that are down here on the floor and connect them in a warfighting way using the processes we have in the Department of Defense like the DoD 5000 or the J-SIDS process to put those things into fruition? How do we demo more? And so I'm excited about what things like the power are mobile communication devices. The computing power that goes into our mobile tablets. We're moving mobility into our cockpits, onto our ships, onto the battlefront. How do I take that technology and continue to innovate? My challenge is, as I build a program of record on the DoD 5000 with a J-SIDS requirements base and I start that program of record, it's kind of in a pipe that I can't get into. Well, what if that system I have now some new technology that I can input in that system and make it better? How do I get that technology in? And that's what I'm trying to do. So I'm trying to ask the right questions to get excited about this kind of a thing so that I get people coming back to me and saying, we need to use this kind of... Look, you can use this technology to do this over here and then go and demonstrate it, be willing to fail, use the early adopter model in the military to manage our risk and try to get some capability out of that. I think that technology is just going away from us and we have to grab a hold of that, take advantage of what they're doing in the commercial world Wonderful. Well, thank you so much, sir. I know that you are incredibly busy. So thank you for your time with us today. And for our Facebook fans, be sure to join us. We'll be right back here tomorrow on the U.S. Navy Facebook page.