 Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to now introduce the distinguished leader representing California's 53rd congressional district on this woman, Susan Davis. I appreciate all of your being here. I'm so glad to be here, actually. It's a wonderful morning and it's a wonderful time to acknowledge and thank all of you for the efforts, especially in the filter. I want to certainly thank Secretary Davis and Mr. McGinn for allowing me to join you for the launching of a great green relief initiative. It is a very exciting time for the Navy and the many what is certain to be a force multiplier in energy efficiency. And I have to say, Mr. Secretary, for you to just look for any excuse you can find to be here in San Diego. I'll be about back because we love it. You know that it's going to be pretty cold and pretty snowy. I'll let you go. So I hope you're transforming how energy is used to provide efficiency, certainly in many areas. But we all know what's also important is it allows us to better train, to better equip and to better protect our sailors and our Marines. So whether it's on land in the air or aboard ship, we know our sailors and our Marines are answering the calls we need to deliver. So optimizing energy efficiency enables our enemy and our Marines to be diversified in their use of energy resources while maintaining operational flexibility. The Department of the Navy has taken technology and energy monetization to the next level. Sometimes people don't realize the amount of effort that has gone into this, that it's very much there and it's very much something to celebrate. And they're creating a next generation capability to provide greater global presence as a deterrent to our enemies. I am so honored and privileged to be here. Thank you all once again for making this day possible. Congratulations on a job well done. Thank you. Thank you, Congresswoman Davis. I'd like to now introduce the distinguished leader representing California's 57 congressional victory, Congressman Scott Peters. First we're visiting Welcome to Coronado and to San Diego, with the pleasure of being here with you. A large, solid light in the skies, and my first time meeting up here in the winter. I want to thank Secretary Mattis and Secretary Bilsack for being here in Coronado for the first time in a while. I think we should leave or be free. Because a few months ago that I've been here with Secretary Mattis who announced the Navy in a recall purpose. An impressive amount of solar energy from central. And the great relief is the next step in advancing energy security as an after security. Because of the Secretary's leadership, we're launching the plans that he explained able to project power around the world while being ruled by an American Navy. I would creep the folks about by the military's advance of the rule of energy and ask what is it about the military? If they see that as a court, why is the Navy powering itself with an alternative energy and biofuel? Why don't we power the bunker with solar panels and the devices with personal solar panels? And the answer is not that the military are tree-hunting. The answer is that a military unit should, particularly Secretary Mattis, recognize that reducing our reliance on fuel and fuel is an after security effect. When the price of oil spikes, it takes funds away from our troops and our mission priority. So diversifying our fuel sources and troops, our ability to effectively budget consumers into preparedness. While keeping the Navy's investment in alternative fuel sources is important. The battlefield is also driving investment in the research in the private sector. It's really appropriate that we have these ceremonies here at San Diego where we have a real fascinating economy. A local lab and research institute that can proceed to the military. For instance, we had a great way to join the innovation that's happening in San Diego with what we need in Washington and in the military. So in Congress, I fought for the diversification of energy supply and introduced legislation that increases our military's energy efficiency. In the Department of Defense Energy Security, I will give our leaders like Secretary Mattis the tools to reduce our lines and fossil fuels, speed up the development of alternative energy sources. And as we continue to hear numerous times today from military leaders and energy specialists, investments in alternative energy sources will protect our military personnel. Save money in our central for our national security. I don't want to thank all of you for being here. I want to thank Senators Davis and Bill Sack for the invitation to join you. Let's know that you have a proud partner in me and in San Diego. Congratulations to you all. It's now my pleasure to introduce the former Governor of Iowa and steadfast partner in the Great Green Cleave Initiative, our 30th Secretary of Agriculture, the Honorable Tom Bill Sack. But it is certainly a privilege and honor to be here this morning. Certainly it's an honor to be here in the presence of several members of Congress, obviously military leaders. But I deem it the greatest honor to be those who are in our forces. I haven't always been as humble about this as Secretary Mavis will probably be now. Soon after I got this job as Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary Mavis and I were at the White House together. I was pretty full of myself with this new job. And I leaned over to him and I said, you know, we've got 100,000 people working at USDA. I mean, we've got a huge operation. You get to meet as Marines and sailors and a whole bunch of ships, tanks and airplanes. I've always been very respectful of Mavis since that conversation. I am pleased to be here also because we are, as right now, a military family and a Navy family. I'm proud of our Navy roots. My nephew, Sam Bell, served as a Marine out of San Diego. He was stationed in Afghanistan for a period of time. He's now a student at the University of Northern Arizona. My father-in-law, certainly World War II, is a Naval Aviator. My uncle, Charlie Young, was the commander of the Second Nuclear Submarine in our Navy's history. And my great-uncle, Cassin Young, is a Medal of Honor recipient for Marine Corps Army. So I feel very, very honored to be here today. And I feel particularly honored to be with my friend Ray Mavis, who had the vision in the foresight to see the importance of diversifying the energy sources and fuel sources for our Navy and our military. We're excited about the fact that the Navy is going to use 77.7 million gallons of a blended biofuel here. That can actually be greatly inflated. We know each year the Navy uses over 28 million barrels of liquid fuel, so that's a tremendous opportunity for us in the biofuel area to partner with the Navy, to partner with the Defense Department and the Energy Department to expand and diversify our efforts. We've committed collectively over a long period of time, not in this particular circumstance, but over a long period of time, a substantial amount of money to expand the purchase of biofuel and renewable energy for the Navy. We want to create a drop in aviation marine fuel that will allow Ray to essentially reach the vision that he so forcefully articulated several years ago. Fifty percent of the Navy's energy needs being met for the resources. Why is this important? Well, it's important for the reasons that Congress representatives have indicated, but it's also important from a standpoint of the Midwest economy, the national rural economy. See, 15 percent of America lives in rural America, but nearly 40 percent of your military comes from those small towns. And our challenge in rural America is to have an economy that supports families so that they can live, work and raise their children in those small towns so that they can continue to provide the service to this great country. Kids who grow up in rural areas, they learn a very valuable lesson that is reflected in their military service. It's from farmers. You understand that you can't keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back to it. Land is something that gives to you the responsibility to give back to it. So it's nourished, it's replenished. Kids grow up with that value system, and they understand this country has given us incredible freedom, incredible liberties, capacity to live in the greatest and strongest nation in the world, to be able to dream big dreams. Because of that, they understand and appreciate the need to give something back. And so they join military with great numbers, and they provide extraordinary service. We want to keep that value system alive and well and close to the help we need. It's necessary to produce this food. We're excited about the farm and clean initiative. We appreciate Secretary Davis making his vision. So we are proud to be here today. Thank you, Secretary Bill Sack. I can now introduce the commander of the Naval Air Forces, R.A.R. Boss, by Sav. Mike Schumacher. Thanks, John, and good morning. Welcome again, everyone. It's an honor to be here today, to introduce our secretary, Amy, to help acknowledge and celebrate his vision of the department of that great green fleet. Welcome to Conference with Mrs. Davis, Conference with Scott Peters, Agricultural Secretary, Tom Bill Sack, fellow flags and general officers, distinguished visitors, and members of our local community. Thanks for joining us this morning. Today, more than every U.S. national interest require the speed, endurance, flexibility, and autonomous operations are needed to work out carriers, carry airplanes, and carry strike groups. We provide a credible deterrent presence for our combat commanders around the world, and we respond to the widespread threats of natural disasters. The composition of maneuverability of our carry strike groups, combined with the fully integrated capabilities of the embarked airline, allows to operate, project power, and contested waters and airspace, enabling U.S. to continue its role as the key guarantor of peace and stability around the world. This morning, I watched proudly as two minutes of the great green fleet strike group, carry U.S.'s Johnson Stennis and U.S. heroes, who never wait for deployment. Over the next few days, the aircraft where we now will quickly fill up the empty flight deck and operate from Stennis in the next seven months in the western Pacific. I'll also demonstrate the Navy's newest energy conservation missions. The main motivation we see is the benefits of energy conservation daily in our carrier fleet, which is operated using only alternative fuel, nuclear energy, since the decommissioning of the last conventionally powered this alternative energy source is estimated to save the Navy 130,000 gallons of fuel per day. We're also working for a fuel for aircraft for the future where aircraft use 100% alternative fuel. Since Secretary May was put forth the Navy's energy goals in 2009, the Navy's fuel team has been actively conducting qualification testing on non-patrolling-based sources to serve and certify that to produce genuine fuel. In 2012, the Navy used its limits as part of the 2012 North Pacific exercise. And the fuel team will take your flight test and approach 100% non-patrolling-based decommissioning. The reverse-spanning energy source uses operational flexibility and strengthens our ability to provide critical form of presence. Turning the tables on those in line to try to use energy in Stennis. Many of the energy conservation measures are on a short basis here in the States. The culture is changing. Every day, sailors and Marines think about ways to better use energy more efficiently which makes us better at our jobs and more effective at executing our missions. It's now my privilege to introduce the missionary leader who established the goal of sailing a great greenfield back in 2009. And today has the opportunity to speak to the advance of that place in the country. The Honorable Ray Namas is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy. He's the first leader of the Navy in the world since World War II. Throughout his tenure, Secretary Namas has focused on four key priorities. People, platforms, power, and partnerships. The naval and Navy records the unique ability to maintain the presence that reassures our allies and deterred our adversaries. Leaving the world's only global Navy, Secretary Namas has traveled over 1.1 million miles to visit over 140 countries and territories in 48 states. His primary goal is to maintain and develop international relationships and to reconnect the American public with the Navy's record which he calls America's amazing. Secretary Namas has also directed the Navy's record to change the way they use, produce, and acquire energy setting an aggressive goal with relying on 200 sources of at least 50% of energy by 2020. These goals have gotten the Navy records of today's deployment of the great greenfield of America. Secretary Namas has a name from the back of the Mississippi service of government in 1989 to 1992. He went on to serve as ambassador of the King of Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996. Secretary Namas also proudly served the Navy as an officer of the Navy of the United States Navy. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Secretary Namas. Secretary Namas is the most extraordinary officer in the Central and the land's under-submuted. There are so many people in the audience that have made this name a positive experience to the Navy. His process with the Tennessee to his under-pervadership of the Hispanic and its history of great success. So this might be Stemists that left minutes ago, later this morning, Mr. Cornyn strike me. These were two operations, the National Council, the Navy and the Secretary of State, John Carey, said last week in his address to the National Police University, the United States will remain more engaged in more places in the world than any other country. The Navy is worried, uniquely, by the presence of the missionaries that will be turning out in the soonest. The time when Shoemakers had them, they were real poor Americans of 18. We don't get anything, we're not just in the right place in the right time, we're in the right place involved. If we get on the station fast, we'll stay there longer for everything we need with us. The National Council of Operating and Solving the American Territory, that asked me about the mission of going to Washington, to Washington first. Lentador Roosevelt said the great white fleet around the world a hundred and ten years ago who did it as a show of the Navy's strength and our ability to project that strength to be impressive. He understood how important it was for the rest of the world to see the U.S. Navy havin' the way forward for our country. And he did it without enough money to bring the fleet home. He was confident that Congress would appropriate the money once it got halfway around and bring it back. And they did. As President Obama discussed in the State of Union last week, the American way used to blaze the trade. For another president, John Kennedy, announced in 1961 that we would go to the moon and back within a decade a lot of the technology required hadn't even been invented. We have never been invented. The shy away from bold ambition. And with that thought in mind in 2009, you've heard, I said it's a pretty aggressive energy goal for the Department of the Navy. So I want to talk today a little bit more than just about the Great Green Fleet. I want to talk about the journey we've traveled these past seven years and more importantly the direction we're headed. The Department of Defense is the world's largest user of fossil fuels. And the Navy is more than a firm. So when I took this job almost seven years ago, these issues made energy the priority, the cause of how much an impact our combat capability. And the cause of the cause that it imposes on us, fighting it against it, gives us more protection than taking convoys off the road and reducing the time of ships and with orders at sea. Now I'll give you one specific example of this flexibility. In Singapore, the oil refinery there is owned by China. Right down the road is an alternative fuel refinery owned by punishment. Don't we need the ability to get fuel from either one of those sources? Wouldn't it be terrible if we hadn't certified all our ships, all our aircraft on alternative fuels so that we do have that flexibility if the cause arises? Those of you who heard me speak before and that's what you make me say, the four fundamental principles that I've tried to use to lead the Navy Marine Corps, people, our sailors and Marines. Ladies and gentlemen, leaders, 2011. President Obama directed the bill cycle for the part of the Navy, the private sector, the development, domestic events, all of them. As a result, two years ago, we set up a part of their bill cycle, set up America's Navy, which had to deal with world supplies from our nations to ensure our natural defense. And America stands ready to provide fuel and overgrown energy that increases our military's energy independence. Well, today the ship behind me, fuel costs about five cents. This fuel cost the American taxpayer, cost the US government two dollars and five cents. Look out, what was made in 2012. We demonstrated the rate of the cost of the fuel. Well, yeah, we bought a very small amount, it was a demonstration. The world didn't stop in 2012. We paid $26 a gallon, then we're paying 13 times less today, just three and a half years later. That's the storm. That's the success. Two dollars and five cents a gallon. We only have one as if they'd be a drop-in fuel. Or I change their engines, we're not doing anything. It has to be exactly the same. Two is that it takes no land. And three, that it be cost competitive. Well, today, even with the dramatic drop in oil prices, it's competitive. It's competitive today and using the market. This logistics agency bid out this fuel, and this is what came back. Cost competitive, two dollars and five cents a gallon. And I want to finish the distance here, because the LA, every people that act in this fuel, 77 million yet, the largest purchase using the tools that it has, using the market place, has successfully brought us to the last area. It's got 80 cities, southwest area, GPS, medics. These companies, I just made, their business to make money. It brings me to, as you may have said, every single ship in this strike group is operating on most of them. 2001, U.S. Navy had 360 issues. Seven years later, in 2007, eight ships, and in that seven years, the Navy put 41 ships under it. Not about to keep our fleet shrinking, that took office almost exactly seven years ago. At the end of this year, the ships we've already got over time, these seven years, we're going to have maybe four ships in one country, with a 20% smaller, or at least a bit, more than 300 ships. You're not just doing it. Maybe it's more important that they stay down. What do you think they do about it? That's the reason we're building all our big, big, big, big ships. It's the reason we're beginning to work with them to find a choice with the same thing. Finally, people, I'd say, you know, it's much better. The innovation is coming from the fleet. It's coming from the field. All you have to do is look at it. Marine's only two x-hogs in here. This one is what we're operating on. See, when they invite industry men, all you've got to do is help the Marines about it. And it's everything from small, cordless, vulnerable to solar waves. It's the same as a company of Marines, so they don't have to be resupplied. So they don't have to be dependent on these cordless solar waves. Make your energy where they are. We've got a thing called Task Force Innovation. There's a website on the page. You can enter things you would like. This is how you do things. We had a chief that years ago said, what about energy lights in your ships? What we're doing in there, any time we put a ship in the shipyard and put it available, can you change the lightbulbs? Stop that. There's energy lights. It saves that ship $1,000 an hour for fuel a year. Just changing the lights. And if you better light, then you don't have as often new years versus a few months. Sailors are doing things like using an energy dashboard to give them real time exactly what they're doing and how they're running the ship and what that's doing. As I see it out, Admiral John Richardson said, everybody's pitching a bit. We're making every kilowatt, every gallon of fuel cut and it's making us smarter, maybe. The Marines, as Marines always are. Look, the things like this and the blankets, but also with kinetic systems for the backpacks and re-braces. So to take the Marines interviews and hook it all that stuff and turn it into... Another going, by 2020, surprised that 100 years stayed in England in 2012 by 2020, the Navy, we're a single on service, but we do have an even acre of land with 117,000 buildings, so we use a little energy. Although we use two gigawatts and we used to say once ago, we announced the biggest purchase in a couple of weeks in my annual basis. So we're amazing. We did it on a five-year basis. So it's heading for our goal using more risk-report. So the other side here said that the Navy's demand for 2009 and 2014 went down 15%. We're using 50% less on it. The Marines are using 60% less on it. In the same... as always, by the way, the sales are going higher than it used to be every single time. Every single time, they already made sales. You can't do that. They saw lines on that. They saw obstacles. The same with what now. They looked at the lines. They saw no obstacles. They saw the open sea. They saw open waters. It's that way. You have to say, free us and give us operational flexibility in terms of energy. Do you see the amount of hype in terms of energy that's great as an expedition by a certain force in the Navy?