 Thank you, and I think I'll talk to people here in the front of the room if the party can go on with the facts. But it really is a pleasure to be here today to address the Congressional Renewable Energy and Efficiency in Expo and Forum, quite a mouthful. And I think that efficiency and renewable energy are really important to two and three ways that DOD is looking at to transform the way we use energy. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about that. About seven years ago, General James Mattis, who is now the commander of the Central Committee, came back from the campaigns in the Afghanistan and Iraq and told the Department of Defense, unleashed us from the tether and fuel. Well, just last week, we heard that call that day. General David Petraeus said, energy is the life of our war-fighting capabilities. And he noted that high utilities means risk to the mission and for each member and civilian. We can and will do better if you directed. Well, in the years between those two statements, I think a lot of people here know the Department has taken a number of steps to do better on energies. But General Petraeus is absolutely right. We will do better. We can do better. And we have to do better. For our deployed forces today, for our fighting countries fighting, but also for the future, for all of our forces that are going to do the country-state in the future. And that's why we're here this week. I joined the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Bill Lin. He's taken a personal interest in this issue in releasing the Operational Energy Strategy, which is a strategy for the Department of Defense for how we can improve our use of energy. So I'm just outlining both the strategy and the ways that we're going to move forward on this. But first, the Department of Defense is a very significant user of energy. We are one of the largest civil users in the world. We are one of the largest civil users in the country. We account for about 1% of all energy used in the United States, 80% of all federal energies. So last year that meant we spent over $15 billion on energy. So my area of focus is on the energy we use, specifically for military operations, and that's close to what our energies used for, about 75% or $13 billion of energy that was spent on it. And the same energy trends that affect all Americans that give us where we live, each one of us, follow the rising prices. They affect the Department of Defense too. We've done some calculations. Every $1 increase in the price of the mineral oil costs the Department of Defense $130 billion. So there are many ways that UD is just another business and that we worry about our bottom line is like any other business, but they're also a business like another. And that's because our products, our process, what we do is security. Our job is to protect the American people. So every military capability that we need to do that job, every mission that we put out to do that job, and every single service member, they need a steady, reliable supply of energy. Everything needs us to ensure that our voices have access to energy they need. When they need it, it's not easy. Right now the defense and logistics agency tells us that about 80% of their land convoys have been sent at this particular time at the curing fuel. And that's difficult to avoid. The terrain itself is hard, the political terrain is hard. People are getting hit by ambushes, by IEDs. A grand petition man told us that this year, in 2010, last year, that we had more than 1,000 hacks on our supply convoys. So taking together these high risks to our people, to our convoys, people have to protect those convoys that I have also associated with our energy use. It means we must change the way people use energy and we must change the energy we use. So that's the goal of the strategy. Make sure we've got the energy we need to be safe. I'd like to highlight the main points now. There are three ways we're going to do this. First is, more fight, less fuel. We need to reduce the amount of energy that we use to conduct the military operations. We use far too much of the volume that US forces consume, whether it's on a battlefield, whether it's on ships or floating in the air or in cyberspace. That's what raises our risks in Boston and the impact of our capability on our clean and job done. On the other hand, if we reduce that amount of energy, we'll have people who will be able to do things that we really need to be able to do, like have a better range of our convoys so that our convoys will stay longer. The requirement there is that they're going to take steps to improve the efficiency of our energies. What you've got here can be anything from better engines, more efficient engines to lightweight materials but also two ways we're doing this. It's what we call concepts of operation that actually conserve fuel. And if we're in the first step of doing that it's going to be collecting better data on how we actually use fuels. And I know a whole lot about our use of energy so we need to understand that better to understand how we apply effort. Second, we want more options and less risk. We need a much more diverse range of fuel and options and energy supply options. We also need to make sure that we're going to be able to secure our energy supplies. And I'll tell you what I mean by that. Right now the requirement lies very heavily on controlling basic materials for our forward deployments, for our folks who are mostly in spite. We also support some military operations directly from bases here and up. So those bases are almost completely relying on a sustainable energy grid. So the security of that supply of electricity supplies is very important for our forces to deploy. Now, we need to change we need to have better options on the sources. Let me give you an example of what that might look like. It's really important that it's active on edge. I've actually heard it here today or I've heard it before about the rate for Indian 3.5 companies. So the company agrees that it's been out in Afghanistan and the U.S. and the U.S. fighting. We've been there with energy efficient technologies and the sole generation that's taken their opposite guidelines both for batteries and for fuel and that's giving them much better capability in allowing them to do their jobs and to keep working to stay in the fight. And for the long term we also need to be able to develop an alternative fuel for our legacy fleet. We've got equipment, we've got vehicle ships and aircraft that are going to be around for decades. And they are running on controlling. They are also running for those variables. So we have an interest in promoting those developments. But as I said, we also have to take more steps to protect the supply and electricity of our gas installations and the building and adapt. So finally, we want more capability for the last class. We need to build energy security for the future of course. We've learned the hard way in these fights that we're using too much energy and we're not protecting it well enough but we're still building this into our force right now. So we need to get into the way we think about the future. We need to plan to find our requirements and maybe actually acquire the systems and equipment. We need to get into all those processes how the energy considerations and the fact that we need to use less energy and have more options. So it's got to be part of how we look in the future as well. So as I mentioned at the outset it's not just the broader defense terms that you're referring to it's also the broader energy trends and you know we're well aware that conventional energy resources are concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and that global demands are growing and that for us, that means high and low levels who builds as far as the IPC and it also means national security consequences. Global plans on the whale shapes the two global landscapes in our own strategic choices in this country and forms our economic security and ensuring everyone in the Department of Defense is as few to aware as that. So what all of you here today have in the Department of Defense is an advocate. We understand the benefit and energy efficiency and we understand the benefit of domestic energy sources and nuclear sources in a visceral way. And I'm sure you all will appreciate having an advocate and I'll leave you some of you who are a little more interested in whether or not we'll be a customer. So let's just say I'm quite aware about that. We are and it will continue to be. As an organization that's in charge of advancing the public interest there are always going to be opportunities to promote larger national goals. With the right leadership, President Obama, Secretary of State, and Grand Davis, which can be an important catalyst in a number of areas. But I'd also urge you to keep in mind that the Department of Defense is in so much of business like any other even though our product is weak and we have to control costs so we're always looking for solutions that benefit our online. Where our value proposition is the highest is where the military requirement is the strongest and that's where we can be your best customer. As I said, there are soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan today who are out on the tactical edge using SOAR technologies and energy efficient technologies and it's giving them qualities that they need in order to be able to conduct their mission. It's a very sustainable, sustained and very requirement. So I would urge everyone here that if you want to do business with the military then you need to be able to get what we need and what our requirements are and go to that. Then you just have to find a word on what people think success looks like for the Department of Defense. We'll have a military that's better able to respond in challenge. We'll have our men and women who are risking their lives to have an energy source that if it's the mission it won't be constrained to the same choice and the trolling will allow for these to burden our budgets and our strategic choices. And I sincerely hope that when we improve the energy security in our armed forces that we'll be contributing to the energy security of the military. So when I'm speaking to all of you who are making it happen you're on the phone with all the front lines.