 Hi, I'm Mary Harper. I'm the new Deputy Chief Scientist at ARL, and I've been on the job for two and a half weeks. I'm very excited to be here. I think helping to really spark the research agenda and really help people to find their way to actually making a true difference, you know, helping to identify the future portfolio, working together with a lot of others. I think the opportunity here at ARL is to help with the collaboration and really build a strong team where we're willing to do what's needful in terms of going beyond our comfort zone and doing the kinds of work that will really push the research horizon forward. And it seems to me that everything's sort of set up now for that to happen, so it's an exciting time to do that. Well, it's kind of interesting in that it's kind of a merge of a lot of different things, right? So the focus on basic research and basic research with a mission to look to is really kind of academic, but really also very mission relevant, and that kind of balance between those two is sort of interesting. You often will see centers that are government sponsored focusing more on mission than on the basic research, and so being able to keep that vision alive, the basic research is important, and it's important to also see the direction that you're going in, is that that's going to help you with the selection of problems from this infinite space of problems that you could investigate. It really makes it a very interesting place. I haven't been a member of any other government lab, so I don't know how those other government labs are run, but it does seem like ARL has really set up with the new cross-cutting type things to actually position themselves to do really groundbreaking work. One other thing I'd like to add is that my door is always open. I believe I will be a better deputy chief scientist by hearing from folks about what they see is important and pressing in the upcoming years, and so please feel free to visit me. I'm in room 510.