 More than 50 businesses gathered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, September 19th to meet with Army researchers and engineers for a technology showcase. The event brought together science and technology advisors, leaders and other interested government employees with potential business partners for an exchange of knowledge that may lead to enhancing warfighter readiness. We want to ensure that we're giving the confidence to industry to make those investments by really understanding what the needs of the government are and being able to pursue those most efficiently and effectively as possible. The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences facilitates connecting industry with government experts to assist in filling unmet needs and to promote and accelerate technology transition from U.S. manufacturers to the armed forces. To make this event possible, NCMS, a non-profit neutral organization, partnered with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory. We're looking at the 2030 timeframe, what technologies are on the horizon, whether they're in manufacturing science, additive manufacturing, whatever it may be, how we can bring that technology to the Army for that future fight. Vendors set up technology demonstrations and displays. One vendor, who demonstrated innovative technology solutions with magnets and sensors, said he has been to about 10 of these showcases, which happen at various government installations across the nation. My goal is to get somebody to take a look and say, wow, we've been trying to figure out how to deal with this. We've got something to think about and we didn't think we could do before. Sergeant First Class Roderick Trotter is a soldier assigned to the laboratory's weapons and materials research directorate. I think it's a lot of amazing technologies out here and a lot of applications that can be used in the force. It helps our researchers see what's out there, what new and interesting ways technology is being currently utilized. And if they can build upon it with new ideas or new ways to use those applications, this would be a great event to come to.