 The ARL partnership here in California and specifically in the Los Angeles Basin is unique because it brings an innovative perspective not only from our core base at ARL West, but also our regional ties to the universities coupled with the science and entertainment communities. The Army has challenges for the soldier of the future and when those come to the university our faculty, our students, our researchers get to start thinking about what are the solutions to these really challenging problems and it takes our research in whole new directions. ARL brings me really interesting problems, but sometimes I bring technologies that's looking for a problem and you need a partnership to identify how best to bring technology to solving real-world problems. We want to look at fundamental science, but we also want this applicable to a practical situation. So a lot of practical application will give us some kind of inspiration about what to study, what kind of research you want to do. The team at ARL West has fundamentally influenced the way we approach basic human cognitive neuroscience. The mission critical sort of questions they push us to understand decision-making not just by itself. Decision-making that matters for a life and death matter. We're able to have a real testbed of great experimental research that we can't get anywhere else. Working with arm service personnel is a perfect experimental laboratory for mindset and performance. We can take those strategies, techniques and apply them to any number of domains, be it in business and sports and anything else. Open campus initiative is a unique model among all the DOD labs. It allows us to form informal and formal collaboration without any monetary benefits. It's purely based on knowledge sharing, expertise and also resource sharing. ICT is a university-affiliated research center. We have a focus here on what we call immersive technologies. Those technologies overlap a lot with the human information interaction mission that ARL West has. The mixed reality lab here at ICT It's a research lab that looks at immersion. This can be really useful for training, for doing scientific experiments, working with complex data. There's a number of different opportunities for us to enhance what humans can do. What's unique about UCSB are our strengths, particularly in materials and engineering, in bio and on top of all that we have an excellent extremely collaborative faculty and we can pull these things together that allows us to be extremely effective for the ARME research laboratory. Caltech is part of the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies where we've been able to meet ARME researchers, host them here on campus, go out and visit the ARME labs. So I have a post doc now who is here in part because of ARL West and so it allows us to have a more interactive engagement. Having ARL employees and scientists placed directly at universities like this and actually having extended physical sites allows us to draw on these population of grad students that become the next scientists for ARL. We have eager students who are willing to work on impossible things and sometimes they even make them happen. So we have this collection of just brilliant young scientists who are looking for something useful that they can do with their ideas and their technology. By working with people from across the scientific spectrum where that be people who are doing vehicle technology or computational systems or human research, by being under one roof at the ARL West Hub we're able to do this creative brainstorming up front to build projects that are going to be impactful for the future soldier.