 The Navy announced plans April 8th to deploy the laser weapon system or laws to the fifth fleet area of responsibility on board USS Ponce beginning in fiscal year 2014. This technology is really important to the fleet so that what we can do is make the cost of delivering fire to an enemy affordable and to relieve ourselves of the need to rearm. Having a magazine that is essentially endless because we can generate power as long as we've got generators able to be fueled gives us until the end of our fuel supply the ability to generate energetic fires against an enemy whether that's defensive or offensive. Laws provide ships with a scalable weapon system for use against unmanned aerial vehicles and small vast attack boats. The laser system has the ability to be used as a non-lethal deterrent to dazzle enemy sensors and to immobilize or destroy enemy targets. This provides commanders with a multi-tiered threat response from one system. After a successful at sea test period aboard USS Dewey where laws successfully engaged and destroyed three moving targets, the system will be more fully integrated into USS Ponce for its fiscal year 2014 deployment. Now we want to make sure that it can be integrated fully. The power grid, the cooling grid, the location of the weapon system. Right now for the Ponce we've already walked all that we've walked the ship itself that is all very achievable there's no hurdles that we don't we can't get through right now. So to us that's the piece that we want to just prove out with the Ponce and my colleague Adam Lechels will talk about that but again we feel very confident on everything we've done thus far that it will prove out very successful. From the Defense Media Activity I'm Petty Officer Joshua Shepard.