 ARL Central is the latest extension of the U.S. Army Research Lab to the Greater Chicago Region. It really brings the expertise of the surrounding universities, of industry, of national labs, in a partnership with ARL so that we can advance research faster, we can make new innovative discoveries to a point where we can get it into the hands of the soldier. The Greater Chicago Area has a long history of working in science and technology specifically for the military. Now we're formalizing this in this kind of framework, ARL Central, to support critical research required by the Army. In national security, we obviously have to be sensitive about what we're doing, and that tends to limit the ecosystem upon which we can draw for the best talent and the best ideas. So the concept of an open campus at the Army Research Laboratory gets us the ability to start interacting with communities that have great science, great technology, so it drives this collaboration. The benefits of partnering with ARL are that we're bringing a lot of challenging problems in an Army context with looking at the future Army that we need to be. Mission focused research forces people to think beyond the way they would normally think. The University of Chicago has always been an incredibly strong place for fundamental science, and increasingly a place where applied science and new ventures are at the cutting edge of what's happening with technology and science, together with our researchers and how that could help the Army is a real advantage. The relationship between Northwestern and ARL Central is related to the strengths of our University. In material science, we have worked for many decades to improve the materials that are brought to the warfighter. There has been deep engagement on the Army side and on our side. There's a lot of mutual benefits between the Army Research Laboratory and ARGOM. They can come do the kinds of science and technology advancement using facilities at the laboratory that they may not have. In turn, it gives us an opportunity to take the great science we've been doing for fundamental discovery and make it useful for the military. For the soldiers, one of the most important is the proportion. So it is a really natural fit for ARL to form an organic partnership to advance the new technologies in the proportion area. We're really bringing a sense of purpose, a sense of mission. We have researchers that are working with soldiers, you know, on the technology of the future for them. It's a tremendous group of people, young people, full of ideas. It is not only important but very exciting for us to know that we're doing something that is really relevant and useful. The mission of the scientific push as well as the mission pull produces a research that is much better than something that is either one or the other. At the end of the day, we all go into the field of science and technology because we want to have impact. ARGOM scientists can now have impact in areas that otherwise they could not have this partnership not existing. My vision for ARL Central is we're going to form strong bonds with all of our partners here in academia and industry with other national labs so that we can provide the best technology to the soldier in the conflict of the future.