 Hi, I'm Admiral Rick Breckenridge, the Director of Undersea Warfare on the OpNav staff here at the Pentagon. The last time we had the opportunity to speak on the Chintville homepage, I was the Group II Commander up in Groton, Connecticut in charge of our attack submarines in the Atlantic. And now I'm back running undersea warfare here at the Pentagon. And I emphasize undersea warfare and not strictly submarine warfare because we as a nation have an advantage, a distinct advantage in the undersea domain to have a positive influence for regional stability around the world. And one thing I'd like to talk to you about today is a facet of undersea warfare that often goes unnoticed or unrecognized, even within our Navy, but especially in our country, and that is the role of sea-based strategic deterrence from under the sea. Our SSBN force is comprised of 14 ballistic missile submarines manned by two separate crews. And these sailors are the front-line sentinels of protection against nuclear attack to our country. They go out and do strategic deterrent patrols day in and day out. We've not missed a moment in the last 50 years as a nation having this protection for our homeland defense. And the workhorse of our SSBN force is the Ohio Class Submarine, initially designed to last a typical service life of 30 years. Well, our engineers have done some pretty incredible analysis and were able to extend the current Ohio class from 30 years to 42 years, a 12-year extension. And that's delayed the timing of the replacement class that would be needed to recapitalize the SSBN force. But now we as a Navy and a nation are at a decision point in history where it's time to recapitalize the SSBN force. And our design, which is in process right now, will start construction in 2021 at the very start of the next decade to make sure we never have a gap and don't miss a beat in providing this military capability. The new design, Ohio Replacement, SSBN, is a very capable SSBN that's going to provide strategic returns all the way to a 2080 time frame. And this submarine will be able to do in 12 SSBNs, what our current fleet of 14 SSBNs just do to better design. We considered a lot of alternatives as we came up upon this decision for the Ohio class replacement. And I've written a blog article that I'd like you to take a look at just to see the background of where we've been in this journey and where we are now as we turn the corner and start the design of this new SSBN. Thanks very much.