 Welcome to the Network Science Research Laboratory located at the United States Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. The mission of ARL is to discover, innovate, and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power. The NSRL is dedicated to exploring network science challenges with in-person research collaboration between ARL researchers and our external partners, focusing specifically on Army unique requirements. The Network Science Research Laboratory is a flexible, collaborative space where researchers from different disciplines can come together and work on research problems. They can bring in their laptops, plug into the video display walls, share that information, other people can see it, and so it's building a community of research that we didn't have before. So the idea of the lab is how to build up a set of tools, capabilities, and facility that enable people to work closely together. As you look and see the lab, I think everybody agrees, it looks much more like you'd see in Silicon Valley than what you typically see in a defense laboratory. It's very high-tech, a lot of new equipment that enables us to collaborate much more effectively and easily, making it much easier for different groups of people to rapidly come together and reorganize and work in ways that are more comfortable to them rather than making them adapt to the space, make the space adaptable to how they think and operate. The NSRL is the first major laboratory designed to support AOL's Open Campus Initiative, bringing together researchers from government, industry, academia, and small business to combine expertise to solve Army-related challenges. NSRL is the first of the kind of facility created to enable this kind of collaboration in an easy, effective, inspiring, if you wish, way. If we don't have NSRL, if we don't have these facilities, we really cannot make use of the Open Campus model as much as we should. With all this expertise with industry, academia, and government, we're bringing different experiences, we're bringing different knowledge, we're bringing in different people, and that helps when we come together to solve problems. The NSRL gives us the space to have that dialogue, to come in and talk about what we've learned, what we've experienced, or what we need to know to solve this problem. While not visible to the eye, the infrastructure working behind the scenes provides researchers with streamlined means to enhance their workflow and experiments. A variety of network tools are available, including DAVSEE, a wireless emulation platform that supports research on mobile networks. Instead of having to manually configure multiple physical machines individually for an experiment, researchers can request a virtual experimentation cluster with the machines they need and the capabilities they need the machines to have through DAVSEE from their web browser. With this tool, researchers can spend less time preparing experiments and more time performing them. When we're talking to our research partners, we're not in a conference room. We're in an environment where we have the equipment and we have the capabilities to not only talk about what we want to talk about, but the resources to use, the monitors, the servers. We have the equipment, we have the technology, and we're all coming together and it's all working as one. And that's what I like about the NSRL. The NSRL houses several other tools that allow researchers to subject software to the same conditions that are expected to occur in real-world mobile, wireless network environments, provide event-driven control and logging facilities, and share information through remote access for external partners and to other ARL experimental labs and devices. From its cutting-edge design to the tools working behind the scenes to its comfortable, inspiring, and collaborative environment, the NSRL provides researchers with the best space to work in support of the protection of the warfighter. The place is awesome. It's open to all researchers. It doesn't matter what the discipline is or the area of research is. We want to get cross-pollination among the researchers. That helps solve problems in ways that we hadn't been thought of before. NSRL is going to become an example of how the laboratories in ARL build and organize in the future. Specifically designed, specifically targeted for open collaboration with a variety of partners. That's a unique value of NSRL. It shows the way. Thank you for stopping by the Network Science Research Laboratory. We hope that you enjoyed this opportunity to take a glimpse into what ARL is doing each and every day for the American soldier. To our workforce and potential collaborators, we look forward to seeing you around the lab soon.