 The United States Army Research Lab is extending our geographical presence through our open campus research model. The Texas Region and Army Research Laboratory makes an outstanding opportunity for partnership just based on the amount of population of Army soldiers in the state of Texas. It's all about the future soldier. Technologies created today will go into development phase that create outputs that affect our future. To have ARL South located at the flagship of a system of 14 institutions is incredibly powerful. ARL has been the catalyst for the universities in the state of Texas to start working together addressing common research questions and providing unique solutions that will advance technology for the state but also for the nation and the armed forces. Open campus is really about establishing partnerships and relationships and really matching the brilliant scientists together but what's just as important is being able to reach out to our experts that are here at the universities. There is a lot of expertise within the universities across Texas and the South that probably wasn't tapped into from an Army perspective. By having more people involved from across the country you get the expertise to make a more diverse approach to solve some of the Army problems. The Army Research Lab has the thought leaders and they know the application space and we have the capacity to solve problems in the fundamental space and so together we can identify problems and really make a difference. In Capital Factory we can connect with young entrepreneurs who are working in the technical areas and industry. It's about modernizing our troops. The weapons of the soldier of the future they're computers and information and because of that they need to be connecting into the startup community to find out the most current and best ways that they can use that information to give them the insights they need to be successful. Virtual reality and artificial intelligence are two ways that Army Research Laboratory South and the entire Texas Network are making great advances for soldiers. Innovation and research is very important for the soldier of the future. Some of the leading experts in many of the areas we're interested in from additive manufacturing to autonomous systems they're right here in Texas and they're already working on problems that are related to the problems we have in the Army. One of the main missions for the Army Research Lab is to ensure that the technologies that soldiers use out in the field are secure. We're leveraging the University in ways to develop research that'll help us to accomplish our mission. Our students are quite unique. For them service is the first priority with this partnership with ARL South. These leaders will also have an opportunity to be integrated with our laboratory facilities, work with ARL researchers who will be embedded here and our researchers here at Texas A&M. This collaboration is making us aware of problems that we need to be solving as researchers and this is a really unique opportunity to be able to see problems that are of practical importance. And really for us in the Army Research Lab it's about getting the technology accelerated quickly so that it gets into the hands of our warfighter. I've seen it as a commander in the field, the importance of research to the soldier. If it keeps my soldiers alive and helps me beat the enemy we want to connect it to the soldier as quickly as possible. We all get to work at the highest level in trying to meet our objectives and our missions and for us this is creating new knowledge and seeing that our solutions actually solve problems and save lives. We come with new ideas, new concepts and it's leading to the bottom line with the stage in soldier's lives. That's why it's an outstanding opportunity for the State of Texas Army Research Laboratory to get together openly collaborate and work with Army unique problems.