 October is Energy Action Month, and I want to highlight the importance of energy in warfighting. My job is to make the fleet ready to fight and win, today and tomorrow. Today, that means making our fuel and energy usage effective in achieving our missions. Tomorrow, that means ensuring our power generation and distribution will port energy to propulsion, sensors, or directed energy weapons, while capturing and storing the unused potential. Hybrid electric drives going into destroyers next year, and the laser weapon system deployed today in USNS Ponce, are examples of emerging technology that bridges us to that tomorrow. But fuels and hardware improvements are not enough. I need you to be bold. Use energy effectively in your daily routine, and think about how we will refine our energy operating concepts for the future. The combination of these technologies and you, our fleet sailors, will continue to put the prompt and sustained in our combat operations for years to come. Thank you.