Thank you.

Hey, Ricky, thanks.

And as always, thanks immensely for your leadership and what MDAA is accomplishing, and thank you for letting me be a part of the family.

You touched on a lot of at least the opening remarks that I want to make, and I'm excited to get to hearing what Phu says and questions and answers after that.

But, you know, as you indicated, back in the 80s and 90s, DARPA started a laser program for the purpose we are talking about right now.

that resulted in both the miracle and the coil laser.

That coil laser was what transcended into the airborne laser program about 30 years ago.

If you can do that, how are you going to stop 1,000 drones with lasers? You can't do it alone, but I'm just how many can you do? You know, so go