dr. heardrick, you're recognized for five minutes to summarize your opening statement, please. >> thank you. chairman burgess, vice chairman lance, ranking member and members of the committee, it is a privilege to share g.e's thoughts on 3d printing. today a designer can create a computerates design model of a part and increasingly new designs and processes like this are being connected and managed through a digital thread where the freedom of design and manufacturing seemingly has no limits. one of ge's engineering leaders appropriately captured it when she said, complexity is free. my name is dr. ed herbrick, i'm the additive technologies leader for ge, helping to spread the application of aiditive technologies across ge's industrial portfolio. this portfolio expands across industries that build, move, power, transport, cure the world from jet engines and power generation machines to locomotives, medical imaging systems and more. the emergence of 3d precipitationing and additive technologies and industry has been both sudden and disruptive. boeing and airbus conducted the first flight tes