and clark murdoch, who is a senior adviser here at csis. then i'll provide a few wrap-up comments and we'll open the floor for questions. todd, are you going the talk from there, or do you want to come up here? >> i'll be happy to talk from here. >> good. i'll slide this back. >> good morning, everyone. thanks for coming out this rainy day here in washington. you know, i'll just start by saying that the numbers that came out yesterday are really not that much of a surprise. the base budget for dod, so that's not including more funding, is going to be $525 billion. war funding will be about $88 billion. this is really driven by the budget control act. that was the deal passed by congress last august that allowed the presidential to raise the debt ceiling that put caps on it for the rest of the decade, and that is what is driving this budget. the real question now is the budget. does it reflect the new strategic guidance the department came out with back on january 5th. fundamentally, when you're talking about strategy, you're talking about c