emily with dr. malcolm thompson. emily: thanks so much. thompson. creo of the former xerox. dr. thompson: that's right. emily: give us us some real examples where you're working with military applications. >> imagine putting a very thin film of electronics all over an aircraft wing, ok? you stick it to the outside of the aircraft wing and it measures stresses in the wing. now, you look at the plane when you're on the plane, the wing flaps. so it better be flexible. emily: so when might we see something like that. >> very soon in the next year or two. there are some examples we saw in the announcement where the air force brought some wings with some of that stuff on it already. emily: they talked about incorporating sensors into military uniforms for example. a company like apple is part of this partnership. what is a company like apple contribute to this? >> you know, every company contributes different things. what it helps to understand is what their customers are wanting and what they -- they don't tell us everything about what they're going to do and what their next product i

emily chang is with dr. malcolm thompson. emily: dr. thompson, thanks for joining us. are going to be running this new center. you are the former cto of xerox. using a number of technologies developed over the years, probably seen the relationship change between silicon valley and the government. give me some realistic examples of where we will see what you are working on in military applications. >> imagine putting a thin-film film of electronics all over an aircraft wing. you stick it to the outside of the aircraft wing and it measures stresses in the wing. you look at the plane and the wing flaps. it better be flexible. emily: when will we see that? >> very soon you will see some thing like that, in the next year or two. there are some examples we saw in the announcement when the air force brought some wings with some of that stuff on it already. emily: they also talked about incorporating sensors into military uniforms, for example. a company like apple, as part of this partnership -- what does a company like apple contribute to this? >> every company contributes d