my name is irvine barwell. it's a pleasure to welcome you all to receive our presentation of our fiscal year 2013 budget request. i'm going to run through some ground rules here. we'll see from the secretary, hear from secretary, run through our presentation. i will be available also to run through a presentation of some of the budgetary numbers that we have. we'll then move into a question and answer period. i will emcee that, both the secretary, myself, and we also have the undersecretaries that have joined us, are available to answer questions. and if we're unable to field any specific questions in the session here, we'll be sure to make sure we get an answer to you before your deadlines. so just to give a flavor of our budget here and the budget cuts we're under, we're actually down to one laptop in the department. the secretary is running i.t. training for us, so i knno now how to use this. but with that, without further ado, mr. secretary. >> okay, thank you. i'm owen barwell's i.t. specialist. so i want