my name is jeffrey baumgartner and i'm the vice president of national security and resilience policy at berkshire hathaway energy. i wanted to discuss how unmanned aerial systems threaten vertical infrastructure. berkshire hathaway energy businesses provide reliable, secure, low-cost energy to more than 13 million customers in the u.s., great britain, and canada. our commitment to our customers requires us to secure our infrastructure from all threats, including those posed by unmanned aerial systems. critical infrastructure is the backbone of our economy and security and get energy sector infrastructure and the transportation communications and water sector infrastructure we rely on face increasing threats from uas, and the threats for ensuring security cannot be higher. you asked energy become more accessible and advanced. these innovations offered immense potential like enabling faster damage assessments of energy infrastructure. they also empower malicious actors. adversaries can use uas to surveilled facilities, deliver hazardous payloads, disrupt operations, even conduct cyber