the honorable rebecca blank, president university of wisconsin-madis wisconsin-madison, dr. walter copan, understudy standards and technology, u.s. department of commerce, and director national institute of standards and technology, mr. steve stevanovich, founder and ceo sgs holdings and member of board of governors argon national laboratory, and mr. bill bates, chief of staff council on competitiveness. >> great, welcome. thank you, thank you, mike, for that presentation. i know there were some slides that were supposed to go along with that, and i apologize for some technical difficulties that prevented that. but we'll see if maybe those are something we can share with folks after the session today. so we're going to talk a little manufacturing for the next 20-25 minutes or so. and we've touched on a lot of the topics that i think we're going to get to in this session, but i think looking through it specifically through this lens of manufacturing is an important step to take, particularly as this has been something the council has been so focused on over the last, really,