minus michael swetnam and on michael swetnam and ceo of the potomac institute for policy studies, andtinct honor and courage to welcome you here today for a seminar on supply chain threat of cyber issue that we have been discussing in and around washington for quite some time. the potomac institute, for those of you have not been here before, is a science and technology not for profit policy think tank, if you will in the washington, d.c. area that focuses on how science and technology affects our national security. for quite some time we've been involved in the study of issues in and around what people call asymmetric threats. and most importantly, terrorism. this past year the professor and i released our second volume on al qaeda about 11 years after our first volume on al qaeda right before 9/11. i'd like to call your attention to. there are copies available, and, of course, available on the web on amazon and all those good things. and i wanted to highlight it today because it's one of the gifts we are going to get to our panel members for taking the time out of their busy schedul