coast guard academy and electrical engineering to purdue university: mcsc -- nscs from polytechnic as well as an ms in resourcing from the industrial college of the armed forces national defense university. very capable and very well educated. matt is a professional engineer and has taught electrical engineering at the naval war college national defense university, and with that, matt, take it away. >> that's quite a mouthful, scott. very pleased to be here with you today and rook forward to -- look forward to your questions after this. i took one slide out of about 30 slides to talk to you about today, and i thought it was important that i try to provide this in a strategic context of what the bulk power system, nerc and our government partners are all doing here to basically secure, arguably, the most important and largest manmade machine in the world, and that's our bulk power system. so i'm going to talk about six main focus areas. basically, our strategy to secure the power grid, insure that it is, indeed, reliable. so the first main pillar that i'd like to talk to you about is s