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- [Man] We are explicitly focused on the war fighter.

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- [Woman] Where are the capabilities heading?

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How are you gonna get there before your adversaries.

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- [Man] Adaptive optics is the key enabler

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for critical military technologies.

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- [Man] Mobilize the construction of spacecraft in days

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instead of years.

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- [Woman] Expanding the ability of human beings

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to deal with in a very complex environment.

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- [Woman] Make these solar arrays three times lighter

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and ten times more radiation resistant.

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- [Man] Laser communications through free space

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is a new frontier.

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- [Man] Protecting the national infrastructure

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and doing it in the cyber ward.

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- [Man] The mission of AFRL is about

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creating the future.

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- First and foremost, the air force is

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a technology branch to the military.

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And that means it is essential that we have an organization

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such as the air force research lab.

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- We need to always ask ourselves

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what's stats.

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- A stat question that really drove Arnold

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and Theodore Van Carmen in the early days of the air force.

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- There simply is no room for complacency.

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- [Man] If we're not changing, we're not doing our jobs.

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- The only constant that we're gonna face in the next

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few years is change.

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- We need that vision to provide something

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that will be helpful to the people we put in harms way.

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- If we think of the first gulf war,

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what if we hadn't had such things as

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precision navigation from space,

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low observables and space base communication,

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precision weapons, the war would have been won.

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But at what price?

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How many thousands more dead?

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- Know where we have come from

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and how we got to where we are today.

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We need to push forward as vigorously as we have

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in the past.

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- Why do we have to create the future?

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Because we always face adaptive adversaries.

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- RND is the lead ship in the fight.

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There has to be innovation,

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there has to be imagination,

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tied together with a thirst for excellence.

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(electronic music)

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AFRL is our future.

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- Every good engineer or scientist is doing their job

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truly out of love and inspiration

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for the field that they're pursuing.

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- We ask a lot of questions.

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We have to be curious.

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- It's the very nature of who we are.

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- People talk about rocket science.

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This is real rocket science.

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(electronic music)

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- What can we do and do rather quickly

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that will bring significant increases in combat capability.

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- Information dominance.

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- Radio waves interacting with plasmas.

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- We modify life very carefully with great precision.

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- We will have a software commanding the vehicle,

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essentially taking the place of the pilot.

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- We try to strike this balance between

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dreaming of the impossible and doing something

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and getting something done.

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- Cyber supremacy.

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(dramatic electronic music)

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- Spacecraft to the future.

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(dramatic electronic music)

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- Ionic liquids are a breakthrough.

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- Look ahead.

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- Simulate each other's thinking.

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- The goal is to be able to take the war fighters

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requirements and convert those into

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a launchable spacecraft within a week

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instead of years.

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- What really excites me about this is the whole spectrum

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of things we do here.

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- We are working real world problems and in real time.

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- We can model terrorist actors,

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we can model terrorist groups.

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- We are turning that science fiction

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that we all grew up with into reality.

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(upbeat electronic music)

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- Get rid of the clutter data and see what's actually

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a real target out there.

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- Provide the war fighter with a set of tools

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that allows them to build a cohesive airspace picture

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for wartime and peacetime.

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- Deliver a 200 million dollar spacecraft

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to the war fighter for around 20 million dollars.

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- Innovation.

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- Passion.

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- Imagination.

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- That happens here at AFRL.

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- The air force research laboratory is one place

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where individuals can have a tremendous impact

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on what we do in the future.

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- It's the people who have the knowledge and the passion

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to do something with it that can change

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the nature of conflict.

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- It's that element of imagination,

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it's that element of what's next,

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it's that element of looking beyond the obvious

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that is hard,

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what we see embodied in the air force research laboratory.

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