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We had an outstanding day to day with 

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the Dow improving ground 2023 

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demonstration , hosting our , our 

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community partners , our partners in 

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Academia with Virginia Tech , uh with 

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Carnegie Mellon University , we had 

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representatives here from congressional 

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offices and showing their , their uh 

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value in the work that we perform . Uh 

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and just uh folks across our Navy and 

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Os D uh partnerships as well . Um Our , 

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our team did an outstanding job of 

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really stressing our range environment . 

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Our dog improving ground environment uh 

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deliver capability for the fleet that 

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just didn't exist . Three months ago , 

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today was all about collaboration . So 

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what started out as a couple of Cooper 

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research and development agreements 

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with two of our university partners , 

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Carnegie Mellon and Virginia Tech 

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turned into demonstrating military 

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utility today for technologies that 

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started as basic research and we were 

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able to find military applications for 

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them .