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Welcome to the Oklahoma National Guard 

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UAS symposium . It really highlights 

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what the Oklahoma National Guard is 

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doing to be the national leader , not 

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just for the National Guard , but also 

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for many components of counter UAS 

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across the country . Even over just the 

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last year , what we've really seen is 

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the evolution of the systems that are 

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controlling , uh , the , we'll call 

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them drones . This has been a real game 

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changer , you know , that's happened 

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just over the last couple of years in 

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terms of developing this unique 

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capability . Um , so those partnerships 

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with , you know , academia , uh , 

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in-state , out of state , other 

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National Guard , um , states , and then 

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industry partners is critical to help 

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us accelerate . And so what the 

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National Guard really represents is the 

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requirement to utilize that technology 

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in whatever way that makes it most 

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effective for their mission . And one 

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of the great things about the symposium 

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is really addressing these challenges 

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in the open . Um , you know , bringing 

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the community together , National Guard , 

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DOD representatives , vendors , 

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academia , you know , really the 

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thought leaders in the counter UAS 

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space are here at this site to try to 

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figure out how we solve those problems .