My name is andrew hunter. Im a senior fellow here at the center for strategic and International Studies and the International Security program and director of our Defense Industrial initiatives group that focuses on defense acquisition and increasingly on what i call defense trade or the cooperation of defense acquisition that we do with our allies and partners. Im going to introduce our panel, and maybe kick off the question and answer session with this group when were ready for that. Our panel is divided into two folks who are presenting and two discussants who will speak to the presentations and other issues under this topic. And our topic for this panel is finding opportunities to facilitate republic of korea u. S. Defense r d cooperation. I think we have a really strong panel to present to you on this topic. To my left is mr. Steve wellby, who recently completed service or at least within the last several months, completed service as the assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering at the u. S. Department of defense. He was the chief Technology Officer of the u. S. Department of defense, and principal adviser to the secretary on all matters relating to science, technology, research, engineering until january of 2017. Prior to this role, he was Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for Systems Engineering where he had responsibility for a range of complex topics involving open systems architecture, Systems Engineering generally, and Systems Engineering workforce. And he has more than 28 years of government and industry experience, including time at the Defense Advanced Research project agency. And shall i talk about you next . Sure. In january of 2018, he will Begin Service as executive director and chief operating officer at the institute of electrical and electronics engineers. The ieee. To his left, we have dr. So, who is a leading expert in the field of defense acquisition, defense industry, and Weapons Systems requirement planning. He served in the republic of korea army for 31 years, after graduating for the Korean Military academy. He was the chief of several important sections including the weapons system Planning Section at the headquarters of the joint chiefs of staff, defense Acquisition Policy section and the force policy section of the ministry of defense. Hes participated in advanced research on a number of critical topics. As a member of the Advisory Committee for the joint chiefs of staff, the republic of korea. And has been awarded the National Security merit in 2003. He earned his masters of science and ph. D. In Nuclear Engineering from the university of washington. Go huskies. His left is mr. Hye seo, director general of the Acquisition Planning Bureau at dapa. He leads formulation of policies and Quality Management and enhancing defense acquisition techniques and offsets. He began his career as a Civil Servant at the ministry of national defense. And he joined dapa in 2006 where he was appointed at the director of the Acquisition Policy division. And his education is he graduated from the Seoul National university, holds a masters degree from the university of wisconsin, madison. And to his left, mr. Tommy ross, who served for the last several years in the last administration as a Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for security cope cooperation. Prior to his time at the department of defense he was a staff member in congress for a number of years, including as a defense adviser to the Senate Majority leader, senator harry reid and as legislative director for comingman david price. And before that, majority leader tom dashel. Hes a graduate of Davison College in income. And in north carolina. Im now going to turn to our two presenters. I believe, steve, you are first in presenting to us. Thank you, andrew. Its a pleasure to be here today to discuss opportunities to facilitate r and d cooperation between the United States and the republic of korea. This is a particular opportune time to be discussing Security Cooperation. Recent Ballistic Missile tests have increased concern over the threat posed by the north korean regime to our allies in the republic of korea, to our friend and partners in the Asia Pacific Region, to u. S. And south korean interests, and even potentially to the u. S. Homeland. The over 23,000 u. S. Personnel serving in south korea provide the strongest possible evidence of u. S. Commitment to the security of our korean allies in these unsettled times. While much of the focus of current attention has been on recent provocations, the commitment of the u. S. Alliance with the republic of korea is deep and sustained. And is focused both on addressing todays concerns and the long term needs of the alliance. One of the strongest ways to continue to strengthen our sustained partnership is through the pursuit of common goals in Technology Development and through bilateral rmp and Development Cooperation research and Development Cooperation. Todays defense landscape is shaped by the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated military capabilities, by the convergence of leadingedge technologies driving new commercial capabilities with those driving emerging defense applications, and by the global proliferation of sophisticated Technical Expertise and manufacturing capability. This has introduced significant challenges to traditional Defense Development approaches because the increasingly Competitive Technology environment will demand Faster Technology adoption and increased pace of operational experimentation and prototyping and new approaches to rapidly deliver advanced capabilities to frontline forces, and particularly a demonstrated ability to adapt, evolve and enhance operational capabilities after initial deployment. The United States has attempted to respond to this chal i thile strategically through a continuing dialogue regarding what has been referred to as a theroux offset strategy, the development, application and fielding of new capabilities intended to preserve and extend the technological advantage of u. S. Forces and our allies. These technologies are likely to include new systems capable of operating at extended range. Novel system concepts to create advantage on land, in the air, on and under the sea, and in space, and will certainly leverage advances in robotics, machine learning, and Intelligent Systems to provide operational advantage. The United States deputy secretary of defense shanahan and the u. S. Undersecretary for acquisition technologies and logistics lord have both emphasized the criticality of innovation, experimentation and new technology in recent remarks and both are working to align Technology Development planning with modernization objectives and to accelerate these efforts. U. S. Military service leadership, civilian and uniformed, have been emphasizing these very same themes. And u. S. Industrial leaders have emphasized that they are today working on delivering the capabilities envisioned in the third offset discussion. I see a very similar emphasis in south korean technical planning where dapas focus on future Creation Technology seeks to align industrial structures and accelerate new technology initial tiffs to shape the High Technology systems that will define tomorrows korean National Security capability and capacity. The United States has put great emphasis on capturing potential National Security innovation from all sources, reaching out to nontraditional suppliers, innovative commercial enterprises and Small Business for new and disruptive ideas, initiatives like the Defense Innovation unit experimental, the portfolio of initiatives being explored at darp the open laboratory at r and d laboratories are engaging new partners and exploring new mechanisms for collaboration. The deputy has been accelerating its uptake of Cutting Edge Technology through new basic research engagements with top universities across the United States and across the world. In korea, i again see a very similar appetite to engage koreas growing creative economy, to foster innovation, identify new technical opportunities, and create new industrial capacity in korean small and medium enterprise. In my visits to korean universities i have seen a growing interest in entrepreneurship, a strong desire to find new ways to bring technical capabilities to realization, and a great interest in the type of technical challenges that are relevant to strengthening south korean security. Both of our nations are also exploring ways to use Defense Innovation as an economic driver with impact beyond the security sector, building skill and capacity in industry and in our Engineering Work forces that will increase competitiveness in adjacent commercial markets as well. As we go forward, i see significant opportunities to grow richer u. S. Korean Research and Development Cooperation. There are currently strong areas where National Investment priorities very closely align, such as a strong mutual interest in advanced robotics, in advanced computing, in advanced semiconductor technologies, in advanced human machine interfaces and with particular reference to recent efforts being explored by the Korean Ministry of trade and energy and the kree keyian ministry of science and ict, a very strong interest in exploring common topics associated with the safety and safe deployment of autonomous systems. I believe meese areas offer excellent opportunities for collaborative planning of reference and Development Objectives and offer a great ground for researcher to researcher collaboration between u. S. And korean technologists. I do not believe that significant new resources need to be applied to have significant impact. The first challenge and opportunity is in prioritizing bilateral planning and coordinating the opportunity to collaborate with existing resources. Secretary of defense mattis has been vocal about the need to strengthen alliances. And i believe s and t cooperation offers an excellent means to pursue this goal. The coming reorganization of the United States at and l organization and the resulting strengthened role of an undersecretary of defense for research and engineering may provide an engine to drive International Science and technology cooperation. As we go forward, the common interests of the United States and our korean allies, our strong synergies and technical capabilities and our robust bilateral technical opportunities all offer enormous potential for accelerating technical change and growing our mutual and cooperative capabilities. Over the long term, i believe strengthened u. S. Korean Research and Development Cooperation is essential to deterring threats and preserving peace. Thank you. Thank you, steve. Dr. Seo . Good morning. It is my great honor and pleasure for me to speak to distinguished guests and experts in the defense acquisition and security. I express my thanks to csis kate, and dapa for giving me this opportunity. The subject i am going to present is the promotion of defense between korea and the United States. I will begin the presentation with a brief outline of international r and d in korea and focusing down more on the joint defense r and d in korea and the United States. I will speak over the general status, prospects, and potential items for rock u. S. Joint defense r and d. The history of international trained r and d in korea, which mostly centers around the civilian sector began in the 1960s. All these periods can be characterized as the period of learning from advanced countries through joint r and d. And building up technology capabilities. In case of the defense sector, however, joint r and d actually began in 2000s. This is more than 30 years behind the civilian sector. The top partner in korea in civilian sector has always been the United States. With japan and china forming the second group, and germany, the uk, and france forming the third group. The types of International Joint r and d in korea can be classified into two categories. The first is the joint implementation of r and d promise, invitation of researchers and the research commissioning belong to this category. The second type is Foundation Build up. This is sort of an indirect joint r and d. Some examples like establishment of research institute, personal exchanges, and information exchanging. The government budget for international trained r and ds is about 300 million. This is about 2 of the total r and d project. There can be a number of incentives to pursue joint r and d, technology, physical reduction, overcoming export control, cost saving, resources sharing, utilization of local characteristics and the development of common markets. One or more of these factors were definitely effected whether to pursue joint r and d. Now i will talk about joint defense r and d between korea and the United States. Lets take a look at the history first. In the history of joint r and d there are only a few cases of Weapon Systems development. The k 1 tank in the 1980s. The 50 golden eagle jet trainer was in the 1990s. And the lager project in 2000s. All these promise were successful, but the lager project was just half a success. It was to turn rockets into guided missile systems. But because the United States withdraw from the project in the middle, korea had to conduct the emd phase alone. But managed to accomplish the task anyway. From 2010s, a number of private researches began to be implemented in every year. The system analysis is held every other year. This seminar is a good venue for Information Exchange and for finding Research Projects s ts conduct together. This shows status for joint defense r and d in korea. The budget size for International Joint r and d is im sorry, defense r and d is 3 of the total investment for technology investment. There is an increasing trend. During the recent years all the Research Projects are applied the researches. Thus you can see that there is an extreme imbalance in research categories. As for the main agent of joint defense r and d, agents for Defense Development also known as add is doing most of the work. Regarding the infrastructure of join defense r and d there is myu for r and d and test evaluation. This is umbrella between the two countries. For Corporation Channel we have a subcommittee of the sscm. One of the cochair is minister tran over here. It is for defense r and d collaboration, however its slow and the work scope should be expanded to include cooperation for Weapons Systems developments. Other cooperative bodies are ddscz, defense ict forum, and rock u. S. Ticc, but their focus is more on Information Exchange and policy cooperations, not joint r and d. This slide shows a belief summary of the joint defense r and d in korea. The first point is that there have been no cases of System Development in recent years. And most the cases are apply the researches. But United States has been the main partner of korea. Most of the projects have been driven by the governments. The infrastructure for joint r and d is still week and the room is for improvement. The key point to be extracted from here is the reality of cases and the weak vitality in the joint r and d in korea. There are three reasons i can think of that contri