- I'm Gary Blackwood. I'm the Program Manager for the Exoplanet Exploration Program, and I'm delighted to speak to the ExoPAG today. Here's the charter that the NASA Astrophysics Division has given to the Exoplanet Program: discover, characterize and identify candidate planets that could harbor life. I think it's the best program charter in NASA. And we serve the science community and NASA as a focal point for exoplanet science and technology. And we do that by integrating cohesive strategies for future discoveries. And everyone in the Program Office is delighted to be serving in this capacity. I'd actually like to step out of presentation mode for a moment. Maybe Jennifer can suspend that, move this just to video. And step out of presentation mode for a moment and add to Hannah's remarks and speak to you about the topic very active in our community this week regarding authorship and values. Like many of you, I wear multiple hats and you can see some of them on my cover slide. I speak to you as a NASA Program Manager, but also as a JPL employee. JPL manages the program for NASA, and also as a Caltech employee. JPL is part of Caltech. I'm also speaking personally as a member of our community. I and my colleagues are aware of the recent conversations in the community regarding authorship and how individual and institutional values are reflected across all aspects of research. This is an important conversation. It's important to me. It's important to my colleagues. And it's a conversation that all of us should participate in earnestly and honestly. Personally, I believe that rules and policies can change over time so that we meet all of our values. And I'll end with I'm personally looking forward to engaging further in this topic in conversations as facilitated through the AAS or our professional societies and others. So with that, I'd like to return to the slides. Thanks, Jennifer. These are the elements of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, should look like familiar to you. We participate in space missions and concept studies. We certainly hope some of these will appear in the Decadal report, at least the themes of exoplanets and the search for life. We participate in key sustaining research, either the followup for space missions to fulfill the level one requirements or precursor science to enable the future science. Technology development is clearly an enabling step for future science. And we have added to our charter this year the extreme precision radial velocity technology development, which is now becoming increasingly important as part of our technology portfolio. An important and key element of our program is the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, responsible for archives, tools, the very successful Sagan Program and other professional development. And finally, our program includes the ever popular exoplanet communications activities. It's always something great coming out from them. These are the members of our Program Office at JPL and across the community that all actively are engaged in serving you and the science to fulfill the objectives of the program. I'm thrilled with all the support they've given. And I know that they are very, thrilled and delighted to be serving all of you. I'd like to especially highlight on the next slide, the new Deputy Program Manager, Dr. Christine Moran. And I think she'd like to say a couple of words to you.

- Hi, all, it is a delight to be joining this community. I dropped in on the last ExoPAG as a participant. And now I am I here in an official capacity. I have a background in physics, computer science, entrepreneurship, and leadership. I have a PhD in astrophysics, but I'm new to the exoplanet field. And this coming decade is going to be amazing. So I'm really here in support of the community, the program, and Gary as the Deputy Manager. Thanks so much for having me.

- Thank you, Christine. We're thrilled that you've joined us. Great, only a couple more slides, just a little bit of a little bit of status. The NEID spectrometer is now on-sky. This is the spectrometer on the WIYN telescope that performs precision radial velocity measurements. They recently completed their operational readiness review with flying colors. Looking forward to hearing more details from the PIs on the details of that, but the performance exceeds the requirement with real-world radial velocities below 50 centimeters per second. The solar and standard star data will be released shortly. GTO begins July 1st, and the GO continues now without the shared risk component. Great, and there you can see some of the hardware and some of the data. Next slide. Well, our Exoplanet Communications Team and all of us really have an award. The 2021 Webby Award was for the Exoplanet Exploration website and the content. This community provided the content. This year they won in the science category, and arguably the Internet's highest honor. And the acceptance speech, as you know, is only five words long. And this year, the acceptance speech from Thalia Khan was five words. Are we alone? Pretty cool. Next slide. Nope, it's a video that plays. There she says five words. Are we alone? All right There'll be presentations that follow that will actually go into other elements of the program. A couple items that are not covered on the other slides are we continue to support the Roman coronagraph instrument through the high contrast imaging testbed, including the touch work that went on over this past year at JPL in that chamber. The starshade has had an active year of technology development. There was a Technology and Science Working Group led by professor Simone D'Amico from Stanford University. And you'll hear a little bit more about some of their activities, but this year they had a dedicated JATIS issue on starshades and collectively ran a successful science and industry partnership including some small business contracts. There's one highlighted on the right. ZeCoat developed very, very dark coating to coat the very sharp starshade edges to reduce solar glint. And they've really helped out the error budget with that innovation. And finally, we look forward to the EPRV Working Group report coming out shortly. Next. I'll end on a positive note here. So I'd like to explore, I'd like to discuss three words. First, explore: in the Exoplanet Exploration Program and in all of our science fields, yes, we explore. That's to traverse for the purpose of discovery, to scrutinize and examine. And by doing so, we do inspire. Our field is inspirational. Any of us and all of you who speak to your colleagues, your institutions, the public, we know the field, it allows us to inspire and fill with animating influence to impel, to impel to action. And finally, thanks to Nick Siegler who developed this approach for us, we really see that probably the strongest word here is aspire, which is to seek ambitiously with intent towards a goal with high value, to ascend, to soar. And so finally I claim that exoplanets and the search for life are aspirational. They draw us, they impel us to explore and inspire. And what a great time to be involved in the field. The field is accelerating. We look forward to the Decadal coming out. And, you know, I believe we can explore, inspire and aspire in a way consistent with all of our values, thank you. That's the end of my remarks, Michael.