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Sunday June 15th - arrive in DC

Orientation
Anytime	Check-In
6:00 pm (after you check-in)	Welcome Reception   Location: Tonic at Quigley's Bar and Restaurant 2036 G St NW, Washington, DC 20036

 

Monday June 16th

Day One: National Security Strategy & Policy
9:00-9:45	Welcome, Intros, Expectations  Location: Science and Engineering Hall 800 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20052 Room 3040
9:45-10:45	Overview of Navy RDT&E
11:00-11:45	Emerging Technologies
11:45-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	How the Navy Works
2:00-3:00	Where the Fleet Begins
3:15-4:15	Meta-Conflict: Maritime Expansion by Turkey, China, Russia
6:00-6:30	Table Top Exercise Brief In
6:30-8:30	Dinner and a Movie

 

 

Tuesday June 17th

Day Two: Navigating around National Security
8:30-9:30am	Naval and Maritime Ecosystem
9:30-11:00	Overview of Budget process
11:15-12:30	Communicating S&T to Decision Makers
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Role of Congress
3:30-5:00	Navy shipbuilding priorities
6:30-8:30	Dinner Speaker: Transformative Decade or (Challenge of China)

 

Wednesday June 18th

Day Three – Site Visits
Morning	NSWC Site Visits
1:00-2:00	National Security/Defense Strategy
2:00-3:15	Role of Space
3:30-4:30	Energy Challenges for National Security
4:30-5:30	Nuclear Navy
5:30-6:30	Table Top Exercise Work
Evening	Free Time

 

Thursday June 19th

Day 4  Key Topics
8:30 -9:45	Global Naval Challenges Panel
10:00-11:15	Global Threat Assessment
11:30-12:45	European Equities in the Arctic
12:45-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:15	Defense and Security in the Arctic
3:30-4:45	ICEX
6:30-8:30	Potomac River Kayaking

 

Friday June 20th

Day 5: Future Challenges
8:30-11:00	Table Top Exercise
11:00-11:45	Lunch
11:45-1:30	Assessment and Wrap Up
2:00-4:00	Capitol Tour

 

Strategies

National Security Strategy

National Defense Strategy

Nuclear Posture Review

Missile Defense Review

National Defense Industrial Strategy

Books and Essays of Interest

• Supercommunicators
  • Charles Duhigg
• A Message to Garcia
  • Elbert Hubbard
• Good to Great
  • Jim Collins
• Talking to Strangers
  • Malcolm Gladwell
• How Will You Measure Your Life
  • Clayton Christensen
• The Influence of Sea Power on History
  •  Alfred Thayer Mahan
• The Rule of the Waves:
  • How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
  • Bruce D. Jones
• Freedom's Forge: 
  • How American Businesses Produced Victory in World War II
  • Arthur Herman
• The Cod Wars:
  • A Re-Analysis
  • Sverrir Steinsson
• CRS reports
  • 32665  Navy force structure and shipbuilding plans. This is the main one I mentioned. See the sections on announced ship delivery days and shipbuilding capacity.
  • 33153  China naval modernization
  • 32418  Virginia class SSN and AUKUS Pillar 1. This includes a discussion (with a data table) showing the backlog in SSN maintenance.

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