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Notional Agenda below for illustration. Agenda is subject to change. 

Notional Agenda is subject to change. 

Sunday June 15th

Sunday, June 15		Orientation	Location
Anytime		Check-In	Thurston Hall 1900 F St NW, Washington, DC 20052
6:00 pm (after you check-in)		Welcome Reception	TBD

Monday June 16th

Monday, June 16		Day One: National Security Strategy & Policy	Location
8:30-9:00		Welcome  Introductions & Expectations Tabletop Exercise	TBD
9:00-10:15		National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy	TBD
10:30-12:00		Structure of the Navy	TBD
12:00-1:00		Lunch Keynote Address	TBD
1:00-1:30		Break
1:30-3:00		How S&T Drives Policy Science for Policy Makers	TBD
3:00-4:30		Navy RDT&E  How to choose relevant research Communicating S&T to Decision Makers	TBD
6:30-8:30		Pizza and Movie	TBD

Tuesday June 17th

Tuesday,  June 17		Day Two: Navigating around National Security	Location
8:15-9:30am		National Security Apparatus:  Who does what and why in Washington for National Security?	TBD
9:30-9:45		Break
10:00-10:30		National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy	TBD
10:45–12:00		The Budget Process	TBD
12:00–1:00		Lunch	TBD
1:00-2:15		The Role of Congress	TBD
2:15-2:30		Break
2:30–4:00		Roles & Responsibilities of Navy and Joint Commands	TBD
4:00-6:30		Break
6:30-8:30		2020's: The Transformative Decade for US Naval Power	TBD

Wednesday June 18th

Wednesday, June 18		Day Three – Site Visits	Location
7:00-8:00		Transit	TBD
8:00-12:00		Site Visit	TBD
12:00-1:00		Lunch	TBD
1:00-2:00		Return	TBD
2:00 -2:30		Defense vs Civilian Engineering	TBD
2:30-3:45		China’s Strategy	TBD
4:00 -5:30		U.S. Indopacific Strategy: Key Challenges & Opportunities	TBD
Evening		Dinner on own

Thursday June 19th

Thursday, June 19		Day 4  Key Topics	Location
8:45 -9:00		New START	TBD
9:00 -10:30		Russia’s Strategy	TBD
10:45 -12:00		US Baltic & European Strategies	TBD
12:00 – 1:00		Lunch
1:00 – 2:30		Emerging tech: •    Uncrewed •    Digital/virtual twin	TBD
2:30-3:00		Break
3:00–4:30		New challenges for the Navy in the Arctic	TBD
4:30–5:30		Break
5:30-8:00		Potomac River Kayaking	Thompson Boat Center 2900 Virginia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037

 

Friday June 20th

 

Friday, June 20		Day 5: Future Challenges	Location
8:30 – 9:00		How to turn research into entrepreneurship	TBD
9:00-10:30		Emerging tech: •    Novel manufacturing •    Sustainment tech	TBD
10:30-10:45		Break	TBD
10:45–12:00		Navy Goals: Short & Long Term	TBD
12:00–1:00		Lunch
1:00–2:30		Emerging tech: •    Software defined •    Data Analytics	TBD
2:30– 3:00		Break
3:00–4:30		Emerging tech: •    Hypersonics •    High energy weapons	TBD
4:30-5:00		Closing Remarks; Presentation of certificates	TBD

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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