2025 National Security and Naval Power Bootcamp
Agenda
- 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 twinTBD 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 techTBD 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 AnalyticsTBD 2:30– 3:00 Break 3:00–4:30 Emerging tech:
• Hypersonics
• High energy weaponsTBD 4:30-5:00 Closing Remarks; Presentation of certificates TBD
Reading Materials
Read Ahead Articles:
Taiwan politics & background
- https://crsreports.congress.
gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10275#:~: .text=The%20TRA%20creates%20% E2%80%9Cstrategic%20ambiguity, said%20U.S.%20policy%20was% 20unchanged - https://www.csis.org/analysis/
taiwans-2024-elections- results-and-implications
US-China clash on Taiwan
Japan, ROK on Taiwan
- https://www.brookings.edu/
articles/how-japan-and-south- korea-diverge-on-taiwan-and- the-taiwan-strait/ - https://www.fpri.org/article/
2022/09/why-japan-needs-to- talk-to-taiwan/ - https://warontherocks.com/
2021/11/japans-revolution-on- taiwan-affairs/
US coordination with allies
General Background on China & South China Sea
- https://amti.csis.org/
tracking-tensions-at-second- thomas-shoal/ - https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/
02/china/china-pla-rocket- force-shakeup-new-leaders- intl-hnk-ml-mic/index.html - https://news.usni.org/2016/07/
19/take-position-scarborough- shoal - https://www.uscc.gov/research/
south-china-sea-arbitration- ruling-what-happened-and- whats-next
Strategies
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
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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.
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33153 China naval modernization
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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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