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Agenda subject to change. 

Agenda subject to change. 

Sunday May 18th

Sunday, May 18			Location
Anytime		Check-In	Thurston Hall 1900 F St NW, Washington, DC 20052
6:00 pm (after you check-in)		Welcome Reception	TBD

Monday, May 19th

 

Monday, May 19		Location
9:00am - 12:00pm	Welcome Intros Expectation Management  Navy 101	TBD
12:00pm -1:00pm	Lunch Keynote Address	TBD
1:00pm -1:30pm	Transit
1:30pm -4:30pm	Site Visit	TBD
6:30pm -8:30pm	Dinner Defense vs Civilian Engineering	TBD

Tuesday, May 20th

 

Tuesday,  May 20		Location
9:00am-11:30am	What S&T does Navy do/fund How does Navy choose what S&T/R&D to fund Role of Congress Communicating S&T to Decision Makers	TBD
12:00pm –1:00pm	Lunch	TBD
1:00pm -4:00pm	Site Visit	TBD
6:30pm -8:30pm	Potomac river kayaking

Wednesday, May 21st

 

Wednesday, May 21		Location
7:00am -8:00am	Transit
8:00am -12:00pm	Site Visit	TBD
12:00pm -12:30pm	Transit
12:30pm -1:30pm	Lunch	TBD
1:30pm - 4:00pm	Ocean Ecology Climate Change Impact on Nat’l Defense	TBD
6:30pm - 8:30pm	Dinner Transformative Decade

Thursday May 22nd

 

Thursday, May 22		Location
9:00am -11:30am	Intro to CoNEP research  GWU Lab Tours HU Lab Tours	TBD
11:30am -12:30pm	Lunch	TBD
12:00pm – 4:00pm	Practical skills: •    Navy nomenclature •    Ships 101 •    Submarines 101	TBD
6:30pm - 8:30pm	Where the Fleet Begins	TBD

 

Friday, May 23rd

Friday, May 23		Location
9:00am - 11:30am	Practical skills: •    Engineering economics •    Engineers’ role in project management	TBD
11:30am - 12:30pm	Lunch	TBD
12:30pm - 4:00pm	Critical skills: •    Systems Engineering  •    Software Engineering	TBD
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Closing Remarks; Presentation of certificates	TBD
6:30pm - 8:30pm	How to enter Civil Service How to enter Naval Industrial Base	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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