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Speaker:

• Patrick O’Brien, Director, Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation

The California LCFS program is an incentive program established by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) that allows operators for ocean going vessels to earn LCFS program credits for using power from the electric grid (shore power) rather than onboard-generated electricity or diesel generators while in port. As the program is established to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, CARB requires that the proceeds from the sale of these credits be used for further electrification at the site generating the credits to include utility and energy infrastructure upgrades. The program has the potential to generate $25M-$30M in annual revenue for energy and utility infrastructure upgrades at NBSD and can serve as a pilot for other military installations looking to opt into the program to upgrade their energy infrastructure.

Speakers:

• Georgiana Rice, Executive Director, Heroes to Education
• Larry Feldman, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
• Maurice Wilson, California Reintegration Project
• Scott Arkills, President & CEO, Silver State Schools Credit Union
• Helena Otero, Nevada Department of Veteran Services

This panel will explore an innovative strategy being pioneered that will help states, communities and military installations work together to address two major issues facing our nation today—the staffing crisis in public schools and offering second career opportunities for those who have served our country.

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The DoD is mandate is clear— critical resources like fuel and electricity must be resilient in the next decade. Defense and intelligence agencies are exploring a range of options to meet those goals including electric vehicle fleets, on and off-site renewable energy and microgrids. In this panel we will explore the first steps agencies should take when evaluating the benefit of these projects, which are best for them, and factors for success in evaluating and implementing these projects. Most importantly, how to optimize your benefits and take advantage of landmark opportunities without adding yet another unfunded requirement to your budget. Join us for a conversation with clean energy and infrastructure experts as we dive into renewable energy, green procurement, EV charging infrastructure, as well as federal requirements supply chain issues, workforce development and more.

Speakers:

• Josephine Tucker, Managing Director of Clean Energy and Infrastructure, JLL
• Steph Stoppenhagen, Business Development Director, Black & Veatch
• Mike Lyons, Managing Director & Partner, Climate & Sustainability Practice, BCG

Explore the multiple types of community resiliency projects that go beyond the DoD definition under 10 USC 101(e)(8) that focuses on recovery from extreme weather events and changes in environmental conditions.  Learn how about the various projects that have competed well and how these projects tie community resilience to military missions.

Speakers:

• Charlie Kuhl, Senior Executive Consultant, Matrix Design Group
• Rick Dwyer, Deputy Executive Director, Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance
• Austin Mount, CEO, Emerald Coast Regional Council, FL
• Yvonne Spense, Senior Air Force Advisor, Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation

The Fort Meade Alliance and its Foundation has embarked on a significant partnership with the U.S. Army and the Fort George G. Meade Garrison to establish a Resiliency Campus for the service personnel, their families and civilians at the Installation. The plan includes the renovation of Kuhn Hall on the installation and its conversion into the Education and Resiliency Center, which will serve as the hub of information, programming, and services for our Fort Meade Community. The Center is an Army-wide but not Army-exclusive initiative that focuses on the five areas of resiliency: physical, emotional, social, family and spiritual. At this center, individuals and their families will be able to locate those essential programs that will help them with issues or concerns and manage the unique challenges they face. The building is complete November of 2022.

Speakers:

• Deon Viergutz, Fort Meade Alliance Foundation President, Vice President, Lockheed Martin Spectrum Convergence
• Tim O’Ferrall, Fort Meade Alliance General Manager

Case studies will highlight two core lines of effort (LOEs) captured in DON’s Climate Strategy:
Case Study 1: Leveraging REPI and Sikes Act authority to utilize the natural infrastructure to build resilience, sequester carbon, and achieve local, landscape, and regional-scale climate solutions at Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station.
Case Study 2: Collaborating with California Energy Commission, Oregon Department of Energy, municipal agencies, and community partners to leverage aligned strategic partnerships and grant opportunities with the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC) to assess transmission infrastructure and power distribution nodes for areas with significant renewable energy resources, onshore & offshore, in areas more compatible with DON’s military operations.

Speakers:

• Matt Ryan, Supervisor, Coconino County, AZ
• Jay Smith, Forest Restoration Manager, Coconino County, AZ
• Mary Beth Greiner, Deputy Regional Community Planning Liaison Officer, Navy Region South West
• Steve Chung, Planning Liaison Officer & DoD Pacific Coast Lead, Navy Region South West

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Speaker:

• Matt Bogoshian, Executive Director, The American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative

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Speakers:

• Chief Master Sergeant Kevin Osby, Senior Enlisted Advisor for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (MODERATOR)
• Sharene Brown, AF COS Spouse
• Robert Moriarty, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations

Resiliency does not stop at a fence line.  The interworking of how community solutions can be leveraged through partnerships to assist military resiliency.

Speakers:

• Celeste Werner, Chief of Strategic Development, Matrix Design Group, Inc.
• Margit Myers, Program Activity Lead, Installation Resilience, Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
• Tony Boone, Economic Development Director, City of Fort Huachuca, AZ
• Patrick Small, Senior Planner, Matrix Design Group, Inc.

Installation energy resilience is critical to mission effectiveness.  Developing the right partnerships with communities, utilities, and industry is important to developing energy resilience projects that support the critical missions on the installation but can benefit the surrounding community.  This session explores best practices and case studies to identify the right energy project that is a win-win for all parties.

Speakers:

• Robert Hughes, Executive Director, U.S. Army of Energy Initiatives
• Kirk Phillips, Director, Office of Air Force Energy Assurance

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Speaker:

• Kimberly Diane Buehler, Director Army Office of Small Business Programs

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Speaker:

• Alex Brickner, Director, SBIR Programs, University of Massachusetts Lowell Research Institute

In recent years, adversaries have demonstrated an increased capability to penetrate and cripple the control systems of our critical infrastructure, impacting mission readiness. Military installations have increasingly become dependent on services provided by vendors from outside the base.  These dependencies contribute to vulnerabilities that impact installation mission readiness.  This panel will dive explore The Department of Defense (DoD) specific directives and guidelines issued this year focused on infrastructure cybersecurity and needed action at all levels, and what they will mean for installations and communities.

Speaker:

• David Forbes, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton

The owners of critical infrastructure serving today’s military installations and the communities around them, must prepare for attacks by peer/near-peer adversaries and mother nature.  Fort Knox has executed a wide range of energy initiatives and partnerships to harden and strengthen the Installation’s energy independence and resilience. This discussion will dive the coordination and planning necessary for a successful black start exercise

Speakers:

• Fred Meurer, Chairman, Monterey Bay Defense Alliance
• Col. Lance (O’B) O’Bryan, Garrison Commander, Fort Knox, KY
• Dustin Ward, Nolin Rural Electric Co-op, Elizabethtown, KY

Intergovernmental Support Agreements (IGSA) are gaining acceptance as an excellent way for Navy bases to partner with their host communities, realize efficiencies and savings, create tangible and intangible mission benefits, and produce positive results for the community.  This session will examine Navy IGSA policy and efforts.  Representatives from ASN EIE will present a snapshot of how policy is evolving and creating new opportunities.  Representatives from NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, and Nueces County, Texas, will share early lessons learned from their recent IGSA success.

Speakers:

• CMDR Steven Lampert, Public Works Officer, NAS Corpus Christi
• Belinda Hinojosa-Persohn, Director for Governmental Affairs Nueces County, TX
• Steve Bonner, President & CEO, SONRI, Inc.
• Paula Monachelli, Director of Basing, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (EI&E)

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This session will explore the Space Force’s increasingly important and relevant role in our national security, the the land use considerations, economic development of defense communities and states, as well as its potential partnership role at the local level.

Speakers:

• Andrew Hackleman, Assistant City Manager, Santa Maria, CA; California Governor’s Military Council
• Michael Corriea, Vice President, Lockheed Martin Space
• Kaina Pereira, Senior Advisor, Business Development, Governor’s Office of Business & Economic Development (GO-Biz)
• Robert A. Long, Commander Space Launch Delta 30, Vandenburg Space Force Base

Defense communities’ leaders have access to well-established DoD grant programs to improve and support their military-connected school systems. The educational programs facilitated by resources from DoDEA and DoD STEM have an existing track record of making a significant impact on access to national initiatives (e.g., FIRST Robotics, NMSI CRP, Project Lead the Way, etc.) as well as improving overall education quality and academic performance. This briefing will illuminate how defense community and installation leaders can engage to drive improvements in overall education quality.

Speakers:

• Marcus Lingenfelter, Chief Policy Officer, Cognia
• Kathleen Facon, Chief, Partnerships and Resources, Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA)
• Louie Lopez, Director, DOD STEM, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
• Dr. Jerrod Wheeler, Superintendent, Knob Noster Public Schools, MO

More information coming soon.

Speakers:

• Keith Graf, Executive Director, Texas Military Preparedness Commission
• Edward Spurlin, Mission Sustainment Director, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, TX
• Stephen Murray, Manager, Zoning and Land Use, City of Fort Worth, TX
• Dan Kessler, North Central Texas Council of Governments

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What is energy resilience, why do we need it? ((10 U.S. Code §101(e) Energy resilience: ability to avoid, prepare for, minimize, adapt to, and recover from anticipated and unanticipated energy disruptions in order to ensure energy availability and reliability sufficient to provide for mission assurance and readiness, including mission essential operations related to readiness, and to execute or rapidly reestablish mission essential requirements. )  How do we get there? What are the biggest opportunities coming up? What are the biggest challenges?  Who do we need to be working with?

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Speakers:

• Keith Sledd, Executive Director, Heart of Texas Defense Alliance
• COL Chad Foster, Garrison Commander, Ft. Hood, TX

As governments, industry, capital providers and other key stakeholders engage in the mobility transition beyond petroleum, impacts to infrastructure and operations are imminent. Integrated strategic planning will play a vital role in creating a more resilient infrastructure network in support of military operations. Promoting energy independence and resilience across fleets, facilities, and fuels without impeding an agency’s primary mission is paramount. This panel will examine key strategic planning and implementation factors for fielding non-tactical zero emission vehicles (ZEV) on military installations today and the near future as the defense community engages in the transition.

Speaker:

• Jim Gough, Commercial Vehicle Fleet Director Installations & Logistics (Facilities) Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps

Critical to building the local economy and strengthening the workforce is retaining military families in the community after service.

The City of San Antonio “Military City USA” is a model of best practices in retaining military talent. Hear from business and civic leaders as well as veterans and military spouses who were provided opportunities to obtain economic success and high quality of life through pathways to future proof careers in the San Antonio region.

Speaker:

• Mona Dexter, Hiring Our Heroes

Energy and water resiliency is a national security issue.  Our installations and communities are continually battling impacts of energy and water shortages due to inefficient systems or total failure, and a synchronized and collaborative approach is needed to resolve these issues.  This session will discuss ongoing partnerships and relationships that are proving to be effective, as well as present potential funding options that include Federal, both DoD and other government agencies, and other possible pots of money that can be combined to fund major infrastructure requirements and improvements to support our installations and communities.

Speakers:

• Joe Simonelli, Department of Defense Engagement Executive, Energy Systems Group
• COL Chad Foster, Garrison Commander, Ft. Hood, TX
• Nathan Macek, Infrastructure Finance Director, HDR Inc.
• Chris Landgraf, Military Installation Resiliency Project Manager, Northern Virginia Regional Commission

What is needed to stay mission ready as a community and command when a military connected youth struggles with mental/behavioral health challenges?  The Barry Robinson Center is the leader in providing residential care to military connected youth and their families.  Over the past 8 years, The Barry Robinson Center has provided care and hope to over 750 military families from over 47 states and seven countries. This panel will provide boots on the ground resources while recognizing the challenges installations/commands have while remaining mission ready.

Speakers:

• Rob McCartney, Chief Executive Officer, The Barry Robinson Center
• LTC Kelly Rivera, Director, NCC Social Work Fellowship and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
• Lisa Howard, Associate Vice President, Govt. Affairs & Community Engagement, The Barry Robinson Cente
• Kathleen Palmer, Educational Leadership Director of Content, Army Wives Network

More information coming soon.

Speakers:

• Stacey Shepard, Senior Managing Director, Infrastructure and Public Enterprise, CBRE Global Workplace Solutions; ADC Board of Directors
• Dan Rhoades, Chief Operating Officer, Robins Air Force Base 21st Century Partnership

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Speakers:

• Gen. James Sears, Deputy Commander, Air Education and Training Command
• Clint Hickman, Maricopa County Supervisor, AZ
• Christopher Toale, Director, Community Initiatives Team, Luke AFB, AZ
• Jerry Weiers, Mayor, City of Glendale, AZ
• Ron Sites, President & CEO, Fighter Country Foundation
• Joanne Osborne, Arizona State Representative (District 13)

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Discussion of EUL and landswap opportunities, to include recent successes, current initiatives across the Southeast region.

Speaker:

• RADM Wesley McCall, Commander, Navy Region Southeast

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The service Climate Strategies all contemplate Installation microgrids as a centerpiece of actions necessary to maximize mission assurance in the face of climate change. Microgrids can also be a critical component of Installation resilience in the face of attack on the national grid by peer, near-peer or even non-nation state adversaries. Another component of the service energy strategies is to embrace various technologies to reduce the demand for electrical power off the grid.

These new technologies and control systems that make them function are often complicated, often proprietary and almost always lead to system failure if not properly maintained. Additionally, because many of the systems are proprietary, the logistic system sometimes has a difficult time of providing needed parts and maintenance services in a timely fashion. To date, installations have often had to depend on contractor support to maintain these high tech systems as the military civilian personnel systems do not have professional development programs or position descriptions necessary to develop an in-house workforce in a rational way.

This panel will discuss how two installations, Miramar Marine Air Station and Fort Hunter Liggett, have addressed the personnel and logistic issues of their unique microgrid control systems and components.

Speakers:

• Fred Meurer, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Col Lisa Lamb, Garrison Commander, Fort Hunter-Liggett, CA
• Thomas Beddell, Commander, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, CA

Working with a diverse group of DOD, community, and industry partners the South Sound Military and Communities Partnership helped lead an initiative to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing military families today: Childcare. This panel discussion will explore how this partnership worked to quantify military family childcare needs at the community level and form a collaboration between various levels of government, nonprofit and corporate partners to develop an innovative military childcare strategy.

Speakers:

• Maria Tobin, Program Coordinator, South Sound Military & Communities Partnership
• Olivia Burley, Military Spouse Liaison, Washington Department of Veterans Affairs
• Kelli May Douglas, Pacific Southwest Regional Liaison, Defense State Liaison Office
• Stacey K. Young, Director, Office of Military Family Readiness Policy, DoD

More information coming soon.

Speaker:

• Stacey Shepard, Senior Managing Director, Infrastructure and Public Enterprise, CBRE Global Workplace Solutions; ADC Board of Directors

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Speakers:

• Paul Cramer, City Manager, City of Leavenworth, KS
• Johnny Bevers, Deputy Garrison Commander, Fort Leavenworth, KS
• Gary Kolp, Director of Federal Policy, American Water Military Services Group

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Speaker:

• Steven Crusinberry, Deputy Garrison Commander, Fort Riley, KS

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Speakers:

• Capt Andrew Preston, Deputy Commander, Joint Base Charleston, SC
• Col. Marcus Jackson, Commander, Space Base Delta 2, Buckley Space Force Base, CO
• Colin Geraghty, Senior Executive, Defense Partnerships, Uber for Business

More information coming soon.

Speakers:

• Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass
• Brian Garrett, Director for Military Affairs, Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs

Speakers:

• Sue Robinson, Camp Director, Jamestown 4H
• Tony Kurta, Vice President of Health and Human Performance, Leidos
• Robert McCartney, CEO, Barry Robinson Center

Explore how states and communities are approaching the ever-elusive title of being “most military friendly”. Explore which states are leading the country in developing military-friendly legislation, programs, and policies, to attract and support service members, retirees, veterans, and their families. Provide insights on communities can help move the needle on basing decisions and increase quality of life for military members.

Speakers:

• Cameron Bowsky, Senior Consultant, Matrix Design Group
• Craig Crenshaw, Virginia Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs
• Terry McCaffery, Vice President of Military and Defense Programs, Enterprise Florida
• Chris Meeker, Commander, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
• Elaine Bryant, Executive Vice President for Aerospace & Defense, Dayton Development Coalition

More information coming soon.

Speaker:

• Thomas Ford, Director of Administration, Grand Forks County, ND

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Speaker:

• Brig. Gen. Terrance Adams, Director, Cyberspace Operations and Warfighter Communications, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations

In the past five years, the suicide rate among active-duty service members has increased by 41 percent. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service under the Reducing Opioid Use and Misuse through Mental Health First Aid in Rural Texas grant has worked to address mental health and resource disparities. This session will serve as a model for how installations and communities can provide evidence-based, harm reduction education and intervention to combat mental health challenges in the military.

Speakers:

• Rachel Brauner, Extension Program Specialist, Military Programs, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
• Dr. Lakshmi Mahadevan, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Special Populations, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service