SENEDIA Sponsors Rhode Island Defense & Oceans Day

 

Rhode Island Defense & Oceans Day

May 22, 2009

“Vision for the Next Decade”

CCRI Newport Campus

8:00 a.m.    Registration

8:15 a.m.    Welcome Remarks

·        Governor Donald Carcieri

·        Senator Jack Reed (invited)

·        Mike Saul, Executive Director, RIEDC

8:45 a.m.    Presentations

·        RADM Phil Wisecup, President, Naval War College

·        Dr. Robert Ballard, URI Center for Ocean Exploration and        Archeological Oceanography

 

10:00 a.m.  Break

10:15 a.m.  Presentations

·        Donald McCormack, Technical Director, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) HQ

·        Jeffrey H. Norwitz, Professor National Security Studies, Naval War College.  “Closing Guantanamo: What comes next?”

                  

11:30 a.m.  Break

11:40 a.m.  Paul Rich, Chief Development Officer, Deepwater Wind

                        (RI Offshore Wind Energy Project)

12:15 p.m.            Conclusion & Wrap-up

 

 

RI Defense & Oceans Day is free of charge and made possible by the following sponsors;  RIEDC, Newport County Chamber of Commerce, Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA), RI Procurement and Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), RI Manufacturing Extension Service (RIMES) and Iron Mountain Group.  Please note that pre-registration is required, and made with Peg Degnan at pdegnan(at)riedc.com by May 19, as seating is limited.

For all other questions relating to the program, please contact John Riendeau at jriendeau@riedc.com or (401) 278-9162.

Thanks and looking forward to seeing you on May 22, 2009. 

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