High Tech Sunday Podcast

High Tech Sunday Podcast

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The BEYA STEM Conference presents High-Tech Sunday. On today’s episode of High-Tech Sunday, our host, Dr. Mark Vaughn sits down with the Executive Director of the Stars & Stripes Committee, Matt Bowman and special guest, Rev. Dr. Willie Wade Jr. Up first is Corning Incorporated’s manager of Technical Talent Pipelining, Dr. Mark Vaughn.

Next, our esteemed guest, Matt Bowman. As the Executive Director of the Stars & Stripes Committee, Bowman works closely with senior leaders from all five services and the National Guard Bureau to build the nations STEM Capacity.

Finally, today’s special guest, Rev. Dr. Willie Wade Jr.. Rev. Dr. Wade Jr. is an author and ordained Baptist Minister with 25 years of experience and training. And without further delay, High-Tech Sunday, featuring Dr. Mark Vaughn.

 

 
The U.S. Coast Guard in an Evolving World Order

The U.S. Coast Guard in an Evolving World Order

BY JASON SMITH 01-05-2021 08:37:00

If the United States wishes to maintain its role as a world leader and enforcer of global norms, then it will need to rethink how it projects power around the globe. Defending the rules-based free world order without entering into open conflict will require more creative strategies than sending Navy ships on freedom of navigation exercises, it requires leveraging other instruments of power with unique capabilities.

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First Black woman to lead the US Naval Academy’s students says the campaign to fight racial issues is for ‘generations down the line’

First Black woman to lead the US Naval Academy’s students says the campaign to fight racial issues is for ‘generations down the line’

US Navy Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber, the first Black woman to lead the US Naval Academy as a brigade commander, described the country’s reckoning with racial tensions as an eye-opening experience and believed there was still “a lot of room for progress.”

Barber, an Illinois native and a senior at the academy, recently became the first Black woman to lead and represent the student body during its 175-year history. The mechanical engineering major is expected to graduate this year and join the Marine Corps as a commissioned officer.\

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2021 CNO Naval History Essay Contest

2021 CNO Naval History Essay Contest

Here is a chance to stretch your intellectual muscles and expand your CV.

The 2021 CNO Essay contest is now underway.  Members of the Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Merchant Marine are eligible to submit papers.

The CNO’s intent is to engage and leverage the intellectual talents of the members of the U.S. maritime services (i.e., the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard as well as the Merchant Marine) to provide insights and catalyze discussion on how to establish and maintain maritime superiority in an era of great power competition.

The rules for entrant eligibility in both categories have changed.  Essays will be accepted from entrants qualified in the Professional Category or the Rising Category.

a.  Professional Category:
       (1) Historians, professors, history curators, archivists, and persons with history-related doctoral degrees;
       (2) Authors of books on naval history (not including self-published works); or
       (3) Civilians who have published articles in an established historical or naval journal or magazine.

b.  Rising Category:  Those that do not fall in the Professional Category and are either:
       (1) Active duty, reservists, veterans, and federal civilian personnel of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine; or
       (2) Members of foreign militaries that have orders and are serving in an official billet in one of the above Services.

There is also a cash prize (courtesy of USNI). (Note: cash prizes of co-authors will be split equally):
       (1) First Place – $5,000 (both categories);
       (2) Second Place – $2,500 (both categories);
       (3) Third Place – $1,500 (Rising Category only).

More information about the contest can be found below.  Please let me know if you have any questions about it.

https://www.navy.mil/Resources/NAVADMINs/Message/Article/2455715/2021-cno-naval-history-essay-contest/

If you require more information, please contact K. Denise Rucker Krepp Director, Director’s Action Group (DAG), Naval History and Heritage Command at Kathryn.Krepp@navy.mil.

Very Respectfully,
SM Harris, RADM USN Retired
President, NNOA

Look at this year as a year of opportunity, new beginnings, and blessings – JAN 2021

Look at this year as a year of opportunity, new beginnings, and blessings – JAN 2021

“Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.” Job 8:7

Many of us remember the trials and testing of Job’s faith and trust in God. Job, an upright man, had been through so much in such a short time. All ten of his children were taken from him, his health was compromised, his friends turned their back on him, he lost all he owned, including his home, and his wife told him to curse God and die. Job refused to allow all the calamity that came upon him to change who he was or who he believed God to be in his life. He quickly reminded his wife, “should we only accept the God things from God and not the bad?” Job’s integrity and character remained intact.  While his friend, Bildad, may have meant the above words as a way for Job to question his life, God used those very words to bless Job.

After Job’s loss, he experienced a humble beginning, but that is not how the story ends. God restored Job and gave him double for his trouble. 2020 was a challenging year for us all. Many of us may have felt like Job. We should be encouraged in the New Year of 2021 of God’s faithfulness as we embark upon new beginnings. Look at this year as a year of opportunity, new beginnings, and blessings. 2021 is a clean slate to create the future and present of the best God has for you. We leave the old behind and embrace the new as God is doing a new thing in each of us. Stay encouraged and optimistic because while your beginnings may have been humble, your future is prosperous. Receive it and be blessed. Happy New Year!

Blessings,

Reverend Takana L. Jefferson, Chaplain, United States Navy