Defense, National Security and Climate Change:
Mitigating Risks and Seizing Opportunities in a Rapidly Changing Global Environment

Keynote Speakers Announced!
Senator John Warner (ret.)		Senator Gary Hart (ret.)		Honorable Sharon E. Burke, Assistant Secretary of Defense		Honorable Katherine Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army

Just Added: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD CURRENT PROGRAM AGENDA (Updated 3/24/11)

U.S. defense and intelligence communities are increasingly focusing resources on the operational and national security implications of climate change and energy. With the most recent quadrennial report identifying climate change as a global destabilizing force for the first time, an executive order from President Obama on sustainability across the Federal agencies, and an uncertain and unstable energy market, the challenges before American defense and national security communities to mitigate climate impacts and energy risks, as well as establish a leaner, more effective operational force in a down economy are clear.

Program Highlights

• Hear insights from senior Federal officials in the Department of Defense, intelligence organizations and GSA on existing mandates, operational strategies and opportunities for collaboration
• Participate in 10-12 roundtable sessions with peers across sectors on topics including:
  • Developing clean energy infrastructure throughout installations and forward operations,
  • Overcoming barriers to modernizing facilities management and green design in defense installations,
  • Vehicle fuel sources,
  • Enterprise management and governance,
  • Operationalizing supply chain programs and modernizing procurement paradigms,
  • Stakeholder engagement and external relations,
  • Workforce education and training,
  • Establishing a laboratory for renewable energy technologies, and
  • National security implications.
• Examine implications of Executive Order 13514 and other recent Congressional and Executive mandates on Department of Defense operations
• Explore opportunities for cross-sector working groups

Confirmed Speakers

• Just Added: Senator John Warner (ret.) – Senior Advisor, Hogan Lovells
• Just Added: Senator Gary Hart (ret.) – Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado Denver, School of Public Affairs and Chair of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Defense
• Just Added: Honorable Sharon E. Burke – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs, U.S. Department of Defense
• Just Added: Honorable Katherine Hammack – Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations & Environment), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, U.S. Army
• Just Added: Jeffrey Arnold – Senior Scientist, Climate and Global Change Programs, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Just Added: Cathleen Kelly – Deputy Associate Director for Climate Change Adaptation, White House Council on Environmental Quality
• Just Added: Chris Tindal – Director of Operational Energy Policy, U.S. Department of the Navy
• Just Added: Kim Toufectis – Master Planning Program Manager, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Just Added: Kathleen White – Senior Lead, Global and Climate Change, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Jessica C. Abrahams – Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge
• Stephen O. Andersen – Co-Chair, Montreal Protocol Technical and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP)
• Frederick R. Anderson – Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge
• David Belote – Director, DoD Energy Siting Clearinghouse, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
• Martin Chavez – Executive Director, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability (former Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico)
• Nancy Gillis – Senior Adviser, Sustainability, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), General Services Administration
• William Goran – Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (and Co-Chair of NASA-Army Interagency Forum on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations)
• Jay Gulledge – Senior Scientist and Director for Science and Impacts, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Reno Harnish – Director, Center for Environment and National Security (CENS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
• Jason Hartke – Vice President of National Policy, U.S. Green Building Council
• Joseph Hayes – Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Allan Hoffman – Senior Analyst, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
• Dr. Marc Kodack – Senior Fellow, Army Environmental Policy Institute, U.S. Army
• Michael Mondshine – Vice President and Senior Policy Analyst, SAIC
• COL Jon Ostertag – Chair, Installation Energy Program Group, U.S. Air Force
• Christine Parthemore – Fellow, Center for a New American Security
• Rebecca Ranich – Director, Energy & Resources, Deloitte Consulting
• Dr. William Rowe, Jr. – Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Lt. Col. Paul Schimpf – Strategist for Energy and Environment, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
• Robert E. Tritt – Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge
• Paul Yaroschak – Deputy Director, Chemical & Material Risk Management, Office of the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment)

Confirmed Roundtable Facilitators

The following people will serve as roundtable facilitators during the March 30 breakout sessions:

• Michael Aimone – Vice President, Strategy Development, National Security Global Business, Battelle Memorial Institute
• Sherry Altman – Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Stephen O. Andersen – Co-Chair, Montreal Protocol Technical and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP)
• Frederick R. Anderson – Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge
• David Belote – Director, DoD Energy Siting Clearinghouse, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
• Nancy Gillis – Senior Adviser, Sustainability, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), U.S. Department of Defense
• Richard Goffi – Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Jay Gulledge – Senior Scientist and Director for Science and Impacts, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Reno Harnish – Director, Center for Environment and National Security (CENS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
• Jason Hartke – Vice President of National Policy, U.S. Green Building Council
• Allan Hoffman – Senior Analyst, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
• Dr. Marc Kodack – Senior Fellow, Army Environmental Policy Institute, U.S. Army
• Tad McCall – Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Jon E. Ostertag – Chair, Installation Energy Program Group, U.S. Air Force
• Christine Parthemore – Fellow, Center for a New American Security
• Rebecca Ranich – Principal, Energy & Resources, Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Dr. William Rowe, Jr. – Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Darlene Schuster – Executive Director, Institute for Sustainability, American Institute for Chemical Engineers
• Melissa Stults – Acting Climate Director, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
• Jim Sullivan – Vice President, Sustainability, SAP
• Paul Yaroschak – Office of the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment)

Venue & Lodging Information

• The program will be held at the Law Office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
  (1900 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006)

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