On May 13, Mr. Joe Brus made it to the summit of Mt Everest – the world’s highest mountain 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) above sea level. Joe is a former Office of Naval Research Tech Solutions member, and this month, he became the new Science Advisor to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) at Camp Pendleton, CA.
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On May 13, Mr. Joe Brus made it to the summit of Mt Everest – the world’s highest mountain 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) above sea level. Joe is a former Office of Naval Research Tech Solutions member, and this month, he became the new Science Advisor to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) at Camp Pendleton, CA.
Join us here on Armed with Science for a LIVE STREAM on June 8 at 2 p.m. EDT when Joe will share his pictures and discuss the physical and technical challenges involved in accomplishing this monumental feat.
Office of Naval Research‘s Distinguished Lecture Series is now posted.
ONR’s Office of Innovation hosted Rear Adm. Giancarlo Stagno of the Chilean Navy as the featured speaker. He shared his experiences at the helm of rescue and salvage operations following last year’s devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile.
Photo of the aftermath of a 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile
Join us Tuesday, May 31 at 1 p.m. EST for the Live Stream featuring the Office of Naval Research‘s Distinguished Lecture Series.
ONR’s Office of Innovation hosts Rear Adm. Giancarlo Stagno of the Chilean Navy as the featured speaker. He will share his experiences at the helm of rescue and salvage operations following last year’s devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile.
Rear Adm. Giancarlo Stagno of the Chilean Navy
His presentation, “Chile’s 2010 Tsunami: Salvage Operations in the Aftermath,” will be shown LIVE here on Armed with Science!
Garth Jensen is currently the Director of Innovation at the Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center. Garth was previously an Office of Naval Research Science Advisor at the Pentagon.
mmowgli is both the coolest project I have ever worked on and the hardest to describe in words, but here it goes: mmowgli is an experiment in generating collective intelligence and a pilot project being developed by the Office of Naval Research.
Beyond that, mmowgli is ultimately the answer to a few questions, ones that haunted me every day during my tour as a Science Advisor at the Pentagon: why did I experience such a disconnect between technologists and “innovators,” on one hand, and warfighters and end users on the other? Why didn’t “game changing innovations” generate more enthusiasm from those who were “in the game?” And what was I doing to make it better?
As my Pentagon tour drew to a close, these questions nagged at me and morphed into a thousand others: What if we took a heavy, formal approach, and made it lighter and more of a continuous conversation instead of a blueprint? What if you didn’t need a fully formed idea to make a contribution? What if ideas, even half-formed ones, could meet up in space and recombine with other ideas to form new ones? What if this conversation engaged more stakeholders and tolerated more excursions? Finally, what if this conversation became so rich and compelling that, instead of truncating the debate, it actually enlarged the universe of possibilities?
Dr. Peter Warren Singer, author, senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, speaks on the science fiction and science reality of war in the 21st century. The event kicked off the Office of Naval Research’s Directorate of Innovation Winter 2010-2011 Distinguished Lecture Series.
You can view his lecture, “Wired for War: The Science Fiction/Science Reality of Robots, War, and Politics in the 21st Century,” right here on the Armed with Science blog.
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Dr. Peter Warren Singer's speach will be streamed live on the blog Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at 2pm eastern.
Dr. Peter Warren Singer, author, senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, will speak on the science fiction and science reality of war in the 21st century, from 2 to 3:30 pm eastern on March 8 at the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
The event kicks off ONR’s Directorate of Innovation Winter 2010-2011 Distinguished Lecture Series.
We’ll be streaming the talk live here on the Armed with Science blog via UStream. If you’re in the Arlington, VA, area, you can attend the talk in person by registering at the ONR website.
Dr. Singer is the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings’s 90-year history. In 2005, CNN named him to their “New Guard” List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers. Singer has also been recognized by the Financial Times as “Guru of the Week” for the thinker who most influenced the world that week and by Slate Magazine for “Quote of the Day.”
In his personal capacity, Singer served as coordinator of the Obama-08 campaign’s defense policy task force. In 2009, Singer was named by Foreign Policy Magazine to the Top 100 Global Thinkers List, of the people whose ideas most influenced the world that year.
Dr. Singer is considered one of the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare. He was named by the President to Joint Forces Command’s Transformation Advisory Group. He has written for the full range of major media and journals, including the Boston Globe, L.A. Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Current History, Survival, International Security, Parameters, Weltpolitik, and the World Policy Journal. He has been quoted in every major U.S. newspaper and news magazine and delivered talks at venues ranging from the U.S. Congress to over 40 universities around the world. He has provided commentary on military affairs for nearly every major TV and radio outlet, including ABC-Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, FOX, NPR, and the NBC Today Show. He is also a founder and organizer of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a global conference that brings together leaders from across the US and the Muslim world
Dr. Peter Warren Singer's lecture will be streamed live here on Thursday, December 16th, 2010.
UPDATE: Due to weather in the Arlington, VA, area, this lecture has been canceled. We’ll post more details about possible rescheduling when they are available.
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On Thursday, December 16th, Dr. Peter Warren Singer will present the Office of Naval Research‘s Distinguished Lecture, “Wired for War: The Science Fiction/Science Reality of Robots, War, and Politics in the 21st Century.” The talk will be streamed live right here on the Armed with Science blog from 1:30 – 3pm eastern.
If you’re in the Arlington, VA, area, you can attend the talk in person by registering at https://secure.onr.navy.mil/events.
Peter Warren Singer is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings’s 90-year history. In 2005, CNN named him to their “New Guard” List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers. Singer has also been recognized by the Financial Times as “Guru of the Week” for the thinker who most influenced the world that week and by Slate Magazine for “Quote of the Day.”
In his personal capacity, Singer served as coordinator of the Obama-08 campaign’s defense policy task force. In 2009, Singer was named by Foreign Policy Magazine to the Top 100 Global Thinkers List, of the people whose ideas most influenced the world that year.
Dr. Singer is considered one of the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare. He was named by the President to Joint Forces Command’s Transformation Advisory Group. He has written for the full range of major media and journals, including the Boston Globe, L.A. Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Current History, Survival, International Security, Parameters, Weltpolitik, and the World Policy Journal. He has been quoted in every major U.S. newspaper and news magazine and delivered talks at venues ranging from the U.S. Congress to over 40 universities around the world. He has provided commentary on military affairs for nearly every major TV and radio outlet, including ABC-Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, FOX, NPR, and the NBC Today Show. He is also a founder and organizer of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a global conference that brings together leaders from across the US and the Muslim world
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