2019 ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Summit for Place-Based Resilience
ACEP will host a summit on placed-based resilience organized by the from Sept. 4-6. The summit includes a workshop to identify high-impact projects with potential for collaboration between the Department of Defense and ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ community partners. Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines personnel from bases in ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ, Hawaii and California are expected to attend, as are research, entrepreneur support, and DOE National Lab personnel from ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ, Hawaii and Arizona.
The primary objective of the effort is to help the attending DOD participants and ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ-based partners to coordinate activities and resilience efforts in ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ and to curate potential projects for future DOD and non-DOD federal funding opportunities related to base resilience.
The last morning of the summit (Sept. 6) will include a briefing session and opportunity for stakeholder feedback on the outputs from the workshop efforts. Those interested in viewing or participating in the stakeholder feedback session can email dayne@alaska.edu to be added to the stakeholder virtual meeting.
The summit is part of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Regional Collaboration for Technology Innovation and Commercialization program. ARCTIC is designed to promote commerce and partnerships between ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ and the Arctic and the Pacific regions, via energy advancements achieved through resiliency research, technology development/deployment and education. ARCTIC is an Office of Naval Research initiative. Additional information about ARCTIC is available at.