Senior Leadership Executive Conference, Day One: RADM Brice-O'Hara (DCO) and RADM Mary Landry (D8)

Senior Leadership Executive Conference, Day One: RADM Brice-O'Hara (DCO) and RADM Mary Landry (D8)
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Guardians,

We finished a full and busy first day at the Senior Executive Leadership Conference. Today's focus was on field operations with presentations by commanders from Pacific Area, 11th District (California), 13th District (Pacific Northwest), 14th District (Hawaii and Pacific Rim), and 17th District (Alaska). We also heard presentations from the Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, both JIATF South and West, the Deployable Operations Group (DOG), FORECOM, and the PACAREA Senior Reserve Officer. We are tweeting out these events as they happen.

We also had an in depth brief regarding cyber security (defense, exploitation, and attack) as well as an update on the standup of the Coast Guard Guard's Cyber Command led by the Deputy Commandant for Operations, RADM Brice-O'Hara.

I opened the conference with an overview of the current external environment, including the ongoing Fiscal Year 2011 budget process.

Tomorrow we will be opening the Innovation Expo at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. We will also continue with field briefings from the Atlantic Area commands and our flag officers assigned to Northern Command and Southern Command. In the afternoon our remaining senior leaders will lead and engage in interactive breakout sessions on diversity (VADM Currier), strategy (VADM Papp), Governance and Management: Command, Control, and Culture (VADM Breckenridge).

We just dodged a bullet on the weather at Virginia Beach after the Nor'easter that plowed through late last week and the weather is beautiful.

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