October 9, 2014
Triangle Coalition’s 14th Annual STEM Education Conference: Sustaining STEM: Maintaining the Movement, Widening the Circle
This year’s program will examine the critical issues and solutions for sustaining the STEM education movement.
- Lunch Address: Sustaining STEM for National Security – The Honorable Kelly H. Carnes, President and CEO, TechVision21
Carnes will address the path to ensure superiority across the full spectrum of defense missions through science and technology including: the development of Civilian and uniformed STEM personnel in R&D, operational missions, support, and operating state-of-the-art war fighting systems.
Currently the Department of Defense has
- 15,000 different computer networks across 4,000 military installations
- 7 million computers/telecommunications tools in 88 countries
- Thousands of war fighting and support applications and a
- Defense civilian STEM workforce of nearly 150,000
Her presentation will thoroughly outline the challenge and suggest strategies to off-set retiring personnel.