Food Systems and National Security: The Science in Strategy
On Thursday, May 23rd, visionaries and practitioners from in and around government will gather at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. to address the needs of the country through the lens of food systems and food security. Sponsored by the US Army War College, the Wilson Center and the NASA Harvest Consortium.
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Overview
On Thursday, May 23rd, visionaries and practitioners from in and around government will gather at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. to address the needs of the country through the lens of food systems and food security. Sponsored by the US Army War College, the Wilson Center and the NASA Harvest Consortium, this workshop, entitled “Food Systems and National Security: The Science in Strategy,” will build on Congressional and Executive Branch initiatives and studies that aim to detect, assess and respond to complex and dynamic food system risks to U.S. national security. Though food is central to this discussion, insights will stretch across all manner of complex problems affecting the homeland.
Keynote speeches, panels and breakout groups will focus on building partnerships within and beyond the US Federal Government to define, assess and resolve institutions fit for purpose to detect and evaluate a) events with potential large scale effects on the global food systems we depend on for export; and b) events that potentially affect domestic networks, which are highly complex. In both domains, domestic and international, discussions focus on the markets, practices, logistics and power arrangements capable of stabilizing and improving the reliability of food and resource networks for all humans in the face of a rapidly destabilizing global climate.
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Please note portions of the event will not be available on livestream. Those that are available are noted below.
0830 – 0900 | Registration and Coffee |
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0900 – 0915 | Welcome & Introductions Livestreamed | Welcome and Overview of the Workshop Anne Bowser, Wilson Center Goals and Origins of the Workshop Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin-Madison Launch of the USAWC study commissioned by GEN Milley COL Parker Frawley, US Army War College |
0915 – 1030 | Session 1 Livestreamed | Opening remarks and Introduction of LTG Cardon (Ret.) The Honorable Sharon K. Burke, former Assistant Secretary of Defense |
0915 – 0945 | Session 1 Keynotes Livestreamed
| Security implications of the “global food system” relevant to the US Department of Defense LTG Edward C. Cardon (Ret), Director, Office of Business Transformation, Office of the Under Secretary of the Army, former Commanding General of U.S. Army Cyber Command
Food systems as critical infrastructure: Vulnerabilities, Risk and Resilience Dr. Igor Linkov, Senior Research Physical Scientist, Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
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0945 – 1030 | Panel Perspectives Livestreamed
| MODERATOR: Professor Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin Dr. Rod Schoonover, US Department of State Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Professor, Hofstra University Mr. Phil Karsting, Policy Director, World Food Program USA, former Administrator, USDA Foreign Agriculture Service Dr. Franziska Gaupp, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria |
1030 – 1045 | Break | |
1045 – 1200 | Session 2 Livestreamed | The Devil You Don’t Know: Anticipating and Managing Risk in Complex Systems |
1045 – 1105 | Session 2 Keynote Address Livestreamed | Threats, resources and politics: Implications of climate change for the U.S. Military Professor Andrew Hill, US Army War College |
1105–1200 | Session 2 Panel Discussion Livestreamed | Models for Risk: How other complex systems can inform DoD-relevant risks to the U.S. and global food system MODERATOR: Professor Andrew Hill Mr. Dennis Lockhart, former head, Atlanta Federal Reserve Dr. Frank O'Sullivan, MIT Energy Initiative Dr. Dustin Brisson, UPenn professor of biology and expert in infectious disease Dave Wade, Director for Medical Preparedness in the Resilience Policy Directorate of the National Security Council Dr. Ardath Grills, Associate Director for Innovation, Development, Evaluation, and Analytics (IDEA), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC |
1200 – 1300 | Lunch | Lunch Addresses: There is No Such Thing as a New Normal Leo Holt, CEO, Holt Logistics Corp, “Supply chain vulnerabilities”
David Kaufman Vice President and Directory, Safety and Security, Center for Naval Analyses “Supply chain resilience: Lessons from Hurricane Maria” |
1310 – 1355
| Session 3 Livestreamed | Building Domestic Resilience: Governance, Data Streams and New Institutions for US Domestic Food System Stability “An exploration of opportunities to initiate or further develop cooperative military to military relationships to build partner capacity to avoid, minimize, or control global and regional food system shocks.” MODERATOR: Bob Greenberg, G&H International |
1310 - 1355 | Session 3 Keynotes Livestreamed | Improving the Culture of Preparedness and Preparing the Nation for Catastrophic Events Eugene Shearer, FEMA Logistics Management Directorate Supply Chain Advisor The National Critical Functions Approach to Developing a New Risk Index Matt Masterson, Senior Cybersecurity Advisory, Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Innovation as a Force Multiplier to Improve Preparedness and Build Resilience David Alexander, Senior Science Advisor, Resilience, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T)
Further discussion will occur in Breakout 3 |
1355 – 1615 | Breakout Groups & Report-Back | |
1615–1650 | Session 5 Fireside Chat and Audience Discussion | Innovations in Institutions, Technologies and Socio-cultural systems that could better prepare us for emergent risks and threats MODERATOR: Bob Woodruff, ABC Andrew Zolli Director of Global Impact, Planet David Bray, Executive Director, People-Centered Internet |
16150-1700 | Closing Remarks |
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