Welcome to the Navy League’s 2005 Sea-Air-Space (SAS)
Exposition, the largest maritime exposition in the world. Since 1965,
the Navy League has provided a forum for the sharing of professional and
technological information between the business community and members of
the military and their civilian counterparts. The exposition is an
opportunity to foster partnerships and share new technologies and
creative solutions that will meet our national and military security
goals. It also provides an opportunity to interface with the men and
women who serve so proudly in our maritime services. During these times
of global uncertainties and threats, we rely now more than ever on a
strong and robust maritime force to ensure America’s safety and to
protect our national interests around the world.
“Ensuring Global Access” is this year’s exposition
theme. With both asymmetric and symmetric threats challenging our sea
services, the U.S. Navy’s Global Concept of Operations (ConOps) is
central to achieving the vision of “Sea Power 21.” It provides the
framework for future growth so that we can fight and win against any foe
around the globe. Achieving the goals of “Sea Power 21” and the full
potential of the Global ConOps will require prudent use of the
sea-services most precious resource — people. We focus today on the
magnificent people resources that crew Navy and Coast Guard ships,
aviators who launch from pitching decks, marines who fight on the land,
air and sea, and all the support elements which include civilians and
military personnel that represent the sea services — they generate the
ideas that are indispensable to the future of U.S. sea power. The
partnership between industry and the naval communities enables industry
to provide the very best technologies and equipment in order for our
sailors, marines and coastguardsmen to carry out their mission of
ensuring global access.
I am proud to chair this year’s exposition and look
forward to providing you a forum in which to share ideas through
professional seminars, industry exhibits and special events. We are
continually improving our annual Sea-Air-Space program to reflect
today’s world so that it can be relevant, useful and enjoyable to all
attendees. This year’s exposition, in particular, will showcase an
increasing number of technologies and security services which have force
protection and homeland security applications.
The Navy League of the United States invites and
encourages the widest possible participation of service and industry
personnel to exchange information and new ideas that will keep our
partnership alive by
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