CME held a Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Mission Engineering and Integration (ME&I) Workshop, September 23-26. Congratulations to the cohort for successfully completing the Workshop and reaching this milestone!
25 participants across multiple Departments truly reflected the interdisciplinary approach which is foundational to Mission Engineering. They organized themselves into teams that were productive, insightful, entertaining and delivered quality Mission Engineering products that both addressed the assignments and advanced their mission thinking.
In addition, we were honored to have USAF Capt Kavi Muraleetharan attend, who was fully engaged and provided the Interservice perspective and knowledge that was game changing.
We’re looking forward to the next ME&I Workshop in the Spring. NSWC DD’s recognition of the importance of workforce development to advance and operationalize Mission Engineering across the Warfare Center is inspiring. We are so grateful for their leadership!
Following the ME&I Workshop, five of the NSWC DD participants took on five University of New South Wales (UNSW) representatives in the Inaugural International Mission Engineering and Integration Hackathon.
The teams had six hours to Mission Engineer a maritime response to a Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief (HADR) scenario; Operation Pacific Shelter.
To foster allied innovation and deepen US-Australia mission engineering interoperability, this hackathon concluded with a joint presentation session co-hosted by UNSW Capability System Centre and the ODU Center for Mission Engineering.
During the Joint Showcase, the teams presented their solutions during a live, virtual joint session bringing together participants, mentors, and defense stakeholders from both nations.
The session aimed to surface comparative approaches, identify shared strengths and gaps, and promote ongoing trans-Pacific mission engineering collaboration.
The teams presented their solutions to the esteemed panel of judges: Commodore Andrew Macalister and Rachel Hatton from Australia, and Ms. Shawna McCreary SES (NSWC DD Technical Director) and Ms. Melissa Smith SSTM (NSWC DD M Dept Head).
In an extremely close contest, the NSWC DD team (The Dahlgren Dingoes) were selected as the winning team…. Congratulations, Dingoes!!
We cannot thank the judges, the participants, Braden McGrath, our UNSW ME partner and visionary, Grace Bryant the lead planner for Australia, and Joseph Pack, the lead planner from NSWC DD, enough.
The next chapter will be to identify real-world challenges and rapidly identify partnered solutions in future International ME&I Hackathons….we are better together!!!
Mission First, People Always!!!
