Welcome from PCAST Co-Chairs and National Academies Study

Welcome from PCAST Co-Chairs

John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Co-Chair, PCAST
Eric Lander, Co-Chair, PCAST

National Academies Study: Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5

Speaker: Charles Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering

National Research Council Study: S&T Strategy of Six Countries: Implications for the United States

Speaker: Dan Mote, President Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park

John Gannon, President, BAE Systems Intelligence & Security

National Academies Study: Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at a Crossroads

Speaker: Freeman Hrabowski, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Peter Henderson and Earnestine Psalmonds, National Academies staff

Science, Technology, and the Quadrennial Defense Review

Speaker: Al Shaffer, Principal Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering Department of Defense

JASON Study: S&T for National Security

Speaker: Michael Gregg, Professor of Oceanography, University of Washington

PCAST Study Update: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program

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