Pax Partnership Series Approaches 2025 Thinking
Given the current speed of technology, the here and the now of The Patuxent Partnership’s Strategic Thinking “Brown Bag” Series with Dale Moore is somewhere around the year 2025.
By then five billion people will be connected through technology. The world’s knowledge will be digitized. Avatars and virtual worlds will be ever-present and globally enabled. Innovation and creativity become mass activities of millions.
Not only is it imperative we imagine such a world, says Mr. Moore, Director of NAVAIR Strategic Initiative Coordination & Execution and Assistant to Commander, NAWCAD for Strategic Operations, we must serve as that world’s “thought leaders.”
The missions of NAVAIR that have brought about the Pax River community on both sides of the gate make this region remarkable for its collective brainpower. Here, Mr. Moore emphasizes, “thought leaders” are capable and poised to bring about strategies for employing the cooperation needed for a safer world. But only if we can embrace change over what is known; only if we can bring intuitive thinking to bear on our technical capabilities. In a word: transformation.
The Patuxent Partnership’s Brown Bag series provides an open forum for professionals working on both sides of the NAS:Pax River gate to learn and brainstorm about this type of thinking and to contribute toward a strategy to protect and overcome the global threats of today, the situations we imagine in 2025 and beyond.
As the series evolves, strategic documents are emerging. Participants last week listed Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities, not having time to reach the final assessment category of Threats. The SWOT is directed at facing down obstacles between the NAVAIR/Pax River community and its transformation into the thought leaders the world needs.
As if demonstrating the complexity of working toward collaboration on the scale of millions, for the approximate 100 people attending, strong reasoning backed listing a number of the exemplars in all three categories: strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. For example, it came down to perspective and individual need whether higher educational here is a Strength or Weakness. Similarly, perspective dictated whether the lack of web designers in the region signaled a Weakness or Opportunity.
The next Strategic Thinking “Brown Bag” Series with Dale Moore will address development of a strategy to work through the SWOT.
