“I intend to use Sea Power 21 and all its supporting tenets as a framework . . . to serve as the blueprint for our continuing transformation.”
—CNO Mike Mullen
Among the critical challenges the Department of the Navy faces today is finding and allocating resources needed to enable the transformation of our Navy into a 21st century force capable of providing our component of the nation’s joint warfighting capability.
Write an essay for this contest which addresses barriers to change and how to remove them, proposed mechanisms to incentivize Sea Enterprise activity that motivates meaningful change, and/or new opportunities for Sea Enterprise engagement at the corporate or activity level that will help make our Navy the right force, with the right readiness, at the right cost!
1st Prize: $15,000
$40,000 in total prize money
Learn more here.