2021

Alaska and Arctic Communications and Connectivity Analysis Project

Virtual Event

TBA

The Virtual Assessment will consist of USCG Leadership presentations on communications challenges and future uses for increased connectivity along with Industry participation in highlighting emerging technologies. The Virtual Assessment will include liberal use of virtual breakout groups to discuss near-term, mid-term, and long-term technologies and identify connectivity transition, utilization, and integration strategies and pathways. The Arctic Domain Awareness Center and the Alaska and Arctic Maritime Communications and Connectivity Analysis Project team look forward to your participation in this event as we seek to identify and further explore the current and future communications needs of Alaskan and Arctic operators and the key technologies with the potential to serve those needs in the future.

2022

Arctic Symposium 2022

Anchorage, Alaska

May 3 - 6, 2022

AAS22 is planned and organized by the Arctic Domain Awareness Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) in support and in compliance with guidance from Alaskan Command (ALCOM) Commander and staff.

2022

Annual Meeting 2022

April 20-21, 2022

2021

U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Risk Symposium

Houston, Texas

Nov 1-5, 2021

The Maritime Risk Symposium is an annual four-day conference in which government and maritime industry leaders, port representatives, researchers, and solution providers convene to examine current and emerging threats to maritime security.

We are dedicated to bringing government agencies, commercial entities, institutions of research, and higher education together to meet and discuss various threats, challenges, and risks to international and domestic maritime sectors.

2021

AFN Annual Meeting

Anchorage, Alaska

Oct 21-23, 2021

Event Information Coming Soon.

2021

ADAC Customer and Partner’s Roundtable (Rescheduled)

Virtual Workshop

Oct 7, 2021

2021

Arctic Facilities and Infrastructure Environmental Change Risk Index Workshop

Virtual

Sept 29, 2021

The Arctic Domain Awareness Center, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard District 17 and Sector Anchorage, is hosting a two-day workshop on the development of an environmental risk index. This index is focused on coastal facilities and infrastructure under the inspection purview of USCG. Aware that the Arctic region is exposed to the impacts of climate change, increasing coastal erosion, and more frequent precipitation, USCG seeks to develop a risk index as an operator decision support tool focused on bulk oil/fuel facilities. This two day workshop will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines and utilize a collaborative group setting to identify data sources, evaluate inputs to a proposed decision support tool, and determine which models will advance the development of the risk index.

2021

Meeting 21st Century Maritime Challenges in the U.S. Arctic

Virtual

Sept 8, 2021

The Arctic is truly the world’s ultimate frontier, a convergence of multipolar governance, unique climate, and unprecedented challenges. As the U.S. Arctic continues to become more accessible and traversed, it is critical stakeholders have a holistic understanding of the region and issues affecting policy.
Join us for a special seminar during which subject-matter experts in the maritime industry, and U.S. Arctic policy will educate and update you on new technologies, operational advances, and frameworks to advance the collective strategic goals the Arctic will bring to the forefront.

2021

Alaska Defense Forum

Fairbanks, Alaska

Aug 4, 2021

Building on the success of its inaugural forum in 2019, the 2021 Alaska Defense Forum returns to Fairbanks to continue the important mission of building Alaska’s defense communities. This year’s event will focus on Alaska’s increasing role in the arctic mission, the impact of defense spending on the Alaskan economy, local military quality of life issues, and briefings from experts on the ground.

2021

Arctic Security Dialogues IV

Anchorage, Alaska

July 27, 2021

The Department of the Air Force released its first Arctic Strategy on July 21, 2020. Signed by the Secretary of the Air Force, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Chief of Staff of the Space Force, the Strategy noted that the “Arctic is among the most strategically significant regions of the world today.”

2021

Annual Meeting 2021

Conducted Virtually

June 2-3, 2021

Due to an uncertain opening of non-assigned personnel at HQ U.S. Coast Guard, ADAC will conduct the Center’s Program Year 7 Annual meeting, focused on U.S. Coast Guard Project Champions, key stakeholders and the community of Arctic science and technology researchers on 2 and 3 June 2021. Included in the Program Year 7 Annual meeting are planned guest speakers from HQ U.S. Coast Guard, DHS S&T and senior Arctic Research leadership in Washington D.C. Due to the success of ADAC’s Program Year 6 Virtual Annual meeting, ADAC will once again create an “Event Hub” that showcases each program and project review with videos and other materials sequenced to the Annual Meeting agenda.

2021

Arctic Security Dialogues III

Virtual Workshop

May 7, 2021

The purpose of the discussion is to gain a diversity of views from current and retired military officers who have unique insights on the emerging defense and security environment across the Trans-Atlantic Arctic region.

2021

Arctic Maritime Horizons Workshop

Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage Alaska

May 4-6, 2021

In partnership with HQ USCG Director of Maritime Transportation Systems and Senior Arctic Policy Advisor, are creating a tabletop exercise planned as an in-event for 4-6 May 2021 in Anchorage Alaska focused organized to address policy, plans and initiatives to support HQ USCG and the Coast Guard Enterprise in addressing the 2019 USCG Arctic Strategic Outlook (ArcSO) task to “Advance and Modernize the Arctic Marine Transportation System.” Due to COVID19, ADAC has been forced to reschedule this exercise 5 times, seeking to make this an in-person event. Since COVID immunizations are now underway, ADAC and USCG are hopeful this fifth scheduling will finally result in being able to proceed with the event.

Arctic Maritime Horizons Exercise will provide an orienting and deliberative plenary forum to prepare participants followed by a 3-move exercise to challenge assumptions, gain insights and organize follow-on items of consideration to guide USCG Arctic and Maritime Commerce Strategic Outlook implementation tasks.

2021

ACCUSARS II

Invitational Virtual Workshop

March 25-26, 2021

ADAC and NAADSN (The North American and Arctic Defense and Security Network at Trent University, Peterborough Ontario), kindly invite participants to join us in a follow-up meeting from the Advancing Collaboration in Canada-U.S. Arctic Regional Security (ACCUSARS) conference in September 2020.

The purpose of ACCUSARS II is to create a subset Strategic Foresight Assessment (SFA) for the North American Arctic, by specifically focusing on Alaska and Western Canada.

ACCUSARS I provided an initial SFA for the Canadian Arctic, which provided an initial baseline to be further developed. We plan to conduct ACCUSARS II as a virtual meeting and kindly invite Canadian and American participants from ACCUSARS I to rejoin us for the meeting. Note, later in 2021, ADAC and NAADSN plan to conduct “ACCUSARS III” focusing on Eastern Canada and Greenland to complete a comprehensive Analysis to North American Arctic Security.

2021

C-ICE

March 16-17, 2021

The Arctic region is increasingly recognized as a domain of economic opportunity. However, a critical gap exists between the innovative and entrepreneurial minds capable of capitalizing upon the region’s opportunities, and the commercial and industry entities needed to transition those opportunities into realities. In response to this gap, the Arctic Domain Awareness Center’s (ADAC) Arctic Challenges, Innovations, and Commerce Expo (Arctic CICE) seeks to explore the networks, resources, and infrastructure needed to enable the commercial entrance of Arctic-related products and technologies into the Arctic domain. Drawing from ADAC’s vast experience in federally funded operational research and design, this expo will use an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to foster conversations around Arctic-centered business pressure points, state-of-the-Arctic-focused R&D, gap analysis of investment and innovation, and the future of business in the region. Participants will be exposed to the latest hardware, software, and people-ware emerging to advance domain awareness, risk mitigation, exploration, Arctic operations, and overall, Arctic security. Please consider joining the virtual event on March 16-17, 2021. Information regarding the conference plan, agenda, and registration coming soon.

2021

Arctic Senior Leader Summit

A Virtual Engagement

March 10-11, 2021

**INVITATION ONLY EVENT**

Distinguished Colleagues, per email invitation, please consider joining Lt General David Krumm, USAF, Commander Alaska Command, Alaska NORAD Region and 11th Air Force and a host of Defense and Security Leaders for Arctic Senior Leader Summit 2021 (ASLS 21) 10-11 March 2021. This event is oriented to addressing senior leader strategic views on the developing range of security and defense matters affecting the Arctic region. Due to the on-going complications of in-person meetings as a result of COVID 19, Arctic Senior Summit 2021 will be conducted via electronic conference call. Day 1 of ASLS 2021 is focused on Plenary and Keynote presentations. Day 2 ASLS 2021 is a planned tabletop exercise for crisis action discussions for only U.S. and Canadian military personnel.

2021

ADAC Customer and Partner’s Roundtable (Rescheduled)

Virtual Workshop

Jan 29, 2021

Due to a video and teleconference call system failure that unexpectedly hit just a few minutes prior to the start of the scheduled ADAC Program Year 7 2nd Quarter Customers and Partner’s Roundtable, Center leaders were forced to postpone the meeting.

We sincerely apologize for any and all inconveniences this caused our planned participants.

ADAC respectfully announces it will host a rescheduled Customer and Partner’s Roundtable via webinar on Friday, 29 January 2021, with Center update, Project Reviews and associated Customer and Partner Feedback Discussions from 1:00-4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (9:00 AM-12:00 Noon Alaska Standard Time).

2020

Rising Geopolitical Tensions in the Arctic

Live Stream

Dec 15, 2020

Join Hudson Institute for a discussion of how the newly elected U.S. administration will deal with the geopolitics of the Arctic and the consequences of rising tensions for the operations and tasks of the U.S. and its allies and adversaries. The conversation will be moderated by Senior Fellow, Liselotte Odgaard.

2020

Arctic Security Dialogues

Webcast Live

Dec 11, 2020

The Arctic Security Dialogues, hosted by the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and Arctic Domain Awareness Center, address a broad spectrum of security issues to include, but not limited to, national security, homeland security, and the many components of civil security. “Toward a U.S. Army Arctic Strategy” is the second program in the series, following the inaugural discussion on the U.S. Air Force Arctic Strategy. The U.S. Army has yet to publish an Arctic Strategy, though one is currently in development.

Please join us for an expert conversation on the developing challenges, emerging opportunities, strategic priorities and essential components that could influence an upcoming U.S. Army Arctic Strategy. A panel of retired U.S. Army General Officers and security experts will contribute perspectives and suggestions on policy, planning and/or operations for drafters to consider in the development of the U.S. Army’s Arctic Strategy.

AMSM 2020

AMSM

Virtual Workshop

Nov 16^th, 23^rd, & 30^th, 2020

This event is conducted in accordance with ADAC’s “Year 6 Work Plan” ADAC conducts quarterly Customer and Partner’s Roundtables.

2020

United States Air Force Arctic Strategy

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Oct 5, 2020

The Polar Institute and the Arctic Domain Awareness Center are pleased to announce the creation of a new series of programs entitled Arctic Security Dialogues. The Dialogues will address a broad spectrum of security issues to include, but not limited to national security, homeland security, and the many components of civil security.​​​​​​​ United States Department of Air Force Arctic Strategy: Perspectives and Insights is the first program in the Arctic Security Dialogues series.

2020

ADAC Customer and Partner’s Roundtable

Virtual Workshop

Sep 30, 2020

The Center will host its First Program Year 7, Customer and Partner’s Roundtable via webinar on Wednesday, 30 September 2020, with Center update, Project Reviews and associated Customer and Partner Feedback Discussions from 1:00-5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (9:00 AM-1:00 PM Alaska Daylight Time).

2020

ACCUSARS

Invitational Virtual Workshop

Sep 17-18, 2020

Building upon a June 2017 workshop on Security in the Arctic Borderlands Region, the North American Marine and Environmental Security Workshop hosted by ADAC in September 2018, and the Arctic Command Arctic Symposium held in November 2019 in Fairbanks, NAADSN and ADAC are pleased to co-host a follow-on workshop to focus on specific initiatives that will improve understanding and enhance collaboration between Canada-US Arctic security professionals.

2020

ADAC Customer and Partner’s Roundtable

Conducted Virtually by Cisco Webex

June 25, 2020

The Center will host its Final Program Year 6, Customer and Partner’s Roundtable via webinar.

To view a recording of the event, please use the link below:

2020

Annual Meeting

Conducted Virtually by Cisco Webex

May 14, 2020

Due to the recent quarantine, ADAC's Annual Meeting will be held online.

2019

AAS19 Arctic Symposium

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Nov 13-15, 2019

The principal outcome sought in AAS19 is to improve understanding of the challenges in the complicated risk environment that describes the new circumpolar north. Symposium planners seek AAS19 to create thoughtful discussions in order to gain needed solutions to address and potentially reduce the associated defense and security risks.

To register, please use the registration link below. All those in attendance will be expected to pay $225 upon arrival at the workshop to cover meals, snacks, and beverages.