Lifeboat News #63

The Letter

We received a letter that said:

Dear Mr. Klien,

I am Science Advisor for the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) and would like to see if a small Group of SSG members could meet you and other members of the Lifeboat Foundation in San Francisco early in November.

Each year, the CNO selects nine senior level officers to participate in a fellowship at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. These officers are selected as the future leaders of the military and include 7 Navy Captains, 1 Marine Colonel and 1 Coast Guard Captain. In addition, 12 junior level officers are also selected to participate. The SSG also has 12 scientists and technologists and one science advisor. The Group is lead by ADM James Hogg (US Navy retired). The SSG is directed by and reports solely to the CNO ADM Mullen and is responsible for generating revolutionary naval warfare concepts. Please see the attached copies of some of our materials for your review. FYI- We do not yet have our theme for this year.

Part of the development of the SSG team is to have discussions with prominent leaders in technology, industry, academia and government. The goal is to apply this knowledge to improve the ability to think innovatively and develop concepts for an improved Navy and Maritime Forces.

We would appreciate the opportunity to gain insights into the activities of the Lifeboat Foundation and have discussion about different programs you have to help "safeguard humanity." We are especially interested in how you identify and mitigate risks associated with future technological developments. Please advise a time when I can call to speak with you in this regard. Thank you for your consideration.

v/r Robb

Dr. Robb Wilcox Science Advisor Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group Naval War College

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You can see the attached files Dr. Wilcox referred to at http://lifeboat.com/sf.pdf and http://lifeboat.com/sf.ppt.

U.S. Naval Operations SSG Group Meeting

Based on this letter, we have scheduled a meeting with the U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) on November 6 in San Francisco. We would like your support with this important meeting.

In addition to our local San Francisco people, we would like to fly in personnel from Nevada and from Tenerife, one of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. This will enable us to bring our best people to this important meeting. Due to the Tenerife personnel being quite far from the meeting, it will cost $2,500 to fly in all these personnel.

Please note that not only will your donation help strengthen our cause, currently backed by 77 donors, it will enable us to see how important you think it is for us to interact and advise government agencies on the possible dangers in our future. If there is little interest, we will listen to you and divert our resources elsewhere.

Our donation page specifically for this cause is at https://lifeboat.com/ex/naval.operation....meeting

In its first day of operation, this page has attracted $615 of the $2,500 that is our goal.

More Languages

Thanks to Jack Halpern, we now have a Japanese version of our about page. Thanks to Alexei Turchin, we now have a Russian version of our about page. More language translations will be published shortly. You can see these translations at http://lifeboat.com/ex/about

Top Donor

Sergio M.L. Tarrero has become our new top donor with $22,340 donated. Sergio is a man of action who is able to see the dangers that are coming and who does more than simply talk about these dangers.