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Transfer Ceremony — Seattle, Wash., September
13, 2004
Assumption
of Command Ceremony — Washington, D.C., September
10, 2004
Commissioning
of NOAA Ship HI'IALAKAI — Honolulu, Hawaii,
September 3, 2004
NOAA
Ship FAIRWEATHER Reactivation Ceremony — Ketchikan,
Alaska, August 18, 2004
Alaska
Islands and Ocean Visitor Center — Homer,
Alaska, July 3, 2004
Ceremony
Commemorating 150 Years of Tidal Observations in San
Francisco Bay — San Francisco, Calif., June
30, 2004
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO — Paris,
France, June 28, 2004
38th
Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival — Washington,
D.C., June 23, 2004
Western Governor’s
Association — June 21, 2004
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Vice
Admiral
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr.,
U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and
NOAA Administrator
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A native
of Philadelphia, Pa., retired Navy Vice Admiral
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., is serving as the
undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere. He was appointed
Dec. 19, 2001. Along with this title comes the added distinction
of serving as the eighth administrator of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. He holds an MS and Ph.D. from Harvard
University in applied mathematics.
Lautenbacher oversees
the day-to-day functions of NOAA, as well as laying out its strategic
and operational future. The agency manages an annual budget of
$4 billion. The agency includes, and is comprised of the National
Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Services; National
Marine Fisheries Service; National Ocean Service; National Weather
Services; Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; Marine and Aviation
Operations; and the NOAA Corps, the nation’s seventh uniformed
service.
As the NOAA administrator,
Lautenbacher directed an internal review and reorganization of
the NOAA corporate structure to meet the environmental challenges
of the 21st century. He spearheaded the first-ever Earth Observation
Summit, which hosted ministerial-level representation from several
dozen of world’s nations in Washington July 2003. As the
U.S. co-chair, he led follow-on working sessions in Italy in the
Fall of 2003 and in South Africa in the Winter of 2004. The effort
culminated at the Second Earth Observing Summit held in Tokyo
in April 2004 where 47 nations formalized the plans for international
cooperation on the construction and maintenance of a global Earth
observing system.
He also headed numerous
delegations at international governmental summits and conferences
around the world, including the U.S. delegation to 2002 Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation Ocean Ministerial Meeting in Korea, and 2002
and 2003 meetings of the World Meteorological Organization and
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in Switzerland and
France; as well as leading the Commerce delegation to the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa.
Before joining NOAA,
Lautenbacher formed his own management consultant business, and
worked principally for Technology, Strategies & Alliances
Inc. He was president and CEO of the Consortium for Oceanographic
Research and Education (CORE). This not-for-profit organization
has a membership of 76 institutions of higher learning and a mission
to increase basic knowledge and public support across the spectrum
of ocean sciences.
Lautenbacher is a graduate
of the U.S. Naval Academy (Class of ‘64), and has won accolades
for his performance in a broad range of operational, command and
staff positions both ashore and afloat. He retired after 40 years
of service in the Navy. His military career was marked by skilled
fiscal management and significant improvements in operations through
performance-based evaluations of processes.
During his time in
the Navy, he was selected as a Federal Executive Fellow and served
at the Brookings Institution. He served as a guest lecturer on
numerous occasions at the Naval War College, the Army War College,
the Air War College, The Fletcher School of Diplomacy and the
components of the National Defense University.
His Navy experience includes tours as Commanding Officer of USS
HEWITT (DD-966), Commander Naval Station Norfolk; Commander of
Cruiser-Destroyer Group Five with additional duties as Commander
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Riyadh during Operations Desert
Shield and Desert Storm, where he was in charge of Navy planning
and participation in the air campaign. As Commander U.S. Third
Fleet, he introduced joint training to the Pacific with the initiation
of the first West Coast Joint Task Force Training Exercises (JTFEXs).
A leader in the introduction
of cutting-edge information technology, he pioneered the use of
information technology to mount large-scale operations using sea-based
command and control. As assistant for strategy with the Chief
of Naval Operations Executive Panel, and Program Planning Branch
Head in the Navy Program Planning Directorate, he continued to
hone his analytic skills resulting in designation as a specialist
both in Operations Analysis and Financial Management. During his
final tour of duty, he served as deputy chief of Naval Operations
(Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments) in charge of
Navy programs and budget.
Lautenbacher lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Susan,
who is a life-long high school and middle school science teacher.
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