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HONOLULU – Senior U.S. Department of Defense military and civilian leaders from across the services and agencies joined together for the 2012 Pacific Operational Science and Technology Conference and Exhibition March 19-23 in Honolulu. The conference focus is to strengthen relations between the S&T officials from the United States and its international partners to gain a better perspective on the Asia-Pacific region.
“Without this great relationship we have in the Pacific, with our partner nations and our allies we couldn’t do a lot of the things that we are required to do, as we look at providing better security for the whole region,” said Lt. Gen. Thomas L. Conant, U.S. Pacific Command deputy commander.
U.S. Pacific Command’s (USPACOM) area of responsibility is full of challenging issues where better technology can help improve medical care, regional defense, cyber security, power and energy, communications and maritime security.
Conant challenged the S&T professionals attending the conference to be innovative while producing reliable, inexpensive technology solutions to help aid the ability of the United States and international partners to respond to all threats, contingencies and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts.
“With the global environment, global warming and the lack of resources, we now have an environment were we need sit down and work together,” Maj. Gen. Carlos B. Holganza, Armed Forces of the Philippines National Development Support Command commander, said. “With the recent developments of floods and earthquakes, we see that there is a real need for us to get together for the general benefit of humanity and that is where S&T has to work.”
“It isn’t always about weapons, it isn’t always about fighting the fight - 80 to 90 percent of our work out here [in the Pacific] is in some form of partnering with our allies and it could be in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief,” Conant said. “If you in the S&T world can think about ways to make things more compact or lighter and improve the ability to get the equipment out there to help in the most basic of human needs, would be tremendous.”
In addition to an increased need for better technology in regard to humanitarian relief, there is an increasing emphasis on improving science and technology for security in the Pacific region because of suspected terrorist activity and the instability of North Korea.
“We have a lot of critical capabilities that we are working within the U.S. Forces Korea, and as a critical partner for USPACOM we’re here to see what S&T can bring to us to help solve some of our challenges,” Brig. Gen. Charles Taylor 2nd Infantry Division deputy commanding general for maneuvers, said. “We always have to be ready for the future and we can’t rest on the systems that we have, so we’re constantly evolving and maturing based on those threats [in Korea]. S&T helps us to truly continue to lead the way and work with our coalition partners every step of the way.”
| Date Taken: | 03.20.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 03.21.2012 16:14 |
| Story ID: | 85560 |
| Location: | HONOLULU, HI, US |
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