National Defense Industrial Association San Diego Chapter

Virginia Bayer 2018 Nominee for the Veterans Museum Volunteer Veteran of the Year bu NDIA San Diego Chapter BOD.

NDIA was a proud sponsor at the Enlisted Awards Luncheon, a day at Sea World, VIP Reception, and for STEM at the Innovation Zone / Broadway Pier for four days. We were one of the busiest exhibit booth spreading the word on NDIA STEM Outreach, including Robotics, Cybersecurity and Engineering. I would like to thank the Robotic Teams and Volunteers for your support of the 2018 Fleet Week Qualcomm Innovation Zone. It was extremely well received by all visitors including the over 2,000 school children who attended on Thursday 25 October. Volunteers include:Kimberly Davis, Iovanka Todt, Raymond Moberly, Lillian Maestas. And Robotic Teams included: SPAWAR First Lego League, Spyder 1622, Team Optix 3749, Team Inspiration, FTC 4216 Rise of Hephaestus, Cerulean Centaurs, Green Griffins, and W.A.R. Lords Team 2485.

The San Diego Chapter National Defense Industrial Association has been an active Chapter with organizational roots that date back to WW-I through the American Defense Preparedness Association. Primary efforts of the Chapter are to promote cooperative dialog between government and the defense industry. The San Diego chapter is one of the largest and most active, hence most influential, chapters in the nation. It has been selected as a model chapter since the inception of the... award and its members hold 3 national NDIA Board positions. The success of our chapter and every activity that benefits our members is the product of talented volunteers who make service to the defense industry community one of their professional development goals. Please join us! http://www.ndia-sd.org/about-ndia-san-diego/

Navy Fleet Week Oct 13-Oct15 : Thank you to all the Volunteers (Dan Solan, Ken Garber, Tom Leech, Lou Kelly, Raymond Moberly, Laurel Goodman, Iovanka Todt, and Terry McKearney) for participating in the NDIA Sponsored event at Navy Fleet Week. NDIA showcased several Robotic Teams within the STEM Innovation Zone at Fleet Week (Holy Cows, Olympic View Eagle Eye Engineers, Poway Team Spyder, SDA Team Paradox, Rise of Hephaestus,Team Inspiration, and Hammerheads) Thanks Teams you always draw a crowd!

And the 2015-2016 Mayor's Cyber Cup Winner is: Westview High School Rancho Bernardo is the winner of the annual San Diego Mayor’s Cyber Cup, a competition aimed at teaching students about cyber security. The competition, which was held last Saturday, included more than 71 schools and 125 teams. The goal of the competition is to encourage students to learn more about computer security, provide an educational venue in which students are able to apply the theories and practical ...skills they have learned, and foster a spirit of teamwork, ethical behavior, and effective communication both within and across teams, according to organizers. The 2016 top winners of the Mayor’s Cyber Cup are: 1st place Westview High School 2nd place Ramona High School 3rd place Oak Valley Middle School 4th place La Jolla Country Day 5th place East Lake High School 6th place Grossmont High School 7th place Robert Kennedy Community School 8th place Fremont High School 9th place East Lake Middle School 10th place Castle Park High School Westview High School received $4,500.00, while Ramona High School received $3,000.00. The third place school, Oak Valley Middle School, received $2,300.00. Thanks to the following Sponsors this event was made possible! AFCEA San Diego Education Foundation AgilisIT American Systems Corporation Andrew Lee Atkins Beyond Ordinary Software BridgePoint Colsa Corporation Computers 2 SD Kids Cubic Corporation Dead Mail Drop DTI ESET June Chocheles Knowledge Made Solutions La Jolla Logic Leidos National University NDIA San Diego Chapter Northrop Grumman SAIC San Diego Supercomputer Center Scientific Research Corporation Securing Our eCITY SDG&E Spawar System Center-Pacific (mentoring) TechFlow The Ranger Group The Worden's Pictures include: Mayor Faulconer presenting the Mayor's Cyber Cup to Westview High School.

Cyber Cup Mentor & Coach Training is available via GoToTraining The standing schedule is Monday and Wednesday at 7pm PST. Sessions will be done on Go To Training and will be recorded. Videos will be publicly available on YouTube. ... Training Schedule 1 Intro to the Competition 12/7/15 2 Intro to the CyberNexs System 12/9/15 7pm 3 Organizing your team 12/14/15 6pm 4 Computer and Network basics 12/16/15 7PM 5 Cyber Security Fundamentals 12/21/15 7PM 6 Basic Windows Security 12/28/15 7PM 7 Intro to Linux 1/4/16 7PM 8 Linux Security 1/6/16 7PM 9 Forensics 1/11/16 7PM 10 Advanced Windows 1/13/16 7PM 11 Using Remote Systems 1/18/16 7PM 12 Advanced Linux 1/20/16 7PM 13 Encryption 1/25/16 7PM 14 Incident Response 1/27/16 7PM 15 Advanced Defense 2/1/16 7PM 16 Final Round Preparation 3/9/16 7PM Links to prior sessions on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMBqtxHMuRsMJ7LgMOON8xg Please contact Lillian Maestas if you want to Mentor or Coach a Team 619-708-1180 or [email protected]

NDIA at 2019 Fleet Week Recap NDIA was a Bronze Sponsor at Fleet Week San Diego in November 2019 NDIA had one of the busiest exhibit booth spreading the word on NDIA STEM Outreach, including Robotics, Cybersecurity and Engineering at the STEM Innovation Zone / Broadway Pier for three days Nov 7, 8, and 9.... The NDIA exhibit booth was well represented by industry/members and local robotic teams. Your participation and demonstrating STEM technologies such as Unmanned vehicles, Network test and monitoring equipment, Cyber Security, Space Exploration, and the awesome ROBOTS contributed to making this a memorable event for the many Students, Parents and Military that attended. THANK YOU to Del Rey Systems, Faster Logic, Spirent, Porpoise Robotics, AFA Chapter 118 with Cyber Patriot and StellarXplorers, Tracc, Op Analytics, Levitzacks, Eaton, Serco, and the Robotic Teams (Fast and Curious, Team Inspiration, Team Spyder, Mechanical Advantage, Rise of Hephaestus, Alpacas) It was a pleasure working with you all and sincerely appreciate your time, energy, and commitment to NDIA supporting Fleet Week San Diego!

2019 Robotics at Navy Gold Coast Gold Coast 2019 was another successful event for NDIA SD Chapter STEM Committee and their Robotic Demonstration at Gold Coast. Located at the San Diego Convention Center Downtown, the kids and their robots took up a large section of the exhibit hall for their demonstration and once again both Industry and Government spent a good amount of time in the robotics section meeting with the students and their robots. Vice Admiral Michael T. Moran, Pr...incipal Military Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition), and Mr. Jimmy Smith, Director, DON Office of Small Business Programs met with the students and their robots. The Teams were invited to attend the Gold Coast luncheon and speaker presentations which they thoroughly enjoyed. The students were sat with Industry and Government attendees for lunch to foster conversations with the students about careers in STEM and how robotics is a growing field in both industry and the Department of Defense. Robotic Teams in attendance included; FIRST Team Paradox led by Natalie Negulescu, Rise of Hephaestus led by Tom Bosworth, Inspiration team FTC11128 led by Alex Szeto, Rebuildion led by Chunyan Lin, Team 1622 FIRST Ceramics/Team Spyder led by Todd Parr, and Green Griffins / Cerulean Centaurs led by Stacey Ganzer. Special thanks to Mike Parente, Gold Coast Chair and Jim Lasswell, NDIA Small Business Chair for opening up the Gold Coast Small Business Procurement Event to the Robotic Teams and to Lillian Maestas, NDIA STEM Chair for coordination. If your Robotics Team would like to demonstrate at 2020 Navy Gold Coast August 31 September 02, 2020, please contact Lillian Maestas at [email protected]

Once again NDIA San Diego Chapter was a Titanium Sponsor for the 2019 San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering at PETCO Park and once again the NDIA Exhibit booth was was a beehive of activity. Even the rain didn’t dampen the crowd at the NDIA booth! Over 17,000 attended! Students learned about Robotics, Drones, Electronics, and Cyber Security. In addition the volunteers asked the kids thought provoking questions about their school, education and career desires. The follow...ing Organizations and Volunteers participated with NDIA: Robotics Team Inspiration (FTC) & Fast and Curious (FLL) Ryan Odegard Taft Middle School Match Teacher Morgan Buell Software Engineering Student at Cal State San Marcos Kimberly Davis, David Cochran EXTSI Douglas Fenner Fenner Consulting Group Terry and Gloria McKearney The Ranger Group Thank you all for making the DAY a resounding success.Your participation, imagination, and talking with the Students and Parents helped to deliver another outstanding and memorable day of hands-on, interactive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) activities. You helped awaken a greater interest in STEM and STEM education for many students across all socio-economic backgrounds. It has been a pleasure working with you and sincerely appreciate your time, energy, and commitment to NDIA supporting the San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering! Lillian Maestas NDIA San Diego Chapter STEM Chair

Scripps Ranch Byte Sized Falcons, the 1st place Varsity Team from the SoCal Cyber Cup Challenge, was selected by San Diego Mayor Faulconer for the Mayor's Cyber Cup recognition for their contribution in Cyber Security in San Diego.