Danville, Va. – The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) and Danville Community College (DCC), in partnership with The SPECTRUM Group and Phillips Corp., directly engaged with shipbuilders and shipbuilding industry suppliers to develop a focused curriculum centered on the specific skilled workforce needs of the defense advanced manufacturing industry. This curriculum is the…
Danville, Va. – The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), a client of The SPECTRUM Group, announced Tuesday, December 23 that it has broken ground on a $25.5 million, 51,250-square-foot manufacturing center on its Danville campus. When completed, the Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA) will offer space for manufacturing companies establishing or expanding their…
Danville, Virginia – “Team Danville”, a public-private consortium led by the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) and including Danville Community College (DCC), Phillips Corporation, and The SPECTRUM Group, has won a $1.78M contract for a workforce development pilot project. The pilot project, Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing (ATDM), is a new and innovative…
Washington, D.C. – A robust team representing all branches of the military and all of The SPECTRUM Group’s Centers of Excellence will attend the AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition taking place October 14-16 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. In addition to the strategic consulting services with which we have supported our clients for…
Annapolis, Maryland – In the July 2019 edition of Proceedings, the publication of the U.S. Naval Institute (USNI), RADM Jim Hinkle, USN (Ret.) shared some thoughts and insights into Navy leadership and operations in a piece titled “Thoughts from a 30-Year Career”. The piece includes observations on promotion and selection boards, Naval organization structure and…
May 8, 2019 – RDML Kent Whalen, USN, Ret., a member of The SPECTRUM Group’s Navy Team, is the author of “The Navy Needs Better Weapons“, a feature in the May 2019 issue of Proceedings, the U.S. Naval Institute’s monthly publication. In the article, Admiral Whalen discusses the urgent need for the U.S. Navy to…
June 8, 2018 – The SPECTRUM Group Navy Team member VADM Lou Crenshaw, USN, Ret. authored an op-ed for American Military News highlighting the risks of eliminating funding to purchase Tomahawk missiles. The Department of Defense budget request for 2019 does not include funding to purchase Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs). “Fortunately,” writes Crenshaw, “Congress…
Washington, D.C. — The Navy League’s National Capital Council presented its annual Sea Service Award to Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., for his leadership on sea service matters in 2016 during a May 10 ceremony at the Russell Senate Office Building. Reed is the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, a member of the…
ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) was recognized as a leading congressional naval strategist during a Dec. 7 ceremony at the Army Navy Country Club before an audience of national and maritime security experts and sea service leaders. Forbes, the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee,…