Foggo Keynote Speaker @ TPP Dinner

Retired US Navy ADM James Foggo III, dean of the Center for Maritime Strategy, will be the keynote speaker for The Patuxent Partnership Annual Dinner. The dinner will be held from 5:30 to 9pm June 2, 2026, in Historic St. Mary’s City.

ADM Foggo is a 1981 graduate of the US Naval Academy. He is also an Olmsted Scholar and Moreau Scholar, earning a Master of Public Administration at Harvard University and a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies in Defense and Strategic Studies from the University of Strasbourg, France.

He commanded the attack submarine USS Oklahoma City in 1998, which was awarded the Submarine Squadron 8 Battle Efficiency “E” award and the Admiral Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy, for being the most improved ship in the Atlantic Fleet.

Following command of USS Oklahoma City, he would go on to command eight more times to include: Submarine Squadron 6 in Norfolk, Virginia; Submarine Group 8; Allied Submarines South; the US 6th Fleet; Allied Striking and Support Forces NATO; Naval Forces Europe; Naval Forces Africa; and Allied Joint Forces Command (NATO), all headquartered in Naples, Italy.

During these command tours, he participated in combat operations as the Operations Officer for Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn (Libya) in 2011 and Commander Naval Forces Europe for strike operations against Syrian chemical weapons sites in April 2018.

Throughout his career, ADM Foggo has been a champion of the Navy as an extended arm of diplomacy. He maintained close relationships with the US ambassadors in his area of responsibility from Europe to Africa and into the Middle East. He sponsored numerous regional ambassadors conferences at his headquarters in Naples to address security challenges in the Balkans, Mediterranean, and the Black Sea regions.

Throughout 2021, he taught a seminar at the Foreign Service Institute on civil-military relations for rising foreign service officers.

In November 2021, ADM Foggo was named to the American Academy of Diplomacy as one of a handful of retired flag officers who serve alongside more than 200 retired ambassadors with the common goal of enhancing American diplomacy around the globe.

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The event is for TPP members only.

The Patuxent Partnership thanks the dinner sponsors:

Diamond: Northrop Grumman
Platinum: MIL Corp, Precise Systems, KBR, Castellum
Gold: NSI, American Systems, Synectic Solutions,
Sabre Systems, i3 Corps
Silver: Lockheed Martin, Coras.ai, Sierra Management, Perrygo Consulting, DCS Corp.

The Patuxent Partnership is a nonprofit member organization that fosters collaboration between government, industry, and academia to advance education through STEM-based initiatives; to advance technology through speaker programs, forums, and networking; to advance science and technology transfer through the exchange of ideas, information, and data related to technologies; and to increase workforce development through an array of initiatives.

To learn more about The Patuxent Partnership and its programs, visit its Leader member page.