President Obama's Top Naval Advisor to Speak at Carnegie Mellon

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary
Roughead, the principal naval advisor to President Barack Obama, Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, will speak at
Carnegie Mellon University about "America's Global Navy: In the Middle East
and Beyond." Admiral Roughead is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
leads the U.S. Navy's more than 600,000 globally deployed sailors and
civilians. During his lecture, Roughead will address the challenges the Navy
faces while the U.S. is involved in two Middle East wars and President Obama
reassesses his Afghanistan and Pakistan policy.

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Roughead is a 1973 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and became the 29th
Chief of Naval Operations in September 2007. During his storied career, he
commanded various fleets as a flag officer, including the Cruiser Destroyer
Group 2, the George Washington Battle Group and the U.S. Second Fleet/NATO
Striking Fleet Atlantic. Ashore, he served as commandant of the U.S. Naval
Academy, the Department of the Navy's Chief of Legislative Affairs, and as
deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Command. Roughead is one of only two
officers to have commanded fleets in the Pacific and Atlantic, commanding the
U.S. Pacific Fleet and Joint Task Force 519, as well as commanding the U.S.
Fleet Forces.

Admiral Roughead's lecture is part of the Carnegie Mellon International
Relations and Politics Program's Speaker Series and is co-sponsored by the
university's College of Engineering and Heinz College. For more information,
please visit http://www.cmu.edu/uls/october/roughead.html.

When: Noon, Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Where: Hamburg Hall 100, Carnegie Mellon University
Media: You must register to attend; seating is limited. Please RSVP to Shilo
Raube at sraube@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-6094.

About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon (www.cmu.edu) is a private,
internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from
science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the
fine arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and
colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education
characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real
problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university,
Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It
has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia,
Australia and Europe. The university is in the midst of a $1 billion
fundraising campaign, titled "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie
Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty,
students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with
equipment and facility improvements.

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Shilo Raube of Carnegie Mellon, +1-412-268-6094, sraube@andrew.cmu.edu