Rear Adm. Nevin P. Carr Jr., chief of Naval Research, addresses attendees at the 2009 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference. Carr advocated outreach to grade school, undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students in order to maintain the health of the defense science and engineering workforce. Pictured on the dais with Carr are Dr. George E. Ross, president of Alcorn State University; Dr. John S. Wilson Jr., executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency.