The 2017 National Naval Officers Association (NNOA) Professional Development and Training Symposium is scheduled to be held at the Admiral Kidd Conference Center on Point Loma Naval Base in San Diego, July 26-27.

NNOA's mission is to enhance sea service operational readiness by providing professional development, mentoring and recruiting support in an effort to achieve a diverse officer corps that reflects the demographics of the nation.

This year's symposium theme is "Developing Leaders through Education, Experience and Personal Development."

Symposium approval has been authorized for Navy Total Force participation.

Navy will sponsor registrations for 40 personnel (10 local and 30 non-local). Funding for attendees' travel must be covered by individual commands if approved for non-local attendee. Travel costs shall not exceed $2,500 per attendee. Commands outside of the 30 approved non-local attendees shall not fund registrations and are not authorized to fund lodging, transportation, meals and incidental expenses.

Lunches and breakfast (on July 27) will be provided for those in attendance. Non-provided meals must be purchased by the attendee. The uniform will be summer whites for Navy personnel.

For more information visit the NNOA website at http://www.nnoa.org/conference-portal-2017 or contact NNOA's Navy Service Affiliate Cmdr. Michael Files at michael.files@navy.mil or (703) 588-0496.

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