Our Mission
To lead collaboration in support of our national security priorities through advancing three strategic goals: Drive Partnerships, Deliver Solutions, and Develop People.
2025-2026 Leader Development Class Announced
Congratulations to the 20 newly selected members of the 2025-2026 Leader Development Program (LDP), which will begin their year-long professional development training this May at the 2025 Joint Engineer Training Conference & Expo in Louisville, Ky.
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2030 SAME Strategic Plan
The Journey to 2030
The needs to secure our nation are always changing. As time rolls on, old challenges fade and new ones appear…through it all SAME’s enduring purpose is to enhance readiness.
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Program Spotlight
Leader Development Program
Established in 2019, SAME’s Leader Development Program serves to identify and cultivate talent from within the Society to develop leaders for the future of the A/E/C profession and to address the nation’s grand challenges. Participants explore individual strengths and team dynamics as they build leadership experience alongside their peers in a true joint environment. Since its inception, about half of program participants have come from the uniformed services; the other half represent SAME member companies.
Securing America’s Future, Together — Join Us!
SAME provides its more than 25,000 members from across military, government, industry, and academia with extensive opportunities for education, training, and networking through a robust offering of conferences, workshops, community events, publications, webinars, leader development, STEM outreach, and other member-driven programs.
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Young Professionals Community
The mission of the Young Professionals Community of Interest is to be an advocate for and engage young professionals support for SAME’s Strategic Plan through outreach, training, networking and recognition.
SAME History
Founded in 1920, the Society of American Military Engineers sought to ensure the lessons of WWI would be remembered in order to ensure that America’s entire engineering community would be prepared for the next conflict, and have the needed trust and understanding to best serve our national security.
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Strengthening Industry-Government Engagement
As the cornerstone on which the Society was founded in 1920, industry-government engagement remains “mission-essential” for the organization a century later, as the first goal of the 2025 SAME Strategic Plan. In 2021, SAME initiated a new process to evaluate and execute national-level IGE projects in order to ensure we deliver impact and maximize the use of available resources
SAME Foundation: Fostering Engineering Leadership for the Nation
Established in 2016, the SAME Foundation is committed to investing in programs that will have an enduring impact on developing engineering leaders for our nation. America’s future is bright. Let’s help make it brighter!
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2023 SAME Foundation Donor Impact Report
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