Our Mission
To lead collaboration in support of our national security priorities through advancing three interrelated strategic goals: Drive Partnerships, Deliver Solutions, and Develop People.
SAME Foundation Soaring Eagle Awards Dinner & Gala
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 6:00–9:00 PM
We are honored to celebrate Terri Mestas, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Sound Transit, as the inaugural recipient of the SAME Foundation’s Soaring Eagle Award. Terri’s transformational leadership, courage, and unwavering commitment to service embody the highest ideals of SAME’s mission.
Position your organization for what’s next—shape your strategy with emerging priorities, strengthen key relationships, and uncover new opportunities across the federal marketplace.
Read her full bio hereSAME is, in my mind, the premier opportunity to engage with industry. And I think right now, more than ever, engagement with industry is vitally important. Everything we do is in partnership with industry.
Rear Adm. Dean VanderLey, P.E., US (Ret.), HDR Inc., Formerly, NAVFAC Commander and Chief of Civil Engineers (2022-2025)
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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 Council
The mission of the Young Professionals Council is to be an advocate for and engage young professionals support for SAME’s Strategic Plan through outreach, training, networking and recognition.
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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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 2030 SAME Strategic Plan. In 2021, SAME also initiated a process to execute national-level IGE projects to ensure we deliver impact and maximize the use of available resources.
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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