Mission for Maritime
A Workforce Capacity Engine for MIB's 2030 Vision
Not Another Training Program - A Systems Solution Mission Driven Education Embedded into Universities, Community Colleges, and Trade Schools
✓ 10 Years Proven (H4D)
✓ Shovel-Ready
✓ Permanent Institutional Capacity
✓ Spring 2026 Launch
✓ Built to Scale
✓ Regional Ecosystem Integration
Ready to Execute Spring 2026
Common Mission Project | www.commonmission.us
The Strategic Challenge
Forging the MIB Advantage
America's maritime industrial base faces a strategic workforce crisis.
250,000 skilled workers needed by 2030 to rebuild submarine & surface ship production capacity and strengthen supply chain resilience against peer competition. Traditional education pipelines take too long. Hiring events don't build institutional capacity. The gap widens every year.
Mission for Maritime on Day 1
Institutional Capacity
Universities, community colleges, and trade schools become permanent MIB talent pipelines. Veteran educators embedded across every major hub, bringing operational expertise directly into classrooms.
Speed to Capability
Real MIB challenges solved in
10-14 week sprint cycles. Students build functional prototypes while developing maritime expertise. Advanced manufacturing innovation prototyped at university speed.
Permanent Infrastructure
500-750 veteran educators deployed. 30K-40K students trained by Year 5. Permanent workforce infrastructure feeding MIB's 250K objective.

America needs an industrial base we haven't built yet.
Mission for Maritime builds the permanent institutional infrastructure to sustain the maritime industrial base workforce for decades, rebuilding America's maritime industrial capacity into national strategic capability.
The Solution
Built on a Decade of Delivery
8,000+
Students
80
Universities
3,000
Problems Validated
Hacking for Defense (H4D): Our Foundation
100s of certified educators deployed annually. Real defense mission sets solved in 14-week cycles. Proven educator recruitment and training infrastructure. Designed for tech innovation, not workforce scale.
63,750 Stakeholder Interviews Conducted
Students engage operators, leaders, suppliers, averaging 30 interviews per problem
450 Solutions Deployed
transition to operational use immediately
$400M Follow-on Funding
raised by ventures

MISSION FOR MARITIME | Purpose-Built for MIB
What It Is
Veteran educators embedded permanently in universities, community colleges, and trade schools; training students to solve real MIB challenges while building the workforce pipeline MIB needs.
What Students Do
Engage real supply chain bottlenecks and operational problems from MIB, shipyards and suppliers. Build functional prototypes with Innovation Fund capital. Graduate MIB-ready with tangible experience.
What MIB Gets
Speed
Students solve real bottlenecks in 10-14 week sprint cycles, not 2-4 years. 150+ solutions delivered annually
Scale
30K-40K workforce trained by
Year 5 across universities, community colleges, and trade schools
Permanence
350-550 Veteran educators embedded as institutional assets, capacity continues after pilot ends
Intelligence
Strategic workforce data for MIB; skills mapping, pipeline forecasting, validated innovations
Reach
Permanent capacity built for national-scale deployment, integrating a unified national maritime workforce development network.
Shovel-ready, operational, and backed by a decade of proven delivery.
The System
A Workforce Engine That Compounds - Not a Linear Training Program

Mission for Maritime is the only workforce development engine designed as a single, integrated system - every layer compounds results for the MIB.
Train Veteran Educators
100-150 educators annually; operational credibility + technical depth
Source MIB Mission Sets
Validated challenges from MIB, shipyards and suppliers
Deploy at Institutions
Universities, community colleges, trade schools
Students Solve Real MIB Mission Sets
100 per educator annually at full capacity, 30-40K by Year 5
Deliver Prototypes & Workforce
MIB-ready workforce + supplier solutions + manufacturing innovation
Scale & Reinforce
Regional integration; institutional capacity multiplies
Each cycle builds momentum and mass.
This is systems infrastructure, built for durability and permanent institutional capacity.
The Logic
Powering National Scale

Students don't just learn, they mobilize an ecosystem: veteran educators, mission sponsors from shipyards and suppliers, industry mentors, operators and engineers interviewed for validation.
For every 100 students trained, 500-700 stakeholders are actively engaged solving real MIB challenges together.

This is why the system compounds.

One Classroom at Full Capacity
Mission for Maritime creates a self-reinforcing ecosystem
Problems solved in 10-14 weeks → Sponsors bring more challenges and invest in continuation
Institutions see outcomes → Universities make educator positions permanent
Regions prove success → Other regions adopt and scale faster

Year-by-Year Potential
This compounding capacity - workforce + solutions + strategic intelligence - directly addresses MIB's 250K objective through permanent institutional infrastructure.
Real Impact
14 Weeks to Prototype
MODULAR SWARM UNDERSEA PAYLOAD
One-to-Many Deterrence in the Undersea Fight
The Challenge
Submarine officers held fire not because threats were unclear, but because each MK 48 torpedo cost $3M+. Reload times took hours. Single-shot targeting. Command decisions paralyzed by scarcity.
The Team: Stanford | 5 students (Navy EOD veteran + engineering students)
The Approach
142 interviews with submarine captains, weapons officers, acquisition leads. Physical prototype built and tested with hardware-in-the-loop simulation.

The Solution
Modular swarm payload deployable from subs, surface ships, drones, or UUVs. Presented to NAVSEA and ONR senior leadership. Now under consideration for wargaming and SBIR funding.
The Innovation Fund
MIB Gets Solutions, Not Just Students: CMP's Innovation Fund enables students to build functional prototypes, not write papers. MIB receives validated solutions across Workforce Development, Supplier Development, and Advanced Manufacturing without R&D overhead. This capital support is already proven and delivering adoption-ready outcomes.
The Build
Mission for Maritime Platform Architecture
A workforce capacity engine with intelligence infrastructure that generates strategic data for the MIB.
The Strategic Data Asset
Talent Intelligence
  • Skills mapping by region and technical capability.
  • Career trajectory tracking: where MIB-trained students go, retention rates by employer, role, region.
  • Pipeline forecasting: welders, machinists, engineers entering the workforce over 18-month horizons.
Innovation Intelligence
  • 1,000+ student prototypes addressing real supplier bottlenecks; documented, tested, evaluated.
  • Technology adoption patterns.
  • R&D velocity benchmarks.
Institutional Intelligence
  • University performance rankings.
  • Educator effectiveness metrics.
  • Curriculum components correlated with job placement and retention.
Regional Intelligence
  • Institutional capacity mapping across all MIB hubs.
  • Pipeline depth analysis.
  • Workforce readiness data for strategic planning.
The Multiplier
Veteran Educators Are Institutional Assets

Building Permanent Capacity in 5 Years
350-550
Veteran Educators
30K-40K
Workforce Trained
What They Bring
Operational credibility traditional faculty can't match.
Direct military-to-MIB career pathways.
Mission fluency that accelerates student learning.
How They Multiply
Each educator trains ~100 students per academic year at full capacity. Each becomes a permanent institutional asset. Educators train the next cohort, compounding capacity year over year.
The Force Multiplier: Veterans Leverage the Infrastructure
  • Proprietary curriculum continuously updated as mission sets evolve
  • LMS with all course materials, student tracking, and mission set coordination
  • Innovation Fund management system with stakeholder interview data and outcomes tracking
  • Educator Dashboard showing real-time student performance
  • Peer network of 500+ educators sharing best practices across regions
Permanent infrastructure that continues delivering without continuous rebuilding.
The Differentiator
Every Stakeholder Gets Immediate Value
Most workforce programs fail because they're one-directional:
train people → send them to employers → hope they stay → repeat next year
Mission for Maritime creates a self-reinforcing ecosystem
MIB Leadership & Shipyards
Get operational problems solved and functional prototypes delivered in 10-14 weeks. Get
MIB-ready graduates with proven project experience. Get strategic workforce intelligence.
Students
Get hands-on experience solving real MIB challenges. Build functional prototypes with Innovation Fund capital. Graduate with tangible project portfolios and direct pathways to MIB careers.
Institutions
Get demonstrable workforce outcomes and employer validation. Get veteran educators as permanent faculty assets. Get institutional capacity that justifies continued investment and program expansion.
Veteran Educators
Get meaningful employment anchored to institutions. Get operational relevance teaching mission-critical challenges. Get ongoing professional development and peer network support.
Industry
See dual-use commercial potential in student prototypes. Get early visibility into innovations addressing maritime & defense challenges.
When everyone gets tangible value in one semester, everyone reinvests in the next cycle.
The Pilot Deployment
Shovel-Ready Options | Spring 2026
Unit Economics: First institution type $200-225K | Additional subsequent semesters $100K | Costs decrease with scale
The Partnership & Timeline
Ready to Execute
MIB provides strategic leverage
Mission context. Sponsor access. Regional connections. Career pathways.
Common Mission provides full execution
Curriculum. Infrastructure. Ecosystem Development. Innovation Fund. Training. Operations. Measurement.
Timeline to National Scale
Mobilize | SEPT-NOV 2025
Choose tier, authorize kickoff. CMP recruits ecosystem, builds infrastructure.
NOV-DEC 2025 | Intensive Preparation
CMP trains ecosystem for pilot launch. Student teams formed. Universities selected, Mission sponsors & mission sets sourced.
Spring Pilot Launch | JAN-MAY 2026
Pilot execution. Student teams solve problems, build prototypes. CMP manages operations, captures data. Platforms tested and refined.
MAY 2026 | Strategic Review
Review pilot results and strategic intelligence.
Expand Reach | FALL 2026-2030
Expand to community colleges, trade schools. Deploy educator cohorts. Build permanent infrastructure.
By 2030 | Sustain Capability
Continuous MIB-ready talent pipeline addressing 250K workforce gap
Shared ownership. Permanent infrastructure. Compounding into national strategic capability.
Mission for Maritime
A Workforce Capacity Engine for MIB's 2030 Vision
Ready to Execute by Spring 2026 for Shared Partnership, Permanent Capacity, and National Strategic Capability.
Common Mission Project | www.commonmission.us