DIU H4D ADVANCED EDUCATORS · AY 2026-27
The Advanced H4D
Educator Forum
Built for advanced educators: co-facilitate instruction for newer instructors, then convene privately to advance independent problem sourcing capabilities.
EVENT DATES
June 23-24, 2026
LOCATION
National Capital Region
FORMAT
1.5 Day Intensive
TRAVEL
Funding Available
THE FORUM EXPLAINED
Advanced Educators delivering
national security innovation.
JUNE 23
Co-facilitation of the Educator Forum
Mentor and co-facilitate sessions alongside Dr. Jeff Decker and Maria Tranquilli, helping shape how newer educators step into H4D for AY26-27.
JUNE 24
Advanced Educator Forum
A dedicated working forum for Advanced Educators focused on independent problem sourcing: building and sustaining your own DoW and national security problem pipelines, sponsor relationships, and sourcing infrastructure at the university level.
Attendance across both days is required. Travel funding support is available to you and your teaching team.
LOGISTICS
Everything you need to know.
DATES
June 23-24, 2026
LOCATION
National Capital Region, Fly into DCA
FORMAT
Interactive workshops, peer learning & national security engagement
COST
Free and fully sponsored. Let us know during registration if you need travel funding support
TRAVEL
Attendees arrange flights, lodging & local transport. Lunch provided. Fly into DCA
PREPARATION
Detailed agenda and read-ahead materials shared in advance
INAUGURAL PROBLEM SOURCING COHORT
Source your
own problems.
Source your own problems. A half-day training on June 24, 2026 for Advanced Educators on building, qualifying, and sustaining independent DoW problem pipelines at the university level.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The H4D problems your students work are only as good as the pipeline behind them. For Advanced Educators, the next ceiling on program quality, sponsor depth, and student outcomes is sourcing: your ability to find, qualify, and steward the right problems independently of any central feed.
This day treats sourcing as a long-term institutional capability. The relationships, practices, and infrastructure that live at your university and get stronger every year. Where DoW problems originate, and how to move through that terrain deliberately. How to qualify a problem before the syllabus is set. How to build the scaffolding (clearance, contracts, IRB, faculty lines, internal advocates) that makes the work repeatable. How to build sponsor relationships that hold instead of contact lists that decay.
You leave with a draft playbook, a 90-day action plan for AY26-27, and a cohort committed to holding you to it through the virtual follow-on sequence. Next year, and the year after that, the problems coming into your classroom are the ones the country actually needs solved.
REQUIRED VIRTUAL SESSIONS
Two sessions precede
the in-person forum.
MAY 20, 2026 · VIRTUAL
The Evolving H4D Program
What's New and What's Changing for AY26-27. Overview of the new program structure, targeted support model, and opportunities for the coming academic year.
JUNE 10, 2026· VIRTUAL
Student Recruitment Roundtable
Working roundtable on building strong student cohorts. Come prepared to share the recruitment materials you currently use - flyers, applications, syllabi excerpts, info session decks, social posts, anything else.
FORM
Register here.
By invitation only, RSVP by June 5, 2026; includes both registration and travel funding requests.