Whole of Government

Advancing interagency cooperation in national security

Video: Conversation with Robert Gates
W&M Chancellor Robert Gates '65, L.H.D. '98, talks about the importance of William & Mary's Whole of Government Center of Excellence Program

Guests speaking on stage at the NATO Youth Summit 2022.

William & Mary’s Whole of Government Center of Excellence (WGC) is a national security hub for the university. We train and educate a new generation of future leaders who have hands-on, practical experience working across the different organizational cultures. Through our strategic leader training certificates and programs, collaborations and convenings, and W&M degree programs, the WGC cultivates acculturation. Based on a few hundred years of history, we find that interagency cultures should be taught, understood, and harmonized by those tasked with working among and between agencies and units. With that knowledge base, our networks and students are equipped to navigate the twists, tunnels, and shortcuts during a national security emergency, strategy development and implementation, or foreign deployment whether they are a freshman, GS-5, or a Lieutenant Colonel.

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