Celebrating a Uniquely Dynamic Year: SAME’s 2023 Annual Report

Welcome to SAME’s Annual Report for 2023. This look back at 2023 celebrates the accomplishments, milestones, and memories from this uniquely dynamic year.

As a nonprofit association, the Society is required to issue a report each year that, at minimum, publishes our financial summary and membership statistics. However, the minimum is not enough for us. As you’ll read in the introduction letter by Maj. Gen. Mike Wehr, USA (Ret.), SAME Executive Director, we want to “hunt the good stuff”—and that means sharing what makes SAME such a truly special organization: not just the numbers, but the story behind those numbers—the people and the experiences we remember.

This year’s Annual Report is jam-packed with the good stuff. You’ll read about Posts and Regions that broke new records with industry days. You’ll hear about the SAME Foundation’s first corporate partnership to support SAME’s Leader Development Program and other leadership and STEM initiatives. You’ll relive the inaugural IGE Summit at the 2023 Capital Week and its impact in helping establish a new Construction COI. You’ll see efforts big and small to continue driving industry-government engagement and develop the human capital that our engineering community needs. Above all, you’ll see a tapestry of individuals, from all manner of backgrounds and technical disciplines, coming together to deliver solutions for the nation.