Speakers
Advancing EMS Superiority Through Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
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Keynote & Spotlight Speakers

The Honorable Carlos Del Toro
United States Secretary of the Navy

Rear Admiral Stephen D. Donald, USN
Deputy Commander, Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber (Navy) TENTH Fleet

Col (Ret.) Jeffrey Fischer, USAF
Author and Journalist in International Security

Lieutenant General Matthew G. Glavy, USMC
Deputy Commandant for Information

Captain Iaroslav Kalinin
Chief Executive Officer, Infozahyst LLC/Ukraine Army Reserves

Vice Admiral Stephen T. "Web" Koehler, USN
Director for Strategy, Plans and Policy, J5, Joint Staff/Senior Member, Navy, United States Delegation to the United Nations Military Staff

Major General Borys Kremenetskyi
UKR-Air Force & Defense Attache, Embassy of Ukraine to the USA

Lieutenant General (Ret) Lance Landrum
Former 23rd Deputy Chair of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee

Vice Admiral Francis Morley, USN
Principal Military Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition)
Breakout Session Speakers

Mr. Jair Aguirre
Senior Information Scientist/Professor, RAND Corporation/Pardee RAND Graduate School

Mr. Erik Bamford
International Director, Association of Old Crows

Ms. Elizabeth Bledsoe
Army Product Manager, Electronic Warfare Integration (EWI)

COL Gary Brock
Army Capabilities Manager, Electronic Warfare

RDML Susan BryerJoyner
Deputy Director, Command, Control, Communications, and Computer/ Cyber Systems, J-6, Joint Staff

Col Tamara Campbell, USMC
Program Manager, PMA-272, Advanced Tactical Aircraft Protection Systems, PEO(T)/ NAVAIR

Mr. Josh Chavez
Product Manager, HawkEye 360

Mr. Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Air Commodore Blythe Crawford
Commandant, UK Air & Space Warfare Centre (ASWC)

CAPT Dwight Cousins, USN(Ret.)
President, Alaire Technologies, Inc.

Ms. Susan J. DeGuzman
SES, Director, Airworthiness and CYBERSAFE Office (ACO), US Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)

Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret)
former Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Headquarters, U.S. Air Force (HAF/A2) and current Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Mr. Michael DiMeo
Lead Systems Engineer for Space and Airborne Systems, L3Harris

Mr. Jason Dirner
MOSA Chief Engineer, MOSA Management Office, Engineering & Systems Integration (ESI) Directorate, US Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center

Mr. Michael Dostie
Chief Engineer, AFLCMC/WNY

Mr. Bret Eddinger
U.S. Army

Col (Ret) Mendy Erad
Israeli Defense Forces

Mr. Benjamin Esposito
Senior Principal Engineer, Radar/EW Systems Architect, Intel Programmable Solutions Group

Mr. Bill Flynn
Director Cryptographic, Electronic and Cyber Warfare, OPNAV N2N6W

Mr. Nick Freije, SES
Assistant Chief Engineer for Mission Architecture, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR)

Ms. Lisa Fruge-Cirilli
AOC Past President

Mr. Tim Fountain
Global Market Segment Manager, RADAR & EW Aerospace & Defense Market Segment, Rohde & Schwarz

Maj Gen David Gaedecke (USAF, Ret)
Former Vice Commander, Sixteenth Air Force

Mr. Zachary George
International Market Development Manager, CRFS Ltd.

Mr. "Mark "Ernie" Gombo
Director, Mission Specialist | Defense Business Unit (DBU), Microsoft

Dr. Karen Haigh
Cognitive Electronic Warfare Consultant, TRMC

Dr. Nathan Hansen
CEO, Conductive Group / Electromagnetic Security Consortium

Dr. Chase Harrison
Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Col Leslie Hauck
Director, EMS Superiority Directorate, HAF A2/6L

Mr. Daniel Hettema
Director, Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation (DEM&S) for OUSD (R&E)

Mr. Dustan Hellwig
Founder/Chief Strategy Officer at CTI

Dr. Nathaniel Husted
Chief Scientist, Cyber and EW Technology, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division

Col Tomohiko KAKUTA Chief
Advanced Technology Application Section, 2nd Force Structuring Division (Space & Cyber), Defense Planning and Policy Department, Air Staff Office, Japan Ministry of Defense

Mr. Dustan Hellwig
Founder/Chief Strategy Officer at CTI

Dr. Nathaniel Husted
Chief Scientist, Cyber and EW Technology, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division

Col Tomohiko KAKUTA Chief
Advanced Technology Application Section, 2nd Force Structuring Division (Space & Cyber), Defense Planning and Policy Department, Air Staff Office, Japan Ministry of Defense

Mr. Jeff "Squeel" Kawada
EW Operations/Portfolio Analyst, OUSD (A&S), SPA Inc.

Col Josh Koslov
Commander, 350th SWW

Dr. Keith A. Krapels, SES
Director, Space and Missile Defense Technical Center, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Dr. Scott Kuzdeba
Chief Scientist, BAE Systems

Mr. Kevin Laughlin
(Acting) PEO Spectrum, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

Dr. Chiho Lee
Principal Researcher, Agency for Defense Development (ADD) South Korea

Mr. Eric Lentz
EW / RF / ML Systems Engineering, Expedition Technology

Lt Col Marc Lewis
SML, AFLCMC/WNY System Program Office

Dr. Rafael Licursi
Senior RF Antenna Research Engineer, Greenerwave

COL Osvaldo “Oz” Ortiz
Mission Command Support Element (MCSE), HQDA G-3/5/7 DAMO-SOM

Mr. John Rafferty
Research Scientist, GTRI + Tetra

Mr. Andreas Roessler
6G Technology Manager, Rohde & Schwarz

CAPT Dave Rueter
Program Manager, NAVAIR PMA-234 (AEA)

Mr. Mike Ryan
AOC Board of Director

LTC Nicholas Ryan
Army Capabilities Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Col Albert “Fonz” Scaperotto
Chief, Weapons Division; SAF/IA

Lt. Gen (Ret) John N.T. “Jack” Shanahan
President & CEO, Fermat Solutions

Maj Gen David Snoddy
Deputy for Cyber Effects Operations, Headquarters, US Air Force (HAF) A2/6

Mr. Seth Spoenlein
SSTM, Assistant Director, Systems Integration Portfolio, Engineering and Systems Integration (ESI) Directorate, US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR Center

Dr. Mark Spencer
Director of the Joint Directed Energy Transition Office (JDETO)

Mr. Ken Strayer
Project Manager, Electronic Warfare & Cyber

Mr. Brandon Stringfield
Research Scientist & Cognitive EW T&E Portfolio Lead, GTRI + Tetra

Dr. James Stewart
Chief Scientist, Spectrum Warfare Systems, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division

Dr. Swannack
Chief Engineer for the Joint Staff and Combatant Commands Division, MITRE

Mr. Dennis Teefy
Project Director, Sensors Aerial Intelligence

Mr. Matt Thompson
Senior Technical Advisor, Association of Old Crows

Mr. Samuel Visner
Board of Directors, SPACE ISAC

Mr. Vincent Voogt
Senior Research Consultant in the Electronic Defence department of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Sc

Dr. Mehmet Vuran
Dale M. Jensen Professor of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

General Stephen Wilson (USAF, Ret)
Former Vice Chief of Staff, US Air Force

Dr. Mark Whorton
CTO, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Col (USAF, Ret) William “Dollar” Young, PhD
Disruptioneering Expert, SCASD Consulting, Former Commander, USAF 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing (350 SWW)

COL Brock Zimmerman
Project Manager, Aircraft Survivability Equipment

Mr. Ken Dworkin
Board of Directors, Association of Old Crows

Mr. Brian Hinkley
President, Association of Old Crows

Ms. Jennifer Lewis
President Advanced Combat Systems, L3Harris Technologies

Mr. Dennis Monahan
Board of Directors, Association of Old Crows