Course Details
Counter-C5ISRT Tabletop Exercise | Pre-Convention Course
Course Dates: Monday, December 8, 2025 | 8 AM – 5 PM
Course Location: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
Course Length: 8 hours total delivered across one course
Description: Participants will participate in a one-day wargame assessing the use of cyber operations and electronic warfare as part of peacetime campaigns to dissuade aggression and to gain an advantage during combat. The wargame will be set in a relevant operational scenario and focus on how non-kinetic effects could help allies counter an adversary that relies on highly automated command and control and autonomous systems.
Who Should Attend: Technologists developing cyber and electronic warfare capabilities.
Registration
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Course Pricing
AOC Members - $550
Non-Members - $700
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Instructors
Bryan Clark is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at Hudson Institute. He is an expert in naval operations, electronic warfare, autonomous systems, military competitions, and wargaming.
From 2013 to 2019, Mr. Clark was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), where he led studies for the Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on new technologies and the future of warfare.
Prior to joining CSBA in 2013, Mr. Clark was special assistant to the chief of naval operations and director of his Commander’s Action Group, where he led development of Navy strategy and implemented new initiatives in electromagnetic spectrum operations, undersea warfare, expeditionary operations, and personnel and readiness management.
Mr. Clark served in the Navy headquarters staff from 2004 to 2011, leading studies in the Assessment Division and participating in the 2006 and 2010 Quadrennial Defense Reviews. His areas of emphasis were modeling and simulation, strategic planning, and institutional reform and governance. Prior to retiring from the Navy in 2008, Mr. Clark was an enlisted and officer submariner, serving in afloat and ashore submarine operational and training assignments including tours as chief engineer and operations officer at the Navy’s nuclear power training unit.
Mr. Clark is the recipient of the Department of the Navy Superior Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. He received his MS in national security studies from the National War College and BS in chemistry and philosophy from the University of Idaho.
David Byrd is a fellow with Hudson Institute's Center for Defense Concepts and Technology. He is an expert in future concept development, data analytics, and the applications of AI to military problems. His research focuses on the evolution of space as a warfighting domain and the implications of new technologies on force design and warfighting concepts.
Prior to joining Hudson, Mr. Byrd supported work developing the technology strategy for Lockheed Martin, where he conducted studies, ran workshops, and performed analysis on the evolving military environment.
Before Lockheed Martin, he was an analyst at the Office of Net Technical Assessment within the then ASD(R&E). There he performed technical analysis, developed wargames, and ran studies on emerging and potentially disruptive technologies, with a specialty in AI, Autonomy, and Manned-Unmanned Machine Teaming.
