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Duane Adams, Independent Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University, Retired
Ilesanmi Adesida (NAE), Dean, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Raj Aggarwal, Managing Director, Advanced Research & Technology, College of Engineering, University of Iowa
Edward C. Brady, Managing Director, Strategic Perspectives, Inc.
L. Reginald Brothers, Director, Advanced Technology, BAE Systems
James Carafano, Deputy Director, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation
W. Peter Cherry (NAE), Chief Analyst, Future Combat Systems, Science Applications International Corporation

Earl H. Dowell, (NAE), William Holland Hall Professor and Dean Emeritus, Duke University
Ronald P. Fuchs, Independent Consultant
W. Harvey Gray, Interim Associate Laboratory Director for National Security, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Retired
Carl Guerreri, President and CEO, Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc.
John H. Hammond, Vice President, Technology, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Retired
Randall W. Hill, Jr., Executive Director, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Mary Jane Irwin (NAE), Evan Pugh Professor and A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Alan H. Epstein is the Vice President of Technology and Environment at Pratt & Whitney where he is responsible for setting the direction for and coordinating technology across the company as it applies to product performance and environmental impact. He leads Pratt & Whitney’s efforts to identify and evaluate new methods to improve engine performance and fuel efficiency for all new Pratt & Whitney products. He also provides strategic leadership in the investment, development and incorporation of technologies that reduce the environmental impact of Pratt & Whitney’s world-wide products and services. This includes responsibility for validating Pratt & Whitney’s technology and environmental strategy with customers, industry representatives and government and international agencies Previous to joining Pratt & Whitney, Dr. Epstein was the R.C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and currently holds an appoint there as Professor Emeritus. His research while at MIT was concerned with aerospace propulsion, power and energy, infrared systems, and micro-mechanical and electrical systems, MEMS. He has served on many government and NRC advisory committees is currently a member of the NRC standing committee for Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate & Review Dr. Epstein has over 120 technical publications and has given over 100 plenary, keynote, and invited lectures around the world. He has won several international awards for topics including heat transfer, turbomachinery, instrumentation and controls, gas turbine technology, and MEMS. Dr. Epstein is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. .He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in aeronautics and astronautics.

General David M. Maddox is an independent consultant to civilian corporations, government agencies, and defense industries regarding concepts, systems requirements, program strategies, operations and systems effectiveness, and analytic techniques and analyses. He served on the Defense Science Board study of Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority, the study Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century: Integrating Capabilities Underwriting Joint Vision 2010, and the study of Integrated Fire Support; was a member of the Army Science Board and co-chaired the study on Strategic Maneuver, assisted on the ASB Study on Technical and Tactical Opportunities for Revolutionary Advances in Rapidly Deployable Joint Ground Forces in the 2015-2025 Era and on Ensuring the Financial Viability of the Objective Force, and co-chaired the study on Intra-theater Logistic Distribution; and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences study of C4ISR and the study on Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis. He was a member of the Commission on Army Acquisition and Program Management on Expeditionary Operations and the 2010 Army Acquisition Review. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Corporation of the Draper Laboratory, The Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, and The George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering Dean’s Board of Advisors. He also serves as a member of corporate boards and is a Senior Fellow of the Army Science Board.

His consulting involves a myriad of issues ranging from corporate acquisition strategies, leadership requirements during acquisitions and mergers, future organizational strategies and objectives, application of new technologies, proposals for new major contracts, and assessment and justification of new concepts. His reputation is based upon his unique combination of practical experience and strong analytic expertise.

General Maddox retired from the U.S. Army after serving as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army in Europe. While on active duty, General Maddox served extensively overseas with four tours in Germany during which he commanded at every level from platoon through NATO's Central Army Group, 7th U.S. Army and theater. His last six years of active duty were in Europe transitioning from the Cold War, through Desert Storm, to the total reengineering of our presence and mission in Europe.

General Maddox received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the Virginia Military Institute, and a Master of Science Degree in Operations Research/Systems Analysis with an Engineering Specialty from Southern Illinois University.

Dr. Adesida is the Dean and Willett Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His research involves the nanoscale processing of materials and the fabrication of devices based on various semiconductors. He has conducted research on the science and technology of nanofabrication in order to obtain the relationships between pattern dimensions and molecular structures. This is important in delineating the smallest dimensions of structures that can be fabricated. The novel processes developed using advanced nanofabrication methods are in turn utilized to make high performance electrical and optical devices in conventional and novel semiconductors such as silicon, indium phosphide, and gallium nitride. His group has sought to understand in detail the impact of these processing performances of the fabricated devices. Many of these nanoscale devices are used in ultra-high speed and ultra-high power applications such as in space, wireless, and optical communications. His group has also extended many of the processing methods to the fabrication of structures that are applicable to nanoelectromechanical and nanobiological systems.

Dr. Aggarwal is Vice President, Global Technology and Special Projects, at Rockwell Collins. He is a former Vice President, Advanced Technology Center at Rockwell Collins, Senior Director, Strategic Planning and Technology at Computing Devices International; Director of Research and Technology at Alliant Techsystems, Inc., and a Director of advanced programs for Honeywell, Inc. Dr. Aggarwal received a B.S. degree in physics (with honors) from Delhi University in Delhi, India; a B.S. degree in electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and an M.S. degree in electrical and communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He also received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Aggarwal is currently a member of a number of university advisory boards and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Science and Engineering Technology Committee.

Edward C. Brady is Managing Director of Strategic Perspectives, Incorporated, a small business consulting firm focused on strategic approaches to achieving corporate growth and enhancing shareholder value. Clients are primarily Fortune 100 firms, and some smaller firms including start-ups, mainly in the information and telecommunications technology and services sector. He also consults directly for the Department of Defense. He serves on several Boards of Directors and Advisory Committees, both Corporate and Defense Department. Dr. Brady currently mainly consults with two leading defense/aerospace firms.

Previously, he was engaged primarily as the Chief Architect and the Chief Scientist of the Boeing/SAIC Lead Systems Integrator Team for the Army’s Future Combat System (a $22B development program.) Dr. Brady was Co-Chair of the Program Decision Board which had day to day program-wide management responsibility. He had direct oversight responsibility for the definition and evolution of the System of Systems Architecture and specifications; design analysis and performance analysis; definition and execution of an integrated approach to simulation-based design and testing; and technology maturation, assessment, and integration planning for the multiple Blocks of the Future Combat System.

Dr. Brady is a nationally recognized expert in information, telecommunications, simulation, artificial intelligence technologies and systems; as well as quantification and analysis of military systems; He is a recognized expert in systems architecture, engineering, and testing of combat systems. He is highly experienced in technology development, engineering management, and the design, development, and procurement of national, strategic, and tactical level command, control, communications, and intelligence systems, as well as advanced combat systems and simulation systems.

L. Reginald Brothers is currently the Director of Advanced Technology at BAE Systems. Dr. Brothers is responsible for developing R&D and fast reaction concepts, prototypes and products. Work across the corporation to develop synergistic technology solutions between different lines of business, internal research and development initiatives, sponsored efforts and end user needs. Previously, he was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where he was responsible for conceptualizing, developing and managing research and development programs. Dedicated to providing significant capability enhancement to future Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) operations. Dr. Brothers also held positions at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Group Leader), Envoy Networks (Chief Architect), and MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory (Assistant Group Leader/Member, Technical Staff).

Dr. Carafano has served 25 years in the Army retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the head speechwriter for the Army Chief of Staff and was the executive director of the Defense Department’s military journal, Joint Force Quarterly. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York where he obtain a B.S. in national security and public affairs; an M.A. in British and early modern European history from Georgetown University, Washington, DC; an M.S. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; and a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Georgetown University.

Prior to joining Science Applications International, he spent over 30 years with Vector Research Incorporated and its successor, the Altarum Institute. His professional career began in the field of maritime operations research in the Department of National Defence in Canada. He left that organization to obtain a Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Michigan, where he specialized in Stochastic Processes. Since the completion of his studies at the University of Michigan, he has focused on the development and application of operations research in the national security domain, primarily in the field of land combat. He contributed to the development and fielding of most of the major systems currently employed by the Army, ranging from the Patriot Missile System to the Apache helicopter, as well as the command control and intelligence systems currently in use such as ASAS and AFTAADS. In addition, he contributed to the creation of the Army’s Manpower Personnel and Human Factors and Training Program (MANPRINT) and to the Army’s Embedded Training Initiative. His recent research interests include Peacekeeping Operations and the development of transformational organizations and material.

Dr. Earl H. Dowell is William Holland Hall Professor and Dean Emeritus in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering at Duke University. The fundamental areas of Professor Dowell's research interests are dynamics, fluid and solid mechanics and acoustics. A particular focus at present is on the dynamics of nonlinear fluid and structural systems and their associated limit cycle and chaotic motions. Examples include flexible plates and shells excited by dynamic fluid forces, oscillating airfoils and wings in a transonic flow, and aero-mechanical instability of rotorcraft systems. Also of interest are studies of systems with many degrees-of-freedom. Three aspects of such systems are being considered: eigenfunctions of nonconservative (fluid or fluid-structure) systems, turbulence as a multi-mode chaotic phenomena, and the asymptotic behavior of a dynamical system as the number of degrees-of-freedom becomes very large (asymptotic model analysis). The potential applications for the results of these research efforts are very broad, but a principal emphasis is on aerospace, automotive, naval and other transportation.

Dr. Dowell received his B.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Fuchs is currently the director for modeling and simulation at the Boeing Company. Dr. Fuchs leads a group which is responsible for developing, maintaining, and coordinating Boeing government and defense modeling and simulation efforts for ~2500 people. His additional responsibilities for Boeing include identifying, prioritizing, and allocating funding to M&S technology needs; developing and operating the collaboration environment for Boeing’s M&S community; developing Boeing’s Simulation Based Acquisition program; and managing Boeing’s M&S technology development group.

W. Harvey Gray has served as ORNL Interim Associate Laboratory Director for National Security since October 1, 2008. In this position, he is responsible for leading a focused research, development, and deployment portfolio for sponsors that include the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, other federal agencies, and the private business sector with missions involving national security, homeland security, law enforcement, and public safety. This broad portfolio of basic and applied research and development projects focus on topics complementary to the national security mission of ORNL and address key areas in nonproliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and materials; counterterrorism; information operations; advanced computing; physical and cyber safeguards and security; advanced materials; law enforcement and public safety; international threat reduction; transportation, supply-chain, and logistics systems and technologies; and sustainability technologies and methodologies.

Dr. Gray is a mechanical engineer (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) who has held a variety of positions since joining the ORNL staff in 1974. For eight years prior to taking his current position, he was Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for National Security. Before joining the National Security Directorate, he served as Director of the Advanced Computing Technologies division at Lockheed Martin Energy Systems and he served as the Director of the Computational Center for Industrial Innovation at Lockheed Martin Energy Research. He led or managed projects in agile manufacturing, high-performance computing, advanced imaging and visualization, data storage, electronic medical records, telemammography, information assurance and security, and computer-aided engineering data exchange. Additionally, he represented ORNL on the Healthcare Information Technology Enabling Community Care project [funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program], on the Computer Aided Manufacturing-International’s Next Generation Manufacturing Systems project, and on several DOE weapons-complex-wide computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering committees, activities, and programs. Earlier, he was an ORNL research staff member using high-performance computing to design and develop advanced superconducting magnets for large-scale fusion energy experiments

Mr. Guerreri is President and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc. (EWA). He founded EWA in 1977 and since then has been responsible for establishment of its business objectives, policies, and general management. EWA is an Information Technology company whose products are mainly technical services but include both hardware and software. Prior to founding EWA, Mr. Guerreri held numerous positions, both management and technical, all related to the fields of intelligence, radar, electronic warfare and communications, command and control.

Mr. Guerreri received his BSEE from Norwich University in 1962 and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School OPM program. He is a senior member of The Conference Board, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Potomac Council of the American Electronics Association. He has appeared as an expert witness before the House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology and the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. Guerreri is a member of the Board of Trustees of Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont and is listed in Who’s Who in America. He is a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a life member of the Association of Old Crows and is a registered Professional Engineer.

Dr. Hammond is retiring in 2009 after serving eight years as Vice President, Technology at Lockheed Martin (LM) headquarters in Bethesda, MD. He chaired the corporation’s Research & Technology Board, and was a member of the Corporate Technical Council. Dr. Hammond headed a group responsible for technology coordination across LM business areas and for internal R&D investment in a number of corporate-wide programs. These include the LM Shared Vision Programs at the Sandia National Laboratories and at the General Electric Global Research Center, as well as the LM University Grants Program. He was also responsible for the LM Technology Integration Initiatives to develop technologies enhancing system-of-systems architecture capabilities. In a previous position with the LM Space & Strategic Missile business area, Dr. Hammond chaired and participated in several major satellite, launch vehicle and missile program reviews. He has represented LM externally on numerous occasions with presentations to professional associations and Government organizations including panels of the Defense Science Board.

Prior to joining LM, defense industry positions held by Dr. Hammond include Board Member and Vice President/General Manager for Reconnaissance & Surveillance at Schafer Corp., a technical analysis firm, and Vice President for Satellite Products at Defense Systems, Inc., a hardware firm, both located in Virginia. He has served as Program Manager and made technical contributions to high-energy laser, laser propagation, and satellite contracts. Dr. Hammond led a multi-company team to analyze comparative performance of kinetic and directed energy options for boost-phase missile defense, including ground, satellite and unmanned air platform basing alternatives. His laser work has also addressed devices for inertial confinement fusion and simulation of nuclear device physics.

In Government service, Dr. Hammond headed the Directed Energy program element of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO), since renamed the Missile Defense Agency, with responsibility for development of laser and particle beam weapons and associated target acquisition, tracking and precision beam control; he also contributed to advanced kinetic kill weapons and decoy discrimination technology. Dr. Hammond represented SDIO with Congressional testimony and at Defense and Space and ABM Consultative Committee meetings with the Soviets in Geneva.

Randall W. Hill, Jr. is currently the Executive Director for the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). While at ICT, he has also held positions of Director of Applied Research and Transition, Deputy Director of Technology, and Senior Scientist. Previously, Dr. Hill was Project Leader and Research Scientist at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, and also held positions of Task Manager, Technical Group Leader and a Member of the Technical Staff at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a member of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Hill served in the U.S. Army as a Commissioned Field Artillery/Military Intelligence Officer and was honorably discharged as Captain in 1984. He received his B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southern California.

Her research interests include computer architecture (power constrained, application specific) and computer arithmetic, power and energy in design, reliable systems design, embedded and mobile systems designs, VLSI systems design and EDA tools. Dr. Irwin is a recipient of many awards and honors including Penn State’s Computer Science Club’s Outstanding Teacher Award (1981), and the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Research Award (1995). She has also received an honorary doctorate from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden (1997). Dr. Irwin became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. She has served as chair of the NAE’s Computer and Engineering Peer Committee as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee to Study the Future of Supercomputing; the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board and its Panel on Digitization and Communications Science. Dr. Irwin is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Computer Society, and is a distinguished lecturer and an author of many publications

Dr. Keesee, a recently retired Federal civil servant, was Vice Director of the Joint IED Defeat Organization. As second-in-charge under senior general officers, he helped oversee the execution of the $3-to-4B per year mission. His emphasis was on the materiel initiatives, seeking technology and other counter-measures to IEDs drawing from across the Service and DOE labs, universities, defense contractors, and DARPA.

Earlier, Dr. Keesee had been the first Deputy to the Commanding General, US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; Director of Human Research and Engineering in the Army Research Laboratory, also at APG; and Director of the Systems Research Laboratory of the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Alexandria, VA.

Dr. Keesee earned a B.S. in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in human factors from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

General Lehowicz is currently Sector Manager, Experimentation, Test and Training Sector Group at Quantum Research International. Prior to that, he was the Corporate Vice President for Business Development; Engineering, Logistics and Strategic Solutions Sector at Science Applications International Corporation. Previously, he was Vice President of Quantum Research International. He retired from the U.S. Army as a major general and commander of the U.S. Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command, an organization dedicated to ensuring that warfighting systems, information management systems, and other military equipment are prepared for combat use. Gen. Lehowicz served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Combat Development at the Army Training and Doctrine Command, and he was Assistant Division Commander of the Tenth Mountain Division. He has a B.S. in geology from Kent State University and an M.B.A. from Syracuse University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army War College.

Wlliam L. Melvin is Director of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and an Adjunct Professor in Georgia Tech’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He has successfully developed and fostered major research thrusts within Georgia Tech centered on systems engineering, advanced signal processing, and high-fidelity modeling and simulation. His specific expertise includes digital signal processing with application to RF sensors, including adaptive signal processing for aerospace radar detection of airborne and ground moving targets, radar applications of detection and estimation theory, electronic protection, SIGINT, and synthetic aperture radar. He has authored over 150 publications in his areas of expertise and holds three patents on adaptive radar technology.

As Director of SEAL, Dr. Melvin focuses a technology portfolio in excess of $36M/year involving all aspects of sensor systems engineering, including: environmental characterization; antenna development; hardware and software design, implementation, test, and evaluation; advanced system concepts; signal processing; physics-based modeling and simulation; and field testing. Areas of recent special interest include deploying SAR-GMTI sensors on small UAVs; space-radar algorithm development and processing techniques; dismount detection and urban radar; multistatics; electronic protection; integrated air and missile defense; and, expeditionary force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

Dr. Melvin is a Fellow of the IEEE, with the follow citation: “For contributions to adaptive signal processing methods in radar systems.” He has served as a guest editor for several recent special sections appearing in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and acted as the Technical Co-Chair of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference and 2004 IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory. Dr. Melvin received a “Best Paper” award at the 1997 IEEE Radar Conference. He has provided tutorials and invited talks at a number of IEEE conferences and local IEEE section meetings on Ground Moving Target Indication, STAP fundamentals, and space-based radar. He is a regular reviewer for several IEEE and IET journal publications. Among his distinctions, Dr. Melvin is the recent recipient of the 2006 IEEE AESS Young Engineer of the Year Award, the 2003 US Air Force Research Laboratory Reservist of the Year Award, and the 2002 US Air Force Materiel Command Engineering and Technical Management Reservist of the Year Award.

Dr. Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station. Previously, she was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, joint appointment in Cognitive and Neural Science, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida. Dr. Murphy was also the Founding Director, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Safety Security Rescue. She is an expert in artificial intelligence for robotics and the use of robot technology for emergency response. She has participated in several disasters starting with the 9-11 World Trade Center collapse.

During his seven-year Boeing career, General Paul served as a Vice President in Phantom Works, Boeing’s centralized research and development organization that develops advanced technologies for Boeing’s family of commercial aircraft and defense-related aerospace products and services. During 2006 and 2007, he concurrently served in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) where his duties included executive management of Boeing’s 2000-person Technical Fellowship program and its External Technical Affiliations program that served as the Boeing interface to dozens of professional societies.

During his 33-year Air Force career, General Paul served in three Air Force laboratories in New Mexico and Ohio, a product center in Massachusetts, two major command headquarters in Nebraska and Ohio, Headquarters U.S. Air Force in the Pentagon, and a joint staff assignment in Nebraska. His assignments during the latter one-third of his career were aligned with the Air Force science & technology enterprise, where he served in his final assignment as the commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory headquartered in Dayton, OH. He retired in the rank of Major General.

Mr. Reed is an independent consultant and Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for Technology, and National Security Policy, where he currently focuses on chemical biological defense and the integration of research and development and national security policy. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

He received his B.S. in Physics (with Distinction), and M.S. in physics from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Military Art and Science from the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College. He did post graduate studies in physics at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of the Army War College and the National War College, and was a Chief of Staff Army Fellow at the Army’s Strategic Studies Institute.

Mr. Reed was previously the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Chemical Biological Defense/Chemical Demilitarization) (DATSD(CBD/CD)) in the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Matters from December 2005 to April 2010. He exercised overall oversight, coordination, and integration of all aspects of the Department of Defense chemical and biological medical and non-medical defense program and of the program for destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions.

Prior to assuming his position as DATSD, Mr. Reed served for 15 years as a professional staff member of the Committee on the Armed Services in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he had principal staff responsibility for oversight of the Department of the Navy research and development program, Defense-wide science and technology, and selected programs of other military services and defense agencies, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, joint experimentation, test and evaluation, and chemical demilitarization and chemical biological defense.

Mr. Reed’s 30-year military career encompassed a succession of line and staff assignments, including field artillery battery and battalion and major Army research and development laboratory command, two combat tours in Vietnam, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program manager, deputy commander of a nuclear-capable corps artillery in Germany, and two tours on the Army General Staff. He retired in 1990 as a Colonel.

General Salomon is currently working as an independent consultant. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Procurement and General Manager, Rubbermaid Procurement Services, Rubbermaid Incorporated where he oversaw the establishment and operation of the Rubbermaid Procurement Services division – a shared services activity that centrally sources, negotiates and procures over $1.4 million in material and services for the Rubbermaid Corporation. General Salomon also worked as Vice President, Procurement and Logistics at Rubbermaid where he oversaw the Corporate-wide procurement and logistics policies and programs for a $2.5 billion consumer products company. He chaired several corporation-wide councils for purchasing key commodities, freight and facility management and operating policies, and identified inherent inefficiencies and suboptimization of organizational structure that shattered underperforming purchasing paradigm and led to the phased creation of the Rubbermaid Procurement Services organization.

Prior to civilian life, General Salomon was the Commanding General of the United States Army Materiel Command and was the senior logistician in the Army. He oversaw daily operations for an organization of more than 70,000 people at 255 world-wide facilities, reengineered and streamlined the Army’s acquisitions programs through process improvement and process change, reduced acquisition lead-times 41% and inventories by more than $4 billion, oversaw the operational supply, maintenance and distribution programs for the Army, and developed and implemented plans to reduce more than 20,000 spaces in response to changing missions and financial realities.

General Salomon received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Florida, and an M.S. in logistics management from the School of Systems and Logistics at the U.S. Air Force Institute. He has served on the Army Science Board and was a member of the BAST Committee on Army After Next Logistics.

Dr. Jonathan M. Smith is the Olga and Alberico Pompa Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor of CIS where he developed new protocol design paradigms in the “Protocol Boosters” project, and led the SwitchWare active networking effort, centered on the design of secure, high-performance programmable network infrastructures, based on a “Store-Translate-and-Forward” packet-switching model. Dr. Smith also developed new hardware and operating systems support for gigabit networking as part of the AURORA gigabit testbed project at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Mark J.T. Smith is the Michael J. and Katherine R. Birk Professor and Dean of the Graduate School at Purdue University. Previously, he was head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to coming to Purdue, he was a professor and executive assistant to the president of Georgia Institute of Technology. His research involves speech and image processing, filter banks and wavelets, and object detection and recognition. He is the co-author of numerous books, journal and conference publications, and holds several patents including the “Video Coding System and Method for Noisy Signals”. He is also the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

General Yakovac is President of JVM LLC, and joined The Cohen Group as a Senior Counselor in July 2008. General Yakovac retired from the United States Army in 2007, concluding 30 years of military service. His last assignment was Director of the Army Acquisition Corps and Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. In those roles, General Yakovac managed a dedicated team of military and civilian acquisition experts to make sure America’s soldiers received state-of-the-art critical systems and support across a full spectrum of Army operations. He also provided critical military insight to the Department of Defense senior civilian leadership on acquisition management, technological infrastructure development, and systems management.

After graduation from the U.S. Military Academy as West Point, he was commissioned in the infantry. He served as a Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, Company and Battalion Commander in mechanized infantry units. General Yakovac earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder before returning to West Point as an Assistant Professor. He is also a graduate of the Armor Officer Advanced Course, the Army Command and General Staff College, the Defense Systems Management College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He now teaches classes at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Defense Management College, and the Naval Post Graduate School.