Speakers
Conference Chairman
Major General (USA-ret) Douglas C. Crissman
Former Deputy Commanding General of U.S. Army Central (USARCENT)
Former Director, Mission Command Center of Excellence, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Keynote Speakers
Brigadier General Geoff Norman, USA
Director
Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross Functional Team
Major General Robert Collins, USA
Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management Office
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
BGen Mark Clingan
Assistant Deputy Commandant
Combat Development and Integration
Deputy Commanding General
Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Senior Military and Government Speakers
Brigadier Gen Barry (British Army Ret)
U.S. Department of the Army International Institute of Strategic Studies
COL Don Braman, USA
Deputy Commandant – Armor School
MCoE, Ft. Benning
Mike McCarthy
Deputy Director & Program Manager
U.S. DoD Close Combat Lethality Task Force (CCLTF)
Col Timothy Hough, USMC
Program Manager, Advanced Amphibious Assault (PM AAA)
The United States Marine Corps
Colonel Jason Kidder, USA
Director, Army Capability Manager
Armored Brigade Combat Team, (ABCT) and Reconnaissance
Jon Ludwigson
Director
Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Romero
Program Manager, Special Operations Forces
Acquisition Technology & Logistics (Family of Special Operations Vehicles) (FOSOV), USSOCOM
Major Marc Jason
Armor Threat Integration
Foreign Intelligence Technology, U.S. Army G-2
David Michelson
Program Manager, Ground Autonomy
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)
Joe Pipczynski
Vice President
ScioTeq
LTC Paul Santamaria
USA, Product Manager
Medium Caliber Ammunition (PM MAS), Joint Program Executive Office for Armaments and Ammunition
Duane Stefaniak
Deputy Chief of Foreign Intelligence Technology (DAMI-FI)
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff G-2, Department of the Army
LTC (USA-ret) Stuart Hatfield
Chief Robotics Branch
HQDA Force Development Directorate, Army G-8
Dr. Stuart H. Young
Program Manager
DARPA Tactical Technology Office (TTO)
Special Industry Guest Speakers and Panelists
Maj Gen (USA-ret) Kent Savre
Senior Director Precision Weapons
Northrop Grumman Armament Systems
Warren Sponsler
Senior Director, Strategic Growth and Communications
The National Advanced Mobility Consortium, Inc.
Matthew Warnick
Managing Director
Rheinmetall Vehicles USA
Beau Gailey
Executive VP
TAG (The Armored Group)
Chris Caldbeck
Program Management
Collins Aerospace
Ron Dauk
Program Manager Boeing, Directed Energy Systems
Boeing, Directed Energy Systems
Greg Woods
A-PNT systems,
Collins Aerospace
Patrick McCormack
Senior Principal Systems Engineer
Raytheon Missiles & Defense