DoD & Government Keynote Speakers
October 18-19 Agenda
Michael White, Principal Director Hypersonics Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Modernization
Dr. Larry Wortzel, Senior Fellow in Asian Security at the American Foreign Policy Council
Robert Taylor, SES, J8 Director, Capability and Resource Integration USSTRATCOM
Dr. Gillian Bussey Inaugural Director, Joint Hypersonics, Transition Office (JHTO), Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research, and Engineering, Advanced Capabilities, OUSDRE
Walter Chai, Director of Space Sensors and Director, Missile Integration & Operations Center Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
Tom Karako, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Director, Missile Defense Project, Center for Strategic Studies
Rex Jordan, Senior Vice President and INDOPACIFIC Global Enterprise Leader, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Douglas Blake, SES, Head, Aviation Force Projection and Integrated Defense Department ONR
Dr. Iain Boyd, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Science, Faculty Director for National Security, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences College of Engineering and Applied Science
Dr. Scott A. Morton, Associate Director for CREATE DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Information Technology Laboratory, US Army Engineering Research and Development Center
Dr. Rodney Bowersox, Director, Texas A&M National, Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory
Dennis Helmich, Director of Integrated Military, Systems Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Sarah Popkin, Program Officer for High Speed Aerodynamics, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Dmitry Turbiner, Founder & CEO General Radar Corporation
Chuck Leonard, Project Manager, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, NASA
Jon Ludwigson, Director, Contracting and National Security Acquisition, Government Accountability Office
Tony Clarke, Director, Business Development, MOOG Space and Defense Group
Dr. Jeffery Dickeson, Technical Director, Hypersonics Campaign and Advanced Offensive, Hypersonic Weapons, Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Professor Jesse Little, Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and Professor Erica Corral,
The University of AZ, Craig M. Berge, College of Engineering
