MAD SCIENTIST 2016: MEGACITIES AND DENSE URBAN AREAS IN

2025 AND BEYOND

21-22 April 2016

Tempe Mission Palms Conference Center

60 East Fifth St, Tempe, Arizona

INVITED SPEAKERS

Mr. Thomas F. Greco serves as the Director of Intelligence, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2 for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC G2). This is a Tier Two Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service (DISES) position. He is the Army’s lead for developing, defining, and applying current and future threats and environments in support of Army leader development, concept development, capability design, training readiness, and experimentation. He also leads the Army’s enterprises for Critical

Thinking, Foreign Military and Cultural Studies, and the OE Training Support Center. TRADOC G2 supports the Army’s Combat Training Centers, deployed forces in Afghanistan, all of the Army’s educational institutions and capability development and integration activities. He is responsible for managing a staff of more than 500 employees, acts as the program manager for the TRADOC civilian intelligence career field and oversees a budget in excess of $250 million.

Brigadier General Leopoldo Quintas assumed duties as the Director, Concept Development and Learning for the Army Capabilities Integration Center, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command on 1 April 2015. Prior to his arrival at Fort Eustis he served as the Deputy Commanding General (Support) for the 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, TX. Before his assignment to Fort Bliss, he served as the 48th Chief of Armor at the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Brigadier General Quintas' previous command assignments include Delta and Headquarters and Headquarters Companies, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor from 1991-1995; Task Force 2-70 Armor from 2003-2006 for Operation Iraqi Freedom I and III; and the 16th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Knox, KY, from 2008-2010. His staff and special assignments include instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy from 1995-1998; test officer for the Test and

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Experimentation Command from 1998-1999; operations officer for the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry and the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division from 1999-2001; aide-de-camp to the Chief of Staff of the Army from 2001-2002; Deputy for Current Operations, CJTF-180 in 2003; executive officer to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Accessions Command from 2007-2008; chief of Dominant Maneuver Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, U.S. Army from 2010-2011; and Chief of Staff, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia and CJTF-3, Regional Command South, Operation Enduring Freedom 2011-2013.

Born in Connecticut, Brigadier General Quintas was commissioned as an armor officer following graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1986. In his civilian studies, he holds a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His military education includes the Armor Officer Basic Course, the Armor Officer Advanced Course, the Combined Arms Services Staff School, the Command and General Staff College, and the Naval War College.

BG John S. Kem was born in Chicago, Ill., and commissioned in the Corps of Engineers in 1985 after graduating as a distinguished cadet from the U.S. Military Academy with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Kellogg Business School; a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University; and a Master’s Degree in Natural Resource Strategy.

His military education includes the Engineer Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He is currently serving as the Deputy Commandant, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; Provost, Army University; and Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center – Education.

Prior to assuming his current roles, BG Kem served as the Commanding General for the Northwest Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Previous assignments include: Chief of the Programs Division, Office of the Chief, Legislative Liaison, for the U.S. Army; Director of Engineering, NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan; Commander of the Europe District, Corps of Engineers; Executive Officer to the Director, Joint Improved Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Washington, DC; Commander, 16th Armored Engineer Battalion, 1st Armored Division; Congressional Fellow, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Washington, DC; Brigade and Battalion S3, 3rd Infantry Division; and Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York

BG Kem’s deployment experience include tours supporting Operation Desert Shield/Storm – Saudi Arabia; Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan; and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

BG Kem’s awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Senior Parachutist Wings, Pathfinder Badge, Combat Action Badge and

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Ranger Tab. BG Kem is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Virginia and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

BG Kem is married and has three children.

Dr. Michael M. Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities, an institution that combines the highest levels of academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact—a model he terms the “New American University.” Under his direction the university pursues teaching, research, and creative excellence focused on the major challenges of

our time, as well as those central to the quality of life, sustainable development, and economic competitiveness of Arizona and the nation. He has committed the university to sustainability, social embeddedness, and global engagement, and championed initiatives leading to record levels of diversity in the student body.

Under his leadership ASU has established more than a dozen new transdisciplinary schools and large-scale research initiatives such as the Biodesign Institute; the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; incorporating the School of Sustainability; the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College; and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.

Dr. George Poste founded the Biodesign Institute at ASU (www.biodesign.asu.edu/) and served as Director for 2003 to 2009. In creating this Institute, Dr. Poste designed and built 400,000 sq. ft. of new facilities, achieved cumulative research funding of $300 million and recruited over 60 faculty, including three members of the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

He serves on the Board of Directors of Monsanto (since 2003), Exelixis (since 2004), Caris Life Sciences (since 2005), and the Scientific Advisory Board of Synthetic Genomics (since 2009). From 1992 to 1999 he was Chief Science and Technology Officer and President, R&D of SmithKline Beecham (SB). During his tenure at SB he was associated with the successful registration of 31 drug, vaccine and diagnostic products. In 2004 he was named as ‘R&D Scientist of the Year’ by R&D Magazine, in 2006 he received the Einstein award from the Global Business Leadership Council and in 2009 received the Scrip Lifetime Achievement award voted by the leadership of the global pharmaceutical industry.

He has published over 350 research papers and edited 14 books on pharmaceutical technologies and oncology. He has received honorary degrees in science, law and medicine for his research contributions and was honored in 1999 by HM Queen Elizabeth II as a Commander of the British Empire for his contributions to international healthcare and security.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal College of Pathologists and the UK

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Academy of Medicine, a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a member of the Council for Foreign Relations. He served as a member of the Defense Science Board from 2003 to 2009 and Health Board of the US Department of Defense (DoD) and is currently a member of the US Institute of Medicine Board on Global Health. He has served as a member of Advisory Committees for multiple U.S. Government Agencies in areas of defense, national security and healthcare.

Mr. Abe Usher, Chief Technology Officer at the HumanGeo Group, has 20 years of professional experience related to artificial intelligence and software engineering. Prior to co-founding HumanGeo, Abe was a senior engineer within Google’s Enterprise Division where he worked on geospatial and search technology in support of Google Earth and Google Maps. His other areas of specialty at Google were large scale geospatial entity linking and quantitative social network analysis. Before to Google, he also has served in a number of government roles

with the National Security Agency (NSA), applying machine learning capabilities to large scale data mining. Before working as an NSA cryptologist, Abe served in the Army as an officer in the 82nd Airborne Division. Abe received a Master’s degree in engineering from George Mason University, and a Bachelor’s degree from the US Military Academy.

Dr. Douglas Ollivant is a Managing Partner and the Senior Vice President of Mantid International, LLC, a global strategic consulting firm with offices in Washington D.C.; Beirut, Lebanon; and Baghdad, Basra and Hilla, Iraq. He is also an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow. A retired U.S. Army officer, his last assignment in government was as Director for Iraq at the National Security Council during both the Bush

and Obama administrations. Between 2010 and 2011, Dr. Ollivant ws in Afghanistan as Senior Advisor to the Commander, Regional Command-East and served two years in uniform in Iraq. A graduate of Wheaton College, Dr. Ollivant earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and American Political Science Association, he is also an advisor to Monument Capital Group, Meridian Hill Strategies, and TranScan LLC.

COL Patrick M. Duggan graduated North Georgia College in 1995 and is a career Special Forces Officer. He served as a Detachment Commander during the invasion of Afghanistan and a Battalion Support Company Commander during the invasion of Iraq.

COL Duggan has served in numerous SOF assignments to include; 5th Special Forces Group (A), Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP), and J8X Classified

Programs in USSOCOM. COL Duggan has commanded operational and combat deployments across the Middle East and Asia to include; Advanced Operating Base

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5120 during the height of the ‘Iraq-Surge,’ Deputy Commander (South) JSOTF-Philippines (JSOTF-P), Commander 3rd Battalion 1st SFG (A), and Commander SOTF 13 in Korea. COL Duggan completed a U.S. Army War College Fellowship at Naval Postgraduate School and is currently the SOF Fellow to the Strategic Landpower TF in the NCR. In June 2016, COL Duggan will assume command of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall-McNair.

COL Duggan has authored numerous articles about Cyber-Special Operations appearing in Joint Defense Quarterly, Special Warfare Magazine, Small Wars Journal, and The Cyber Defense Review, and is the recipient of the 2015 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Strategic Research and National Security Award, for his paper “Strategic Development of Special Warfare in Cyberspace.” COL Duggan is a 2+/2+ Arabic speaker.

COL(R) Kevin Felix, a former Army Field Artillery and Foreign Area Officer, has served in multiple assignments leading deployed combat formations and supporting development of the institutional and operational Army, in both the US and in other Allied/partner nations.

He completed 30 years of active federal service in the Army on 1 June 2015. He currently serves as a consultant to The Roosevelt Group, a strategic planning, research and communications firm supporting numerous clients in the defense sector. He also specializes in detailed

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis of military installations and federal facilities throughout the United States.

His last active duty position was as the Chief, Future Warfare Division, Army Capabilities and Integration Center, within TRADOC. In this position, he was responsible to the Commanding General, TRADOC and the Chief of Staff of the Army to conduct seminars and Title 10 wargames aimed at developing near, mid, and far-term solution strategies for the Army. He led the Army’s reassessment of dense urban challenges via the 2013-2014 Unified Quest seminar series, to include the Deep Futures Wargame on Megacities. Recent focus areas have included leader and capabilities development, and training in dense urban/ megacity environments.

As a Foreign Area Officer, he served as the Liaison Officer from TRADOC to the Italian Army. In that capacity, he provided numerous briefings on US doctrine and fires capabilities at their Infantry and Artillery schools. He also supported Italian officer and NCO course development and the establishment of their combat training centers throughout Italy.

In his operational assignments, he served most of his career in high readiness, light, airborne assignments, with the 3-325th ABCT in Vicenza, Italy, with the 82D Airborne Division and in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). In 1990 he deployed to Operation Desert Storm with the 82D Airborne and deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003/4, serving as the 101st Airborne Division’s Fires Coordinator during the invasion of Iraq. He also took command of his battalion, 2-320th Field Artillery Regiment, in Iraq. His brigade command was the 4th Battlefield Coordination Detachment, Shaw AFB, SC. He deployed the unit in 2008/9 to Al Udeid Air Base,

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Qatar, serving as a liaison for operational fires and air-to-ground integration for the Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and Commander, Multi-National Corps–Iraq (MNC-I), to the Combined Forces Air Component Commander (CFACC). He also served on the Joint Staff, J5 as the Senior Advisor to the Chairman, JCS for the Middle East, and later as the Executive Officer to the Assistant to the Chairman, JCS.

Kevin Felix is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute’s Greek and French courses, the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College, and is also a graduate of the International Training Course in Security Policy, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the United States Military Academy and a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 2011, his Army War College experience was as a National Security Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has continued to sharpen his writing skills and his latest work, an essay on dense urban/megacity challenges of the future, was published in the 2015 Spring edition of the Army War College’s magazine, Parameters.

Dr. Amy Krakowka Richmond, Associate Professor of Geography at the United States Military Academy. Dr. Richmond focuses on the interactions between environmental resources and human populations. Her current research in the Sub-Saharan Africa region develops an interdisciplinary framework investigating the relationship between environmental processes and human wellbeing to generate models adaptable to any geographic location. Based on the use and availability

of open-source data, interviews, and Geographic Information Systems, the methodology advanced has the capacity to examine household-level drivers of vulnerability that are rarely accounted for in regional and global indices. Recent work published in academic journals is focused on modeling environmental security and household vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa. Amy is the editor of the book “Understanding Africa: A Geographic Approach”. She is also the winner of the 2013 “Best Paper Award” for her work in the Journal of Geography. Most recently (2016), her case study on using socio-ecological synthesis to understand drivers of vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa was selected by Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESNYC) as “an exemplary case study” for use in a classroom. Amy earned a PhD. in Geography (2005) from Boston University, focusing on the links between environmental resources and economic growth. She has a M.A. (2002) from Boston University in Energy and Environmental Studies and a B.S. (Magna Cum Laude) from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where she focused on Systems Ecology. Amy actively conducts research in Uganda and Ethiopia.

Mr. James G. Rose was selected to the Army’s Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in February 2008. In May 2011, he assumed the position of Director, Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate (CDID), United States Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE) at Fort Huachuca, AZ. CDID is responsible for conceptualizing, developing, and integrating Intelligence Warfighting

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functions, capabilities and requirements across the DOTMLPF domains. From February 2008 to May 2011, Mr. Rose served as the Director for the Human Intelligence Training – Joint Center of Excellence (HT-JCOE), where he was responsible for providing advanced Joint Human Intelligence and Training Certification in Interrogation, Debriefing, and Military Source Operations in support of Defense HUMINT Enterprise requirements and Department of Defense operations worldwide.

CW4 Dennis Castellanos was born in New York City, New York. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1989. He was previously assigned to 75th Ranger Regiment and 82nd Airborne Division as a communications Sergeant. Upon completion of the Special Forces Qualification course in 1997, Dennis Castellanos was assigned to 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

After serving for five years as a communications Sergeant for Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 776, Castellanos was accepted into the Army Warrant Officer Program at Fort Rucker, Alabama in 2002. Upon completion of the Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical Certification course, Castellanos returned to 7th Special Forces Group as the assistant detachment commander for Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 781. In 2005, he was assigned to C co., 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (A) as the assistant detachment commander of ODA 794 and later deployed to Iraq in support of a JTF in 2006. In 2008, Castellanos was reassigned to Operational Detachment Bravo (ODB) 790 to serve as the Company’s Operations Warrant Officer and deployed forward to Afghanistan in support of CJSOTF-A. In 2010 Dennis Castellanos attended the Naval Postgraduate School successfully earning a Masters of Science degree in Defense Analysis and Irregular Warfare. In 2012, he returned to 7th SFG at Eglin AFB Florida and deployed forward to Afghanistan working as a planner at CJSOTF-A J-5 plans section. In 2013, CW4 Castellanos assumed the 3/7th SFG (A) Battalion Operations Warrant Officer position and returned to Kandahar, Afghanistan serving as the SOTF SOUTH Operations Warrant Officer. In 2015, CW4 Castellanos was assigned to the Maneuver Center of Excellence in Fort Benning, GA as a member of the Commander’s Action Group and SOF Cell for the Center of Excellence Commander.

CW4 Dennis J. Castellanos has deployed in support of Operation Uphold Democracy, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He has also deployed multiple times in support of ongoing operational efforts in the SOUTHCOM AOR.

Some of CW4 Castellanos’ awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal w/ oak leaf cluster, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal w/ oak leaf cluster, Army Commendation Medal (two oak leaf clusters), Joint Service Achievement Medal (two oak leaf clusters), the Army Achievement Medal (five oak leaf clusters), Combat Infantryman’s badge, Special Forces Tab, Ranger Tab, and the Master parachutist badge.

CW4 Castellanos is a graduate of the Special Forces Advanced Warrant Officer course (2010). He is also a graduate of the Warrant Officer Staff Course (2012) and the

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Warrant Officer Senior Service Education course (2015). He has also successfully completed the Advance Special Operations Techniques course and the Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course (SFARTAETC).

CW4 Castellanos is married to the former Toni Lynn Herrera from Tyler, Texas. The Castellanos’ have three sons- Diego (22), Daniel (12), and Daveed (7).

CSM (R) William (Bill) Hedges, Command Sergeant Major (Ret), USA, is a liaison officer for the Intelligence & Information Warfare Directorate and the US Army’s Intelligence Center of Excellence (ICoE), and additionally serves as a Science & Technology analyst for ICoE’s Requirements Determination Directorate. A career intelligence analyst, Mr. Hedges has been posted to multiple senior intelligence analyst positions to include stints with: Field Station Berlin; the Central American Joint Intelligence Team (CAJIT-DIA); the Multi-national Force

and Observers (Sinai); the Defense Intelligence Agency/CJCS-J-2; Task Force 134, Camp Cropper (Iraq); and the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, INSCOM (South Korea). In his final assignment, he served as the Command Sergeant Major and Commandant of the Army’s Intelligence Center’s Noncommissioned Officer Academy. Prior to his present position, Mr. Hedges served as the program manager, course manager, and master instructor for ICoE’s Analytic Tradecraft program. His primary research areas are human domain-human dimension convergence, as a primary nexus towards producing future generations of master intelligence analysts. Mr. Hedges holds a B.S. degree in Political Science and is also a graduate of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Intelligence University.

Dr. Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. Ed’s research and teaching explore digital narratives, contemporary culture and the intersection of the humanities, arts and sciences. He is the co-editor of Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow, September 2014) and is currently working on a book about the

changing nature of reading and writing in the age of algorithms. He completed his PhD in English and American literature at Stanford University in 2011. Before graduate school Ed worked as a journalist at Time, Slate and Popular Science. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Princeton University in 2002 with a Comparative Literature major and certificates in Applications of Computing, Creative Writing and European Cultural Studies.

“In his 2011 article “Innovation Starvation,” Neal Stephenson argued that we—the society whose earlier scientists and engineers witnessed the airplane, the automobile, nuclear energy, the computer, and space exploration—must reignite our ambitions to think boldly and do Big Stuff. He also advanced the Hieroglyph Theory which illuminates the power of science fiction to inspire the inventive imagination: “Good SF supplies a

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plausible, fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality in which some sort of compelling innovation has taken place.”

In 2012, Arizona State University established the Center for Science and the Imagination to bring together writers, artists, and creative thinkers with scientists, engineers, and technologists to cultivate and expand on “moon shot ideas” that inspire the imagination and catalyze real-world innovations.”

Fran Zenzen, Ph.D. - ASURE Chief Operating Officer Two-time Arizona State University graduate Dr. Fran Zenzen was appointed chief operating officer of the ASU Research Enterprise (ASURE) in May 2014. At ASURE she oversees all business development, research and operational functions. Zenzen brings to ASURE more than 30 years of experience in defense and intelligence. Prior to joining ASURE she was director of business development at General Dynamics, focusing on soldier systems and intelligence applications. In addition to her responsibilities at ASURE, Zenzen regularly teaches at ASU as an

Adjunct Professor of Practice and is active in alumni affairs.

Zenzen is a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, Institute of Industrial Engineers, American Society of Quality, and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. She is a published author and regularly is requested to speak at technical conferences focused on software reliability modeling and subcontractor performance.

She received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering and reliability from Arizona State University and also has an MBA from ASU, a master's in electrical engineering from Syracuse and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Lehigh University.

Dr. Russell W. Glenn is an associate professor with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, thereafter completing a military career that included a combat tour during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Iraq. Dr. Glenn was a senior analyst with RAND (1997-2009) and A-T Solutions (2009-2013).

Past research includes published studies on counterinsurgency, urban operations, military and police training, and intelligence operations. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy and Masters degrees from the University of Southern California (MS, Systems Management), Stanford University (MS, Civil Engineering and MS, Operations Research), and the School of Advanced Military Studies (Master of Military Art and Science). He earned his PhD in American history from the University of Kansas with secondary fields of military history and political science. Military education includes airborne, Ranger, and pathfinder qualifications. Dr. Glenn is the author of over fifty books or book length reports in addition to many articles. His most recent book, Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Post-colonial Conflict, was published in April 2015. He is author/editor of Trust and Leadership: The Australian Army Approach to Mission

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Command, forthcoming as part of the Association of the United States Army book program.

Mr. Nathan Fisher is a Project Manager, Mechanical Engineer, and Roboticist working for The Geneva Foundation as a support contractor for the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) since 2014. Prior to this role, Nathan worked for eight years as a Mechanical Engineer supporting the design and manufacturing of various vehicle systems, including military combat vehicles and commercial aircraft systems. Nathan’s current professional

focus is in the adaptation of emerging robotics technologies to provide future capabilities for combat medics in far-forward operational environments. Nathan holds a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Dr. William Swartout has been involved in the research and development of artificial intelligence systems for over 30 years. He is the director of technology at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and a research professor in the computer science department at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. His particular research interests include virtual humans, explanation and text generation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, intelligent computer based education and the

development of new AI architectures. At ICT, Swartout provides overall direction for the institute’s research programs. He leads the National Science Foundation-funded museum guides project, which is bringing ICT-created virtual humans to the Museum of Science, Boston. He oversaw the Mission Rehearsal Exercise project, which garnered awards for outstanding innovation in modeling and simulation from the National Training and Simulation Association and first place for innovative application of agent technology at the 2001 International Conference on Autonomous Agents. In 2009, Swartout received the Robert Engelmore Award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for seminal contributions to knowledge-based systems and explanation, groundbreaking research on virtual human technologies and their applications, and outstanding service to the artificial intelligence community. He is a Fellow of the AAAI, has served on their Board of Councilors and is past chair of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has served as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Board on Army Science and Technology of the National Academies and the JFCOM Transformation Advisory Group. Prior to joining ICT in 1999, Swartout was director of the Intelligent Systems Division at the USC Information Sciences Institute. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from MIT and his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Mr. Frank Prautzsch. In his current role as President of Velocity Technology Partners LLC, Mr. Prautzsch (LTC, Ret. Signal Corps) is

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recognized as a technology and business leader known for exposing or crafting innovative technology solutions for the DoD, SOF, DHS and Intelligence community. His focus is upon innovation and not invention. His waking moments are spent in the process of identifying and contriving use cases for global commercial technologies that the government is unaware of, or at best has yet to assume a use case for that could support their needs. Prior to his own consulting program, Mr. Prautzsch served as the Sr. VP for Government Programs for ORBCOMM, the Director of the Raytheon Rapid Initiatives Group (RIG), and Director of Army Requirements for Hughes Space and Communications Company.

While on active duty in the US Army, Mr. Prautzsch held a variety of Command, Staff, and Engineering positions. He served on numerous Joint Task Force, Army, and contingency missions across all operational environments and was instrumental in defining many of the Army’s MILSATCOM concepts of operations and doctrine used today. He was the Secretary of the Army’s selection to Lead the DoD MILSATCOM Architecture under the DoD Space Architect. During this process, he was instrumental in formulating a $42B investment plan for wideband, protected and narrowband communications for the Nation.

Mr. Prautzsch holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, is a distinguished graduate of the Marine Corps Signal Advanced Course, Army Airborne School, Ranger School, and Command and General Staff College. He attended Raytheon’s University of Chicago Business Development School, and is Six Sigma qualified. He also holds a Master of Science Degree from Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California with a degree in Systems Technology (C3) and Space.

Mr. Jon Watkins is the founder and Chief Operating Officer of Dignitas Technologies LLC. He has 25 years of applied experience related to modeling and simulation applications, with a specific focus on terrain databases, database generation, terrain services, dynamic terrain, and entity-level movement control algorithms. Mr. Watkins has worked with the modeling and simulation terrain formats and/or services for many Army simulation systems (such as SIMNET, ModSAF/OTB, CCTT, JSIMS/WARSIM, OneSAF, Common Driver Trainer). Mr. Watkins

presently supports a wide range of constructive and virtual programs, including major programs and research efforts related to Synthetic Natural Environments, terrain representations, terrain reasoning, weather/ocean, and simulation and training.

Dr. Brett Piekarski is the Chief of the Micro & Nano Materials & Devices Branch within the Army Research Laboratory. The focus of the branch is on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology for future adaptable and reconfigurable communication and radar technologies; two-dimensional electronic materials for next generation low power, flexible, and multi-function electronics; on-chip energetic materials for efficient fuze and device protect technologies; and environmentally

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robust and size, weight, power, and processing constrained GPS-denied position, navigation, and timing (PNT) solutions. Dr. Piekarski is also the Cooperative Agreement Manager for ARL’s Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA). The CTA which is a large industry lead basic research program with 15 academic institutions performing research to enable small and collaborative autonomous systems to enable enhanced Soldier situational awareness in complex environments. While at ARL he has also served as the Manager of ARL’s Specialty Electronic Materials and Sensors Cleanroom Research Facility (2002-2008), as a MEMS Researcher in the Micro-Devices Branch (1997-2002), and as a Researcher in electronics manufacturing technologies (1988-1997). He has a BSME from North Dakota (1987), a MME from Johns Hopkins University (1992) and a Ph.D. in ME from the University of Maryland (2005).

Dr. Christopher Tucker is the Chairman and CEO of The MapStory Foundation. Tucker thinks and works at the intersection of technology, strategy, geography, and national security. Tucker manages Yale House Ventures, a portfolio of technology companies, social ventures, and public entrepreneurship initiatives. These span the worlds of renewable energy, geospatial data and technology, sensors, cyber-security, open source software and hardware, and social media technologies, as they

relate to national security, international affairs, humanitarian assistance disaster response, civilian government, various commercial industry sectors, NGOs, K-12 STEM and humanities education, and institutions of higher education.

Tucker is the creator of MapStory.org, a companion to Wikipedia, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the MapStory Foundation. Tucker serves, or has served on a variety of other private sector, government, and non-profit boards including the Open Geospatial Consortium, the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, OpenPlans, the National Geospatial Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board Intelligence Task Force, and the American Geographical Society. Tucker is affiliated with a variety of think tanks including the Center for National Policy and the Institute for State Effectiveness.

Previously, Tucker was the President and CEO of a high-technology firm in the area of geospatial intelligence that he took from startup to acquisition. Prior to his time in industry, Chris was the founding Chief Strategic Officer of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture fund. And prior to that, Chris served as the Special Advisor to the Executive Vice Provost of Columbia University.

Lieutenant General (LTG) Kevin W. Mangum graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in May 1982 where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Armor. Highlights of LTG Mangum's career include tours with 8th Army, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), 2nd Infantry Division and 10th Mountain Division and two Joint tours. He has commanded at every level from platoon to Commanding General, United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker, Alabama.

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After his initial tour in the 128th Aviation Company (Assault Helicopter) at Camp Page, Korea, he was selected for assignment with Task Force 160. He has since served four tours with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment with duties ranging from section leader, battalion S-3 to command at company, battalion, and regiment levels. LTG Mangum also commanded A Company, 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment and 2nd Aviation Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment at Camp Stanley, Korea.

LTG Mangum’s joint service includes tours at the Joint Electronic Warfare Center, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas and Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg. In May 2008, he was assigned to his first post as a general officer, serving as the senior commander of Fort Drum and division rear commander of the 10th Mountain Division. He served as Deputy Commanding General of 1st Armor Division and United States Division-Center, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq. LTG Mangum commanded the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command upon its provisional activation on March 25, 2011. LTG Mangum commanded the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker, Alabama prior to assuming duties as the Deputy Commanding General/Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command on 28 March, 2014.

His numerous deployments include duty in the Republic of Korea, Honduras, Persian Gulf, Turkey, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. LTG Mangum also served as a U.S. Army War College Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Webster University. His military awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Combat Action Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge and the Master Army Aviator Badge.

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