• Location: Courtyard By Marriot at Liberty Station
• Marriot Group Name: AFCEA
• Group Code: AFC
• Booking Link: https://lnkd.in/gZ7hz4hK
• Symposium Chair: Anthony Olmo, Anthony.Olmo@gnostech.com

A ground-breaking leader during her 35-year career in the U.S. Navy, Michelle Howard was the first woman to achieve the rank of four-star admiral and the first woman to be appointed to the position of vice chief of naval operations (the second highest rank in the Navy). She was also the first African-American woman to reach the rank of three-star and four stars in any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces and the first African-American woman to command a ship in the Navy. A veteran of operations that included NATO peacekeeping, Indonesia tsunami relief, Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, she was thrust into the international spotlight in 2009 as leader of the counter-piracy task force that rescued civilian Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates. The rescue was later depicted in the film Captain Phillips.

Keynote Speaker – Day 2

Mr. John W. R. Pope III, Executive Director, NAVWAR

Featured Speakers

• ADM. Michelle J. Howard, US Navy (Ret.)
• Mr. John W. R. Pope III, Executive Director, NAVWAR
• CMDCM Jeanette M. Hafer, Command Master Chief, NAVWAR
• Mr. Rob Weaver, 5.0 Mission Engineering Department Head, NAVWAR
• Ms. Rachel Bondi, Deputy Director Cyber Directorate, NAVWAR
• CAPT David Gast, Innovation Lead and C4IMERA Military Lead, PEO C4I
• CAPT Nicole K. Nigro, Program Manager, PMW 160 Tactical Networks Program Office, PEO C4I
• Mr. Brian Miller, Program Manager, PMW 790, Tactical Shore and Expeditionary Integration Program Office, PEO C4I
• Mr. Christopher J Raney, Deputy Executive Director Technical Director, NIWC PAC
• Dr. Joanna Ptasinski, Ph.D., Branch Head, Cryogenic Electronics & Quantum Research, NIWC PAC
• Mr. Christian Szatkowski, NISE Technical Product Portfolio Manager – Fight From the MOC, NIWC PAC
• Mr. John “JD” Morrison, Science Advisor to Commander, Naval Air Forces
• Col Kevin J. Stepp, AC/S, G-6 Communications (IC6) “Tomahawk 10”, I Marine Expeditionary Force
• Mr. Thomas Johnson, Senior Principal Engineer – Combined & Joint Interoperability, MCTSSA
• Dr. Kristin Schaaf, ICAM’s Deputy Director, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS), Innovation Capability and Modernization (ICAM), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy
• Lt Col Kevin Champaigne, Acting Division Director Materiel Leader, Ground Systems Narrowband SATCOM Acquisition Delta, USSF
• Mr. Dean LoNigro, Branch Chief, Cyber Threat Response, SSC, USSF
• Mr. Mike Taylor, Hospital Ship Joint Task Director, Military Sealift Command
• Dr. Diba Hadi, Principal Director for the Cyber Academic Engagement Office (CAEO), OCIO, Department of War
• Ms. Denese Cordaro, Professor of Program and Financial Management, DAU
• CAPT Charles N (Newt) McKissick, DIU
• Mr. Christian Szatkowski, NISE Technical Product Portfolio Manager – Fight From the MOC, NIWC PAC

Thank you to our Sponsors

Please contact Mike Lindsey at mlindsey@juniper.net or Chris Dougherty at cdougherty@epochconcepts.com, if you have any questions about sponsorship.

Golf Pricing

*Single: $150

* Foursome: $550

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