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Confirmed Speakers
Mr. Michael B. Donley
Secretary of the Air Force
 Mr. Michael B. Donley is the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is the 22nd Secretary and was confirmed Oct. 2, 2008. He is responsible for the affairs of the Department of the Air Force, including the organizing, training, equipping and providing for the welfare of its more than 334,000 men and women on active duty, 176,000 members of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve, 170,000 civilians, and their families. He also oversees the Air Force's annual budget of more than $110 billion.
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Gen. Philip M. Breedlove
Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force
 Gen. Philip M. Breedlove is Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. As Vice Chief, he presides over the Air Staff and serves as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Requirements Oversight Council and Deputy Advisory Working Group. He assists the Chief of Staff with organizing, training, and equipping of 680,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving in the United States and overseas.
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Gen. William L. Shelton
Commander, Air Force Space Command
 Gen. William L. Shelton is Commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. He is responsible for organizing, equipping, training and maintaining mission-ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Strategic Command and other combatant commands around the world. General Shelton oversees Air Force network operations; manages a global network of satellite command and control, communications, missile warning and space launch facilities; and is responsible for space system development and acquisition. He leads more than 46,000 professionals, assigned to 88 locations worldwide and deployed to an additional 35 global locations.
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Lt. Gen. Larry D. James
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
 Lt. Gen. Larry D. James is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force for policy formulation, planning, evaluation, oversight, and leadership of Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. As the Air Force's Senior Intelligence Officer he is directly responsible to the Director of National Intelligence and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He leads more than 20,000 ISR officers, enlisted and civilians across the Air Force ISR Enterprise. This includes the Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency as well as the Air Force ISR Agency which includes the 480th ISRW, 70th ISRW, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and the Air Force Technical Applications Center.
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Lt. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski
Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center
 Lt. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski is the Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. She is responsible for more than 5,000 employees nationwide and an annual budget of $10 billion. As the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space, General Pawlikowski manages the research, design, development, acquisition, and sustainment of satellites and the associated command and control systems. Her extensive portfolio includes military satellite communication, missile warning, navigation and timing, space-based weather, space launch and test ranges, certification for launch, space superiority, responsive space and other emerging evolutionary space programs.
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Lt. Gen. Robert Elder, USAF Ret.
Professor at George Mason University
 General Elder joined the research faculty at George Mason University following his retirement from USAF in July 2009 as the Commander of 8th Air Force. As a professor with the System Architectures Laboratory, he conducts research in cyber enterprise resiliency and the use of modeling to support national security decision making. He also facilitates collaboration among public and private sectors as an advisor to the Cyber Innovation Center in Louisiana.
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Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, USAF Ret.
Chief Executive Officer, MAV6, LLC
 Lieutenant General David A. Deptula (Ret.) is a thought leader on defense, strategy, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). He is now Chief Executive Officer for MAV6, LLC, a high technology company whose focus is providing situation awareness. A highly decorated military officer with over 3,000 hours (400 in combat) and multiple commands in the F-15, he transitioned from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in 2010 after more than 30 years of service. He is a world-recognized leader and pioneer in conceptualizing, planning, and executing national security operations from humanitarian relief to major regional conflict having accomplished several “firsts” in the command of joint forces, planning and execution of aerospace power, ISR and improved international relationships.
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Maj. Gen. Suzanne M. Vautrinot
Commander, 24th Air Force
 Maj. Gen. Suzanne M. "Zan" Vautrinot is the Commander, 24th Air Force, and Commander, Air Force Network Operations, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. She is responsible for the Air Force's component numbered air force providing combatant commanders with trained and ready cyber forces which plan and conduct cyberspace operations. Twenty-fourth Air Force personnel extend, maintain and defend the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense global network. The general directs the activities of three operation cyber wings, two headquartered at Lackland AFB, and one at Robins AFB, Ga., as well as the 624th Operations Center at Lackland.
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Dr. Chad Ohlandt
Associate Engineer at RAND
Chad Ohlandt is an associate engineer with the RAND Corporation. As an aerospace engineer, he has backgrounds in computational fluid dynamics, supercomputing, plasma physics, nuclear fusion, and space propulsion. He also has a solid background in Chinese and East Asian politics based on experiences from a year in Taiwan as a Fulbrighter, visiting Chinese universities and space research centers as a Boren Fellow (NSEP), and a summer in Beijing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the NSF East Asia Summer Institute.
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Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye
Senior Political Scientist for RAND
 Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. From 2008 to 2009, she served as associate director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. Before joining RAND, Kaye served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Dutch Foreign Ministry in the policy planning division, specializing in transatlantic relations and Middle East policy. She taught at the University of Amsterdam and was a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael). Kaye served on the faculty at The George Washington University as an assistant professor of political science and international affairs from 1998 to 2003. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Dr. Mark J. Lewis
Professor at the University of Maryland
 Dr. Mark J. Lewis is a professor at the University of Maryland that specializes in hypersonic aerodynamics, advanced propulsion, and engine-airframe interaction. From 2004-2008 Dr. Lewis was Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. from 2004 to 2008 and was the longest-serving Chief Scientist in Air Force history. He served as chief scientific adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force, and provided assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the Air Force mission. In this role he identified and analyzed technical issues and brought them to attention of Air Force leaders, and interacted with other Air Staff principals, operational commanders, combatant commands, acquisition, and science & technology communities to address cross-organizational technical issues and solutions. His primary areas of focus included energy, sustainment, long-range strike technologies, advanced propulsion systems, and workforce development.
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Dr. Alan Vick
Senior Political Scientist for RAND
 Alan Vick is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has authored RAND reports on ground threats to air bases, enhancing air power's capability against light infantry opponents, air power in urban operations, air operations against elusive targets, alternatives for deploying the Army Stryker Brigade, new concepts for joint air–ground operations, air power's role in countering insurgencies, and air–naval concepts for maritime interdiction. His report, Snakes in the Eagle's Nest: A History of Ground Attacks on Air Bases, has been used for more than a decade as a textbook by U.S. Air Force (USAF) Security Forces. His most recent report, Managing Risk in USAF Force Planning, was published in 2009.
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Chuck de Caro
CEO, Aerobureau Corporation
 Chuck de Caro is an American strategist and futurist who originated the term SOFTWAR which is defined as: “The hostile use of global visual media to shape another society’s will by changing its view of reality.”
He teaches at the National Defense University, the National Defense Intelligence College and the US Air Force Academy, where in January 2011, his books, articles, DoD studies and videos on SOFTWAR were integrated into a new Military Science course on Information Warfare. Mr. de Caro also continues a twenty year long practice of doing studies for OSD/Net Assessment.
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Mr. Richard Halloran
Journalist
 Richard Halloran writes a weekly column called “The Rising East” and contributes articles on Asia and U.S. relations with Asia to publications in America and Asia. His career can be divided into thirds: One third studying and reporting on Asia, another third writing about national security, and the last third doing investigative reporting or general assignment. He did three tours in Asia as a correspondent, for Business Week, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and was a military correspondent for The New York Times for ten years. He is the author of Japan: Images and Realities and To Arm a Nation: Rebuilding America’s Endangered Defenses, and four other books. As a paratrooper, Halloran served in the U.S., Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. He holds an AB from Dartmouth College in government and international relations, an MA from the University of Michigan in East Asian Studies, and had a Ford Foundation Fellowship at Columbia’s East Asia Institute. He lives in Honolulu with his wife, Fumiko, a Japanese writer.
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Richard Reeves
Author
 Richard Reeves author of Daring Young Men and Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California is an author and syndicated columnist whose column has appeared in more than 100 newspapers since 1979. A new column also appears on Yahoo! News each Friday. He has received dozens of awards for his work in print, television and film.
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