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Confirmed Speakers
The Honorable Michael 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 333,000 men and women on active duty, 178,000 members of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve, 182,000 civilians, and their families. He also oversees the Air Force's annual budget of more than $110 billion.
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General William 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 42,000 professionals assigned to 134 locations worldwide.
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Lieutenant General Ellen 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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Lieutenant General 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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Col. Gaillard Peck, USAF Ret.
Instructor, USAF Weapons School at Nellis AFB
 Colonel Peck currently lives in Las Vegas and for over 14 years has served as a defense contractor at the USAF Weapons School at Nellis AFB, NV where he is an academic instructor and is the F-15, F-22 and MC-130 subject matter expert. He is certified to teach the MiG-21 for the USAF Aggressors. Colonel Peck has over 5000 hrs flying time in the T-33, T-38, F-4, RF-4, F-5, F-15, MiG-17 and MiG-21 and a variety of general aviation aircraft. He is the author of America’s SECRET MiG Squadron. He is a graduate of the 4th class of the Air Force Academy known as the Red Tags.
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Dr. Jamie Morin
Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force
 Dr. Jamie M. Morin is the Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible for Department of the Air Force affairs on behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force, including the organizing, training, equipping and providing for the welfare of its more than 333,000 active duty men and women, 178,000 Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve members, 182,000 civilians, and their families. He also oversees the Air Force's annual budget of more than $110 billion and serves as acting Secretary of the Air Force in the Secretary's absence. As acting Under Secretary, Dr. Morin also serves as the Chief Management Officer of the Air Force, the senior Air Force energy official, and the focal point for space within Air Force Headquarters.
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Dr. Adam Grissom
Senior Political Scientist for RAND
 Adam Grissom is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation who conducts national security research for a variety of U.S. government sponsors. His work focuses on security force assistance, special operations, and force planning. Grissom received his M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and his Ph.D. from King's College London.
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Dr. Benjamin Lambeth
Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assesments
 Benjamin S. Lambeth is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a position he assumed in 2011 following a 37-year career at the RAND Corporation. Before that, he served in the Office of National Estimates at the Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a doctorate in political science from Harvard University and is the author of The Transformation of American Air Power, which won the Air Force Association’s Gill Robb Wilson Award for Arts and Letters in 2001. In 2002, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Order of Daedalians, the national fraternity of U.S. military pilots. A civil-rated pilot, Dr. Lambeth has flown or flown in more than 40 different combat aircraft types with the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and eight foreign air forces. In 1988, he received initial qualification training and a front-seat checkout in the F/A-18 Hornet. In 1989, he became the first U.S. citizen to fly the Soviet MiG-29 fighter and the first Westerner invited to fly a combat aircraft of any type inside Soviet airspace since World War II. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Visitors of Air University.
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Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn
Associate Political Scientist for RAND
 Stacie L. Pettyjohn is an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her work focuses on terrorism, counterterrorism, U.S. global defense posture, U.S. Middle East policy, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and security force assistance. Previously, Pettyjohn was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace, and a TAPIR fellow at the RAND Corporation. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in history and political science from the Ohio State University.
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Bran Ferren
Co-Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds
 Bran has been a senior advisory board member to multiple US Government agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is a former member of the DHS S&T Advisory Board, STRATCOM Senior Advisory Group, Defense Science Board and NGA Advisory Group. His design career has included special visual effects, lighting and sound design for many Hollywood films, Broadway shows, World’s Fairs, Theme Park attractions and Rock & Roll tours. He has also designs exhibitions, special purpose vehicles, consumer products, and many major architectural and interior construction projects, including over two dozen Command Centers. As an engineer, technical and design consultant his clients have included Intel Corporation, General Motors, IBM, Warner Communications, Sony, The Walt Disney Company, Revo Sunglasses, Strand Lighting, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin corporations.
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Ms. Gwynne Shotwell
President of SpaceX
 Gwynne Shotwell is President of SpaceX, responsible for day-to-day operations and for managing all customer and strategic relations to support company growth. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to over 40 launches, representing over $3 billion in revenue. Shotwell is a member of the SpaceX Board of Directors. Shotwell received, with honors, her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. She has authored dozens of papers on a variety of subjects including standardizing spacecraft/payload interfaces, conceptual small spacecraft design, infrared signature target modeling, shuttle integration, and reentry vehicle operational risks.
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