Be There for the Voices Shaping EMSO.
EMS Superiority – Challenges and Opportunities Across the Globe
Classification: Unclassified Distro-A
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For session descriptions, check out the symposium agenda.
Keynote Speakers
William D. Bailey, SES
Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
 Lieutenant General James "Rainman" Adams, USMC
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Speakers
Mike Alperi
Deputy Program Manager, PMS 408, Expeditionary Missions Program Office, US Navy
Erik Bamford
International Region I Director, Board of Directors, Association of Old Crows
Colonel James D.M. "Matt" Beall
UCJ39 Division Chief, United States Forces Korea
 Lieutenant Colonel John "Grumble" Brandes, USAF
Assistant Director of Operations, US Air Force, 39th Electronic Warfare Squadron
Bill Brickner
Director, Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC), NAVWAR, US Navy
Alice Bromage
CEO & Founder, Empowering Success
John Richard Carlson
Physical Sciences Consultant, Syracuse Research Corp Canada
Brigadier General Tad "TC" Clark, USAF
Director of Regional Affairs, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, International Affairs
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Major General John Edwards, USAF (Ret.)
Former Director of Global Power Programs Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Kevin Finch
2026 AOC Symposium Chair, Appointed Director, Association of Old Crows
Jeffrey Fischer
At Large Director, Association of Old Crows
Dr. Patrick "Chunx" Ford, USN (Ret.)
US NATO Chief Scientist, NKE
Lisa Frugé-Cirilli
Director, Customer Requirements & Advocacy, BAE Systems
Phil Guy
Managing Director, Mellori Solutions
Major Cedric Harris
Army Test & Evaluation Command (ATEC)
Jarrett Holcomb
Manager-R&D, Southwest Research Institute
Julie Isaac
(Invited)
Program Director, Sensors-Aerial Intelligence (SAI)
Haruko Kawahigashi
International Advisory Committee Chair, Association of Old Crows
JP Kim
International Region II Director, Board of Directors, Association of Old Crows
Colonel Joshua "Mule" Koslov
Director, Non-Kinetic Operations, US Air Force Headquarters
Dr. Yongsik Lee
Principal Researcher, Agency for Defense Development, Korea
Colonel Marc Lewis
SML, AFLCMC/ESY
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Dr. Albert Lowas, III
Chief Scientist, Air Mobility Command
Dr. Andrew Lucas
Managing Director, Agent Oriented Software
Professor Renato Machado
Electronic Warfare Competence Center, Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Chris Manning
Capability Program Executive, Intelligence and Spectrum Warfare ISW
Captain Robert McMillan, USN
Program Manager, Airborne Electronic Attack Systems (PMA 234), US Navy
Colonel Osvaldo Alaniz Miranda
Chilean Chapter President
Jesse Moody
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Matthew Neidig
Program Manager, HII Mission Technologies
Darin Nielsen
Chief Executive Officer, Air Combat Effectiveness Consulting Group
Rear Admiral Steven Parode, USN (Ret.)
Acting Director of Naval Intelligence Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Director, OPNAV Intelligence Division (N2) Director, Naval Intelligence Activity
Matthew "Cess" Poole
Senior Research Associate, Spectrum Warfare Operations and Research Division, Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, Sensors and Intelligent Systems Directorate, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
Marvin "Marv" Potts
Senior Scientist for Electromagnetic Spectrum Warfare, Air Force Research Laboratory
Colonel Andrew "Prof" Prue
Deputy Commander, 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing
Dec Rogers
Principal RF Engineer, Rowden Technologies
Colonel Craig "Po" Rumble
(Invited)
Company Commander, 55th Electronic Combat Group
Major General Mick Ryan, AM (Ret.)
Senior Fellow for Military Studies, Lowry Institute
Captain Takashi Sato
Chief of the Information Warfare Section, C4I Division, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Lieutenant Colonel Gedaliah "Ged" Scharold, USA
Capability Development Branch Chief, Intel FCD
Eric Schultz
EMSO Branch Chief, Cyber Combat Power Directorate (S6C), US Space Force Headquarters
Dr. Len Sciacca
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Systems Research Pty Ltd
Jordan "Cancer" Scott
Innovation Chief, Code Talkers Engineering
Colonel Scott Shaffer, USA
Project Manager, PM Electronic Warfare & Cyber
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Sherburne, USA
Branch Chief, CEMA CAPDEV Branch, Requirements Division, Cyber-FCD
Commander Malte von Spreckelsen
DEU Cyber and Information Domain Command, Germany
Dr. James Stewart
Disruptive EMS S&T SSTM, Department Chief Scientist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane)
Captain Roman Suslov
Lecturer at the Department of Unmanned Systems and Electronic Warfare, Kyiv Institute of the National Guard of Ukraine
Jason Temple
Technical Director, Joint Electromagnetic Warfare Center, US Strategic Command
Jason Timpe
System Architect Fellow, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Dave Tremper
(Invited)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, Test and Engineering (DASN (RDT&E)), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) (ASN RDA)
Major General Edward "Hertz" Vaughn, USAF (Ret.)
Chief Strategy Officer, SEMPRE
Colonel William "Dollar" Young, Jr., PhD, USAF (Ret.)
President/CEO, Security Concepts & Strategic Design (SCASD), LLC