Directed Energy Summit Speakers

Senator Martin Heinrich
(D-NM)
Co-Founder DE Caucus, Member Senate Armed Services Committee

Senator Mazie K. Hirono
(D-HI)
Member Senate Armed Services Committee

Representative Jim Langevin
(D-RI)
Member House Armed Services Committee

Representative Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Member House Armed Services Committee

Representative Mike Rogers
(R-AL)
Member House Armed Services Committee

Representative Tim Ryan
(D-OH)
Member House Appropriations Committee

Dr. Nadia Schadlow
Deputy National Security Advisor 

Honorable Michael D. Griffin
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

General Robin Rand, USAF
Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command and Commander, Air Forces Strategic Air, U.S. Strategic Command 

Lieutenant General R. Scott Williams
Commander, 1 AF (Air Forces Northern) and Commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region

Rear Admiral David J. Hahn
Chief of Naval Research, Director, Innovation, Technology Requirements, and Test and Evaluation

Brigadier General Kevin Huyck
Deputy Director of Operations, Headquarters North American Aerospace Defense Command

Mr. Elbridge Colby, SES, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Force Development

Mr. Jeffrey S. White, SES
Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)

Mr. Keith Englander, SES
Director for Engineering, Missile Defense Agency

Mr. Thomas Lockhart, SES
Director, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory 

Mr. J. Scott Norwood, SES 
Strategic Effects Director to the Commander, US Army Pacific

Dr. George Ka’iliwai
Director, Resources and Assessment Directorate Headquarters, US Pacific Command 

Dr. Azar S. Ali, SES
Chief Scientist for Pacific Air Forces, US Pacific Air Force

Colonel Rey Q. Masinsin
Director, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

Dr. Gary DeBell
Founder and Managing Member, MLD Technologies, LLC 

Mr. Scott Keeney
Founder and Chief Executive Office, nLIGHT 

Dr. Vincent D. Mattera
President and CEO, II-VI 

Mr. Mark McElhinney
President, Lasertel 

Horacio Rozanski
President and Chief Executive Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Thomas G. Mahnken
President and Chief Executive Officer, CSBA

Henry “Trey” Obering
Executive Vice President, Directed Energy Innovation Services Officer

Ambassador Eric Edelman
Counselor, CSBA

Captain Jon Totte
Chief, Office of Specialized Capabilities, US Coast Guard

Colonel Dennis Wille
Senior Space Operations Officer, Operations Directorate, US Army Europe

Mr. Richard W. Glitz
Technical Director, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization

Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey G. Erts
Chief of Experimentation and Wargames Branch at Fires Battle Lab, US Army

Dr. William Cooper
Hybrid Defense of Restricted Airspace (HyDRA) Study Director, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

Ms. A. Adele Ratcliff
Director of Manufacturing Resiliency & Assurance & International Manufacturing & Innovation

Mr. Ronald J. Flatley
Program Officer for the Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) Program at the Office of Naval Research, Code 35 

Mr. Ryan Hoffman
Program Officer in the areas High Power Radio Frequency (HPRF) and High Power Microwave (HPM) Weapons for the Office of Naval Research, Code 35

Dennis Gibson
Senior Vice President, Pacific Rim, Booz Allen Hamilton

Mark Gunzinger
Senior Fellow, CSBA

Tom Pfeifer
Executive Vice President, Defense, Booz Allen Hamilton

Dr. David Stoudt
Senior Executive Advisor and Engineering Fellow for Directed Energy

Dennis Via
Senior Executive Advisor and Defense Fellow, Booz Allen Hamilton

Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow, CSBA

Mara Motherway
Head of Government Relations, Booz Allen Hamilton

Patrick “Jim” Potter
Principal/Director, Directed Energy Innovation