2nd National Summit on Hypersonic Weapons Systems - Post-Event Report

The conference was exceptionally beneficial to me because of the many subject matter experts and thought leaders in hypersonic technology speaking and participating on the panels. The keynote speakers were thought provoking and informative. Senior Director, Programs, Integrated Defense Solutions BAE Systems, Inc., Intelligence & Security

Esteemed Guest Speakers Include:

CHAIRS

LT GEN (USAF-RET)

BRUCE “ORVILLE” WRIGHT

President & CEO

Air & Space Forces Association

DR. TOM KARAKO

Senior Fellow, International Security Program and Director, Missile Defense Project Center for Strategic & International Studies

KEYNOTES

DR. YVETTE S. WEBER, SES

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering

Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics)

MARCIA HOLMES

Deputy Director, Hypersonic, Directed Energy, Space and Rapid Acquisition

Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), Redstone Arsenal

LAURA DESIMONE

Executive Director

Missile Defense Agency

SPEAKERS

LT. COLONEL GARY GOFF

USAF, Materiel Leader, Space Layer Resilient Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, (SNR), Space Sensing Directorate

U.S. Space Force

DR. NATHAN R. TICHENOR

Director of Hypersonic Facilities | Bush Combat Development Complex

Texas A&M University System

DR. JEFFREY C. BOULWARE

Technical Director

Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO)

JOHN OTTO

Senior Director, Advanced Hypersonic Weapons, Advanced Technologies Product Line Raytheon Missiles & Defense

DR. ERIC MARINEAU

Program Officer, Hypersonics, Aerothermodynamics, High Speed Propulsion and Materials

Office of Naval Research (ONR)

DR. RODNEY BOWERSOX

Director, Texas A&M National Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory

Texas A&M

TIM WADHAMS

Senior Research Scientist, and the Vice President

CUBRC Aerosciences Sector, CUBRC Aerosciences Group

DR. ERICA CORRAL

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute, University Distinguished Scholar in Materials Science and Engineering

University of AZ Tucson

LT COL JARED THOMPSON, USAF

Chief, Advanced Capabilities Integration Branch

USSTRATCOM J875

DR. VALERO VITI

Aerospace & Defense Team Lead Ansys

Esteemed Guest Speakers Include:

DR. KELLY STEPHANI

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Kritzer Faculty Fellow, Co-Director, University

Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) Center for Hypersonics & Entry Systems Studies, (CHESS)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

CHRISTOPHER GETTINGER

Director, Advanced Propulsion and Systems

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems

DR. LUCA MADDALENA

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept, The University of Texas at Arlington

Director, Aerodynamics Research Center

JOHN “JV” VENABLE

Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy

The Heritage Foundation

DR. DANIEL MILLMAN (LTCOL (USAF-RET))

Chief Technology Officer Stratolaunch, LLC

CAPT (USN-RET) DAVID “DAVE” MCFARLAND

Director, Missile Defense Solutions

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

GEOFF ADAMS

Senior Mission Architect, Missile Defense

L3 Harris Space & Airborne Systems

DR. SCOTT MORTON

Fellow, AIAA and Royal Aeronautical Society

Associate Director, U.S. DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program

DENNIS HELMICH

Director of Integrated Military Systems

Sandia National Laboratories

MARK GLENN

Director, OSD Joint Hypersonic Transition Office

Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, (OUSD R&E)

DAVE WATERHOUSE CEO

Hypersonix

DR. ROBERTO FURFARO

Deputy Director Space4 Center, Director of UA Space Systems Engineering Laboratory

Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona

ANTHONY HAZLETT

Senior Engineering Leader, Hypersonic Propulsion & Power Systems, Edison Works Emerging Technologies GE Edison Works

DR. MARK LEWIS

Professor Emeritus, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland Executive Director, Emerging Technologies Institute, NDIA

Former Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Former Director of Defense Research and Engineering for Modernization (DoD), Former Chief Scientist of the Air Force

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering

Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force

Deputy Director, Hypersonic, Directed Energy, Space and Rapid Acquisition, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), Redstone Arsenal

DR. YVETTE S. WEBER, SES

MARCIA HOLMES

LAURA DESIMONE Executive Director Missile Defense Agency

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