Major General Fred D. Robinson Jr.
Commanding General
U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
Major General Fred D. "Doug" Robinson Jr., was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1976 following graduation from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He also earned master's degrees in Systems Engineering from Memphis State University and National Security and Strategic Studies from the National Defense University. His military education includes the Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College.
His first assignment was as a Platoon Leader with A Troop, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry, 2nd Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas. This was followed by assignments as A Troop's Executive Officer and the Support Platoon Leader of the Squadron. Over the course of his career, his assignments have included Commander A Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry Division, U.S. Army Europe; Executive Officer, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm; Commander, 3rd Battalion, 64th Armor, 3rd Infantry Division, USAREUR; Commander, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas; Deputy Director for Operations, National Military Command Center; Commanding General, United States Army Operational Test Command, Fort Hood, Texas; Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, 1st Armored Division; Director of Operations, Readiness and Mobilization, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G3/5/7; and Commanding General, 1st Armored Division in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Major General Robinson's awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal (with one Oak Leaf Cluster); the Defense Superior Service Medal; the Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf Clusters); the Bronze Star Medal; the Defense Meritorious Service Medal; the Meritorious Service Medal (with four Oak Leaf Clusters); the Army Commendation Medal (with one Oak Leaf Cluster); the National Defense Service Medal; the Southwest Asia Service Medal; the Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia); the Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait); the Parachutist Badge; the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge; and the Army Staff Identification Badge.
Major General Robinson is married to his wife of 33 years and has two children.
Dr. Thomas H. Killion
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Research and Technology/Chief Scientist
In March 2004, Dr. Killion was designated as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology/Chief Scientist. He is responsible for the entirety of the Army's Research and Technology program, spanning 21 Laboratories and Research, Development and Engineering Centers, with approximately 8,600 scientists and engineers and a six year budget of $11.3 billion. He is responsible for developing a Science and Technology (S&T) strategy responsive to Army needs from the near-term (within the next five years) stretching out through the far-term (twenty years into the future). The Basic Research, Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development programs and budgets that Dr. Killion builds for this strategy must be defended within the
Army, to the DoD and to Congress. He is also the principal scientific advisor to both the Secretary of the Army and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)).
Prior to his designation, Dr. Killion served as the Director for Technology under the Deputy ASA for Research and Technology (DAS(R&T)). In this position, he was responsible for oversight and coordination for the majority of the Army's Applied Research (6.2) program and all of its Advanced Development (6.3) program. He also co-chaired the Warfighter Technical Council and managed the Science and Technology Objective (STO) and Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) approval process for the DAS(R&T).
Prior to this assignment, Dr. Killion served as the Director for Personnel Technologies in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, where he was responsible for policy, guidance, oversight and advocacy of the Army's MANpower and PeRsonnel INTegration (MANPRINT) and Soldier Oriented Research and Development in Personnel and Training (SORD-PT) programs. Dr. Killion also served as the principal scientific advisor to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1.
Previously, Dr. Killion served as the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Liaison to the Office of the DAS(R&T), where he assisted in shaping, advocating and defending Army Science and Technology (S&T) program investments and priorities to senior leaders in the Army and in DoD and to Congress. During this time, he also served as the Acting Deputy Director for Research for a year, with responsibility for oversight of the Army's Basic Research (6.1) program and substantial portions of the Applied Research (6.2) program. He also served as the manager for the Army's Dual Use S&T program.
Professor Phil Sutton
Director General (Research & Technology) MoD
Phil Sutton (born 28 November 1953) graduated with an Honours Bachelor degree in Physics from Southampton University in 1975 and then joined the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment (ASWE) in MoD. He obtained his PhD in Electronics under MoD sponsorship also from Southampton in 1982. His early research activities were in novel pre-detector signal processing techniques for visible and infra-red sensors; this was the subject of his PhD thesis.
In 1982 he became responsible for the Establishment's Electro-Optical (EO) laser based Countermeasures programme. Research priorities then moved towards Electronic Warfare and RADAR signal processing, and consequently Phil led research groups addressing new Electronic Support Measure techniques and development of novel sensors for operational deployment. In 1989 he was promoted to Individual Merit Senior Principal Scientific Officer.
In November 1992 he was appointed Chief Scientist of the Above Water Sector of the Defence Research Agency (DRA) within MoD with a wide range of responsibilities, but most critically for leading the Sector's Strategic Research Programme, development of the Sector's long term technical strategy and leading the prioritisation of the Sector's Applied Research Programme. This activity spanned a wide range of topics (eg, EW, combat systems, signature control, platform technology, systems integration, human sciences).
Phil Sutton was awarded a visiting Professorship in the Department of Aerospace, Power and Sensors of the Royal Military College of Science Shrivenham on Emerging Technologies in 1990, and another at Loughborough University, Mechanical Engineering Department in signal processing in 1992.
From the period April 1996 to February 1998, Phil was Head, Battlefield & Vehicle Systems Department, in the newly formed Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) at Chertsey. The Department, which had previously been concerned with research related to heavy and light armoured fighting vehicles at DERA Chertsey was expanded to include elements of Land Systems Sector at Fort Halstead responsible for battlefield information systems (Army C2), battlefield simulation and training, command system research and the DERA lead on Joint Battlefield Digitization (Land). The Department also led on some of the major land procurement and development programmes, ie TRACER, MRAV, Challenger 2, Warrior MLI and the UK/USA Synthetic Theatre Of War (STOW) project.
He was appointed on promotion (Senior Civil Service 1*) as Director of Corporate Research in MOD on 2 March 1998 and as such was responsible for all of the MOD's non-nuclear long term research programme. His main responsibilities were to manage, provide leadership and undertake the role of customer to the MOD's Corporate Research Programme -CRP- (worth £140m FY99) and the MOD Joint Grant Scheme -JGS- (worth £6m FY99). The former was MOD's long term speculative research programme and the latter enabled combined MOD/Research Council grants to be awarded to universities on topics of mutual interest. In both areas, particular emphasis was placed on the generation and active research of truly novel ideas that offer benefit to MOD, albeit in many cases on a 20 year timescale. Another important aspect of the post is to lead on aspects of MOD policy making as related to Science and Technology (S&T).
In July 2002 Phil was appointed as Director of Technology Development and head of the Research Acquisition Organisation in MOD, responsible for the S&T axis of the whole of MOD non-nuclear research programme (worth £460m FY 02). This post involved close and wide-ranging interaction with both industry and academia. The chief aims being to build S&T capability in areas of importance to MOD, and ensuring MOD military capability achieves maximum benefit from S&T.
In June 2004 he was appointed to the civilian 2* post of Director General Research and Technology within MOD. As a senior member of the Science Innovation Technology (SIT) organisation and also of the Equipment Capability Customer (ECC), his principal responsibilities are: ensure MOD's non-nuclear research programme meets the needs of the MOD and is of high quality; lead international research collaboration with all of the UK's major allies as UK principal; be a member of the Joint Capability Board which is the customer for delivery of military capability and MOD's £6B pa equipment programme. All this at a time when the UK's Armed Services have never been so stretched, and its budgets under so much pressure. The post involves leadership of 4 very active Directorates; the Director of the Research Acquisition Organisation, the Director of S&T Policy, the Director of Concepts & Technology, and the Director of Analysis, Experimentation & Simulation.
Phil Sutton is married to Kim and has 2 grown-up children. His interests include sailing, cycling, scuba diving, snowboarding and supporting his local church. He is a trustee/director of the Cancer Care Society and a Governor of Welbeck College. He has been a Weapons Engineering officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, has worked in industry in the mid 80's and is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and also is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
He has been an external examiner for many PhDs and MScs in signal processing and sensor systems.
Dennis A. Muilenburg
Vice President & General Manager, Combat Systems
Future Combat Systems - Program Manager
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
Dennis Muilenburg is the Boeing Company vice president and general manager for Combat Systems, and program manager of the Future Combat Systems effort. A Boeing-led team serves as the Lead Systems Integrator (LSI), partnered with the US Army, for the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, a major Army transformation initiative in the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase valued at $21B. In this role, Muilenburg leads the LSI and industry team and is responsible for all aspects of FCS program management. Muilenburg was also the FCS Milestone B program manager responsible for leading the transition of the FCS program from the Concept & Technology Demonstration (CTD) phase into the SDD phase. In his current assignment, Muilenburg is also responsible for all Combat Systems efforts, including the Future Rapid Effects System (FRES) program for the UK MOD and British Army, and several proprietary initiatives.Prior to his current assignment, Muilenburg was vice president - Programs & Engineering, Air Traffic Management, responsible for the overall development of Boeing's program to modernize the air traffic management (ATM) system and to support complementary global communication, navigation and surveillance services. His responsibilities also included product implementation, transition planning and coordination with ATM customers and stakeholders.
Prior to that assignment, Muilenburg was director - Weapon System for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program where he was responsible for the overall design, analysis and integration of the Boeing JSF multi-service weapon system. His responsibilities included management and integration of the air vehicle, autonomic logistics and the X-32 concept demonstrator aircraft. He is co-holder of the patent on the Boeing JSF design concept.
Muilenburg joined Boeing in June 1985 and has held a progression of program management and engineering positions on a broad range of large-scale programs including JAST/ASTOVL, F-22, AFX, Multi-role Fighter, EX surveillance platform, 747 Airborne Laser, Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF), National Aerospace Plane (NASP), High Speed Civil Transport, Condor reconnaissance aircraft and a number of proprietary programs.
Born Jan. 1, 1964 in Iowa, Muilenburg received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and his Masters of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington. He is actively involved in the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) and is currently Vice President - Community Relations for the AUSA Gateway Chapter. He is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Muilenburg is a member of the St. Louis Sports Commission Board of Directors. His hobbies include bicycling, hiking, basketball, softball, drawing, bungee jumping and rock climbing. He and his wife, son, and daughter currently reside in Edwardsville, Illinois.
Jack graduated from Cambridge and joined the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern where he worked on microwave systems. He transferred to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough where he worked on guided weapon systems. From 1990 to 1996 he worked in the Procurement Executive leading the team for Air Systems & NATO Command Control and Information Systems. From 1996 until 2005 he held various posts managing research in the C4ISR field. In July 2005 he took up the post of Research Director (Research Collaboration) and is now Deputy Director Research Collaboration and Technology.
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock
Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Chairman, Nomadix, Inc.
Chairman, TTI/Vanguard
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. This was in the period 1960-1962, nearly a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred in his laboratory when his Host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet. He was listed by the Los Angeles Times in 1999 as among the `50 People Who Most Influenced Business This Century'. He was also listed as among the 33 most influential living Americans in the December 2006 Atlantic Monthly.
Leonard Kleinrock received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1963. He has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles since then, serving as Chairman of the department from 1991-1995. He received his BEE degree from CCNY in 1957 and his MS degree from MIT in 1959. He also received Honorary Doctorates from CCNY in 1997, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2000, from the University of Bologna in 2005, from Politecnico di Turino in 2005 and from the University of Judaism in 2007. He was the first President and Co-founder of Linkabit Corporation, the company that spawned numerous wireless spinoffs in San Diego. He is Co-founder and Chairman of Nomadix, Inc., a high-technology firm located in Southern California. He is also Founder and Chairman of TTI/Vanguard, an advanced technology forum organization based in Santa Monica, California. He has published approximately 250 papers and authored six books on a wide array of subjects including packet switching networks, packet radio networks, local area networks, broadband networks, gigabit networks, nomadic computing, performance evaluation, and peer-to-peer networks. During his tenure at UCLA, Dr. Kleinrock has supervised the research for 46 Ph.D. students and numerous M.S. students. These former students now form a core group of the world's most advanced networking experts. A number are full professors at leading universities, and many are associated with major research firms in the area of computer-communications.
Dr. Kleinrock is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an IEEE fellow, an ACM fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, an IEC fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and a founding member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. Among his many honors, he is the recipient of the L.M. Ericsson Prize, the NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize, the Marconi International Fellowship Award, the Okawa Prize, the IEEE Internet Millennium Award, the ORSA Lanchester Prize, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the NEC Computer and Communcations Award, the Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award, the CCNY Townsend Harris Medal, the CCNY Electrical Engineering Award, the UCLA Outstanding Faculty Member Award, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer, the INFORMS Presidents Award, the ICC Prize Paper Award, the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award and the IEEE Harry M. Goode Award.
Leonard Kleinrock was born on June 13. 1934 in New York City and currently resides with his wife, Stella, in Los Angeles, California. They have four children and six grandchildren. His outside interests include Shotokan Karate (Black Belt); biking; marathon running; swimming; puzzles; and exotic nature trips.
Major General Barbara G. Fast
Deputy Director/Chief of Staff, Army Capabilities & Integration Center
Deputy Chief of Staff,G-9
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
Major General Barbara G. Fast assumed her duties as Deputy Director and Chief of Staff for the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) and Deputy Chief of Staff, G9, for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) on 9 July, 2007 after serving as the Commanding General for the United States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca.
Major General Barbara G. Fast received her commission through a direct appointment on 8 February 1976.
During her 31 years of commissioned service, Major General Fast has held command and staff intelligence assignments including: Assistant Operations Officer for Training and Education, 66th Military Intelligence Group, Munich, Germany; Officer-in-Charge, Soviet Orientation Team, 5th Military Intelligence Company, Munich, Germany; Assistant S3 (Operations), 18th Military Intelligence Battalion, Munich, Germany; Commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 18th Military Intelligence Battalion, Munich, Germany; Chief, Intelligence Production Section, 303rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas; Aide-de-Camp to the Deputy Commanding General, III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas; Professional Development Officer/Assignment Officer Manager, US Army Military Personnel Center, Alexandria, Virginia; Chief, Advanced Systems Section, J2, US European Command, Stuttgart, Germany; Executive Officer, 18th Military Intelligence Battalion, Munich, Germany; Deputy and Chief, Intelligence Division, 66th Military Intelligence Brigade, Munich, Germany; Commander, 163rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas; G2 (Intelligence), 2nd Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas; Commander, 66th Military Intelligence Group (Provisional), Augsburg, Germany; Associate Deputy Director for Operations/Deputy Chief, Central Security Service, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland; Director of Intelligence, J2, US European Command, Stuttgart, Germany, Assistant Commandant, US Army Intelligence Center & Fort Huachuca, Arizona; and C2, Multi-National Force-Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Major General Fast is a graduate of the Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the US Army War College. She holds Bachelor of Science degrees in German and Spanish from the University of Missouri, a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston University, and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Central Missouri State University.
Major General Fast's awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the National Defense Service Medal with one Bronze Service Star, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medals, the Army Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon, the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, the Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the Army Superior Unit Award.
Dr Dave Sloggett
M.Sc., C. Eng., MIET
Dr Dave Sloggett has over 35 years of experience in the military and law enforcement sectors working in a variety of roles but specialising in the field of intelligence analysis in the law enforcement and military sectors. In the last two years he has led the development of the Operational Intelligence Support Group [OISG], an all source intelligence fusion cell - which is now deployed into theatre - and led the research effort analysing the weaknesses in the current Information and Intelligence [I2] environment for the UK MoD. His specialised areas of research include socio-cultural, ethnic and anthropological analysis of societies whose population are the backdrop to current military operations. He travels widely in operational theatres to gain insights from current operations on the ground and has recently been in Iraq in Basra and Baghdad.
Dr Sloggett has written a wide range of published papers on Afghan Tribal Structures, several Opinion pieces in Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Intelligence Review, Information Operations [IO], Naval Intelligence [N2] for Naval Review, and counter-insurgency [COIN] operations and more recently on the subjects associated with confrontation and warfare in the 21st century. His work has been published in the US and the UK.
Dr Sloggett takes a personal active interest in all aspects of military history and is regarded as a commentator in this field, particularly in the study of the means by which commanders appreciate the value of intelligence, the Command & Control [C2] to Information & Intelligence [I2] interface. His research has focused on the development of situational awareness.
Dr Sloggett is also regularly asked to speak on matters related to intelligence collection and analysis in the context of contemporary military operations and has addressed the RUSI C4ISTAR Conference giving two speeches in the last two years on these matters. In September 2006 he was invited to give a keynote address to a conference of leading international bankers in Lisbon on the future direction of terrorism in Europe in the 21st century. He also gave a speech on his work at the RUSI Suicide Terrorism workshop in December 2006 and has been asked to follow-up on this on several occasions recently including a presentation at the Royal College of Defence Studies [RCDS] and gave the keynote address at the MoD Police National Conference in March 2007 on the causes of Islamic extremism. In April 2007 he addressed the Royal Aeronautical Society Annual Conference on the Role of Space in War and also presented on the role of open source material in intelligence analysis in South Korea. This work has recently been accepted for publication by RUSI.
He has been asked to give a keynote address at Fleet Headquarters in September 2007 at a dinner where he has been asked to cover the history of naval intelligence. He has also been asked to address the Police National CBRN Conference in October 2007 giving perspectives on suicide terrorism and its history. In October he will be giving one of the keynote addresses at the i2 Defence Conference in London and he will run a series of COIN Workshops in the course of the Conference. In December he will address the British International Studies Symposium at the University of Cambridge. Dr Sloggett is a Chartered Engineer and MIET, a member of RUSI, the Naval Review, the Oxford Intelligence Group [OIG] and the International Institute of Strategic Studies [IISS].
Dr Dave Sloggett holds a post as a Senior Research Associate [and Visiting Professor] at the Centre for Defence Studies at the Department of War Studies at Kings College, London.
Mr. Mark Milden
Director, Program Management
Networked Systems
Surface Systems
Honeywell International Inc.
Mark Milden is the Director of Program Management for Networked Systems. Networked Systems is part of the larger Surface Systems business under Honeywell Defense & Space. Networked Systems currently encompasses four program elements: Logistics Software, small ducted-fan Unmanned Air Vehicles, Unattended Ground Sensor systems and Mortar Fire Control Systems. Mark has worked at Honeywell for 24 years and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Prior to his current role, Mark has served in several program management assignments, including the program manager for the Future Combat Systems (FCS) Platform Soldier - Mission Readiness System (PS-MRS) program, the OH-58D Helicopter program and the Crusader Self-Propelled Artillery program. He also worked as the Engineering Product Line Manager for Integrated Systems and provided supervision for 150 engineers through 6 Engineering Managers.
A native of Bremerton, Washington, Mark graduated from Oregon State University with both a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering. Mark and his wife, Susan, have two children in High School, Kyle and Kaitlyn.
