Defense Software for a Contested Future: Agility, Assurance, and Incentives (2025)

Chapter: Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Defense Software for a Contested Future: Agility, Assurance, and Incentives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29129.

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Presentations to the Committee

November 9, 2023William Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University
January 19, 2024Kathleen Fisher, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Brad Martin, DARPA
Matthew Wilding, DARPA
February 2, 2024Byron Cook, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Forrest Shull, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
February 16, 2024Melinda Reed, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
March 1, 2024Talia Ringer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales Sydney
April 26, 2024Murugiah Souppaya, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Michael Durling, GE Research
May 6, 2024Sol Greenspan, National Science Foundation
May 7, 2024(Navy Team)
May 24, 2024Brian Rosenberg, RTX
Michael Westra, Ford Motor Company
Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Defense Software for a Contested Future: Agility, Assurance, and Incentives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29129.
June 7, 2024Doug Ghormley, Sandia National Laboratories
John Heimann, Oracle
Greg Marsden, Oracle
Adam Drake, Oracle
June 21, 2024Mark Kitz, U.S. Army
July 19, 2024Col. Richard Lopez, U.S. Air Force
Ron Malur, U.S. Air Force
August 2, 2024Christoph Kern, Google
August 16, 2024Maj. Gen Glenn Dean, U.S. Army
Joe Kiniry, Galois
September 27, 2024Russell Frew, Lockheed Martin
Glen Miller, Lockheed Martin
October 8, 2024Doug Schmidt, Department of Defense Operational Test & Evaluation
November 8, 2024Felix Cortez, U.S. Air Force
November 22, 2024Rick Jandrian, U.S. Navy
Christopher Toney, U.S. Navy
Sean Allen, U.S. Navy
March 7, 2025Byron Cook, AWS
Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Defense Software for a Contested Future: Agility, Assurance, and Incentives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29129.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Defense Software for a Contested Future: Agility, Assurance, and Incentives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29129.
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