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Katie Arrington
Chief Information Security Officer for Acquisition
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, OUSD (A&S)
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Waruna Seneviratne, PhD
Director – ATLAS, Sr. Research Scientist – Composites & Structures
National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR)
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Anoush Poursartip, PhD, P.Eng.
FCAE Director, Composites Research Network Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, The University of British Columbia and Director of Research
Convergent Manufacturing Technologies
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Dean Bartles, PhD, FSME, FASME
President & Chief Executive Officer
MTDG — Manufacturing Technology Deployment Group
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Dean Hilgenberg
Director, Manufacturing Engineering & Tooling Operations
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
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Ralph Resnick, FSME
NCDMM Fellow and Founding Director, America Makes – the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute
National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining
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Todd Szallay
Director, Advanced Manufacturing & Technology, Aerospace System Sector
Northrop Grumman Corporation
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John Vickers
Principal Technologist, Space Technology Mission Directorate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Bill Saathoff
Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technology & Development
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
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Nicholas Melillo
Technical Director, Composites Manufacturing Technology Center
Advanced Technology International
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Jeffrey Miller, PhD
Senior Technical Fellow, Production Engineering Commercial Airplanes
The Boeing Company
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Andrew “Drew” Mallow
Executive Director
National Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Louisiana State University
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Kelly Dodds
Advanced Manufacturing Tech Director, Advanced Manufacturing, Modernization & Technology
Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems
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Dianne Chong, PhD
VP of Assembly, Factory and Support Technologies, Engineering, Operations & Technology
The Boeing Company (retired)
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Jason Bither
Manager, Advanced Manufacturing & Technology, Aerospace System Sector
Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Robert Pickell Jr.
Senior Manufacturing & Process Engineer, Materials & Manufacturing Technology Group
Boeing Research & Technology
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Dan Braley, CAM-T
Associate Technical Fellow – Additive Manufacturing Technical Focal & Initiatives Lead
Boeing Global Services
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John D. Russell, D.Sc., FSME
Chief, Structures Technology Branch
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/RQVS)
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