Brigadier General Mark Bowman serves as the Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems, Headquarters U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. He is responsible for the implementation and management for the global communications and computer networks for United States Central Command and its component commands; and ensures reliability of Command and Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence systems to support deployed forces across the spectrum of conflict.

BG Bowman received a Reserve commission in the Infantry in 1978 upon graduation from Norwich University. He received a master’s degree in public administration from Shippensburg University in 1998. His military education includes the Infantry Officer Basic Course, Signal Officer Advanced Course, Training with Industry, U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Joint Command and Control Course, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the U. S. Army War College.

His assignments include Battalion S-4, Company Executive Officer, Company Commander, and Battalion Operations Officer, 1st Signal Training Brigade, Fort Gordon, Georgia; Chief, Transmission Systems and Force Structure Branches, DCSOPS, 5th Signal Command, Germany; Action Officer and Chief, Concepts Branch, Directorate of Combat Developments, and S-3, 67th Signal Battalion, Fort Gordon; Action Officer, Command Centers Support Division, Joint Staff, J-6, Washington, D. C.; Staff Officer, Tactical Systems Division, Office of the Director, Information Systems Command, Control, Communications, and Computer (ODISC4), Washington, D.C.; Battalion Commander, 54th Signal Battalion, Saudi Arabia; Chief, Operations Division, and Commander, Joint Staff Support Center, Defense Information Systems Agency, Washington, D.C.; Brigade Commander, 11th Signal Brigade and Chief Operations Officer (G-3), Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Army Signal Command, Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Executive Officer to the Army’s Chief Information Officer (CIO/G-6), Deputy Commander for Support, U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Army Signal Command and, Chief of Staff for Defense Information Systems Agency, Washington, D.C. He was promoted to Brigadier General on January 1, 2006.

BG Bowman’s decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters. He is also authorized to wear the Joint Staff Identification Badge, Army Staff Identification Badge, and the Parachutist Badge. (Current as of June 2007)

Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula is Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force for policy formulation, planning, evaluation, oversight, and leadership of Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. As the Air Force's Senior Official of the Intelligence Community he is directly responsible to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

General Deptula completed ROTC at the University of Virginia as a distinguished graduate in 1974, and remained to complete a master's degree in 1976. Earning his wings in 1977, he has flown more than 3,000 hours (400 in combat) to include multiple operational fighter command assignments. He has taken part in operations, planning, and joint warfighting at unit, major command, service headquarters and combatant command levels. He has served on two congressional commissions charged with outlining America's future defense posture -- the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces, and the National Defense Panel. Prior to assuming his current position, he served as Commander of the General George C. Kenney Warfighting Headquarters, and Vice Commander, Pacific Air Forces.

General Deptula has significant experience in combat and leadership in several major joint contingency operations. He was the principal attack planner for the Desert Storm coalition air campaign in 1991. He has twice been a Joint Task Force Commander - in 1998/1999 for Operation Northern Watch during a period of renewed Iraqi aggression where he flew 82 combat missions, and for Operation Deep Freeze, supporting forces in Antarctica. In 2001, the general served as Director of the Combined Air Operations Center for Operation Enduring Freedom, where he orchestrated air operations over Afghanistan during the period of decisive combat. In 2005, he was the Joint Force Air Component Commander for Operation Unified Assistance, the South Asia tsunami relief effort, and in 2006 he was the standing Joint Force Air Component Commander for Pacific Command.

Mr. Terence (Terry) Edwards was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in May 2005, and currently serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), Fort Belvoir, VA. Mr. Edwards is responsible for positioning AMC Information Operations to provide maximum readiness support to the Army, every Soldier, Combatant Commanders, and Joint/ Combined/ Expeditionary operations. He serves as the principal advisor to the AMC Commanding General on all information technology matters. He directs all the information activities of the Command as the central authority, senior counselor, and prudent advocate for all Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM) including enterprise policy, planning, guidance, direction, and resource management. He provides the leadership to ensure improved design, acquisition, use, performance, effectiveness, sharing, and timely retirement of information assets.

Mr. Edwards comes to AMC from his position as the Director, Army Enterprise Architecture, Headquarters, Department of the Army, Chief Information Office/G6, where he previously served as the Acting Director, Army Architecture Integration Cell (AAIC).

He has earned two Masters degrees; one in Computer Science from Farleigh Dickenson University and the other in National Resource Management at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. His Bachelor of Science degree is in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama.

Mr. Edwards’ innovative approach to resolve interoperability challenges coupled with his subject matter expertise in the areas of battlefield digitization and Army architecture has made him the Army’s leading authority on the Army Enterprise Architecture integration and operations.

He is a highly respected leader, decision maker, and engineer as demonstrated by the award of two Superior Civilian Service medals and one Meritorious Civilian Service medal, received in recognition of his excellent performance.

Highlights of Mr. Edwards’ civilian service in the Army include his role as the Acting Director and previously, Deputy Director of the AAIC. He served as Chief, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Division for the Objective Force Task Force. Here he established the strategy and processes for shaping and synchronizing architecture operations and architecture developmental activities in support of Warfighter transformation and the Army Future Force requirements. Paving the way to a transformed Army, Mr. Edwards lead as the Technical Director for the Central Technical Support Facility (CTSF) in support of the Army’s Force XXI Project is where he established capability testing processes to support experimentation and fielding of Army Battle Command Systems for the Army’s first digitized combat division. This facility stills serves as the Army’s premier integration testing facility.

Mr. Edwards’ military service includes 3 years with the U.S. Navy, 1978-1981.

Rear Admiral Janice M. Hamby is the director, Command Control Systems, for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. She is responsible to synchronize command-wide information superiority and architecture efforts to enable the Commander, NORAD and USNORTHCOM, to plan and execute military operations throughout the area of responsibility, and provide military assistance to civil authorities including consequence management operations.

A native of Medina, Ohio, Rear Adm. Hamby was commissioned from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Navy ROTC program in 1980. Early assignments included duty at Naval Regional Data Automation Center, Washington, and commander, Naval Base Pearl Harbor and plans and project management department head at the Data Processing Service Center, Pearl Harbor. She attended Boston University earning a Master of Science in Information Systems Management and a Master of Business Administration, graduating from both programs with highest honors. She was subsequently assigned as assistant professor of Computer Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy and then served as deputy director of the Communications Operations Directorate at Naval Computer and Telecommunication Station Washington. In 1994 she reported to USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) “Ike,” as part of the initial assignment of women to naval combatants. She participated in Eisenhower’s deployment to Haiti in support of Operation Uphold Democracy completing her surface warfare qualification during Ike’s 1994 Mediterranean deployment. In August 1995 she transferred to USS George Washington (CVN 73) to serve as the first afloat combat systems officer to combine Information Systems Management, Combat Systems Maintenance and Telecommunications Systems Management in one department.

Rear Adm. Hamby graduated from the U.S. Naval War College in November 1997, earning a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies. Awarded the Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski award for best essay related to information warfare, command and control warfare and related systems and technology issues, she graduated with distinction and was named Presidential Honor Graduate. Rear Adm. Hamby was then selected to serve as an associate fellow on the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group.

Rear Adm. Hamby assumed command of Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, Jacksonville, Fla., in August 1998, also reporting to Commander, Navy Region South East in an additional duty capacity as program manager for Information Technology. During this assignment she served as the Navy’s Southeast Region Y2K Coordinator for both computer systems and imbedded facilities.

Rear Adm. Hamby is a 2001 graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College and winner of the National Defense University Foundation Writing Award for best essay on joint matters. She served on the staff of Commander, Striking and Support Forces Southern Europe, as command liaison to the COMSIXTHFLT staff and special assistant for information management and information operations issues. She assumed major command of U.S. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station, Europe Central, Naples, Italy, in October 2002.

Following her major command tour Rear Adm. Hamby served on the Chief of Naval Operations Staff as the FORCEnet Capabilities Assessment branch head and FORCEnet Warfare pillar deputy (N704B). During this tour she accepted a temporary assignment as the director of Knowledge and Information Management on the staff of the Multi-National Force – Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq. In July 2006 she reported to her first flag assignment at Naval Network Warfare Command as director of Global Operations. In May of 2008 she reported to her current assignment as director, Command Control Systems, NORAD and U.S. Northern Command.

Rear Adm. Hamby’s personal awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with two Gold Stars, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Meritorious Service Medal with three Gold Stars, the Navy Commendation Medal with Gold Star, the Navy Achievement Medal with Gold Star, the Army Achievement Medal, the Navy Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal and various unit commendations and awards.

As the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3ISR & IT Acquisition, Mr. Harp is responsible for the review of major acquisition programs for command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, space and information technology programs. In addition, he leads reviews of major defense acquisition programs and major automated information systems as the Chairman of the Command, Control, Communications, & Intelligence Overarching Integrated Product Team (OIPT) in support of the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) and Information Technology Acquisition Board (ITAB). He also supports the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence by reviewing the acquisition programs under development by the defense intelligence agencies.

Mr. Harp’s previous assignments include service as the Director, Acquisition for C3ISR & IT Acquisition, the Program Executive Officer and Transition Lead for Financial Visibility, Business Transformation Agency (BTA), the Component Acquisition Executive and Head of Contracting Activity for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), and Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Innovation and Technology Integration.

Prior to his promotion to the SES level, Mr. Harp served in the Immediate Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary. A retired Navy officer, he served for over 20 years in acquisition, logistics and financial positions at all echelons of the Navy and the Department of Defense. He also served afloat aboard the cruisers USS Leahy (CG-16) and the USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) where he participated in several deployments and exercises, including the Operation El Dorado Canyon Libyan strikes.

Mr. Harp is currently a government co-chair to the American Council of Technology/Industry Advisory Council, Acquisition Special Interest Group. He is a founding member of the White House Military Aides Association and a member of the American Society of Military Comptrollers. Mr. Harp received a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s of Business Administration Degree in Financial Management from the George Washington University. He is Defense Acquisition Workforce Integrity Act Level III certified in Program Management, Business, Cost Estimating and Financial Management, and Acquisition Logistics. His awards include The Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, the Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, and the Defense Superior Service Medal.

Mr. Harp, his wife, and family reside in Manassas, Virginia.

Colonel Arthur G. Hatcher, Jr., is the Deputy Director of Communications, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, VA. In this capacity, he is the functional deputy leader for 15,000 communications professionals, providing information technology services to 101,500 active-duty military and civilian members at 30 major installations in the United States and overseas. Additionally, he assists in directing the activities of 40 Reserve communications units upon activation. He is responsible for policy guidance, program management and resource allocation supporting the command's mission to provide nuclear forces for U.S. Strategic Command, theater air forces for U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Southern Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. Pacific Command, as well as air defense forces for the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

Colonel Hatcher is a Joint Specialty Officer and has served in multiple staff assignments including the Joint Staff, a combatant command staff and two major air commands. Colonel Hatcher has commanded an Air Expeditionary Group, a communications group and two base-level communications squadrons.

Maj. Gen. John C. Koziol is Commander, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency; and Commander, Joint Information Operations Warfare Command, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. As the Commander of the AF ISR Agency, General Koziol is responsible for providing multi-source intelligence products, applications, capabilities and resources, as well as information operations forces and expertise. The agency includes the 70th Intelligence Wing, 480th Intelligence Wing, the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, the Air Force Technical Applications Center, and all Air Force cryptologic operations. In his position as AF ISR Agency Commander, General Koziol also serves as the Commander of the Service Cryptologic Organization. In this capacity, he is responsible to the Director, National Security Agency, and Chief, Central Security Service, as the Air Force's sole authority for matters involving the conduct of cryptologic activities, including the spectrum of missions directly related to both tactical warfighting and national-level operations.  As Commander, Joint Information Operations Warfare Command, General Koziol is responsible to the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, for its mission of planning, integrating, and synchronizing comprehensive information operations in support of Joint Force Commanders and national-level objectives.

General Koziol received his commission through the Norwich University Air Force ROTC program as a distinguished graduate in 1976. He has commanded at the detachment, squadron, center, group and wing levels. In addition, General Koziol has served in several Air Staff positions to include program element monitor for national intelligence programs; executive officer to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence; Chief of Program Development and Integration; and Deputy Director of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Prior to assuming his current position, General Koziol was the Commander, 55th Wing, Offutt AFB, Neb.

Rear Admiral William Leigher, a native of Appleton, Maine, graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 1980 with a Bachelor in Political Science Degree. He attended the Naval War College, graduating in 1994 with a Master in National Security and Strategic Studies.

In 1981, he was commissioned as an Ensign at Officer Candidate School, Newport, R.I. His initial assignment was onboard USS Thorn (DD 988) as a communications officer. In 1984, he reported to the Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport, R.I., as the fleet communications instructor.

In 1987, he was selected for lateral transfer and designated a Naval cryptologic officer. Later in 1987, Rear Adm. Leigher was assigned to U.S. Naval Security Group Activity Hanza, Okinawa, Japan, as morse and non-morse division officer. In 1990, he was assigned as the staff cryptologist for Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group 2 in Charleston, S.C. During this tour he completed two deployments embarked in USS America (CV 66), which included combat action during Operations Desert Storm, Desert Shield and Southern Watch. In 1992, Rear Adm. Leigher was assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence Detachment, Newport, R.I., as a war-gaming specialist.

In 1995, Rear Adm. Leigher was assigned to COMUSNAVEUR in London, England, as the cryptologic operations officer. In 1998, he reported to Commander, Naval Security Group Command, Fort Meade, Md., for assignment as deputy director for Information Technology and Communications and was subsequently assigned to the Pentagon as the executive assistant to the deputy director for Cryptology. In 2002 he reported to the National Security Agency as a senior operations officer in the National Security Operations Center. In July 2004 he reported as the deputy director for Information Operations at Naval Network Warfare Command.

He recently served as commanding officer, Navy Information Operations Command, Norfolk. He reported to his current assignment in June 2008.

Rear Adm. Leigher wears the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), the Navy Commendation Medal (three awards), the Navy Achievement Medal (two awards) and various unit and campaign medals.

Christopher A. Miller is the Program Executive Officer Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I), responsible for the acquisition and life cycle management of assigned C4I programs.

A graduate of Vanderbilt University and former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, he left active duty in 1999 to work as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton coordinating the Year 2000 transition for Navy command and control programs.

He re-entered government service with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and led development of a common Windows 2000 PC software baseline that is the foundation of the Navy's Information Technology 21 (IT-21) tactical network.

He joined PEO C4I in 2004 and entered the Senior Executive Service in May 2006 as Executive Director/Deputy for PEO C4I and Space. He was appointed Acting Program Executive Officer PEO C4I in August 2006.

Steven Anthony Molina is currently the Director, Strategic Planning Office of the Defense Spectrum Organization. He directs an office tasked with pursuing net-centric spectrum management transformation goals, developing DSO’s working relationships with other Federal agencies and with industry, and accelerating and broadening outreach through military-to-military contacts globally. From 1999 to 2007, Mr. Molina was a Spectrum Management Engineer/Project Manager for the DISA/DSO Joint Spectrum Center (JSC), where he provided technical oversight to assist the spectrum management community in spectrum planning (policy, strategic, and regulatory); and to assist acquisition programs with the design, development, test, and operation of military systems to ensure compatibility with the intended electromagnetic environment (EME).

The theme of Mr. Molina’s work in recent years is supporting national and international policy and regulatory efforts, which has included support for NII, the Joint Staff, Service Spectrum Management Offices, the ITU (i.e., World Radio Conference), NATO, the Combined Communications-Electronics Board (CCEB), and NTIA. Some of his notable efforts and positions include being the DoD working-level lead for NTIA’s Presidential Spectrum Policy Initiative effort, the US DoD representative for CCEB Spectrum Task Force, the US DoD representative for NATO Frequency Management Technical Working Group, and participating in the Ultra-wideband regulatory proceedings. In his efforts supporting the acquisition community, Mr. Molina support a variety pf programs: AEGIS system, missile defense, F-22, Joint STARS, JSF, spaced based Radar, DARPA initiatives, MUOS, and other space-related efforts.

Mr. Molina received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

Colonel Medio Monti is the Commanding Officer, Joint Systems Integration Command (JSIC), U. S. Joint Forces Command, Suffolk, Va.

Colonel Monti leads military, government and contract personnel in providing Joint Command and Control (JC2) capability improvements and interoperability enhancements to the Joint Forces. He is responsible for the execution of joint interoperability assessments, warfighter utility assessments, and capability integration. He oversees JC2 capabilities requirements definition and research, engineering and systems development and ensures that interoperability standards are maintained. As the JSIC Commanding Officer he provides technical/systems engineering support to the JC2 Capability Portfolio Manager and Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC) program.

Mr. David Jimenez has held numerous positions in the Ft. Monmouth Community in the sustainment, program management, and research and development areas. He joined Ft. Monmouth as an intern in 1985 to the former Engineering Directorate, rising to serve on the director’s technical advisory staff.

He has held many important leadership and systems engineering roles within the office of Program Manager (PM) Single Channel Objective Tactical Terminal (SCOTT), Military Satellite Tactical Relay (MILSTAR), Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) and Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T).

In June 1991 he transitioned into PM SCOTT as the Production Engineer for Single Channel Objective Tactical Terminal (SCOTT) program charged with the development of the production solicitation for the SCOTT.

In September 1992 he served as the source Selection Chairman and Project Leader for the Single Channel Anti-Jam Man Portable (SCAMP) Terminal as the System Engineer for the program and MILSTAR System Engineer Planning Tools.

In 1996 while in PM MILSATCOM, Mr. Jimenez was a member of the team that won the first-ever David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award for the Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal (SMART-T) program. Mr. Jimenez served as the Chief Systems Engineer for PM MILSATCOM from 1998 until 2000.

In June of 2000 he was selected as the Product Director for the SMART-T program. During his tenure, he achieved milestone C, successfully guided the program final operational test and evaluation, corrected numerous deficiencies in the program, and began training and fielding of the production terminals in earnest.

In June 2003 he began work on the development of the High Capacity Communications capability (HC3) and was instrumental in establishing key relationships within the Joint community to foster teamwork in establishing joint transformational communications capabilities.

In June 2005 Mr. Jimenez formed and served as the Director of the Product Realization Directorate that is comprised of the command’s engineering professionals in the Production, Maintenance, and Quality disciplines.

Upon his return from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Mr. Jimenez was appointed to serve as the Acting Director of the Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate responsible for the Army’s communication system research and development.

Mr. Jimenez holds a Master’s of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, a Master’s of Science Degree in Engineering Management from the Florida Institute of Technology, a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, is a graduate of the Army Management Staff College, the Program Manager’s Advance Course and the Senior Acquisition Course. He is a member and has served on the Board of the Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association. He is twice-recipient of the Superior Civilian Service Award, and various other awards and recognitions.