Brent Sherman, a resident of Wauconda, Illinois, is a driver in the NASCAR Busch Series. Sherman’s route to the NASCAR was not like that of most drivers. After high school, he completed a six-year enlistment in the U.S. Air Force as an Air Surveillance Technician on the E-3 AWACS. It was during his last year in the Air Force that racing caught Sherman’s attention. After a trip to the Jim Russell Racing School in Sonoma, California, …

Mr. Giddens was then reassigned to the Air Force's Program Executive Office for Battle Management at the Pentagon where he was an Assistant for Acquisition. He was then detailed to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development, and Acquisition) to be the director of the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project and jointly reported to the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform.

Mr. Vera also participated in several MITRE IR&D projects, as a Principal Investigator in the development of an Intelligent Case Processing System Workstation that integrated technologies such as Expert System, Voice recognition, and Object Oriented Databases; and as a researcher in the development of an X-ray data pattern recognition system to detect explosives in airport baggage for the Federal Aviation Administration and the implementation of a system to capture and disseminate telemetry sate

Charles E. Vela President and Chief Scientist Charles E. Vela is a research and development engineer with over twenty five years of experience leading and managing applications of advanced technologies to large scale and complex systems.

Capt. Omar Pradhan Capt. Omar Pradhan , U.S. Air Force – Former AWACS command pilot. Former Flight Instructor, U.S. Air Force Academy. Planes flown: Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS (militarized Boeing 707-320B). 1,900+ hours flight time (350+ hours of combat air time over Afghanistan and Iraq). 9 years of distinguished Air Force service; Voluntarily Separated (Honorably) in July of 2007 to attend Law School.

1st Lt. Kristin Denner is a chief engineer for the Battle Management Systems Wing. She is the lead for the communications and navigation systems integrated product team on a $1.5 billion AWACS Block 40/45 upgrade. Lieutenant Denner directs acquisition planning and execution of critical voice communication and data link systems design, coding and testing and is responsible for cost, schedule and performance of the AWACS Data Link infrastructure development task.

Deborah Hanley serves as a lead financial analyst for the NATO financial management branch of the Battle Management Systems Wing. In this position, she is a lead analyst of a team of civilians and support contractors responsible for all NATO AWACS financial activities. With the recent departure of two financial experts, Ms. Hanley absorbed additional financial management duties which resulted in seamless program financial execution.

Donna Lepine is the chief of the A2SG cost estimating and analysis branch of the Battle Management Systems Wing. Ms. Lepine leads and manages the formulation and justification of numerous pivotal high-visibility cost estimates and analyses supporting $8.8 billion of AWACS modernization for the entire A2SG spectrum. She also oversaw the planning and development of a dynamic new software tool to facilitate A2SG the FY08 POM submission which has since been adopted as the Wing standard.

Michael Paley Senior Vice President, Business Development Michael Paley is an expert in improving individual and team performance. Over the past 10 years he has focused this expertise on developing innovative organizational and human performance modeling techniques for the optimal redesign of teams and organizations.

Ken Batcher is a professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. He also worked as a computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron, Ohio for 28 years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1969.

Well, I'm an Asshole! I hate stupid and ignorant people but I'll talk to a person if they can have a half-way intelligent conversation. I like my toys! Anything electronic, computers, cars, bikes, etc. For people who knew me in the past and are curious, after high school I tried to go to college. That didn't work, so I came up with the great idea(sarcasm)to go into the Air Force. Which is what I've been doing for the last six years.

Dr. Jean MacMillan - (Co-Chair) Aptima, Inc. Jean MacMillan is Chief Scientist at Aptima, Inc.. Her 20-year research career has spanned a broad range of topics in human-machine interaction and user-centered system design, including adaptive instructional design, team decision-making, command center design, and human performance measurement in simulation environments.

Linda Wightman , BS Linda Wightman , BS has developed and taught several Crew Resource Management programs for the Air Force before joining the LifeWings’ team in 2000. Since joining LifeWings, she has been a primary CRM program developer for mission-crewed aircraft. Ms. Wightman has provided CRM training at hospitals in Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee and frequently conducts Risk Management seminars for physicians.

Don Sadler is the Principal and Founder of Applied INTEGRITY Management Consulting Group. He has spent over 20 years in the financial and technology management fields in various positions from the office of Management and Budget (OMB) to Manager of Information Technology Auditing and Consulting for a major multinational Oil and Gas company where he had responsibility for their global operations.. A native of Oklahoma, he grew up all over the world as his family was in government service. . . .

I have over eleven years' experience overseas including over six years' experience in higher education and executive training. I also have US Government experience in consular affairs with the US State Department.

Nigel Lo was born and raised in Hong Kong. He came to the United States to attend the University Of Washington, where he earned his bachelor and master of science degrees in chemical engineering. He has been employed by The Boeing Company for over 20 years. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Program Planning and Development Committee chairperson for Kin On Health Care Center, and has served as President during 2003-2004.