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Thank you for attending the Ohio Defense Forum. Over the next two days, we will hear from experts in their fields about how we can maintain our country’s strong national defense.

The Ohio Defense Forum will give community leaders the opportunity to learn more about the important role they play “It is my hope that this forum will in supporting and advocating for Ohio’s defense resources, help forge partnerships and develop from our servicemembers and installations, to industry and innovative strategies that will further technology. It is my hope that this forum will help forge showcase Ohio’s dedication to our partnerships and develop innovative strategies that will men and women in uniform.” further showcase Ohio’s dedication to our men and women in uniform.

First, I would like to thank the Dayton Development Coalition and the Association of Defense Communities for making this event possible. Also, I would like to thank all of our panelists for sharing their thoughts on how we can continue to bring together community and military leaders from across the state to preserve Ohio’s commitment to defense.

Sincerely,

Congressman Mike Turner

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The Ohio State University Ohio Union

Ohio Defense Forum Location

5 Wednesday, October 5, 2016 Thursday, October 6, 2016

10:00 AM Registration Desk Open - Venue Sponsor: The Ohio State University College of Engineering Performance Hall

11:00 AM Lunch (Provided) - Sponsors: Radiance Technologies & Taft Law & Sawdey Solution Services Performance Hall

12:00 PM Welcome / Opening Ceremonies Performance Hall - ADC Event Purpose/Overview - Mike Cooper, President, ADC - Welcome Remarks by Congressman Michael Turner

12:30 PM Partnerships: Integrating the Military and the Community for Mutual Benefit Panel Moderator: Tim Ford, CEO, Association of Defense Communities Panelists: - Sandy Law, Military Families for High Standards - Marcus Lingenfelter, Senior Vice-President, State and Federal Programs, National Math and Science Initiative - Abigail Beniston, Code Enforcement and Blight Remediation Superintendent, City of Youngstown - Colonel Bradley McDonald, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Installation Commander - Brigadier General Todd Audet, Ohio Air National Guard Chief of Staff

2:00 PM Ohio’s Military Installations Panel Moderator: Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, Cliff Rosenberger Panelists: - Colonel Bradley McDonald, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Installation Commander - Richard (Dick) Willinger, Director of Installation Management and Resources, Ohio National Guard - Brigadier General Greg Schnulo, Assistant Adjutant General, Ohio Air National Guard - Colonel James Dignan, Youngstown Air Reserve Station Installation Commander - Hank Kennedy, Director of Plant Operations, General Dynamics and Systems, JMSC Lima

3:30 PM Networking Break Performance Hall Sponsors: The University of Dayton Research Institute & NextGen Federal Systems & CBD Advisors

4:00 PM Building Defense Investment in Ohio Panel Moderator: Maurice McDonald, Executive VP Aerospace and Defense, Dayton Development Coalition Panelists: - Bill Harrison, Director, Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Office - Mike Hripko, Associate Vice-President for Research, Youngstown State University - Arthur L. Huber, II, Air Force Research Laboratory Operations; Ground-Based Sense and Avoid Radar Project - Dennis Andersh, CEO, Wright State Applied Research Corporation at Wright State University; Ohio Federal Military Jobs Commission and the Ohio Federal Research Network - Hugh Bolton, Senior Cyber & Intelligence Fellow, Director of Commercialization, Wright State Research Institute; Office of Economic Adjustment Grant

5:45 PM Networking Reception (Refreshments Provided, Cash Bar)

6 Thursday, October 6, 2016

7:00 AM Registration Desk Open Performance Hall

7:00 AM Breakfast (Provided) - Sponsor: National Math and Science Initiative Performance Hall

8:15 AM State of Defense Now and into the Future Overview Panel Performance Hall Moderator: Congressman Michael Turner Panelists: - Lucian Niemeyer, The Niemeyer Group, LLC, Washington, DC - George Schlossberg, Kutak Rock, Washington, DC - Lt. General Loren Reno, US Air Force (retired) - Dr. Zachary Mears, Assistant Vice President for National Security Programs and Research, The Ohio State University

9:15 AM Building State and Regional Defense Community Champions National Panel Moderator: Matt Borron, COO, Association of Defense Communities Panelists: - Mike Cooper, Chairman, Oklahoma Strategic Military Commission and President, Association of Defense Communities - Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director, Utah Defense Alliance - Frank Sullivan, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Military Community Enhancement Commission - Dino Pick, Deputy City Manager, Plans and Public Works, City of Monterey, California

10:15 AM Networking Break Performance Hall Sponsors: Eastern Ohio Military Affairs Commission & SelectTech Services Corporation & The Perduco Group

10:45 AM Community Support for Ohio’s Military Installations – Community Leaders Panel Moderator: Dr. Cassie Barlow, Director, WSU Center for Workforce Development Panelists: - Vito J. Abruzzino, Esq., Director, Eastern Ohio Military Affairs Commission - Jeff Hoagland, President and CEO, Dayton Development Coalition - Wendy Gramza, President, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce - Steve Tugend, Chair, Government Relations Legal Practice, Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter; Central Ohio Defense Jobs Task Force - Mayor David Berger, City of Lima, OH, and Co-chair of Task Force Lima

11:45 AM Closing Comments By Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur

12:00 PM Forum End

12:00 PM Lunch “On Your Own”

1:00 PM Campus Tour by Venue Sponsor: Ohio State University – RSVP required

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Congressman Michael Turner Mike Cooper Michael Turner is the US Congressman from Michael Cooper began his career with Southwestern Ohio’s 10th Congressional district. He was Bell / AT&T in 1974 in Tulsa, OK where he served in a first elected to Congress in 2002, after serving wide variety of assignments which included State and Federal Regulatory & Government Relations, Network as Mayor of Dayton for 8 years. In Congress, Operations, Network Operations Staff and External Turner serves as a senior member of the Affairs in a variety of locations throughout the AT&T Oversight and Government Reform Committee territories. In 2006 Michael retired from AT&T and and a subcommittee Chairman on the Armed founded Cooper Public Strategies located in Broken Services Committee. Arrow, OK. Prior to his retirement, Michael served as Mayor for the City of Enid, Oklahoma In January of 2011, Turner was appointed Chairman of the US Delegation from 1995-1999. Cooper is currently active in a wide array of Oklahoma organizations serving as Chairman to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly the of the Governor’s Oklahoma Military Strategic Planning Commission, (2002-2016). inter-parliamentary organization of legislators from the countries of the North Mike also serves as President for the National Association of Defense Communities Atlantic Alliance. In December of 2014, Turner was elected President of the (ADC), (2014-2016). NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He also served as Chairman of the Board for the Greater Enid Chamber of Commerce, In January 2015, the Speaker of the House appointed Congressman Turner to Chairman of the Enid/Garfield County Development Alliance, Chairman of the Enid Joint the House Intelligence Committee. He is one of only two members of Congress Industrial Foundation and Foundation Board Member of Northwestern Oklahoma State to serve on both the House Intelligence Committee and as a Subcommittee University. Mike further serves on the Greater Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce board, Oklahoma Better Business Bureau board, Tulsa Community College Foundation, Chairman on the House Armed Services Committee. Northeastern Oklahoma State University President’s Council and the Jenks Aquarium board. Tim Ford Rachel Castle Tim Ford has served as the CEO of the Association of Rachel Castle is the Director of Defense Defense Communities (ADC) since 2010. Tim previously served as the organization’s Executive Director from Programs for the Dayton Development 2004-2007 and Deputy Director from 1999-2003. Coalition. She is charged with creating Credited with guiding ADC’s hundreds of member and maintaining relationships between communities and related organizations through BRAC the community and Dayton area defense 2005, Tim also nearly tripled the size of the organization and led efforts to fundamentally expand its mission during installations. Ms. Castle is the coordinator his decade leading the association. In recent years, Tim spearheaded the development and of the Ohio Defense Forum and the DRMC advocated for passage of a new authority that allows local governments and the military to – Dayton Region Military Collaborative. share public services. A nationally recognized expert on BRAC, the impacts of base closure, Prior to joining the Coalition, Rachel spent 12 years in federal civil base redevelopment and community-military partnerships, Tim has been featured on ABC World News Tonight, CNN, and MSNBC, as well as in USA Today, Time, the Wall Street service working in Public Affairs, the Commander’s Action Group, Journal, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Workforce Development and Strategic Planning. Her final assignment Tim also serves as the President/CEO of LRG. Founded in 1998, LRG is an award-winning at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was as Director of the new Wright- professional services firm that provides government agencies, commercial firms, non-profits Patterson Community Partnership Initiative. Rachel earned the AFMC and educational organizations with training, technical assistance, strategic communications and organizational development. LRG is among the top 10 public relations firms in the Public Affairs Entry Level Civilian of the Year award, as well as two Air Washington, D.C., area according to the Washington Business Journal. LRG has served as the Force Civilian Achievement Medals during her tenure. management firm for the Association of Defense Communities since 2010. LRG also manages the National Job Corps Association and the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships. Maurice McDonald Dr. David B. Williams Maurice McDonald is the Executive Vice Dr. David B. Williams is Executive Dean of the President, Aerospace and Defense, for the Professional Colleges and Dean of The College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. As Engineering Dayton Development Coalition. He has Dean, Williams oversees the education of more than overall responsibility for the community 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, leads a partnerships with the region’s defense research program that expends $120M annually and installations, and has launched several oversees the administration of 950 faculty, research scientists and staff. He is currently leading the college initiatives to expand the Dayton region’s through a 20% growth in tenure-track faculty. UAS business and research climate, as well as create a national Williams is involved in many university-industry economic development partnerships. He center of excellence in Cyber Security. represents Ohio State in Washington DC on The Business Higher Education Forum and the Prior to joining the Coalition, Mo was a Senior Program Manager Council on Competitiveness and he serves on the State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Advisory at URS Corporation responsible for managing over $90 million in Board and the boards of ASM International, American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute), Columbus 2020, Metro Early College STEM School, EWI, Ohio government contracts. Mo served 21 years in the Air Force as a Aerospace & Aviation Council, and the Transportation Research Center. logistics and acquisitions officer. He has held numerous leadership Before coming to Ohio State, Williams served as the fifth president of the University of positions throughout his career leading and managing Air Force Alabama in Huntsville from 2007 to 2011. Prior to that role, he was the VP for Research Supply Chain and Logistics processes and the Acquisition and at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Williams holds B.A., M.A., Ph.D., and Sc.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of six national and international Sustainment of Air Force weapons systems. professional societies in the areas of electron microscopy and materials.

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Sandy Law Abigail Beniston Sandy Law is a proud Army spouse, mother Abigail Beniston is the Code Enforcement and Blight Remediation Superintendent for the City of of three boys (ages 14, 12 and 7), and an Youngstown, Ohio. Prior to her appointment as educator. A Kansas native, Sandy earned Superintendent, she served as a code enforcement her B.S. in Secondary Education from inspector. As Code Enforcement and Blight Remediation Kansas State University with certifications Superintendent, Abigail is responsible for managing in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. the demolition of hundreds of vacant structures and Her passion for high quality education for military-connected students inspection of thousands of occupied and vacant structures. Over the past four years stems from her own family’s experiences with inconsistent education she has played a critical role in developing the necessary resources, partnerships, policy changes, and business practices to increase the impact of the City of as they moved multiple times across the country. At their last duty Youngstown’s blight elimination efforts. These efforts have included: developing station at Fort Riley, Kansas, Sandy worked with local and state one of the first community partnerships in the country with the 910th Air Reserve school boards as well as the state legislature to push for quality, to demolish blighted housing, working with the City’s administration to develop the first environmental sanitation fund in the State of Ohio to provide a long term consistent standards for military students. She continues that work as financial resource for demolition and blight elimination, and facilitating community part of Military Families for High Standards. partnerships and collaboration with neighborhood action teams, block watches and community organizations across the city. These efforts have led to the demolition of approximately two thousand vacant structures and brought approximately three thousand units into code compliance.

Brigadier General Todd M. Audet State Representative Brigadier General Todd M. Audet is the Ohio Cliff Rosenberger Air National Guard Chief of Staff. In this role, State Representative Cliff Rosenberger is he administers and supervises the Ohio Air currently serving his third term in the Ohio House National Guard State Headquarters staff in their of Representatives. He represents the 91st support to subordinate units. His leadership and House District, which includes Clinton, Highland oversight ensure mission readiness for more and Pike counties, and parts of Ross County. than 4,700 personnel in four flying wings and six For the 131st General Assembly, he was voted support units that serve our communities, state to serve as Speaker of the House by his fellow and nation in both state and federal missions. representatives. General Audet was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at the Academy of Speaker Rosenberger is an Air Force veteran, formerly assigned to the 113th Military Science, McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tennessee in August fighter wing of the Air National Guard, which he enlisted in shortly after graduating 1990. General Audet has participated in numerous stateside and overseas from Clinton Massie High School. Though originally stationed in Springfield, deployments to include New Horizons, Beyond the Horizon, Silver Flag, Ohio, with the 178th Fighter Wing, he transferred to the 113th Fighter Wing Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Ohio’s State Partnership of the District of Columbia after accepting a position with the White House in program with Serbia and Hungary. Prior to receiving his commission, General February 2007. Speaker Rosenberger was awarded the Major General Charles Audet was an enlisted member of the 180th Civil Engineering Squadron, Dick Award for Legislative Excellence for his strong support of the Ohio National located in Swanton, Ohio. He has more than 31 years of combined enlisted Guard while serving in the Ohio House. He has also served as the national and commissioned experience in the military. political events coordinator for Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Interior, Dirk Kempthorne. Colonel Bradley W. McDonald Marcus S. Lingenfelter Colonel Bradley W. McDonald is the 88th Marcus S. Lingenfelter serves as senior Air Base Wing and Installation Commander, vice president of state & federal programs Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He commands one of the largest air base wings in the for the National Math + Science Initiative Air Force with more than 27,000 Air Force (NMSI) – the non-profit established for the military, civilian, and contractor employees. purpose of dramatically improving math The wing provides support and services to and science educational outcomes for the one of the largest, most diverse, and most organizationally complex country. His role is to facilitate expansion bases in the Air Force including a major acquisition center, research of NMSI’s programs that are presently operating in 36 states and and development laboratories, a major command headquarters, an the District of Columbia, and are recently in receipt of $150M+ of airlift wing, and the world’s largest military air museum. The base is the new public and private investment to enable continued growth. largest single site employer in the state of Ohio. He previously served two international educational associations: Colonel McDonald entered the Air Force after graduating from the The College Board, where he championed state-level policies United States Air Force Academy in 1994. He has held a variety and programs to advance P-20 student success across the New of leadership, staff, and command positions with experience at the England and Mid-Atlantic regions, and the Council for Advancement squadron, wing, major command, and Air Staff levels as well as in the and Support of Education (CASE) where he provided educational deployed environment. programs to thousands of member schools and colleges.

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COL (Ret) Richard J. Willinger Colonel James D. Dignan COL (Ret) Richard J. Willinger is the Assistant Colonel James D. Dignan is the commander of the Quartermaster General (Director, Installation 910th Airlift Wing at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. As the commander of an Air Force Reserve Airlift Management and Resources), Ohio National Wing flying the venerable C-130 Hercules tactical Guard. Under the direction of the Adjutant airlift aircraft, he is responsible for the overall combat General, Major General Mark E. Bartman, he readiness of sixteen subordinate units with more is responsible for the day-to-day operation and than 1,300 personnel assigned. As the installation commander he leads the day-to-day operations and management of the fiscal and real property maintenance of an Air Station providing support for the nearly 2,000 assigned Air Force, resources of the agency; developing and implementing agency policy and Navy and Marine Corp Reservists. He is also the civilian leader for more than 400 Air procedures; purchasing and contracting. He develops operating and capital Reserve Technician (ART) and civil service employees. He assumed command of the improvement programs and budgets and acts as assistant real estate/facilities 910th Airlift Wing on March 2, 2013. Colonel Dignan received his commission through the Naval Aviation Cadet (NAVCAD) manager for all state buildings and grounds. program at the Aviation Officer Candidate School at NAS Pensacola, Fla., and received COL (Ret) Willinger graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1978 his “Wings of Gold” at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas. He has served as an officer and pilot and entered military service in 1979 through the United States Army Reserve in the U.S. Navy, the Air National Guard, and the Air Force Reserve. Colonel Dignan is Officer Training Corps program. COL (Ret) Willinger has served in various a command pilot with more than 6,500 hours in trainer, patrol, reconnaissance and airlift aircraft. He has flown more than 100 hurricane penetration missions in the WC-130 and operations and command positions in the United States Army and the Ohio has also flown combat and combat-support missions throughout the Balkans, the Horn Army National Guard. of Africa, and Southwest Asia. Brigadier General Gregory Hank Kennedy N. Schnulo Hank has been with General Dynamics Brigadier General Gregory N. Schnulo is the since 1985, holding various positions Assistant Adjutant General for Air, Ohio. He is responsible to the Commander of the Ohio Air within the Production, Delivery and National Guard for directing Air National Guard Sustainment Organization of General operations and establishing policy to ensure Dynamics. Hank has been in his current mission readiness of more than 4,600 personnel in four flying wings and six support units that position as Director, JSMC Lima, since serve our communities, state, and Nation for both January of 2015, where he is responsible homeland defense and federal missions. for production and delivery operations and the primary contact with Brigadier General Schnulo began his military career as an enlisted avionics technician in the 910th Airlift Group, U.S. Air Force Reserve, in 1981. In 1988, he the onsite customer and local community. Prior to his current position earned his commission through the Air National Guard, Academy of Military Science Hank was the Director of Plant Operations and Sustainment at GDLS as a navigator in the 160th Air Refueling Group. Force protection in Ladson, South Carolina. Brigadier General Schnulo has served in various operations and logistics positions and commanded the 121st Security Forces Squadron. He has served in three Ohio Air National Guard units and Joint Force Headquarters, Ohio as the Director of Hank received his Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Electrical Staff. He served as Wing Commander of the 179th Airlift Wing, Mansfield, Ohio, Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. and the 178th Wing, Springfield, Ohio. Brigadier General Schnulo has deployed in support of Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Deny Flight, Joint Endeavor, and Detainee Movement Operations. William (Bill) Harrison Mike Hripko Mr. William (Bill) Harrison is Director of Small Business Mike Hripko was appointed Youngstown State for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He University’s Associate Vice President for Research is responsible for the Air Force Small Business in June, 2015. He is responsible for management Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, AFRL Small and compliance for all externally funded grants Business Programs, and the Air Force Technology and sponsored programs. Additionally, he supports Transfer (T2) and commercialization programs. He regional economic development initiatives. Previously, focuses on developing novel interactions between Mike worked at America Makes as Deputy Director of AFRL researchers, small businesses and community Workforce and Educational Outreach, where he was partners to provide innovative technologies to meet Air Force requirements and responsible for developing and coalescing a national workforce and education strategy AFRL small business contract award goals. His duties include the identification of in additive manufacturing. small businesses that have capabilities to meet the AFRL requirements, outreach Prior to that, Mike served as Director for Research and Technology-based Economic and recruitment of small businesses to bid on AFRL solicitations, transferring and commercializing AFRL intellectual property and the training scientists and engineers and Development for the Youngstown State University College of Science, Technology, contracting officers on the small business and technology transfer programs. Engineering, and Mathematics. Mike’s responsibilities included establishing and Mr. Harrison has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA supporting multiple industry, government, and academic collaborations resulting in from MIT. He is an Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow, a MIT Sloan Fellow and new and expanded programs, technology-based research, and regional economic an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). development. His awards include the AIAA Engineer of the year in 2008, the Commercial Aviation Mike enjoyed a 31 year career with Delphi Packard Electric Systems, in Warren, Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) Visionary Award, and the Air Force Exceptional, Ohio. Mike led a team of engineers responsible for comprehensive product portfolio Meritorious and Exemplary Civil Service Awards. management, including the coordination and prioritization of new product development, and ensuring that all new products achieved quality and profitability metrics 11 General Session Biographies

Art Huber Dennis Andersh Art Huber is the Deputy Director of the Operations Dennis Andersh joined the Wright State Directorate, Headquarters Air Force Research Research Institute in December 2013 as the Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Chief Operating Officer to direct the growth of Ohio. In this capacity he serves as advisor and its use-inspired and applied research portfolio. subject matter expert to the Director and AFRL His leadership role is to connect the University’s Commander for flight operations as well as test research to new markets, while also leveraging and evaluation. He leads a 14-member team the Institute’s existing commercial and responsible for the planning, approval, and safe execution of a multimillion healthcare business. Mr. Andersh was named dollar R&D portfolio that includes over 50 active flight test programs each year. Chief Executive Officer of the Wright State Applied Research Corporation Prior to his current position, Mr. Huber served on active duty with the US Air within six months of joining the organization, and in 2015 he added the title Force for 30 years attaining the rank of Colonel. He was commissioned in 1983 Executive Director, Wright State Research Institute. after completing studies in aerospace engineering and political science at the With more than 20 years of documented leadership, management, and University of Notre Dame. He has held a variety of assignments specializing technical innovative successes, Mr. Andersh’s expertise lies in basic research, in air and space systems acquisition to include system development, testing, laboratory research and development (R&D), system concept development, system and platform development, and the fielding of air, ground and space procurement, sustainment, and tactics assessment. Colonel Huber has held mission critical systems. He is highly respected for building collaborative commands at the squadron, group, wing, and center levels and is a Flight Test partnerships of academia, industry, government, commercial, congressional, Engineer graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School. He has been assigned and local entities to create strategic growth across multiple new markets in the as officer aircrew in 25 different model aircraft accruing in excess of 500 flying federal, state, and local government. hours. Hugh Bolton Lucian Niemeyer Hugh Bolton is the Senior Cyber & Intelligence Fellow Lucian retired from the United States Senate and Director of Commercialization for Wright State University and the Wright State Research Institute. Committee on Armed Services professional staff in Prior to joining Wright State, Mr. Bolton performed in 2014 after 11 years providing expertise on a range C-level and Executive roles in privately owned, publicly of national security programs. He managed the traded, and non-profit companies. During his career, military installations portfolio, providing oversight he served as management lead on three separate public offerings and as lead executive on nearly three of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) and a half billion in mergers and acquisitions within the process, local community support programs, and Federal Cyber and Intelligence market space. Prior to going to work in industry, Mr. Bolton privatization programs for military housing, utilities, and land management. Leading served as an Air Force officer supporting classified National Security programs in project management, technical, and operational capacities. Mr. Bolton recently completed a two- the staff for the Readiness and Management Support subcommittee, he developed year assignment under a Special Government Employee agreement as Special Assistant innovative legislative solutions for the full spectrum of Department of Defense to the Office of Secretary of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office where he focused on issues related to personnel, training, budgets, logistics, fuel/energy, readiness, advanced technology transitions. Previously, Mr. Bolton served as the President and CEO of the Advanced Technical military ranges, infrastructure and facilities. With an extensive understanding of Intelligence Center (ATIC) in Dayton, Ohio. Over his six year tenure in this position, Mr. internal DOD and congressional legislative processes, he developed numerous Bolton took a start-up operation, initially funded with Ohio grants and Federal earmarks, authorities to enable innovative concepts, new technologies, and public/private and transformed it into an independent business with broad presence within the US ventures to be used by the Department of Defense. He is a leading authority on intelligence community and partnerships with government agencies, corporate entities, and academic institutions. Defense industrial base infrastructure policies and issues regarding laboratories, ranges, depots, and research centers.

George Schlossberg Loren M. Reno Mr. Schlossberg is Chair of the Kutak Rock LLP Loren Reno is in his second year as Federal Practice and National Security Law Group, and the vice president for academics and a partner resident in the firm’s Washington DC office. the chief academic officer at Cedarville He represents state and local governments, Federal University. He oversees more than Departments and Agencies, and private entities in 350 faculty members, 100+ graduate connection with Federal real property transactions, the closure and reuse of military installations, the financing and undergraduate programs, and the of government and commercial facilities on Federal academic preparation of more than 3,700 land, government contracts, and associated environmental matters. Mr. Schlossberg students. Loren was the inaugural dean of Cedarville’s school of serves concurrently as General Counsel to the Association of Defense Communities business administration and served there from 2012 to 2015. Before (“ADC”), the pre-eminent national organization representing state and local governments that, he served and led in the USAF in operations, maintenance, and communities with active, closed and closing military installations. training, and logistics positions culminating in an assignment as the Prior to joining Kutak Rock, Mr. Schlossberg served for over ten (10) years in various headquarters USAF deputy chief of staff for logistics, installations, and positions in the Pentagon, including Senior Counsel in the Office of the Secretary of mission support. He served for 38 years and retired in 2012 in the Defense. In that position, he advised the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary’s grade of lieutenant general. immediate staff on matters related to real property, base closures, defense installations, He is married to Karen Reno and has three children and three international agreements, the leasing, construction and private financing of defense grandchildren. facilities, government contracts, and associated environmental matters.

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Dr. Zachary Mears Matt Borron Dr. Zachary Mears, Assistant Vice President for Matt Borron is an accomplished community and National Security Programs and Research, The Ohio stakeholder outreach specialist with over a decade State University. of community advocacy and military experience. Dr. Zachary Mears is an Assistant Vice President for Mr. Borron currently holds the position of Director National Security Programs and Research at The Ohio of Policy and Outreach for the Leonard Resource State University, where he is helping develop and implement Group (LRG), a D.C. based professional services a strategic relationship management plan related to national company with a mission of engaging people and security research conducted at Ohio State. communities ranked among the top 10 public Prior to joining Ohio State, Dr. Mears served as the deputy chief of staff to the secretary affairs firms in the Washington, D.C., by the Washington Business Journal. of defense and chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense in Washington, DC. He advised the secretary and deputy secretary of defense on national priorities and managed Mr. Borron is responsible for several key components of the LRG’s portfolio, their implementation. He also served as the director of the Advanced Capability and including the management of the Association of Defense Communities (ADC), an Deterrence Panel and led the development of the Third Offset Strategy, which aims to organization dedicated to building resilient communities that support America’s identify new organizational and operational concepts and new capabilities to improve military. As Chief Operating Officer of ADC, he oversees the organizations day- the United States’ military advantage. He also advised the Defense Innovation Unit – to-day operations, including managing the development of the association’s Experimental, which is building bridges between the Pentagon and the United States’ educational events, membership councils and federal outreach. As the primary technology communities in Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin. Prior to these appointments, point of contact for ADC members and stakeholders, Mr. Borron works closely with he served as the director for strategic planning for the National Security Council, where the House and Senate Defense Communities Caucus and key offices in DOD and he co-authored the 2015 National Security Strategy. He also worked as a senior defense other federal agencies to coordinate policy efforts that support military-community analyst for Scitor Corporation and as senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. partnership efforts. Frank Sullivan Kevin Sullivan From 2006 until 2012, Brigadier General (Ret) Frank Mr. Kevin Sullivan is an independent consultant with Sullivan served as the Director of the Joint Staff, extensive expertise in aerospace acquisition and Headquarters, Pennsylvania National Guard, Fort logistics. He has over 40 years of military and civilian Indiantown Gap. He was responsible for managing logistics management and acquisition experience in programs and operations for the 100-plus member aircraft maintenance, supply chain operations and joint staff and overseeing issues that impact the program management. Mr. Sullivan entered the Air Force and was 19,000-member Pennsylvania National Guard. He commissioned through the Air Force ROTC program worked with NORTHCOM on the G-20 summit, following graduation from the University of Connecticut exercises and led the state as the Headquarters in 1974. He held numerous maintenance, logistics and acquisition leadership positions for FEMA Region III military oversight. He also was in charge of the State Partnership over his 34 year career. His last assignment on active duty was as the Deputy Chief Program with Lithuania and developed the first ever Police Mentoring Team, POMLT, of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters, United States Air associated with a foreign country, Lithuania, which has its fifth team rotation in the Gwohr Force. He retired from the Air Force in November of 2008 in the grade of Major General. Province in Afghanistan. He currently serves in Afghanistan as the Deputy Director, Mr. Sullivan serves as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Utah Joint Program Integration Office, Kabul, which manages over 1.2 Billion in Afghan Defense Alliance, a community action group in support of the United States Armed Forces, Reconstruction Programs throughout the country. Utah military missions, and aerospace industry within the state. He is also Chairman of Mr. Sullivan was born in Wellsboro, PA. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah Board of Directors, a member of the Weber Catholic University of America in 1975. He has a Master’s Degree in Architecture from State University Board of Trustees, the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College Board Catholic University, Washington, D.C., and a Master’s of Public Administration from of Directors, and the Association of Defense Communities Board of Directors. He also Auburn University. He also received a Design Certificate from France and earned serves on the Top of Utah Military Affairs Executive Committee and chairs the annual graduate credits from the Rome Studies Program in Rome, Italy. General Sullivan is a Utah Air Force Association and Hill Air Force Base co-sponsored Focus on Defense 1982 graduate of the Academy of Military Science. Symposium. Dino Pick Dr. Cassie B. Barlow COL Pick is currently the Deputy City Manager Cassie B. Barlow is currently the Director of the Wright State University Center for Workforce for Plans and Public Works in the City of Development. The Center includes the Monterey, California. COL Pick served in Aerospace Professional Development Center, the United States Army for 26+ years before The Regional STEM Collaborative and The retiring in 2014. COL Pick served as a Military Center for Manufacturing Sciences. All of these organizational are laser focused on Workforce Intelligence Officer for several years before Development needs across Ohio primarily becoming a Middle East Foreign Area Officer in the Aerospace and Defense industry. Dr. (FAO). As a FAO, COL Pick served in Kuwait, Iraq, and Jordan. He then Barlow was commissioned in the USAF in 1988 as a distinguished graduate of Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Dr. Barlow has served in a came to Monterey, California to serve as DLI’s FAO Program Director, and variety of leadership positions at the squadron, Wing, Direct Reporting Unit, later, the Commander of DLI from 2010-2014. COL Pick also served as a Major Command, Air Force and Combatant Command levels. Dr. Barlow was National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University selected by the Air Force Institute of Technology to attend Rice University to earn a doctorate in Organizational Psychology. After graduation, she served as from 2009-2010. COL Pick speaks Arabic, Persian-Farsi, Persian-Dari, and a behavioral scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Assyrian, and is a graduate of DLI’s Arabic Course. Academy. She was then selected to lead the analysis team for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Developing Aerospace Leaders Program. Dr Barlow’s final position in the Air Force was the 88th Air Base Wing and Installation Commander, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. She was in command of one of the largest air base wings in the Air Force with more than 5,000 Air Force military, civilian, and contractor employees. 13 General Session Biographies

Jeff Hoagland Vito Abruzzino, Esq. Jeff Hoagland is the President and CEO of the Vito Abruzzino is the director of the Eastern Dayton Development Coalition (DDC). The Ohio Military Affairs Commission (EOMAC), serving in this capacity since the organization’s Coalition is the Dayton Region’s economic inception, as a department of the Youngstown- development organization and principle public Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce, in early advocate. 2015. The EOMAC is tasked with supporting, After graduating from the University of Dayton defending, and expanding the military missions in 1991, Mr. Hoagland worked in the Montgomery and assets located in Eastern Ohio, to include the County Community and Economic Development office for five (5) years. In Youngstown Air Reserve Station (YARS) and Camp Ravenna. A graduate of West Virginia University’s College of Law, Abruzzino, a licensed 1995, he joined the City of Kettering, where he served in various roles including attorney in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, practices in the area of public sector Community Development Administrator, Economic Development Manager, and law, probate law, and military justice when not acting in his directorship of the finally as Assistant City Manager. In 2004, Jeff joined the City of Vandalia as its EOMAC. City Manager, a role he held until joining the Dayton Development Coalition in Abruzzino is also a Major in the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate December 2010 as the Executive Vice President of Operations. Jeff assumed the General’s Corps, serving as a Senior Defense Counsel with the 154th Legal role of President and CEO in June of 2011. Operations Detachment out of Alexandria, Virginia. Prior to his assignment in the USAR, Major Abruzzino served on active duty with the Office of the Staff Judge Mr. Hoagland graduated with a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Advocate, Basic Combat Training Center of Excellence, Fort Jackson, South Dayton and a Masters of Public Administration from Wright State University. Carolina and Trial Defense Services Field Office, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Steve Tugend Wendy Gramza Tugend chairs the firm’s government affairs Wendy Gramza is the President of the legal practice where he zealously lobbies Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce. at the federal, state and local level for his clients. During his tenure at the firm, he has She assumed this role on July 1, 2014, successfully lobbied for decreased regulation after serving as Executive Vice President on manufacturers, has fought to preserve the for eleven years. During her 25 years as ability of Transportation Improvement Districts a Chamber professional, she has also to efficiently advance economic development served as Vice President of Business projects and has brought clients’ priorities to Washington, D.C., securing Development Services and held several other positions within the legislative support. Tugend is a 24-year veteran of legal, legislative and political matters. He organization. previously served for six years as vice president of government relations for She is a graduate of the University of Toledo holding a Bachelor the Columbus Chamber where he was the voice of the business community in of Business Administration degree in Marketing. Ms. Gramza public policy matters. He has been an advocate for his community by taking a is a graduate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for team of community leaders to Washington, D.C., to advocate the expansion of Organizational Management. a military base, which ultimately grew by more than 2,000 jobs. Tugend also Wendy Gramza has administrated the NW Ohio Military Affairs served as a part of a campaign team that secured voter approval for a transit tax levy. He has also been an advocate for businesses by breaking down Committee since 2005. Her past accomplishments include successful barriers to doing business with government and stopping legislation that would community leadership in the BRAC effort in 2005 for the 180th Fighter have made the state a less friendly place to do business. Wing Toledo ANG. Mayor David Berger, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur Dave, a native of Mansfield, Ohio, moved to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who represents Lima in 1977 to become the Executive Director Ohio’s Ninth Congressional District, is currently of Rehab Project. The non-profit community serving her sixteenth term in the U.S. House of development agency renovated several hundred houses, and achieved national prominence for Representatives. She is the senior-most woman training programs for male and female prisoners in the House and the longest-serving woman who renovated single-family homes. He worked from Ohio in history. Congresswoman Kaptur in that position until August 31, 1989 when he ranks among the most senior Members of the resigned to campaign in the City of Lima’s General Election for the position 114th Congress. of Mayor. Congresswoman Kaptur also is the first Democratic woman ever to serve Dave was re-elected on November 5, 2013 to an unprecedented seventh 4 year term as Lima’s Mayor. The Berger Administration has a highly successful on the powerful Defense Subcommittee. There, she is a strong advocate for track record of creating positive community change. Dave currently serves national security, energy independence and adequate support for the armed on the Energy Committee of the United States Conference of Mayors, the forces. Mayors Water Council, and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the She is also a member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee. Earlier in her Ohio Municipal League. Locally, he is a member of the Board for the Lima congressional career, she served on the Appropriations Financial Services Allen Council on Community Affairs, and for the Ohio Energy and Advanced Subcommittee as well as the Banking Committee. She served on the Budget Manufacturing Center. Dave serves as the chair of the Lima Auto Task Force and Task Force LIMA. Committee as recently as the 112th Congress.

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15 OHIO’S MAJOR FEDERAL SITES

NASA Glenn 2016 Research Center $1.3 billion annual economic impact 1711 personnel

Chalmers P. Wylie Dayton VA VA Ambulatory Medical Center Care Center Ohio’s federal and military 2020 employees 1126 employees 39,000 patients annually 38,400 patients installations generate over annually $10.7 billion in annual economic benefit to the state Ohio’s federal installations provide a collective payroll of $5 billon Louis Stokes Cleveland This payroll supports 66,403 VA Medical Center 4663 employees federal jobs and 41,290 military 110,000 patients annually retirees Ohio ranks 6th nationally in Chillicothe VA number of military reservists Medical Center Cincinnati VA 1408 employees Medical Center 20,200 patients annually Sources: Ohio Federal-Military Jobs Commission Report 2063 employees The Defense Manpower Data Center 38,900 patients annually

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NASA Glenn 2016 Research Center $1.3 billion annual economic impact 1711 personnel

DDC Ohio Counties Insert.indd 1 9/27/16 1:39 PM Defense Finance and US Marine Corp Toledo ANGB Accounting Service Reserve 180th Fighter Wing – F-16C/D Aircraft Notes 24/7 Homeland Defense Alert Mission $300 million annual Headquarters - 3rd $186 million annual economic impact economic impact Battalion, 1,064 personnel OHIO’S MAJOR 2,300 personnel 25th Marine Regiment $8.6 million annual US Coast Guard economic impact $87.9 million annual 206 personnel economic impact DEFENSE SITES 455 personnel Joint Systems US Army Reserve Manufacturing Center $41.4 annual economic impact Only main battle tank 2016 770 personnel production plant in US 671 personnel

Springfield-Beckley ANGB 178th Wing – MQ-1 and MQ-9 Operations Mansfield Lahm ANGB 251st Cyber Engineering Installation Group 179th Airlift Wing – C-130H Aircraft 269th Combat Communications Squadron Wright-Patterson AFB $128 million annual economic impact $191 million annual economic impact 445th Airlift Wing – C-17 Aircraft 957 personnel 973 personnel AF Materiel Command AF Institute of Technology Army National Guard National Air and Space Intelligence Center 371st Sustainment Brigade $4.3 billion annual economic impact $26 million annual economic impact 28,000 personnel 640 personnel Central Ohio Aerospace and Technology Center Leased by Boeing Co. Defense Supply Center Army National Guard $200 million annual $1.5 billion annual economic impact 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team economic impact 2,800 personnel 16th Engineer Brigade 775 personnel 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade Defense Finance and 73rd Troop Command Accounting Service Special Troops Command $341 million annual economic impact $286 million annual economic impact 2,650 personnel 3,718 personnel

Rickenbacker ANGB US Army Reserve (3 sites) US Army Reserve 121st Air Refueling Wing – KC-135 Aircraft $144.4 million annual economic impact $20 million annual economic impact $303 million annual economic impact 1,808 personnel 354 personnel 1,676 personnel

Blue Ash Air Station US Army Reserve US Naval Reserve Center Army National Guard Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station 123rd Air Control Station (3 sites) & Marine Corp Reserve McConnelsville Armory 910th Airlift Wing – C-130H Aircraft $20 million annual $48.1 million annual $13 million annual $9 million annual economic impact $230 million annual economic impact economic impact economic impact economic impact 400 personnel 1,632 personnel 177 personnel 819 personnel 528 personnel 18

DDC Ohio Counties Insert.indd 2 9/27/16 1:39 PM Defense Finance and US Marine Corp Toledo ANGB Accounting Service Reserve 180th Fighter Wing – F-16C/D Aircraft Notes 24/7 Homeland Defense Alert Mission Notes $300 million annual Headquarters - 3rd $186 million annual economic impact economic impact Battalion, 1,064 personnel OHIO’S MAJOR 2,300 personnel 25th Marine Regiment $8.6 million annual US Coast Guard economic impact $87.9 million annual 206 personnel economic impact DEFENSE SITES 455 personnel Joint Systems US Army Reserve Manufacturing Center $41.4 annual economic impact Only main battle tank 2016 770 personnel production plant in US 671 personnel

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