Shane Deichman
Scientist, Military Consultant
"What the 5th Dimension Means to Instant Emergency Response"
Shane Deichman has spent nearly two decades in the national security field, as both a scientist and a manager. He led the Operations Division and the World Class Adversary Division at U.S. Joint Forces Command's J9 "Joint Futures Lab" for seven years, where concepts for future warfighting methods were challenged by adaptive adversaries, and spearheaded that command's effort to actively engage industry partners in solving "wicked problems". He founded his own company in 2008, EMC2 LLC, a consulting company focused on emergency management and disaster preparedness, and is an active blogger and networker.
LtGen John A. Dubia, USA (Ret.)
Executive Vice President, AFCEA International
NIUSR Special Advisory Council
"Open the Door and Welcome Change"
General John Dubia was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of a career Army officer. He attended Georgetown University prior to entering the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1966 as a lieutenant of Field Artillery.
General Dubia's fourteen years of troop assignments included command of three artillery batteries, two in the 2d Armored Division, and one in combat with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam. He commanded a direct support artillery battalion in the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam. Later General Dubia served as Commanding General of the United States Army Field Artillery Center and Commandant of the Field Artillery School.
Eric Frost, PhD.
Senior Professor, San Diego State Homeland Security Masters Program
"A Fellowship of Unity: We'll All Hang Together - or We'll Each Hang Alone"
Eric Frost is the leader of change in the San Diego County area. Eric Frost is Co-Director of the SDSU Viz Center (with Bob Welty) and the Homeland Security Master's Program (with Jeff McIllwain), which has more than 130 graduate students, including many Homeland Security parishioners from many Federal agencies.
Dr. Eric Rasmussen, M.D., MDM, FACP
CEO INSTEED, Humanitarian Care Investigative Facility, Palo Alto, CA
"Humanitarian Care in Communities Under Stress"
Dr. Rasmussen was previously Chairman of the Department of Medicine within Naval Hospital Bremerton near Seattle, Washington, and an advisor in humanitarian informatics for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense. He holds academic positions at several institutions and has been a Principal Investigator for both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and for the National Science Foundation. He is a Reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the American Journal of Public Health, and for IEEE, and sits on several advisory boards, including the Crisis Management Resources Board for the National Academy of Sciences. He now serves as a Member of Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum, as a member of the US Congressional Global Surveillance Task Force, as a lecturer within the Applied Humanitarian Service track of the Monterey Institute for International Studies, and as a Permanent Advisor to the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Water Disasters.
Lt. Col. Jeff Ribel, USMCR.
Principal, SRA, NIUSR
Senior Information Engineer, READY, RESPOND, ACT
"A Community's Voice"
Jeff Ribel joined the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue as the Marine Corps representative while at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in 1997. Since that time, he has transitioned to the United States Marine Corps Reserve and, as a civilian, is a Principal at SRA International. Jeff is an active Marine Reserve and served as the Lead for the Marine Corps efforts in the International Exercise Cooperative Warrior Inter-operative Demonstration (CWID) in July 2009. He created and leads the Information Engineering Division of the Adroit C4ISR Center at SRA in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a member of the NIUSR Joint Executive Board and maintains an active role as a founding NCORE member.
Terry Ryan
Senior Executive, Mantech Corporation
"SMART Intelligence"
Terry Ryan served as the director of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems for the Office of the Secretary of Defense; the deputy director for the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office; and a staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Mr. Ryan's expertise includes implementing growth strategies to capture new business opportunities and expand existing business.
Dave Warner M.D., PhD. Neuroscientist
Chief Neuro-Scientist, Mindtel, LLC.
Research Assistant Professor, Dept ECS Syracuse University NY
Adjunct Research Professor, College of Sciences, San Diego State University
"Classrooms on Rooftops"
Dave Warner, a medical neuroscientist with an MD and PhD from Loma Linda University, and director of the Institute for Interventional Informatics, has gained international recognition for pioneering new methods of physiologically based human-computer interaction.
Dr. Linton Wells, III
Distinguished Research Professor, Force Transformation, National Defense University
Dr. Linton Wells III is a Distinguished Research Professor and serves as the Transformation Chair at National Defense University (NDU). Prior to coming to NDU he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) from 1991 to 2007, serving last as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration). In addition, he served as the Acting Assistant Secretary and DoD Chief Information Officer for nearly two years.
Ms. Lori Bush
Director of Education, CISCO Systems, Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Winner of the 2009 NIUSR Perpetual Eagle for Excellence in Education
Lori Bush is a Senior Advisor in Cisco's Critical Infrastructure Assurance group. She works with State and Local Government agencies, non-profits and organizations sharing best practices and technology solutions that can address Homeland Security initiatives in the areas of Public Safety, Public Health, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Sharing and Communications. These solutions include creation and deployment of mobile command centers, interoperable emergency communications, and video surveillance.
