Joseph Chapa is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and holds a PhD (DPhil) in philosophy from the University of Oxford. His areas of expertise include just war theory, military ethics, and especially the ethics of remote and autonomous weapons. His doctoral research investigates an individual rights based account of just war theory. He is a senior pilot with more than 1,400 pilot and instructor pilot hours, many of which were flown in support of major U.S. combat and humanitarian operations. He currently serves as the Chief Responsible AI Ethics Officer and Special Competitive Studies Project Liaison for the Department of the Air Force.

Dr. William W. Streilein is the Chief Technology Officer for the Chief
Digital and AI Office of the DoD, providing strategic awareness,
direction and leadership for enterprise scale data, analytical and AI
capabilities.

Prior to his current role, Bill worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where
he served as principal staff in the Biotechnology and Human Systems
Division. He supported efforts across the division focusing on
concept, strategy, and program development in bioengineering,
bioinformatics, and biodefense and leveraged his technical and
leadership experience to emphasize the application of artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning to solve national biosecurity,
health, and human performance challenges. Bill was also the leader
of the Cyber Analytics and Decisions Group, where his research
interests focused on cyber security, passive network and traffic
analysis, streaming analytics, and computer vision. Prior to MIT
Lincoln Laboratory, Streilein spent nine years working as a software
engineer within the private sector.

He serves as a chair of the Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security
(AICS) and Robust Artificial Intelligence Systems Assurance (RAISA)
academic workshops and is a senior member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an active member of
the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Bill is a recognized leader in areas such as machine learning, artificial
intelligence, cyber security, and statistical analysis.

Dr. Streilein holds a BA degree in mathematics from Austin College,
an MM degree in electronic and computer music from the University
of Miami, and a PhD degree in cognitive and neural systems from
Boston University. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He has been
at Lincoln Laboratory since 1998.

Mr. Adarryl M. Roberts was appointed to serve as the Director, DLA Information Operations (J6), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) on August 2, 2023.

As the Director, J6, Mr. Roberts is the DLA Chief Information Officer (CIO), responsible for coordinating and integrating policies, guidelines, procedures, and activities to ensure effective, efficient, and economical information technology (IT) planning, acquisition, and management in support of DLA and the Department of Defense (DOD) missions and objectives. He is responsible for the management and supervision of all DLA IT policies and planning, and investment management to include cyber resilience, technical architecture and infrastructure, emerging technology, research and development, data management, and IT acquisition program management throughout the Agency and DOD. 

DLA is the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)’s combat logistics support agency, providing worldwide logistics support for the material and personnel readiness and sustainment of the Military Departments and the Unified Combatant Commands under conditions of peace and war. It also provides logistics support to other DOD components and certain Federal agencies, foreign governments, international organizations, and others as authorized. 

Prior to his selection as CIO, Mr. Roberts was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and selected as the Program Executive Officer (PEO) DLA on November 4, 2019. 

As the PEO, Mr. Roberts was instrumental in leading DLA’s Digital Business Transformation efforts to modernize, transform, and fundamentally change the way DLA provides value to our customers. He was the corporate provider of acquisition management services and provided overall direction and guidance for the development, acquisition, testing, systems integration, product improvement, and fielding for assigned DLA programs on behalf of DOD wide sponsors. 

Before being appointed as the PEO, Mr. Roberts served as the Portfolio Manager, Enterprise Sourcing, Medical, and Contingency (ESMC), DLA Information Operations, Program Executive Office responsible for oversight and acquisition expertise across the life cycle in support of the DOD and DLA user communities for 16 programs and 35 applications. Prior to his tenure as the ESMC Portfolio Manager, Mr. Roberts held a variety of increasingly responsible positions at DLA, including Director of the Business Systems Center of Excellence (BSCoE) working with Industry IT Business System partners within DOD to look at innovative ways to develop and sustain business systems, and Program Manager of Wide Area Workflow (WAWF). 

After graduating from Fayetteville State University, Mr. Roberts enlisted in the United States Air Force where he served as the equivalent to a civilian Contracting Officer for the 81st Contracting Squadron at Keesler Air Force Base. Upon separation from the Air Force, Mr. Roberts worked as a Functional Analyst Lead for contract writing at CACI, Inc. He then entered Federal service as a Procurement Analyst with Army Business Center for Acquisition Systems before transferring to the Business Transformation Agency in 2008 serving as DOD agency lead for Federal Procurement Data System Next Generation, and Deputy Program Manager of Federal Business Opportunities, and later Program Manager of WAWF. 

Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Management from Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC and he is DAU certified at level three in Contracting. Mr. Roberts awards include the Air Force Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Ribbon, Outstanding Unit Ribbon, and Air Force Squadron/Group Company Grade Officer of the Year.

Mark Munsell is the Director of the Data and Digital Innovation Directorate at NGA, a new organization responsible for strategic artificial intelligence implementation. Formerly, he was the Chief Technology Officer for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Deputy Director of the Chief Information Officer – IT Services Directorate. Mark began his career in 1990 with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where he was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for software engineering work that transformed the nation’s nautical charting production system. In 1996, he joined the Defense Mapping Agency – an NGA predecessor agency – where he led the update of the agency’s aeronautical production systems. Mark left DMA in 1997, and – after a stint with a government contractor – founded Internet Marine and Aviation Planning Services, or IMAPS, in 2000 to offer flight and maritime planning services to individuals, industry, and government via the Internet. He returned to government service with NGA in 2006, and has since served as the Chief of the Precision Engagement Division, Office of Targeting and Transnational Issues; as the Senior Officer for Targeting Issues; as the Deputy Director, Aeronautical Navigation Office; and as Director, Office of Targeting and Transnational Issues. Mark is the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award and NGA’s Distinguished Civilian Medal, and – for the record – is not a member of the Flat Earth Society.