Frameworks for Understanding Aggression and Evaluating Responses in the Pre-D+0 Space Warfight

Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force Office of the Secretary of the Air Force

Dr. Timothy Grayson is Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force with the primary responsibility to coordinate concept development, analysis, and implementation of the Secretary’s Operational Imperatives, the critical operational air and space capabilities needed to deter, and if necessary defeat, our pacing challenges.

Prior to this role, Dr. Grayson was the Director of the Strategic Technology Office (STO) at DARPA. He led the office in development of breakthrough technologies to enable warfighters to field, operate, and adapt distributed, joint, all-domain combat capabilities at continuous speed. Dr. Grayson came to STO in 2018 from a varied career in government and industry. Immediately prior to DARPA he was the founder and president of Fortitude Mission Research LLC, a consulting company specializing in strategy and technology analysis related to defense and intelligence. Dr. Grayson has extensive government experience. He spent several years as a senior intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Directorate of Science and Technology and culminating in a tour at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Prior to CIA, Dr. Grayson was a program manager and senior scientist at DARPA and before that was a research fellow at Air Force Wright Laboratory (now part of Air Force Research Laboratory). Dr. Grayson holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Rochester, where he specialized in quantum optics, and a B.S. in Physics from University of Dayton with minors in mathematics and computer science.

Intelligence Director of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center

Mr. Hudgins is a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader currently serving as the Intelligence Director of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, in Chantilly, VA since 2021. The SWAC was established in 2021 to develop and provide the authoritative Force Design guidance for the United States Space Force. As the SWAC Intelligence Director, Mr. Hudgins ensures SWAC Force Design analyses are executed across the center in proper context to the evolving adversary threats and challenges to the mission effectiveness of US national security space services, and leads the direction and execution of threat assessment analyses in close coordination with United States Space Force, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community mission partners.

Mr. Hudgins entered federal service in 2004 as an imagery analyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, where he served until 2017 in several analytic and liaison positions, and most recently as the Senior GEOINT officer for space and counterspace analysis in the Office of Counterproliferation including two joint duty assignments supporting the Central Intelligence Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Hudgins served as the Senior Intelligence Advisor to the Space Security and Defense Program in Reston, VA, between 2017 and 2021. At the Space Security and Defense Program, Mr. Hudgins led the development of intelligence support plans for all SSDP activities. He provided authoritative guidance and feedback to Air Force Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office on space threat issues relevant to defining and ensuring the preservation of national security space interests. He worked with partners across the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, and Headquarters United States Air Force staff to inform intelligence assessment and resourcing priorities to enhance and protect national security space activities.

Mr. Hudgins holds of Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence degree from the National Defense Intelligence College (now the National Intelligence University). He lives in northern Virginia with his wife, Eloise, and two children, RJ and Ella.

Senior Vice President, General Manager, MITRE National Security

Dana (Keoki) Jackson is senior vice president and general manager, MITRE National Security Sector. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic growth and execution of MITRE's national security programs, including support to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community. He also leads the National Security Engineering Center.

After more than two decades at Lockheed Martin, Jackson brings robust technical leadership and business experience, including directly contributing to the design, development, deployment, and flight operation of major national security spacecraft and programs. He also held management roles on the GPS III position, navigation, and timing program, and the Space-based Infrared System missile warning program. Jackson held several executive and senior management roles at Lockheed Martin, including chief technology officer and chief engineer, and vice president of engineering and program operations. He most recently served as vice president of supply chain and program performance and was responsible for program and supply chain management strategy, execution, and success acrss the enterprise.

Before joining Lockheed Martin, Jackson was a NASA research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the field of humand adaptation to the space environment. Jackson is a fellow of the United Kingdom Aeronautical Society and the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Sigma Xi, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

He previously served on the Sandia Corporation Board of Directors, the AIAA Foundation Board of Trustees, the Georgia Institute of Technology President's Advisory Board, the University of Maryland Clack School of Engineering Board of Visitors, and the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Visting Commitee.

Jackson recieved his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT and completed the Standard Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Principal Deputy Director of Air Force Studies and Analysis

Robert Chandler Swallow, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Principal Deputy Director for Studies and Analysis, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He is responsible for the development of Air Force-wide policy, guidance, and analyses that inform Air Force leadership decisions concerning current and future warfighting capabilities.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Swallow served as the Acting Director of Headquarters Air Force Studies, Analyses and Assessments (HAF/A9) for twenty months as well as Principal Deputy HAF A9. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he led the 1,100 Department of the Air Force military and civilian analysts to support planning and budgeting reviews, established the Operations Research Analyst (15A) career field, and spearheaded analytic innovation. In his first SES position, he was the Technical Director for the Joint Warfare Analysis Center, Dahlgren, Virginia, leading the JWAC advancement of targeting analysis. With a focus on providing future Combatant Commanders with more targeting options faster, he worked across the interagency to provide modeling and simulation, network analysis, wargaming, and operations-research optimized weapons pairings that leveraged emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and directed energy to conduct conventional, cyber, information, space, economic and gray zone warfare. Specific partnerships with U.S. Cyber Command, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Air and Space Intel Center, Air Combat Command and the Joint Technical Coordination Group for Munitions Effectiveness, led to breakthroughs in threat-representative network simulation and advanced weapons pairings.

Mr. Swallow gained a breadth of experience in policy, strategy, military operations, counterterrorism, cyber warfare, economics, infrastructure, operations research and nuclear engineering while serving in the U.S. Navy. He concluded his military service in three joint assignments: Commander of the JWAC, professor at the National Defense University teaching Economics of the National Security Strategy during the Great Recession and developing the Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands Fellowship, and in the Pentagon, serving as the Senior Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs developing policy options for the Middle East, Russia, the Caucasus, Europe, Africa and NATO. His sea tours included operations around the world, highlighted by commanding the guided missile frigate USS Nicholas that intercepted the merchant ship BBC China carrying contraband nuclear centrifuges to Libya exposing the illegal nuclear efforts of Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and Libya; executing emergency relief efforts in Yemen after the terrorist attack on USS Cole; and driving the carrier, USS Enterprise.