Tim's 25-year Naval career spans everything from the Cold War to deployment in Afghanistan supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and finally retiring as a Commander at U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). This experience, along with defense industry experience, is leveraged to facilitate engagement between STRATCOM research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) groups; our warfighters; and various National/DoD laboratories, University Accredited Research Centers (UARCs), academia, and industry. Tim focuses on building relationships that foster the identification of technology subject matter expertise and crossflow of scientific and technical information. One of the things he enjoys most is supporting technology/innovation events and military exercises to gather information on emerging threats, technologies, and products that produce solutions which protect our warfighters and help them successfully complete their missions.