Steve MacLaird, Col (Ret), USAF & Object Management Group (OMG) SVP, Gov’t & Industry Strategy - Primary focus is to support the OMG government activities and other OMG communities including the Consortium for Information & Software Quality™ (CISQ™), Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC®), the Data Distribution Service (DDS®) Foundation®, and Augmented Reality for Enterprise Architecture™ (AREA™). Steve retired from the United States Air Force after 27.5 years. Upon retirement, he consulted with several Fortune 200 companies as well as large, medium and small companies, DoD, the Services, a number of 3 letter agencies and the Department of Energy. He was Vice Chairman of the Board for PrismTech Solutions Americas; and a military advisor to the United Arab Emirates. His career spanned contracting, financial and program management for air, land, sea and space based platforms along many areas of the Battle Management Command, Control, Communications Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (BM-C4ISR) kill chain.