Colonel David Liu is the Senior Materiel Leader for the Mission Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering Group, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In this role, he is responsible for developing and maintaining government reference architectures, standards, and interoperability design requirements for all Air Force aircraft and weapon programs in support of the Integrating Program Executive Officer for Mission Systems. Col Liu advances Air Force, joint, and international horizontal “integration by design” across legacy and next-generation aircraft through the development and fielding of mission system architectures and standards that enable advanced warfighting system-of systems capabilities, better business outcomes, and the agile capability pipelines necessary to win. He directly leads the team responsible for the development and maturation of the Agile Mission Suite Government Reference Architecture, Open Mission Systems, Universal Command and Control Interface, Universal Armament Interface, and others; develops advanced mission systems implementations, prototypes, and platform integrations strategies; tests and verifies advanced capabilities and open architecture compliance; and provides modern digital infrastructure for advanced aircraft development.