Michigan Business Beat | Michigan-based National Defense Consortium Hires Industry Veterans

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Jeffrey Mosher welcomes Alissa Roath, Executive Director, National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC), Ann Arbor, MI First please share about the scope of services from NAMC. Tell me about Expanding the Team, starting with two experts? ● We recently added two experts on military technology—Retired Colonel Warren Sponsler, who brings over 26 years of Military experience, and Staff Sergeant Dr. Matthew Foglesong, a Marine Corp veteran with over 14 years of service. What will their focus be? ● The focus of both positions will be to evaluate NAMC members’ technologies for the defense space with the hope of getting the technology fielded. Growth and Communication those are crucial and being addressed. ● Warren Sponsler (COL-R), joins NAMC as their Senior Director of Strategic Growth and Communications. He will oversee NAMC’s strategic communications, ensuring the organization’s role as an enabler of successful acquisitions for the Government is clear and understood. Strategies are being focused on as well? ● Staff Sergeant Dr. Matthew Foglesong joins NAMC as their Director of Technology. Foglesong’s experience in writing strategies and the employment of technologies will elevate members’ technologies in the defense space. As a previous Government customer of NAMC’s, Dr. Foglesong has seen the impact that NAMC has had on successful acquisitions firsthand. Tell us a bit more of that history of retaining mission-focused individuals? ● NAMC has a history of retaining mission-focused individuals. Sponsler and Foglesong will join Executive Director Alissa Roath and other long-term staff members, Andy Dallas, Deputy Executive Director, founding industry partner, previous member and past President of the Board of Directors, and Ashley Snider, Business Administration Director. Foglesong Military & Work Experience • Foglesong is a Marine Corps veteran, having served 14 years as a Reconnaissance Marine, finishing his USMC career as the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, Science and Technology Division Ground Combat Element Chief and Robotics Branch Chief, and advisor to the Secretary of the Navy on autonomous systems development and integration. • Upon leaving the Marine Corps, he served as the Defense Technical Fellow at Pratt Miller Engineering, where he focused on future combat systems development and integration, leading efforts for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light (RCV-L), and Optionally Manned Tank Virtual Prototype (OMT ViPr). Sponsler Military & Work Experience • Sponsler has 26+ years in commissioned service leading units and organizations around the world in both combat and peacetime. Sponsler has completed multiple U.S. and overseas tours with experience in Bosnia and Kuwait, in addition to three combat deployments to Iraq between 2003 and 2011. He also served as both the Senior Live Fire Trainer and Senior Brigade Combat Team Trainer at the Army’s National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. • His Army career culminated as the Deputy Director and Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army Futures Command’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team at the Detroit Arsenal in Michigan. About NAMC • The National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) provides professional opportunities and connections that result in cutting-edge technology for the United States Military. As one of the longest-serving Department of Defense (DoD) consortiums and a non-profit organization, NAMC acts as a bridge between the DoD and the member organizations that can complete high-priority government projects. Through research, development, prototyping, and production, NAMC members work towards one central goal: creating innovative technology to support the people on our front lines. Every day, NAMC empowers members to revolutionize military technology and change the course of history.