AFCEA Washington, DC February Monthly Breakfast Program
 
Dr. Camron Gorguinpour
Director of Transformational Innovation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisitions (SAF/AQ)
U.S. Air Force

Dr. Camron Gorguinpour serves as the Director of Transformational Innovation to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions (SAF/AQ) and is responsible for designing and executing reform efforts with potential for rapid and dramatic improvement to Air Force acquisition activities. He works with internal and external stakeholders to solicit, advocate for, and implement transformative concepts in a wide range of subject areas. In addition to these duties, Dr. Gorguinpour serves as Executive Director for the Department of Defense Plug-In Electric Vehicle (PEV) Program. He is responsible for designing and executing a large-scale, multi-year effort to integrate PEV's into the Defense Department’s non-tactical vehicle fleet.

Prior to arriving at the Pentagon, Dr. Gorguinpour served as Executive Director for Scientists and Engineers for America – a 501c-3 nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to engaging scientists and engineers in public policy and political activities. Dr. Gorguinpour also served for six years as Co-Founder and Executive Director for Space Science Outreach and Research (SSOAR) – a 501c-3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting science and education. Through SSOAR, Dr. Gorguinpour executed numerous programs, including the creation of two public charter schools in collaboration with NASA, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation. Dr. Gorguinpour served for four years as a lecturer and part-time faculty member in the Bioengineering Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In this role, he created and taught courses in the field of bioastronautics (i.e. human physiology in space).

Dr. Gorguinpour earned his PhD from the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering, with an emphasis in bioastronautics. His area of specialty was in evaluating the radiation impact on human health and performance in space. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics and physics from UC Berkeley.

 
Jon ‘Doc’ Kimminau
Air Force Analysis Mission Technical Advisor for the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
U.S. Air Force

Jon "Doc" Kimminau is the Air Force Analysis Mission Technical Advisor for the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He is a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (DISL) serving as the principal advisor to the DCS/ISR on analytic tradecraft, substantive intelligence capabilities, acquisition of analysis technology, human capital and standards. He formulates and establishes analysis doctrine; liaises with intelligence analysis focal points in the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and other services, and establishes mechanisms to enhance U.S. Air Force analytic capabilities. He acts as the Air Force lead for analysis education, training, and professionalization, and as the Air Force Analytic Ombudsman. 

Mr Kimminau served nearly 30 years on active duty as an Air Force intelligence officer, retiring in December 2011 as the Vice Commander, Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency, where he led a 200-person Air Staff field operating agency (FOA) responsible for the preparation of current operations intelligence products and provision of ISR services for the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Headquarters Air Force senior leadership. He entered the Air Force in 1982 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and through his career commanded at the squadron, group and directorate levels, including an assignment as Director of Plans, Requirements and Programs and acting Vice Commander, Headquarters Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, Lackland AFB, Texas.

Doc was blessed with Air Force investment in his education and training, which includes a double major from the Air Force Academy, a Master's in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, a Master's in Airpower Art and Science from the School of Advanced Airpower Studies (SAAS), and a PhD in Political Science from the Ohio State University in 2001. He reads, plays video games, golfs, supports a Boy Scout troop, and is a homebrewer. 

 
0Col Bruce Lyman
Chief, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Distributed Common Ground System
U.S. Air Force

Bio to come

 
Lt Gen Robert Otto
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
U.S. Air Force

Lt Gen Robert P. "Bob" Otto is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force for policy formulation, planning, evaluation, oversight, and leadership of Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. As the Air Force's senior intelligence officer he is directly responsible to the Director of National Intelligence and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He leads five directorates and supports a 30,000-person enterprise with a portfolio valued at $55 billion across the Air Force.

General Otto was commissioned in 1982 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has served as a squadron, group, wing, and agency commander. His staff  duties include three tours at Headquarters U.S. Air Force, one tour with the Operations Directorate on the Joint Staff, and one tour at Headquarters, Air Education and Training Command.

Prior to his current assignment, he was the Commander, Air Force ISR Agency, Lackland AFB, Texas. The general is a command pilot with more than 2,800 hours in the U-2, RQ-4, F-15, AT-38, T-38, O-2 and OT-37. In 2011 he deployed as the Air Forces Central Command Combined Air Operations Center Director, overseeing Air Force operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Southwest Asia.

 
Brig Gen John Rauch
Director of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Capabilities
U.S. Air Force

Brig Gen John T. Rauch Jr. is the Director of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Capabilities, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.  He directs and manages a wide variety of Air Force ISR programs, projects, and platforms (to include Air Force remotely piloted aircraft) and their associated air, space and cyberspace systems, and communication architectures.  He is also responsible for Air Force policy on human-derived, geospatial, signals, and measurement and signatures intelligence.  General Rauch represents the Air Force on ISR matters in discussions with Congress, intelligence community partners, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the other services.

General Rauch received his commission in 1989 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  He served in numerous flying tours and his staff assignments include the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, Legislative Liaison Directorate, Air Education and Training Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, and the Air Staff’s Skunk Works.  He commanded the 763rd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, the 338th Combat Training Squadron, the 552nd Air Control Wing and the 55th Wing.  

General Rauch is a master navigator with more than 3,200 flying hours.