Mr. Brian Stone is a Program Developer and Portfolio Execution Lead for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), serving the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E))’s, FutureG Office. In this role, Mr. Stone manages the development and execution of applied research programs to advance wireless networking concepts for national security.

Prior to this role, Mr. Stone spent over 20 years in the defense industry as a Chief Engineer, developing command, control, and intelligence packages deployed across joint and coalition forces. Throughout his career, he has been a proponent of rapid, applicable development and deriving requirements as close to the user as possible. As a former U.S. Army Officer, Mr. Stone has rich, first-hand experience with command systems both as a service member and as a contractor.

Mr. Stone holds a BS in Business Economics from Southern Illinois University where he was commissioned into the U.S. Army through their Reserve Officer Training Corps detachment. He holds a patent for Methods and Apparatus for Video Wall with Feed Indicators.”