Admiral James G. Stavridis
Commander, United States Southern Command

Admiral James Stavridis assumed command of the United States Southern Command on October 19, 2006. Adm. Stavridis is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a native of South Florida.

A Surface Warfare Officer, Adm. Stavridis commanded the Destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) from 1993-1995, completing deployments to Haiti, Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf. Barry won the Battenberg Cup as the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet under his command.

In 1998, he commanded Destroyer Squadron 21 and deployed to the Persian Gulf, winning the Navy League’s John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational Leadership.

From 2002-2004, Adm. Stavridis commanded Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, conducting combat operations in the Persian Gulf in support of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Ashore, Adm. Stavridis has served as a strategic and long-range planner on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the start of the Global War on Terror, he was selected as the director of the Navy Operations Group, Deep Blue. He has also served as the executive assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense.

Adm. Stavridis earned a doctorate and a master’s degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in International Relations in 1984, where he won the Gullion Prize as outstanding student. He is also a distinguished graduate of both the National and Naval War Colleges.

He holds various decorations and awards, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal and five awards of the Legion of Merit. He is author or co-author of several books on naval ship handling and leadership, including Command at Sea and Destroyer Captain.

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August 2010
Rear Admiral Edward H. Deets, III
Commander, Naval Network Warfare Command
Cyber Wariors - The Threat Is Only A Click Away (flash version)
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July 2010
Mr. Rob Carey
Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer
& DON IM and IT Workforce Community Leader
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June 2010
Major General David M. Edgington
United States Joint Forces Command

April 2010
Jeffrey R. Brunner
United States Joint Forces Command

March 2010
Mr. Terry Halvorsen
Deputy Commander,
Navy Cyber Forces

February 2010
Admiral John C. Harvey, Jr
Commander,
Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command
Briefing
January 2010
Rear Admiral Wendi B. Carpenter
Commander,
Navy Warfare Development Command, Norfolk

December 2009
William Sympson
ACOS N6 C4ISR
Navy Expeditionary Combat Command
Briefing
November 2009
CAPT Christopher Alexander
United States Coast Guard
Chief of C4IT and Security for the US Coast Guard Commander, Atlantic Area
Briefing
October 2009
Robert Whitkop
Executive Director,
Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN),
Dept of the Navy
September 2009
Captain David Beyrodt
Assistant Chief of Staff,
Undersea Warfare Division
Operational Test and Evaluation Force
August 2009
Dana Dickens
President and CEO
Hampton Roads Partnership
July 2009
Dennis M. Bushnell
Chief Scientist
NASA Langley Research Center
June 2009
Rear Admiral Margaret Klein
Operations Officer
Naval Network Warfare Command
May 2009
General Martin E. Dempsey
Commanding General
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Fort Monroe, VA
April 2009
Mr. Terry Halvorsen
Deputy Commander, Naval Network Warfare Command
March 2009
Mr. Eric Markland
Deputy DirectorNext Generation Enterprise
Network Fleet Implementation and Transition Team
Briefing
February 2009
Captain Patrick J. Bohan
Program Manager for the Virtual Integrated Support
to the Information Operations eNvironment (VisIOn)
Briefing
January 2009
Mr. John Garing
Chief Information Officer, DISA
Briefing
December 2008
Ms. Monica Shephard
Deputy Director, JCD&E
Briefing
November 2008
Rear Admiral (USN Ret) Andrew M. Singer
Briefing
October 2008
Mr. Francis A. “Skip” Hiser, III
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Global Force Management
& Joint Operations U.S. Fleet Forces Command
Briefing
September 2008
Brig. Gen. Richard A. Shook
Vice Director, Joint Capability Development,
U.S. Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, VA
Briefing
August 2008
Mr. Rob Carey
Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer
& DON IM and IT Workforce Community Leader
Briefing
July 2008
Mr. Dave Wennergren
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Information Management and Technology
June 2008
Admiral James G Stavridis, USN
Commander U.S. Southern Command
May 2008
Congressman Randy Forbes
April 2008
Mr. Greg Knapp (SES)
JFCOM Deputy J7
March 2008
Vice Admiral (retired) James (Jim) D. McArthur, Jr.
Former Commander Naval Network Warfare Command
Vice President of the Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation
February 2008
Mr. Joseph Murphy
Deputy Chief of Staff Capabilities and Resource Integration (N8)
U.S. Fleet Forces Command
January 2008
Rear Admiral David O. Anderson
Vice Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command
December 2007
CAPT Frank Morneau
Commander, EOD Group Two
November 2007
Mr. Mark Honecker
Chief of Staff/Executive Director
U.S. Fleet Forces Command
October 2007
Captain Robert Nutting, USCG
Chief, C4IT and Security Division
Coast Guard Atlantic Area
September 2007
RADM Edward H. Deets, III
Vice Commander, Naval Network Warfare Command
August 2007
Mr. William M. Paggi
Head, Contracts and Logistics Department
SPAWAR Systems Center, Charleston
July 2007
Dr. Russel Richards
U.S. Joint Forces Command
Manager, Office of Research & Technology Applications
Opportunities for Partnering with USJFCOM
June 2007
 
May 2007
Captain Lawrence Slade
USN Director, Communications & Information Systems
U. S. Second Fleet
April 2007
Mr. Terry Halvorson
Deputy Commander
Network Warfare Command
March 2007
Mr. Don General
Executive Director/ Chief Information Officer
Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI)
February 2007
CAPT Janice Hamby, USN
Director of Global Operations
Navy Network Warfare Command
January 2007
Dr. Charles E. Harris
Director of the Research and Technology Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center.
December 2006
Captain Mary Anderson
USN Commanding Officer
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Master Station, Atlantic
November 2006
Mr. Joe Camacho 
U.S. Joint Forces Command Program Manager for
October 2006
Monica Shephard
Director, Innovations Division
U.S. Joint Forces Command
September 2006
Mike McGinnis, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center
August 2006
LTG John A. Dubia, USA (Ret.)
Executive Vice President, AFCEA International
July 2006
Mr. Robert E. Lindberg
President and Executive Director National Institute of Aerospace
April 2006
Rear Admiral Clifford I. Pearson Commander, U.S. Coast Guard
Maintenance and Logistics Command, Atlantic
March 2006
Mark Honneker
Deputy Commander
Naval Network Warfare Command
February  2006
Randy Forbes
Congressman Virginia 4th District
December 2005
Mr. Dave Wennergren
DON CIO
November 2005
Colonel Bradford Gentry Commander DISA USJFCOM Field Office
October 2005
Mr. Tony Cerri
U.S. Joint Forces Command (J-9)
Experimentation Engineering Lead
September 2005
Ray Miller
Virginia Regional Vice President for AFCEA.
August 2005
COL Terrry T. Kono, USAF, Joint Futures Command
July 2005
Mark Lumer,
Director of Contracting, Army Space and Missile Defense Command - Pentagon
June 2005
Roy D. Bridges, Jr.,
Center Director, NASA Langley Research Center
May 2005
Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff
Deputy Commander
U.S. Fleet Forces Command