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CATEGORIES:IAP (Independent Activities Period)
DESCRIPTION:Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Ng will give an Independent Activit
 ies Period presentation on the defense acquisition process for the US armed
  forces.\n\nSpeaker info:\n \nLieutenant Colonel Jonathan W. Ng is the 2025
 -2026 US Air Force Fellow at MIT's Security Studies Program. He is currentl
 y the Materiel Leader of the All Domain Common Platform Branch at PEO Digit
 al’s Kessel Run (AFLCMC/HBB). He leads a fully integrated 221+ member Milit
 ary\, Air Force Civilian\, and contractor team and is responsible for the e
 xecution of a $182M portfolio. The All Domain Common Platform hosts and man
 ages numerous command and control applications\, including Air Operations C
 enter weapons system software deployed across multiple geographic Combatant
  Commands and is a Core system within the Department of the Air Force’s Bat
 tle Network. \n\nLt Col Ng was commissioned in May 2008 as a graduate of th
 e United States Air Force Academy. He first served as an Intelligence Offic
 er at an Air Operations Center where he provided threat analysis\, intellig
 ence collection\, and target identification support to U.S. European Comman
 d\, U.S. Central Command\, Operations ODYSSEY DAWN and UNIFIED PROTECTOR. L
 t Col Ng has held numerous Program Management positions in operational leve
 l command and control\, electromagnetic spectrum\, national level intellige
 nce systems\, special operations\, Nuclear Command and Control\, Ballistics
  Missile Early Warning\, Space Domain Awareness\, and Aerial Networks.\n\n\
 nOpen to the MIT community\n\nMIT is committed to providing an environment 
 that is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you need a disabili
 ty related accommodation to attend or have other questions\, please contact
  us at ssp-info@mit.edu.
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LOCATION:Building E40\, E40-496
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SUMMARY:Open Discussion on Defense Acquisitions — Overview\, Challenges\, a
 nd How We Get Better
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 overview-challenges-and-how-we-get-better
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