Katy Milner provides legal and strategic advice to a broad cross-section of telecommunications and technology industry clients on regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters.

Katy has a wealth of experience providing clients with practical guidance and valued counsel on spectrum acquisition and utilization, wireless services and satellite regulation, cybersecurity and data privacy, public safety and 911 services, international telecommunications matters, connected vehicles and the Internet of Things, and broadband and Internet policy. Katy also has significant experience advising clients on uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) matters, particularly on FCC-related activity. Katy advocates for her clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Congress, the Executive Branch, and other federal agencies.

Sheehy, Timothy Patrick, a Senator from Montana; born in Ramsey, Minn., November 18, 1985; graduated St. Paul Academy, St. Paul, Minn., 2004; B.S., United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 2008; served in the United States Navy SEAL special forces unit; combat veteran of the War in Afghanistan; attained the rank of lieutenant and received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart; aerial firefighter and company founder; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 2024 for the term ending January 3, 2031.

The Honorable Harry Coker Jr was appointed by Governor Moore as Maryland’s Secretary of Commerce on February 5, 2025. At Commerce, the state’s primary economic development agency, Coker is focused on working collaboratively to help Maryland “Win the Decade” by developing and sustaining an equitable, robust and competitive economy.

Secretary Coker is a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior executive, former National Security Agency (NSA) senior executive and career Naval Officer. He was previously America’s National Cyber Director, serving in the White House from 2023 – 2025.

While serving as Executive Director of the NSA, he directly supported the Director and Deputy Director in the strategic and day-to-day leadership of the Agency. During his service with the CIA, Coker was assigned to leadership positions in the Directorate of Digital Innovation; the Directorate of Science & Technology; and the Director’s Area. 

Coker’s service to the nation has been recognized with the awarding of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Presidential Rank Award, the NSA Director’s Distinguished Service Medal, the Intelligence Community EEOD Outstanding Leadership Award, and CIA’s Don Cryer Award for Diversity & Inclusion leadership.

Outside of the government, Coker has served as the President of the Central Intelligence Retirees Association (CIRA) and on the Boards of Directors of the US Naval Academy Foundation; the US Navy Memorial; and Dog Tag, Inc. He also served as an Operating Partner with C5 Capital; an Outside Director for JSI Telecom, Inc; on the Strategic Advisory Committee for Octasic, Inc.; on the Editorial Board of Studies in Intelligence; and on the Advisory Boards of Zeeam Government Solutions; and Historic Ships in Baltimore. Coker also served as a Senior Fellow with Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. 

A long-time resident of Clinton, MD, Coker currently resides in Baltimore. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, and Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Frauenhofer serves as the Executive Director for Semiconductor Innovation and Investment at the Department of Commerce where he plays a central role in the implementation of semiconductor incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. In this capacity, he oversees and implements $75Bn of federal loan authority and $39Bn of federal incentives to support U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, strengthen national and economic security, and enhance supply chain resiliency. Under his leadership, the Department recently announced $2Bn of R&D incentives in a portfolio of 9 companies to accelerate U.S. leadership in quantum computing, strengthen domestic quantum manufacturing and commercialization, and advance critical technologies across multiple quantum modalities.

Mr. Frauenhofer has over 30 years of private-sector experience, primarily in semiconductor and technology investment banking. Prior to joining the Commerce Department, he was the Head of Morgan Stanley’s West-Coast Technology Investment Banking team and the Global Head of Semiconductor Investment Banking, where he advised technology companies on high-value capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, debt financings, and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, PhD, is a fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she leads the Center’s quantum policy research. Her work examines the intersection of quantum technologies with U.S. national and economic security, and currently focuses on the supply chains, manufacturing capacity, and deployment infrastructure needed to scale and sustain the United States’ quantum competitiveness.

Vidal Bustamante is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to CNAS, she was a science and technology policy researcher at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where she led research on semiconductor workforce development, digital technology governance, and the domestic and international dynamics shaping the United States’ strategy for technology leadership. 

She holds doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees from Harvard University.

Alan McQuinn is a Professional Staff Member for the Research & Technology Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He advises Committee Members on a variety of issues related to information communications technology, such as cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and quantum information science. Alan McQuinn was previously a senior policy analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Dr. Tanner Crowder is the Senior Technical Advisor for Advanced Scientific Computing Research and the Quantum Information Science Lead at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, where he provides strategic direction and scientific counsel across quantum information science and technology (QIST), as well as other critical areas. 

Prior to joining the DOE, Dr. Crowder served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO) at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role, Dr. Crowder spearheaded initiatives addressing the coordination and impact of QIST R&D, fostered industrial engagement, and led the development of QIST-related National Science and Technology Council reports. 

His earlier experience includes the position of Senior Research Mathematician at the Naval Research Laboratory. There he served as Principal Investigator on diverse projects, addressing complex challenges across the foundations of QIST, quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networking and communications. 

Dr. Crowder earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from The College of William and Mary in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Howard University in 2013.

Katy Milner provides legal and strategic advice to a broad cross-section of telecommunications and technology industry clients on regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters.

Katy has a wealth of experience providing clients with practical guidance and valued counsel on spectrum acquisition and utilization, wireless services and satellite regulation, cybersecurity and data privacy, public safety and 911 services, international telecommunications matters, connected vehicles and the Internet of Things, and broadband and Internet policy. Katy also has significant experience advising clients on uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) matters, particularly on FCC-related activity. Katy advocates for her clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Congress, the Executive Branch, and other federal agencies.

Dr. Mark Clampin is the Deputy Associate Administrator in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, where he provides executive leadership, overall planning, direction, and management of NASA’s $7B science portfolio focused on the scientific exploration of Earth, the Sun, solar system, universe, and biological and physical sciences. He brings ~35 years of leadership in program, project management, and strategic planning, and the development of space-flight hardware for astrophysics research. He fosters partnerships with other government agencies and collaborates with commercial and international partners to leverage synergistic investments and advance NASA science.

Until August 2022, Dr. Clampin was the Director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate (SED) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), where he led the Astrophysics, Solar System, Heliophysics and Earth Science Divisions, together with the high-performance computing office. He previously served as GSFC’s Director of the Astrophysics Science Division and GSFC’s Deputy Director of SED. For ~14 years he was the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Observatory Project Scientist responsible for the development and oversight of Webb’s Observatory Science Requirements.

Prior to joining GSFC, Dr Clampin was the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Group Lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), where he worked on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Servicing Missions SM1 to SM3B. Dr. Clampin is a Co-Investigator with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and the Advanced camera for Surveys (ACS) science team and where he was responsible for the delivery of ACS’s three focal plane camera systems. His research interests focus on studying the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Dr. Clampin has also designed ground-based telescope instruments including adaptive optics systems, coronagraphs and detectors.

Dr. Clampin graduated from the University of London with a BS in Physics and from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland, with PhD in Astronomy. Dr. Clampin is the recipient of the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work on the Webb Telescope, NASA’s Scientific Achievement Medal and the AAAS Newcomb-Cleveland Prize. He is a Fellow of SPIE and the Royal Astronomical Society. Dr. Clampin was the founding Editor of SPIE’s peer-reviewed Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems (JATIS), and served as Chief Editor for 7 years.

Dr. Sterling Thomas is GAO’s Chief Scientist in Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics.

Prior to joining GAO, he was the Chief Scientist at Noblis, a Reston, VA based research institute overseeing their applied research programs for the past 13 years. Sterling has also served as a principal investigator for research programs funded by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. His work has included creating new methods regarding synthetic biology, strategies for decoupling qubits for improving error correction in quantum computing, methods for using artificial intelligence to detect decentralized coordinated cyber-attacks, and network-based optimization algorithms to detect abnormalities in public equities markets.

Sterling’s contributions have been recognized across industry including by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for best paper utilizing machine learning methods in detecting breast cancer, and at his former institute where he received the Science and Technology Achievement award. He has also been awarded four patents and has multiple pending patent applications. Sterling earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Life Sciences from VCU, a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, and Bachelor of Science from Old Dominion University.

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Rima Kasia Oueid is a Senior Commercialization Executive at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Commercialization, where she leads market development activities and commercialization of emerging DOE technologies with a focus on quantum technologies, transportation, grid modernization, and space-based applications. She builds public private partnerships, identifies use cases, and develops innovative business models to enable or accelerate market adoption and bankability of quantum computing, quantum communications/security, quantum sensing, space manufacturing, space infrastructure, resource/critical mineral exploration in space and earth, artificial intelligence, microgrids, and energy storage. Rima is the architect and lead of the DOE Quantum in Space Collaboration with DOD, NASA, and industry partners as well as other partnerships with major OEMs, utilities, and technology companies.  She is also a DOE representative on the board of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QEDC), serves as the chair of QEDCs Use Case Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Quantum Sensing, and a member of the Quantum Computing and Quantum Networking/Communications TACs. In addition, Rima is the DOE commercialization lead on multiple cross agency efforts including the Low Earth Orbit Science and Technology (LST) Interagency Working Group focused on deploying quantum technologies to enable a viable space economy for the revitalization of earth.

Rima previously served in the Office of Policy and the Hurricane Sandy Task Force where she helped facilitate $15 billion in energy related infrastructure deployment initiatives including a report to the President with recommendations for energy resilience. For example, Rima helped develop innovative infrastructure projects such as the NJ TransitGrid, a 100+ MW, $600 million advanced microgrid for NJ Transit and Amtrak, and NJ Energy Resilience Bank, a $210 million fund targeting investments in distributed energy and microgrids. While with the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office, Rima led the development of a new $600 million energy finance portfolio for states to enable bankable infrastructure projects. Rima also assisted the U.S. Department of Defense on a 3GW power purchase agreement initiative that included the Navy, Army, and Air Force.

Prior to the U.S. Department of Energy, Rima spent a decade working in finance, real estate, and management consulting. Rima began her career at Accenture helping Fortune 500 companies integrate emerging technologies and redesign their business models. Subsequent to Accenture, Rima spent six years in real estate, venture capital, and private equity investing. Rima has experience evaluating investments in residential and commercial real estate, solar, biofuels, solid state light manufacturing, and water purification industries. Rima earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with concentrations in Finance, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship and selected as a Kauffman Fellow in 2007 and 2009. Rima also holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Rima lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children.

GQI’s has organized, validated, and analyzed the Quantum Industry’s developments since 2015. We quantify economic, technical, geographic, and supply chain impacts so governments and business leaders can make accurate decisions in a dynamic global environment.

Mr. Almy advances the use of GQI’s expert-validated intelligence platform across allied governments and leading industries like life sciences, automotive, financial services, and energy.  Mr. Almy has a career leading cutting edge technology advisory and development for leading consulting and research groups including PwC and Gartner, and has been quoted in industry journals like American Banker.  Recently, Mr. Almy’s public speaking ranges from moderating panels to 5-hour masterclasses on quantum industry use cases across compute, sensing, and communications.

Bill Newhouse is a cybersecurity Engineer at NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) where he leads the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) project, a collaboration with industry and gov’t, which shares insights on practices that will ease the migration to PQC algorithms that are resistant to cryptanalytic relevant quantum computer-based attacks.

Mr. Newhouse has been with the U.S. Federal government since 1986 focused initially on telecommunications, then information assurance, and now cybersecurity. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has a master’s degree from the George Washington University.

Addie LaMarr is an independent post-quantum cryptography advisor and the founder of LaMarr Labs. She is the author of the Quantum Risk Migration Framework, an audit-defensible methodology that applies game theory to hybrid cryptographic composition decisions. Her practice draws on 15 years in cryptography and cybersecurity policy: 8 years as a USAF cryptographer running COMSEC operations across the UK and Japan, then federal policy work at DOJ headquarters supporting the FBI and Office of Justice Programs CISOs, where she contributed to the NIST High Value Assets policy working group.

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy is a cybersecurity leader with extensive experience in developing innovative security solutions addressing the challenges of digital transformation. As Arqit’s CTO, he is focused on developing quantum-safe applications protecting data at rest, in transit, and in process.

His 25-year career spans leadership roles at Intel, Fortinet and Verizon. As Intel’s zero-trust practice lead, he worked on integrating SASE and confidential computing. At Fortinet, Jonathan led the Field CISO team addressing zero-trust, cloud migration, and the convergence of networking and security. Prior to Fortinet, he served as the Security CTO at Verizon Business where he was responsible for strategic partnerships, the Verizon Cyber Intelligence Center, and the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

Jon Azen is a Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm and leads the Hardware security evaluation team including security certification and penetration test labs.  In his previous role, Jon led Qualcomm’s integrated secure processor program and developed the supply chain fortifications necessary for high-security chipset development, manufacturing, and provisioning.  Jon has worked at Qualcomm in security engineering roles for 18 years.

Litchman is a national security veteran with experience as an intelligence officer, including serving on the National Warning Staff and on the staff of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning. He has also served as a staff member on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he led efforts in software product development and integration, and consulted on information operations, strategic planning, and contingency planning for the intelligence community. He also led Edelman Public Relations’ Washington, D.C. cybersecurity and national security practice.