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SPONSORSHIP

Sponsor this premier event! Sponsorship includes a display table, hosted dinner table with passes for your staff and guests, VIP Reception and guided display table tour with speakers and invited guests, recognition of your sponsorship…and more! 

 Join hundreds of our region's top executives for the Pacific Northwest defense and security industry's premier event of the year, the PNDC Annual Dinner. Guests will enjoy an evening of technology displays and demonstrations, high-caliber speakers, and special awards while networking with elected officials and business leaders. 

 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

JEREMIAH “J.J.” GERTLER, FRAeS Director The Defense Concepts Organization

A defense policy analyst since 1984, Jeremiah Gertler launched The Defense Concepts Organization in 2022, providing insight to private clients worldwide.

He was the military aviation analyst for the Congressional Research Service, Congress’s in-house policy shop, for 12 years, where he testified before Congressional committees; briefed members and staff on all related policy, budget, technical, and other matters; and wrote and maintained reports on major military aviation programs (manned and unmanned, all services.)

In previous Capitol Hill billets, he oversaw the defense procurement budget and missile defense on the professional staff of the House Committee on Armed Services for the FY2000 through 2005 budgets, and earlier served as military legislative assistant to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

As senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, he was principal author or co-author of major reports on Department of Defense reform and missile defense, and initiated studies on reserve component roles and missions, systems acquisition, military logistics, and Special Forces aviation. Subsequently, Gertler established a defense policy and analysis center for the Aerospace Industries Association.

Gertler was extensively involved in the 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review while in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  He was senior analyst for the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission during its 1995 round, and began his career in 1984 as a national security analyst with the RAND Corporation

An award-winning writer, Gertler’s commentaries have appeared in Defense News, Naval Institute Proceedings, Air Force magazine, and the Washington Post, among others, and on national television and radio.  He has also written many speeches, op-eds, and other public policy statements for members of Congress and Administration officials and is principal author of a popular book explaining the defense establishment for laypeople.

He is a graduate of Amherst College, the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, and the United States Naval War College. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 2021. 

Gertler remains a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Aerospace Security Project. He is also senior analyst for the Teal Group market intelligence firm, editor of Teal’s annual World Civil UAS Market Profile and Forecast, and military editor of its World Military & Civil Aircraft Briefing.

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