Michigan Business Beat | Michigan-based National Defense Consortium Hires Industry Veterans

Jeffrey Mosher welcomes Alissa Roath, Executive Director, National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC), Ann Arbor, MI First please share about the scope of services from NAMC. Tell me about Expanding the Team, starting with two experts? ● We recently added two experts on military technology—Retired Colonel Warren Sponsler, who brings over 26 years of Military experience, and Staff Sergeant Dr. Matthew Foglesong, a Marine Corp veteran with over 14 years of service. What will their focus be? ● The focus of both positions will be to evaluate NAMC members’ technologies for the defense space with the hope of getting the technology fielded. Growth and Communication those are crucial and being addressed. ● Warren Sponsler (COL-R), joins NAMC as their Senior Director of Strategic Growth and Communications. He will oversee NAMC’s strategic communications, ensuring the organization’s role as an enabler of successful acquisitions for the Government is clear and understood. Strategies are being focused on as well? ● Staff Sergeant Dr. Matthew Foglesong joins NAMC as their Director of Technology. Foglesong’s experience in writing strategies and the employment of technologies will elevate members’ technologies in the defense space. As a previous Government customer of NAMC’s, Dr. Foglesong has seen the impact that NAMC has had on successful acquisitions firsthand. Tell us a bit more of that history of retaining mission-focused individuals? ● NAMC has a history of retaining mission-focused individuals. Sponsler and Foglesong will join Executive Director Alissa Roath and other long-term staff members, Andy Dallas, Deputy Executive Director, founding industry partner, previous member and past President of the Board of Directors, and Ashley Snider, Business Administration Director. Foglesong Military & Work Experience • Foglesong is a Marine Corps veteran, having served 14 years as a Reconnaissance Marine, finishing his USMC career as the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, Science and Technology Division Ground Combat Eleme