Speakers :

Colonel Mark S. Kross
Director of Commincations and Information
National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Colonel Mark S. Kross is the Director of Communications and Information for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Ohio. He is responsible for the information technology (IT) infrastructure for the $2.1 billion center with an annual budget of over $345 million. The directorate provides a broad range of integrated, tailored IT and products and services to support Air Force and joint operational forces, national policymakers and the acquisition community.

Colonel Kross was born 27 June 1961 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from S. R. Butler High School, Huntsville, Alabama, in 1979. He entered the Air Force in 1983 after graduation from the University of Alabama. He has held a variety of assignments involving command, expeditionary communications, software development, training, and operations.

EDUCATION
1983 Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1987 Master of Science in Information Systems, Air Force Institute of Technology
1989 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
1997 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
2001 Air War College, by correspondence
2002 Joint and Combined Warfighter School, Senior Course, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia