Steven H. Dam, Ph.D. Dr. Dam is the President and Founder of the Systems and Proposal Engineering Company (SPEC) and SPEC Software, both based in Marshall, VA. He has been involved with structure analysis, software development and systems engineering for over 30 years. He participated in the development of version 2.0 of the C4ISR Architecture Framework as part of the development of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) Vision Architecture. Dr. Dam also led the development of the Counterproliferation Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) architecture for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). He also participated in the development of the Financial Management Enterprise Architecture (FMEA), now the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES). He currently is working to apply the Framework to various DoD architecture projects using the new DoD Architecture Framework. Dr. Dam has a BS degree in Physics from George Mason University and a PhD.in Physics from the University of South Carolina.

James D. Willis, Jr. is a member of Systems and Proposal Engineering Company (SPEC). For the last 15 years he has worked government-related architecture development from both sides of the activity…managing development as a government employee and developing details as part of a contractor team. He has trained several hundred government and contract personnel in architecture principles and the specific applications of the C4ISR and DoD Architecture Frameworks. In addition, he assists organizations apply systems engineering (problem solving) principles and practices to specific projects. He has also trained over 2000 government and contract personnel in systems engineering and related processes. He is a retired Air Force officer with 29 years military and 5 years civilian experience in strategic planning, systems management, architecture development, training, process improvement, resource management and systems engineering.  Mr. Willis is currently working on the architecture for the U.S. Army Future Combat Systems (FCS).