Maj. Gen. James Poss (retired) is the chief executive of ISR Ideas, an intelligence and unmanned aerial systems consulting firm. He is the founder and former executive director of the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Center of Excellence Team. ASSURE is 22 of the top US, Canadian and British UAS research universities with more than 100 corporate members teaming to solve the FAA’s UAS research issues. Maj Gen Poss is a 30-year US Air Force veteran with combat experience in four wars and was the Air Force’s senior career intelligence officer at his transition from active service in November 2012. He is a leading expert on UAS, having helped designed the US Air Force’s remote split operations system for UAS control and the Distributed Common Ground Station for UAS intelligence analysis. Maj Gen Poss also has extensive experience in cyber operations from his assignments with the National Security Agency and as the Air Force lead for stand up of US Cyber Command. He received his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Southern Mississippi.
