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HANSCOM AREA TOWNS COMMITTEE MINUTES OF MEETING Held at 7:30 PM on July 23, 2009 At Lincoln Town Offices PRESENT: Jeanne Krieger (Chair) Lexington Board of Selectmen Elise Woodward Concord Board of Selectmen Sara Mattes Lincoln Board of Selectmen Mike Rosenberg Bedford Board of Selectmen Lisa Mustapich Bedford Planning Board Robert Domnitz Lincoln Planning Board Margaret Coppe Lexington HATS rep Dorothy Steele Massport/ OGCA Sara Arnold Massport J.C. Corcoran Hanscom Air Force Base Buzz Constable MAPC Lou Sideris Minuteman National Historical Park Donald J. Quenneville Defense Technology Initiative Steve Wert Electronic Systems Center 7:30 PM INTRODUCTION The Chair introduced the meeting and welcomed participants. 7:35 PM ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD The Chair introduced Donald Quenneville, Executive Director of the Defense Technology Initiative, who is a retired brigadier general of the US Air Force, and Steve Wert, Director of Engineering at the Electronic Systems Center who is a retired Air Force colonel. Mr. Wert is responsible for engineering guidance in support of C4ISR: command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. A copy of Mr. Wert’s biography was supplied. Mr. Quenneville explained the background to the proposed new board. The Massachusetts Defense Technology Initiative was established in 2003 as a non-profit organization by the Massachusetts High Technology Council. It helped to achieve a successful outcome to the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) exercise in relation to the Air Force’s Hanscom Base and the Army’s Natick Soldier Systems Center, preserving jobs and underscoring the importance of the region in defense technology. In 2008, DTI was expanded to cover all of New England. An outline of DTI’s mission was supplied. The new Science and Technology Board will be based at the Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom, and Mr. Quenneville and Mr. Wert are inviting HATS to identify a representative to be a member of the board. The main purpose is to help to identify and channel technology that may be of use to the military. The role of the Board is defined broadly to include software and cyber technology. Board membership will include 1