{"id":547,"date":"2019-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nidiaonlinev2.local\/letter-from-the-chair-nidia-all-member-meeting"},"modified":"2019-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T05:00:00","slug":"letter-from-the-chair-nidia-all-member-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/letter-from-the-chair-nidia-all-member-meeting","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the chair &#8211; NIDIA All-Member meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIDIA members \u2013 Please plan to attend our next All-Member meeting on December 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 5pm, at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.\u00a0 You can also register at the link provided below. After the meeting, please plan to stay for a courtside reception at the Mad Ants basketball game to network and meet the speakers. We\u2019ve lined up three excellent speakers for our meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Lutz<\/strong> entered the US Army as a Field Artillery Officer in 1971 after graduating from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.\u00a0 He served worldwide on Active Duty in a variety of positions\/ duties, including commanding a Field Artillery Battalion during Operations Desert Shield\/ Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia\/ Iraq.\u00a0\u00a0 Steve retired from the Army in 2000 \u2013 taking a position with the Raytheon Company in Fort Wayne \u2013 where he served as a Program Manager for 3 military software development efforts (Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems \u2013 AFATDS;\u00a0 US Navy Destroyer DDX 1000;\u00a0 Special Operations \u201cDragonfire\u201d Series Radio\/ Network).\u00a0\u00a0 He retired from Raytheon in July 2013, and remains active in the Fort Wayne Community<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major General Omer C. (Clif) Tooley Jr.<\/strong> serves as president of defense development for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, appointed by Governor Eric J. Holcomb in 2019. In this role, he is responsible for growing Indiana\u2019s defense industry by promoting the state\u2019s defense assets, assisting in business development, and attracting and supporting defense-related industry partnerships and activities under the direction of Indiana Secretary of Commerce Jim Schellinger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian D. Peterson<\/strong> was named Vice President, Supply Chain Management in October of 2015.\u00a0 Since being employed with AM General, he has held the positions of Executive Director Supply Management, Director Supply Management, Senior Manager Indirect Supply Management and Manager Purchasing Systems and Sub-Contracts.\u00a0 In his current responsibilities, he establishes the current and long-range supply chain objectives, plans, and policies, for all procurement activities.\u00a0 He leads a supply chain department responsible for satisfying requirements that support both the U.S. Government and commercial entities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Register at the link below:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/december-nidia-all-member-meeting-reception-tickets-79559780445\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/december-nidia-all-member-meeting-reception-tickets-79559780445<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIDIA members \u2013 Please plan to attend our next All-Member meeting on December 2nd, 5pm, at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.\u00a0 You can also register at the link provided below. After the meeting, please plan to stay for a courtside reception at the Mad Ants basketball game to network and meet the speakers. We\u2019ve lined up three excellent speakers for our meeting. Steve Lutz entered the US Army as a Field Artillery Officer in 1971 after graduating from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.\u00a0 He served worldwide on Active Duty in a variety of positions\/ duties, including commanding a Field Artillery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nidiaonline.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}