David E Grilley

Dave is a retired USAF F-16 fighter and trainer pilot who served as the Chief of Combat Applications, USAF UAV Battle Lab. There he created, conducted and supervised UAS demonstrations to expand their roles and capabilities. Involved in evaluating see-and-avoid concepts, a cooperative UAS/F-16 capability for the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) mission, and integrating UAS imagery into JSTARS, AWACS, Rivet Joint, and MC2C reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft.

Dave Grilley ("Grizz") is known throughout the public and private sectors as the "go to" guy for every aspect of UAS operations. He has vast expertise in all facets of UAS from systems and platform design, to systems integration, operational use and business modeling. Grizz is a Senior Consultant with more than ten years experience in technical management of operations, training, C4ISR, and unmanned aircraft programs for USAF, AFRL, Army, DARPA, OSD and NAVAIR. Grizz is an Innovative, independent thinker able to analyze extremely complex sets of requirements into relevant Joint, or Service, ISR operations. He has served as the Director of Alion Science Center for Intelligent Control. He directed the successful execution of the Naval Air Warfare Center's Swarm program, a $20 Million dollar award to develop autonomous, cooperative behavior between large numbers of UAS supervised by a single pilot. He was Project Manager for DARPA Counter UAS Study, and Florida DOT study to use UAS for highway monitoring. Dave was extensively involved with the Defense Department and the Federal Aviation Administration in efforts to develop the regulatory infrastructure governing future unmanned aviation. He participated in Joint Planning Development Office "Next Generation Airspace" studies and advised DHS' Border and Transportation Security Research and Development Office on UAS employment concepts and integration. He wrote the UAS Concept of Operations currently used by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.