MG Patrick J. Ellis, Director, Command and Control Cross Functional Team, US Army AFC Visits ICT

Published: March 13, 2025
Category: News
MG Patrick J. Ellis, Director, Command and Control Cross Functional Team, US Army AFC Visits ICT

ICT was honored to welcome MG Patrick J. Ellis, Director, Command and Control Cross Functional Team (CFT), US Army Army Futures Command (AFC) to ICT on Tuesday March 4 2025. He was joined by MAJ Gabrielle Murray, Executive Officer (XO), US Army AFC, as well as Mr. Craig L. Rettie, Director, Research and Technology Integration – U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, DEVCOM Soldier Center, and Dr. Keith Brawner, ICT’s Program Manager; Senior Scientist/Engineer, US Army DEVCOM Soldier Center. 

ICT’s Executive Director, Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr, started the visit with an Overview of ICT’s mandate as a Department of Defense funded University Affiliated Research Center, sponsored by the US Army. MG Patrick J. Ellis and our other guests then visited several of our labs including: Mixed Reality, Modeling & Simulation, Geospatial Terrain, Social Simulation, Dialogue Group, and Learning Sciences, to see relevant research of interest to Army Futures Command. 

[L – R] Dr. Paul Graham, Director of Applied Innovations, ICT; Kathleen Haase, Special Project Manager – VGL, ICT; Dr. Benjamin Nye, Director for Learning Science Research, ICT; MAJ Gabrielle Murray, Executive Officer (XO), US Army AFC; Mr. Craig L. Rettie, Director, Research and Technology Integration – U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, DEVCOM Soldier Center; MG Patrick J. Ellis, Director, Command and Control Cross Functional Team (CFT) – US Army AFC; Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr, Executive Director, ICT; Dr. Keith Brawner, Program Manager, Creative Technologies University Affiliated Research Center (ICT UARC); Dr. William Swartout, Chief Science Officer, ICT; Dr. David Traum, Director for Natural Language Research, ICT; David Nelson, Director, Mixed Reality (MxR) Lab and Modeling & Simulation Lab, ICT; Dr. Mark Dennison-Team Lead, Tactical Spatial Computing, Battlefield Information Systems Branch, US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

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