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LIEUTENANT COLONEL ARLE BRUSTAD
Chairman MAJIIC 2 NPO Norwegian Defence
Lieutenant Colonel Arle Brustad has been serving with the Norwegian Army since 1993. He
graduated from the Norwegian Defence Staff College in 2007. He also holds a Masters degree
in Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
LTC Brustad is the Norwegian National Project Officer to MAJIIC 2 and also the Chairman of the
MAJIIC 2 National Project Officers.
MR. THOMAS CASHIN
Vice Chairman, MAJIIC 2 National Project Officer; U.S. National
Geospatial-Intelligence/Naval Postgraduate School Research Staff
Mr. Thomas Cashin is currently assigned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence, Acquisition
Directorate, Sensor Assimilation Division, Tactical Data Integration Branch from the Naval
Postgraduate School where his primary duty is to serve for USD(I) as the USA Multi-INT
All-Source Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition (MAJIIC) 2 National Project Officer (NPO). His
research concentration is the definition of information sharing and coalition interoperability
approaches and mechanisms, to include support for cross-domain data exchanges that
are extended through a mission application environment. He has supported recent Empire
Challenge efforts that have assisted in the demonstration of the engineering and technical
operations concepts, such as the use of a Service-Oriented Architecture, for the DCGS
Enterprise.
Mr. Cashin entered Government service after over 25 years of working as a defense and
Intelligence Community contractor in a number of positions that led to greater levels of
engineering management responsibilities, and included research and development efforts as
well as the delivery of fielded capabilities. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural
Sciences from Worcester State University, Massachusetts, and a Master of Science degree in
Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
COLONEL MICHAEL A. FARUQUI
Director of Intelligence, Special Operations Command Europe
Colonel Michael A. Faruqui is assigned as the Director of Intelligence, J2 for the Special Operations
Command Europe. A 2009 graduate of the Army War College, his previous assignment was as the
Deputy Commandant of the U.S. Army Recruiting and Retention School at Fort Jackson. South
Carolina. He assumed duties as the Commander of the Columbus Recruiting Battalion in 2004 - 2006
immediately following a two year tour of duty as the Deputy Director of Intelligence with the Special
Operations Command Central at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida from June 2002 - May 2004.
In that capacity, he served overseas during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
A native of San Jose, California, COL Faruqui was a Distinguished Military Graduate of San Jose State
University, where he received his commission through the Army ROTC program in 1986. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from San Jose State, and a Master of Arts degree in liberal
arts from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
Military schools he has completed include the Airborne School and Jumpmaster School, Fort
Benning, Georgia and Torii Station, Okinawa; Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced
Courses, Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Psychological Operations Officer Course, Special Forces Assessment
and Selection Course, and Special Forces Detachment Officers Qualification Course, all at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina. He is also a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and Combined Arms
Services Staff School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
COL Michael A. Faruqui was assigned to the Recruiting Battalion Indianapolis as Executive Officer in
July 2000, after completing a two year tour of duty at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, as intelligence officer
for the 5th Special Forces Group. During his military career, he has also served as Special Operations
Training Detachment senior intelligence observer controller, Fort Polk, Louisiana; intelligence officer
with the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, and Military Intelligence Detachment commander,
both at Torii Station, Okinawa, Japan; intelligence officer for the 8th Psychological Operations
Battalion, current intelligence officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Company executive officer,
and platoon leader, all at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and as 20th Area Support Group rear battle
officer, and Director of Security, Plans, and Operations, both in Taegu, Korea.
While stationed at Fort Bragg, he deployed to Panama for Operation Just Cause in December 1989
and to the Persian Gulf for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm from August 1990 - March
1991.
He has been awarded the Bronze Star, the Distinguished Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious
Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary
Medal, Saudi and Kuwaiti issues of the Kuwait Liberation Medal, the Korean Service Medal as well as
the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medals. COL Faruqui is married to the former
Amy Rae Van Stry of Jamestown, New York, and has two daughters, Hayley and Tiffany.
DR. DAVID G. GLEED
MAJIIC 2 National Project Officer, UK MOD(Dstl)
Dr. David G. Gleed was born in Southeast England. Dave obtained a BSc honours degree in Physics
and Solid State Electronics from Exeter University in 1980. He then worked in both Government
laboratories and private industry in a number of roles. In 1985, he returned to academia to
undertake postgraduate research, obtaining his PhD from Exeter University in 1989. Dr. Gleed
then joined the UK’s Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (which became part of the MOD’s
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in 2001). During his career within Defence Science
and Technology he has contributed to numerous R&D projects applying computer techniques to
various forms of imagery/passive electro-optic signals (passive mm-wave, infrared and visible).
This work has developed image restoration techniques as well as methods for analyzing signatures
from imaging sensors. Gleed has led teams investigating and developing related computer-based
image exploitation techniques and has provided advice and technical guidance in the use of
specialized data and information exploitation techniques used by military staff and government
analysts. Since 2006, Dr. Gleed has been engaged in a number of additional roles; including the
provision of capability advice to MOD defence staff and the leadership of elements of the MOD’s
research programme. More recently Dave has been selected to act as UK National Project Officer for
MAJIIC and in this role he is based within the ISTAR domain of the UK MOD’s Defence Equipment
and Support organization in Bristol and also at the C2 Battle Lab at Shrivenham.
Dr. Gleed is a Chartered Physicist and also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He has produced
over 50 publications (papers, conference papers and official reports) and received a number of
commendations including a U.S. Government award in November 2004, for being part of a UK/U.S.
team.
DR. JOSEPH S. GORDON
Colin Powell Professor of Intelligence, Analysis, and Production,
National Defense Intelligence College
Dr. Joseph S. Gordon serves as the Colin Powell Professor of Intelligence, Analysis, and Production
at the National Defense Intelligence College, teaching courses in analysis and European security.
He was previously the Defense Intelligence Agency Senior Command Representative to the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization to the NATO Military Committee, NATO Headquarters in Brussels,
Belgium.
Dr. Gordon began his service in the Department of Defense with Army intelligence in Germany as
a Commander of a 66th Military Intelligence Group Field Station. After active service and graduate
school, he became an intelligence analyst at the 4th Psychological Operations Group, Ft. Bragg,
North Carolina, where he wrote studies on Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries.