James Poss (Maj. Gen USAF Ret.)

CEO, ISR Ideas

Maj. Gen. James O. Poss (ret) is the CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence and unmanned aerial systems consulting firm. He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Center of Excellence Team. He is a 30 year US Air Force veteran with combat experience flying reconnaissance in the Cold War, with the US Army during Desert Storm, commanding a reconnaissance squadron in the Serbian Air War and as the first Chief of Intelligence for Coalition Air Forces during Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He was the Air Force’s senior career intelligence officer at his transition from active service in November 2012. He is a leading expert on UAS, having helped designed the US Air Force’s remote split operations system for UAS control and the Distributed Common Ground Station for UAS intelligence analysis. He is the 2012 winner of Aviation Weeks’ Curtis Sword Award for his leadership in Anglo-American aerospace relations and he writes for Inside Unmanned Systems magazine.