Dr. Jimmie McEver is the Program Manager for Cyber Capability Integration and Principal Scientist in the Cyber Operations Mission Area at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Dr. McEver has worked extensively on applying complex systems thinking and research to gain insight into the opportunities and challenges of emerging technologies in national security contexts, with a particular focus on capabilities for cyberspace operations. His Program includes leading-edge work for sponsors in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OUSD/A&S, DOT&E) in cyber risk assessment, cyber situational awareness, cyber mission modeling, test and evaluation of cyberspace operations capabilities, and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable cyberspace operations. He co-led the development of the INCOSE white paper, A Complexity Primer for Systems Engineers, which received the INCOSE award for 2016 Working Group Product of the Year. He has worked with the U.S. DoD Command and Control Research Program and selected NATO Study Panels on issues associated with network enabled command and control and C2 assessment, contributing to the development of the NATO Network Enabled Capability C2 Maturity Model and concepts of C2 agility. He was a member of The Technical Cooperation Program’s Action Group on Complex Adaptive Systems for Defense. He currently chairs the Complex Systems Working Group in INCOSE and the Technical Committee on Information and C2 Systems in the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.