James Poss (Maj. Gen USAF Ret.)

CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, and drone consulting firm

Maj. Gen. James O. Poss (USAF ret.) is the CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, and drone consulting firm. He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) FAA Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Center of Excellence. He is a 30-year US Air Force veteran with combat experience in the Cold War, Desert Storm, 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 design the US Air Force’s remote split operations system for UAS control. He is the 2012 winner of Aviation Weeks’ Curtis Sword Award for his leadership in Anglo-American aerospace relations.