Dr. John G. Blitch (LTC, USA ret) is the President and CEO of Blitz Solutions LLC, an emergency response consulting firm that focuses on robot assisted crisis assessment and mitigation in denied areas. Colonel Blitch’s military experience includes nuclear weapons delivery, special forces, hostage rescue, space operations, and robot-assisted emergency response. Dr. Blitch has also served as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), VP and Center Director at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and senior scientist / visiting professor at the Air Force Research Laboratory & the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2006 and received the Lawler Award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2002 for his pioneering work as the founding director of the Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack on 9/11/2001.