AFCEA Quantico-Potomac is pleased to host a luncheon on Thursday, Oct 15, 2026, with:
- Col Jeff Van Bourgondien, Program Manager, MAGTF C2
- Dr. Leili Green, MPT and HSI Lead for the Marine Corps Manpower IT Systems Modernization (MITSM) Program Office
- Dr. Ying Zhao, Research Professor, Information Department at the Naval Postgraduate School
The venue will be the Cyber Bytes Foundation in the Quantico Corporate Center.
Agenda
1100-1130 Registration
1130-1200 Lunch
1200-1300 Speaker Remarks
ColJeffery Van Bourgondien
Colonel Jeffery Van Bourgondien, USMC
Program Manager, Marine Air Ground Task Force Command and Control (MAGTF C2) Systems
Portfolio Acquisition Executive Marine Corps (PAE-MC)
Colonel Van Bourgondien currently serves as the Program Manager for Marine Air Ground Task Force Command and Control (MAGTF C2) Systems, Portfolio Acquisition Executive Marine Corps (PAE-MC), United States Marine Corps, in Quantico, Virginia.
Colonel Van Bourgondien was commissioned in 2001, designated a Logistics Officer in 2002, and competitively selected as an Acquisition Officer in 2015. His military experience includes multiple combat deployments supporting Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, as well as tactical, staff, and acquisition assignments with I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF), Training and Education Command (TECOM), Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM), Headquarters U.S. Special Operations Command’s Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (SOF AT&L), and PAE-MC.
His acquisition experience began in 2012 with an assignment to MARCORSYSCOM as a materiel management officer and acquisition logistics analyst for the Assistant Commander for Acquisition Logistics and Product Support, following successful completion of the Commandant’s Graduate Education Program. After his selection and transition to the Marine Acquisition Officer career field in 2015, he transferred to SOF AT&L. There, he served as an integrated product lead for multiple tactical C2, communications, and intelligence projects, an assistant program manager, and ultimately the deputy program manager for SOF tactical communications, intelligence, and information technology systems for PEO C4.
He returned to MARCORSYSCOM and PAE-MC in 2019, serving in command roles designated as critical acquisition positions. These included product manager for Air Battle Management and Sensor Netting under Program Manager, Air Command and Control Systems, and, beginning in 2023, program manager for Ground C2 Systems under the Portfolio Manager for Command Element Systems. Following the merger of the air and ground C2 portfolios in 2024, he assumed the position of Deputy Program Manager for Integration, MAGTF C2.
Colonel Van Bourgondien earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and graduated with distinction from the Naval Postgraduate School with a master’s degree. He has participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Service Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense Executive Fellowship Programs with the Boeing Company. He is a Defense Acquisition Corps member and an Advanced Practitioner, formerly Level III, in the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act career fields of Program Management and Lifecycle Logistics.
Dr. Leili Green
Dr. Leili Green
Manpower, Personnel, and Training (MPT) and Human Systems Integration (HSI) Lead
Marine Corps Manpower IT Systems Modernization (MITSM) Program Office, U.S. Marine Corps
Dr. Leili Green is a senior Human Systems Integration (HSI) authority, behavioral scientist, and advanced simulation architect with more than 25 years of experience across the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, energy sector, United Nations, aviation, and medicine. She currently serves as the Manpower, Personnel, and Training (MPT) and HSI Lead for the Marine Corps Manpower IT Systems Modernization (MITSM) Program Office, U.S. Marine Corps.
Previously, she directed global workforce development as Global Training Manager for a major oil and gas corporation and held key roles at the FBI and the United Nations, advising U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Her work bridges linguistics, neuropsychology, and human-machine teaming to build adaptive learning systems and live, virtual, and constructive simulation architectures.
A graduate of the USMC–Naval Postgraduate School AI Fellowship, she holds an NPS Master Certificate in HSI and the AI Foundations Certificate from MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She has authored two books on AI modeling and simulation and simulator training, and is an FAA-certified remote pilot with an FAA Private Pilot (solo endorsed) rating.
Dr. Ying Zhao
Dr. Ying Zhao
Research Professor, Information Department
Naval Postgraduate School
Dr. Ying Zhao is a research professor in the Information Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), with expertise in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their applications to military-related problems. Her research spans social networks, common tactical air imagery, combat identification, logistics, cyber, wargaming, and mission planning.
Dr. Zhao is the author of more than 70 publications, with multiple international partnerships and four U.S. patents in knowledge pattern search from networked agents, data fusion, and visualization.
Since joining NPS in 2009, Dr. Zhao has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on numerous awarded Department of Defense research projects. She also advises NPS students on their thesis research.
From December 2021 to November 2022, Dr. Zhao was an Engineers and Scientists Exchange Program (ESEP) Scholar at the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). She received her Ph.D. in mathematics and artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).