David E. Chesebrough, P.E.
President, Association For Enterprise Integration (AFEI)

Mr. Chesebrough has over 30 years experience with technology, business management and strategy, including Defense acquisition, international information technology consulting, aerospace, nuclear power, and education. During his career he has acquired diverse skills in e-business and e-commerce, market planning and analysis, program and project management, systems engineering, logistics, sales and marketing and government contracting.

Currently he is the President of the Association for Enterprise Integration, an affiliate of the National Defense Industrial Association. His experience in Defense work began upon entering the U.S. Air Force in 1976, where he served four years as an Astronautical Engineer. His responsibilities included the integration of experimental payloads with the Minutemen I ballistic missile.

Prior to entering the Air Force he was an engineer with Babcock and Wilcox, designing fuel components for commercial nuclear power generation plants. After his brief stint in the military, Mr. Chesebrough re-entered industry in the Washington, D.C. area providing technical and management support to a variety of military programs, including underwater acoustics systems, Army telecommunications, and Navy command and control installations. He owned and operated a small information technology firm for nine years which provided technical and management support to government and industry in electronic business practices. He has worked internationally throughout Europe and Asia, including assignments with the Royal Saudi Navy and the U.S Army in England.

His interest in the application of information technology to improve information sharing in enterprises began in the mid – 80’s, and he has pursued that passion ever since. Today he is guiding the NDIA family of associations into a central position as the leading industry-wide advisory body to government on net-centric operations.

Mr. Chesebrough has had numerous international consulting engagements. He has conducted training courses for the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency and industry in South Africa, and has completed numerous studies for companies in Japan and Korea. He has lectured extensively in the US, Europe and Asia.

Presently he is studying the theory of networks, and has discovered that he does not have six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Mr. Chesebrough is married to the former Diane Wev of Arlington, Virginia and has three sons. He plays the drums in church and dabbles in watercolor. The family are avid roller coaster enthusiasts who are still working up their nerve to ride the really big ones. They reside in Woodbridge, Virginia.

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