George Muellner, is Vice President and General Manager of Phantom Works, at the Boeing Company. As an advanced research and development unit of Boeing, the Phantom Works pursues breakthrough improvements in the affordability, quality, and performance of aerospace systems. Phantom Works customers include the business units of the aircraft and missile information, Space and Defense Systems groups of Boeing and the Commercial Aircraft group, as well as NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense. Their common challenge is to find better, faster, and cheaper ways to design, develop, manufacture, test, operate, and support both current and future systems. Mr. Muellner also served as Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force. He was Principle Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition. He provided direction, guidance and formulation, review, approval and execution of plans, policies and programs relative to acquisition. He was also designated as the Air Force chief information officer. Most of Muellner's military career was spent as a fighter pilot, fighter weapons instructor, and test pilot. In the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm, Mr. Muellner completed numerous combat missions. He has commanded a classified test squadron, the Joint Stars Squadron, and a tactical fighter wing. As Director of Requirements at Air Combat Command, he orchestrated the operational requirements for all of the combat air forces and then became the mission area director for tactical, command, control and communications, and weapons programs for the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. He then created the Join Strike Fighter Program and functioned as the Program Manager and Program Executive Officer.