About the event: The battlefield of Ukraine has been a laboratory for understanding what 21st-century conflict will look like. Having provided many of the capabilities that Ukraine has used and depended on—from Abrams tanks to Patriot missiles—the U.S. Army is now at the forefront of keeping Ukraine in the fight, while learning important lessons about how the Army must transform itself for the future. The Honorable Gabe Camarillo serves as the 35th Under Secretary of the Army, responsible for building and executing a $187 billion annual budget and overseeing the training and equipping of more than 970,000 Army Soldiers. His conversation with former NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller will illuminate key insights from Ukraine as the Army thinks through its future strategies, technologies, and capabilities.

About the speaker: The Honorable Gabe Camarillo was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 3, 2022 and sworn in as the 35th Under Secretary of the Army on February 8, 2022. As the Under Secretary of the Army, Mr. Camarillo serves as the Army’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Management Officer, helping oversee a budget of more than $170 billion and sharing responsibility for the manning, training, and equipping of more than 970,000 Soldiers across the active, Guard, and Reserve components. Mr. Camarillo is also responsible for the Army’s enterprise management and business operations as well as budget development and execution.

Mr. Camarillo’s prior career includes significant experience in law, government, national security and private industry. Mr. Camarillo previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower & Reserve Affairs) where he was responsible for military and civilian personnel and reserve component matters for the Air Force. He previously also served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology), helping to lead and supervise Army modernization programs, procurement, logistics and R&D investment.

His private sector experience includes legal practice at several law firms with emphasis in the areas of commercial litigation, campaign finance law and government ethics. Mr. Camarillo also taught campaign finance law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Recently, Mr. Camarillo served as Senior Vice President at SAIC, where he led two business units for an engineering and IT services company.

Mr. Camarillo received a Bachelor of Arts in Government at Georgetown University and a law degree from Stanford University.

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