David Balser


UPCOMING EVENT
Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition
Bio

Mr. David Balser is an accomplished Business Development Strategist with 30+ years of cross-functional leadership and executive experience. He specializes in Capture Management, Pursuit, Growth Strategy, Program Management, and advisory services for a broad array of business models to include managed services, integrated enterprise solutions, and turn-key technologies to large and small businesses to maximize their competitive position through differentiation, technology, and innovation insertion.

He has performed Business Development, Operations, Acquisition, M&A, Controller and Contract Management functions for large Systems Integrators, several small businesses and as a strategic advisor. Mr. Balser has led strategic capture and large pursuit teams resulting in aggregate wins of several billion dollars through shaping, messaging with USG and foreign customers, and developing differentiated, innovative solutions and services toward both single and multi-award direct agency acquisitions as well as assisted acquisition. Mr. Balser has organized and led corporate-wide teams, coordination with the US and foreign governments and NGOs that delivered critical technology and infrastructure capabilities in support of first responders for the terrorist attack of 9/11, the natural disaster response for the Hurricane Katrina response, and the 2010 Haitian earthquake response rapidly delivering multifunctional broad based semi-temporary and mobile communications systems.

Mr. Balser develops strategies, shapes technical and acquisition requirements, develops architecture solutions, builds pursuit and execution teams delivering complex integrated solutions for large, complex, multi-faceted programs within the DoD and Intelligence Community, Federal Civilian, and Federal Health agencies. He brings broad experience delivering integrated strategic solutions across the technology continuum, from full spectrum next generation multi-domain integrated C5 Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions, airborne, space, land, maritime, & cyber collection platforms and Processing Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) capabilities that deliver actionable data using integrated AI/ML, and solutions for Personnel Recovery/Casualty Evacuation (PR/CASEVAC) to global telecommunications and enterprise information technology systems; RF products & services; as well as engages with the USG’s partner nations to facilitate Foreign Military Sales/Foreign Military Financing (FMS/FMF) and international Direct Commercial Sales (DCS).

Mr. Balser participates with several industry organizations such as Association of the United States Army (AUSA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Global SOF Foundation (GSOF), and Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA) to develop and maintain partnerships throughout the global defense apparatus. In addition, Mr. Balser participates as a mentor and growth coach to numerous executives across the commercial and federal marketplaces.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration Production Operations Management from the University of Central Florida. Mr. Balser is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute (PMI).