Brench Boden is the senior technical advisor for Digital Enterprise in the Air Force Research Laboratory Manufacturing Technology Program. His responsibilities include strategic planning, technology roadmapping, and program development across a diverse technical spectrum focused on driving earlier analysis of producibility into systems engineering practice, digital engineering of acquisition and support analyses to impact AF weapon system programs, and elevation of digital posture of suppliers in the industrial base. He is an original author of the AF Digital Thread vision and was formerly Chief Technology Officer for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (now MxD, where he is currently the Govt Technical Advisor). He advises numerous AF and DoD organizations and Industry groups on digital transformation.

Brench is the twice former chair of the Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise Subpanel under the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel, and former co-chair of the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Committee under the NDIA Manufacturing Division