Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Matthew Dooley is the President and CEO of Fidelium

LLC, a veteran-owned small business concentrating in Advanced Technologies Mission

Engineering consulting. Matt is also the Defense Strategic Initiaves Lead for Robotic

Research Autonomous Industries (RRAI). In that capacity, Matt provides strategic insights

and leadership in the areas of Army futures, robotics, and autonomous platform integrations.

Matt attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated

with a Bachelor of Science, and received his commission as a Second Lieutenant of

Armor in May 1994. Matt served in numerous armor and cavalry assignments over the

course of his 21 and half years of service, which provides a unique operational

perspective on combined arms, technology integrated maneuver warfare. He is a

graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and holds a Masters

Degree in Military Art and Science. Matt served in several forward deployed

assignments over the course of his career and is a veteran of six operational and

combat tours. Matt’s last active-duty position in the Army was as the Chief of Lethality

and Robotics Branch for the U.S. Army Capabilities Integration Center (now the Army

Future Concepts Center). In this position, he acted as the primary level-three

integrator in support of the U.S. Army’s pursuit of robotics programs.

Matt also served as the Principal Coordinating Author for the Army’s Robotics and

Autonomous Systems Strategy, published in 2017. Matt is an experienced Mission

and Systems  Engineer. He is the current Chairman for NDIA’s Robotics Division and

the President Emeritus of the Executive Board for the National Advanced Mobility Consortium.