1. Portfolio of Various Activities ~
Stephen Lee Morgan
Argos Foundation, Inc.
Aquaterra Foundation, Inc.
• Universities Space Network for Research
Military and Emergency Management-related
Updated as of January 2013
2. Argos Foundation, Inc.
• Established as a not-for- • Major projects and
profit adjunct to the CLS activities
Group in 2004 – Jean-Michel Cousteau’s
– Incorporated in Florida Global Ocean Network
– Total independence from – Center for Space
CLS from 2007 Oceanography
• Gained formal IRS Tax – USNR
Exempt status in 2005 • Consulting in USA
– 501(c)3 • Consulting in Australia
– Aid Mission for Hurricane
• Renamed in 2011 Katrina recovery
– Aquaterra Foundation, Inc. – Aid Mission for Gulf Oil
• Disestablished in 2012 Spill clean-up effort
Foundation’s purpose was to bring the benefits of satellite communications
technologies to those who were not utilizing it fully.
Support (in-kind and cash) was gained from
corporate and individual contributors,
including the CLS Group of Companies and
other partners.
3. JMC Global Ocean Network
Entered into formal MoU with
Ocean Futures Society to establish
GON:
– Two-year project developed detailed
business plan to develop a full-scale
oceanography curriculum (K-12, adult) and
a fleet of Calypso–type vessels to support
ocean education and research.
Mr Morgan with Frank DiBello (l) and
Jean-Michel Cousteau, Siobhan Mullen, and Stephen The Foundation’s staff (shown above with Mr Cousteau during a
Winston Scott (r), the leadership of the
Morgan sign Memorandum of Understanding statewide tour to raise awareness for GON) including Larry
Florida Space Authority, strong supporters
(2004), establishing GON as a division of AFI, and approving Harvey (center-left) and Maria Peterson (right). An attempt to
of the GON Initiative, 2005.
the Business Plan. Ms Mullen served as COO of the re-start the GON Initiative in Florida was made in 2010.
4. Center for Space Oceanography
• Satellite telemetry & remote
sensing initiative involved
numerous service providers and
end-users outside USA Mr Morgan operates vessel equipped with
– Initiative started following World Food platform to test multiple satellite terminals
in maritime environment field-trials.
Program fisheries conference in Trinidad
• Focus on global IUU Fishing and pelagics
• Not exclusively fishing-oriented, R&D also
– Kick-off conference held at KSC in
Florida, 2006
Technical briefing on field-trial results, at CSO
• Over one-dozen invited participants conference held at Kennedy Space Center,
February 2006; group discussion of larger issues
and plans for establishment of the Center.
Support (in-kind and cash) was gained
from the following, plus individual
contributors:
5. Univ Space Research Network
• Most consulting work done following departure
from the CLS Group is thru USNR
– Originally organized with support from several
universities and Gov’t agencies …
… hence the name
Presence established on Bolling AFB, D.C.
Consulting (market research, applications
analysis, identifying partnerships) for Australian satellite
USNRs presence aboard Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling – proximate telemetry start-up Sirion. Here Sirion President Keith
to the National Defense University – was relocated to Virginia, as Goetsch (back to camera) is shown with State Sen Thad
our Gov’t oriented consulting came to an end into 2012. Altman and then Lt Gov Toni Jennings of Florida, in a
meeting in Florida organizing support for the company’s
6. Katrina Recovery and Gulf Oil-Spill
Clean-up Support
• AFI organized teams which travelled to the Gulf
states to support clean-up and recovery efforts
following Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill.
Argos Foundation, Inc. team on-site in Mississippi, during Hurricane Katrina
relief mission to aid in clean-up efforts, 2005.
Members of our team joined others in cleaning oil from Gulf Beaches.
7. Morgan ~ military synopsis
• USAF 1976-1980 • USN 1980-1998
– Telecommunications – Navy Finance Officer
• Commissioned in Supply
Operations Specialist Corps, NSCS Athens, GA 81-82
Navy Finance Officer NOBC 1050 - Comptroller
• Grand Forks AFB, ND
– Reserve Intel Officer
• Intel Analyst & Security Dept
Head 83-89
– deployments to Chile, Peru, Puerto
Rico, Panama, supporting UNITAS/WATC
Exercises
• Admin Dept Head 89-90
– deployments to Germany supporting
HUMINT missions
Boarding P-3 for anti-submarine – Watch Officer, Pentagon Collections
patrol off the coast of Chile, UNITAS Advisory Center (CAC)
Inter-American Naval Exercise 1987 • Active Duty, Space
Command, Operation Desert
Storm 1991
• thru Office of Naval
Intelligence, detailed to White
House ONDCP 93-94
– Organized nationwide Intel training
Squadron Airman of the summit at NMIC Suitland, MD
Year 1977, Base Airman – Organized and taught Intel Analysis seminars
for civilian Law Enforcement analysts
of the Quarter 1Q78
• Asst Dep Chief of Staff for
Intelligence Production
COMNAVRESINTCOM 95-97
–
Retirement from Naval Reserve 1998 now part of the Navy’s Information
Dominance Corps
8. Virginia Defense Force
The VDF is a component of the Virginia National Guard, within the Virginia
Department of Military Affairs (DMA).
• MEMS • Riverines
Earned the VDF Boatcrewmember
The Military Emergency Earned the MEMS Senior Served as XO of Riverines badge in 2012.
in 2012, prior to unit’s
Management Specialist badge in 2009. disestablishment due to
program is run by SGAUS. The budget cuts.
Virginia MEMS Academy often
conducts in-the-field training
during MUTA/FTX activities at
Ft Pickett, in central Virginia.
Now S-6 Comms
• Certifications & Officer for new
Capital Area
Command in
Training VDF soldiers on Field Training
Exercise (FTX) on Ft Pickett. Richmond.
‘Riverine 1’ underway in-shore on Ft Pickett.
Earned EMT-Basic license
Earned VDF Operational in Virginia in 2009.
Staff C3 ribbon in 2008. Earned CNA license in
Virginia in 2012, following Completed all coursework at FCC (2013)
completion of American Red to advance into VDF-sponsored-internship
Cross Nurse Assistant for undergrad degree program. Gained
training. minors in State & Local Emergency
Management, Continuity of Ops.
Completed FEMA Professional Development Series in 2008. Certified in Homeland Security, Level-V (CHS-V) and
CHS Emergency Medical Responder (CHSEMR).
9. Leadership Roles in Virginia Defense Force since 2008 …
Black Horse Brigade VDF Riverine Detachment Division Troop Command MEMS Academy (SGAUS)
Logistics Officer (S-4) Executive Officer Comms Officer (S-6) / Safety Officer Academy Instructor for Virginia
MAJ(VA) Stephen Morgan, VDF
Executive Officer, VDF Riverines 2011-12
Portrait-photo taken November 2012
Virginia Defense Force SACPAC vessel ‘Riverine 1’ shown underway during field trials. Vessel is 12m, w twin 150-hp outboard motors; equipped with radar, depth-
finder, marine radio, internal storage bins, underway-lighting; trailerable; all-aluminum hull. Gained as surplus field-trial equipment from US Navy in 2008.