(Ret.) Brig General Michael “Apollo” Lovell
Brig Gen Michael J. "Apollo" Lovell, USAF (Ret) is the Executive Director for Joint Base San Antonio's Electromagnetic Defense Initiative. He leads a task force for the largest Joint Base in the Department of Defense to harden utilities from Electromagnetic Pulse effects, accelerate advanced cellular communications, and implement resilient, clean, and dispatchable electrical power through geothermal and new nuclear generation. Prior to retiring from the United States Air Force, Brig Gen Lovell served as a Texas Air National Guardsman, assigned to United States Strategic Command as the Mobilization Assistant to the Director of Intelligence and flew 212 mission hours as the Airborne Emergency Action Officer on the E‐6B “Looking Glass” Airborne Nuclear Command Post. He is Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Cyber senior leader who helped the Air National Guard build cyber capabilities in 20 states with 6,000 Airmen. Brig Gen Lovell has a Master of Science in Executive Leadership, a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, and is a graduate of the Maxwell School’s National Security Studies at Syracuse University, and Kenan‐Flagler’s Executive Development at the University of North Carolina.
