Steve Swazee is a retired Navy Captain and former Delta Air Lines 747 pilot who serves as Executive Director of geospatial nonprofit SharedGeo and Chairs the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council’s Emergency Preparedness Committee. He is a nationally recognized expert on USNG implementation and leading advocate for USNG adoption by the Emergency Services Sector. During Hurricanes Katrina, Ophelia, Rita and Wilma in 2005, he served as the senior Department of Defense (DoD) Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer at the Pentagon.