Mr. Cox, a member of the Army Acquisition Corps, is Chief of the Integrated Missile Defense Division for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Battle Lab at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.  He oversees the development, of joint air and missile defense battle management, C4I initiatives to support rapid prototyping, experimentation and acquisition of immediate warfighter capabilities.  Supported by a diverse team of professionals organized into multiple integrated government and industry product teams working together to integrate and sustain innovative C4I prototype solutions for complex C2, sensor and datalink integration challenges. Responsible to coordinate command systems engineering support for Homeland Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) activities.

Mr. Cox brings to his position more than thirty four years of military operations background as a career armor officer.  He enlisted in 1976 and retired in 2008 as a Colonel serving as Deputy Director of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Future Warfare Center. 
Prior to his current assignment, he served as the test planning lead for Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Integrated Ground Test Program.