Lynn Shrader is a systems integration specialist and business development associate. He has extensive experience in combined arms operations. He is a retired Army colonel with 29.5 years of active service in armor and aviation units. He has commanded armor units from the company level through brigade. He was the chief-of-staff of the 3rd Armored Division in Germany. In Vietnam, he commanded an aero weapons platoon in an air cavalry troop. In a later tour, he commanded the same air cavalry troop. Mr. Shrader was the President/Commander of the Armor Engineer board, the largest test board in the army.

Mr. Shrader served in Combat Development related positions at the Combat Developments Command, Armor Agency as the lead on the Armored Reconnaissance Scout Vehicle(ARSV) and the Cheyenne Attack Helicopter in the Material Division. He served in the Office Chief of Research and Development, HQ DA as the last project officer for the Cheyenne Attack Helicopter and as the first project officer for the Advanced Attack Helicopter (AAH) now known as the Apache. Lynn also served as the TRADOC System Manager for Attack Helicopters. After retiring from the Army in January 1988, he was employed by BDM at their Williamsburg Office and supported the Heavy Forces Modernization (HFM) Task Force in the area of technology, studies and analyses, and in developing programs for the HFM. He then conducted an Economic Analyses for the PEO, Armored Systems Modernization (ASM) and a modernization study (Armor 2000) that examined force structures, technologies, and equipment needed for the 21st Century Armored Force. He was later employed with Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) in Huntsville, AL as the Deputy Program Manager for the ASM program.

Mr. Shrader also served as the Survivability Project Manager for TBE on the CRUSADER Program. In December of 1997, he retired from TBE and is currently operating as a consultant in both commercial and defense related industries. He is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College, the Naval War College (distinguished graduate), United States Military Academy (BS Military Science), West Point, and the University of Arizona (MS Aerospace Engineering), Tucson, AZ.