Brigadier General Max J. Stitzer (USAF, ret.) is owner and principal consultant at Mentorprise Advisors, LLC, with headquarters in Pleasant View, Utah. Mentorprise Advisors connects private sector innovators and producers with public sector organizations (military, federal, state, and municipal agencies; and academic institutions); accelerating innovative technology and services to warfighters; preserving and improving the industrial base from local to global scale to fuel readiness, lethality, and economic prosperity; and preaching and modeling American technological and cultural exceptionalism by advancing non-profit and for-profit organizations that embody patriotic principles.