Ambassador, International Affairs Advisor
Robert Loftis

Dean of Students
Captain Ken Buell

Dean of Faculty & Academic Programs
Dr. Alan Whittaker

Associate Dean of Faculty & Academic Programs
Colonel Harry L. Dorsey, Esq. USA (Ret.)

Associate Dean of Faculty & Academic Programs
Colonel Suzie Wells, USAF

Director of Institutional Research
Dr. John W. Yaeger

Air Force
Colonel Bill Andrews, USAF

Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colonel Mace Carpenter, USAF

Army
Colonel Dorene Hurt, USA

Navy
Captain Stephen Black, USN

Coast Guard
Captain Luann Barndt, USCG

Marine Corps
Colonel Anthony Pais, USMC

Army

Navy

Air Force

Marines

Coast Guard

Civilian

Professor Gerald Abbott joined the faculty in June 1987. He holds a bachelors degree in history and English from Central Connecticut State College, a masters degree in business from the Wharton School and a doctorate in public policy from the University of Southern California. He has taught courses in acquisition, economics, industry analysis, comparative acquisition systems, comparative defense industry and the history of logistics. His major areas of academic interest include the affects of the federal resource allocation system on the defense industrial base and studies in international comparative acquisition systems. From 1988 to 2005 he was the director of the Industry Studies Program that examines the readiness of the US and allied industrial bases to respond to the materiel requirements of national defense. His most significant outreach efforts include: (1) directing the Deputy Secretary of Defense requested “acquisition lessons learned” study of the US Air Force Tanker Lease Program; (2) serving as the government advisor to the Defense Science Board Task Force: “Management Oversight in Acquisition Operations” and (3) serving as one of six members of the Deputy Secretary of Defense “Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Panel” (DAPA panel). His publications include the chapter on the Productive and Technological Base in the Institute for National Security Studies book, Strategic Assessment 1996: Instruments of US Power; a monograph on the Defense Industrial Base; a monograph for the Norwegian School of Management entitled Insights into the US Acquisition System; and the annual ICAF book, In Touch with Industry, which addresses the ability of US industry, in a global context, to support the US national security strategy.

Functional Expertise:
Weapons systems acquisition - Integrated logistic support - Industrial base analysis - International acquisition systems - Transatlantic cooperation in armaments development and production - Economics - Logistics Management

Dr. A'Hearn joined the ICAF faculty in 1987. He is a Professor of Acquisition, faculty leader of the Education Industry Study, and Director of the College's Senior Acquisition Course. Dr. A'Hearn earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Hamilton College, a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology, a Master of Business Administration from Auburn University, and a Doctor of Education degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also completed a one-year faculty research residency at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Air Command and Staff College, and the Defense Systems Management College. Dr. A'Hearn retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Colonel in 1992, having completed a series of operational and support assignments in the fields of research and development, program management, and acquisition. Among his professional writings are The Information Arsenal: A C3I Profile and The Northeast Power Failure and Lyndon B. Johnson - both monographs published by the Harvard University Press; and various articles to include "Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex in the Post-Cold War Era," and "The Sisyphus Paradox - Framing the Acquisition Reform Debate."

Functional Expertise:
Defense acquisition, procurement, contracting, and program management - The industrial base and government-industry relations - Public Education and Education Reform - Corporate Education and Training - Leadership and Management

Regional Expertise:
Western Europe & United Kingdom - France - Germany - Iceland

Mr. Altieri serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Acquisition, Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He has been a Professor at ICAF since 1992 and became Chair of the Department in 2004.

Mr. Altieri served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1967-1995, serving a majority of that time as an attorney with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Following commissioning upon graduation from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Airborne and Ranger training, and initial Infantry officer assignments, he commanded “B” Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, in Vietnam. Following Vietnam duty, he was enrolled at Albany Law School, Union University, Albany, New York, graduating in 1974 with a Juris Doctor degree. Upon completing the bar examination, he was admitted to practice law before New York State courts and was later admitted to practice before Federal courts as a Army JAG Officer. His JAG service included Chief Counsel assignments with the Army Materiel Command. He was the Senior Military Assistant to the Army General Counsel in the Office of the Secretary of the Army, Pentagon, from 1984-1988, and the Chief Counsel, U.S. Army Information Systems Selection and Acquisition Agency, 1989-1992. While in the Pentagon, he was also the Army Legal Member of the Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council. Mr. Altieri is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, the Army JAG Graduate Course, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Colonel Bill Andrews, "B.A." comes from an operational fighter background. He hails from Waterloo NY and began flying upon graduation from the USAF Academy in 1980. B.A.'s operational experience includes tours in the EF-111, and F-16. He has commanded an F-16 Squadron and a composite Operations Group of fighter, bomber, and tanker squadrons. He commanded Al Udeid AB, Qatar in the opening months of Operation Enduring Freedom. Combat tours include Desert Storm, Southern Watch, and Enduring Freedom. In the closing days of Desert Storm, he was shot down, captured, and spent time as a POW.

Academic achievements include publishing of a book on military innovation in Desert Storm:Airpower Against an Army, featured on the CSAF's reading list from 1997-2002, and The Luftwaffe and the Battle for Air Superiority: Blueprint or Warning? B.A. has three masters degrees from Univeristy of Alabama (history), School of Advanced Airpower Studies (Airpower Art and Science), and ICAF (National Resource Strategy). He is a PhD student at George Mason University (American History).

B.A. is an ICAF graduate, Class of 2000. He comes from a teaching position at the National War College. Previously he completed a tour as a Division Chief within JCS/J-8. He lives in Vienna with his wife Stacey and son Patrick (14). His oldest son, Sean is a Lt in the USAF and daughter Shannon is attending Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Dr. Basile joined the ICAF faculty on 1 October 2007. He is an Associate Professor of Acquisition participating in the Manufacturing Industry Study. His major area of academic interest includes developing strategies and capabilities to address joint, multinational, and interagency integration and interoperability issues. Prior to his appointment at NDU, Dr. Basile was a Principal Professional Staff member at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in Laurel, MD. Recent JHU/APL assignments within the Department of Defense include the Senior Advisor to the Director of Systems Engineering at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Science Advisor to the Commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command, and Science Advisor to the Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. While at JHU/APL, he supported strategic weapons systems acquisition, operational test and evaluation, and readiness evaluations for submarine-launched ballistic missile systems. Additionally, he worked for six years as the Program Coordinator and Instructor of graduate studies in manufacturing engineering at The Johns Hopkins University Mechanical Engineering Department in Baltimore, MD. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with high honors (University of Maryland), a Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and a Doctor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering (George Washington University).

Functional Experience:
Acquisition - Systems Engineering – Advanced Manufacturing - Science and Technology Strategy

Regional Expertise:
Western Europe

Captain Luann Barndt currently serves as the U.S. Coast Guard Chair to the National Defense University. Assigned as faculty at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, she teaches National Security Studies; various electives, and assists with the ICAF Research and Writing Program. Previously, Captain Barndt served as the Deputy Commander, CG Sector Guam. She deployed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to serve on the Principal Federal Officer’s staff in response to Hurricane Katrina and was there when Hurricane Rita hit. While assigned to Maritime Defense Zone Atlantic from 2000-2004, CAPT Barndt was instrumental in working the evolving homeland security and defense issues following the 11 September terrorist attacks. During this tour, she was assigned to several joint working groups including the US NORTHCOM Implementation Team Joint Planning Group. Other assignments included Regimental Officer in charge of Military Indoctrination at the Coast Guard’s only recruit Training Center located in Cape May, New Jersey; Surface Operations Officer at Group North Bend, Oregon; Chief Global Positioning Information Center (GPSIC) at Omega Navigation System Center in Alexandria, Virginia; Aide to Commander, Coast Guard Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific located in Alameda, California; Assistant Admin Officer at CG Training Center Petaluma, California; and Combat Information Center Officer/ Deck Watch Officer aboard USCGC BOUTWELL (WHEC 719) home ported in Seattle, Washington.

CAPT Barndt is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1984); The George Washington University (1993); U.S. Army Command & General Staff College (2000); Joint Forces Staff College (Sep 2003); and National War College (2007).

Functional Experience:
Surface Operations - Training

Areas of Interest:
National Security Strategy - Research & Writing - Character Development - Ethics - Leadership - Interagency Process - Southeast Asia - Bosnia - Serbia - Kosovo - Montenegro

Captain David Belt is an Assistant Professor in the National Security Studies and Regional Security Studies Departments at National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington DC.

Since 2004, Captain Belt has researched information strategy to defeat violent religious extremism in the Muslim world. He is developing curricula and a textbook to foster understanding and strategy development for this security threat.

Captain Belt has been an active duty U.S. Navy Special Operations Officer (1140) since 1982.

Education:
• Trinity Theological Seminary, 2005-Present. Doctoral student, Doctor of Religious Studies (D.R.S.) (Emphasis in Philosophy and Apologetics)
• Research Fellow, National Defense University in 2004 and 2005. (Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism)
• National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 2004-2005. M.S. National Resource Strategy
• U.S. Naval Academy, 1978-1982. B.S. Physical Sciences (emphasis in Oceanography)

Education Leadership Experience:
In addition to his current work at National Defense University, Captain Belt served as the Curricula Instruction Standards Officer and Director of Training at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida from 1992-1994. He led the teams that developed the Marine Corps Combatant Diver course, the Salvage Construction Demolition Diver course, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Diver course, and led sweeping changes to the Navy’s Fleet Diver and Master Diver curricula.

Regional Expertise:
Middle East - Gulf States

Ms. Benton serves as Faculty Chair for the U.S. Department of Energy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces and is in the Leadership and Information Strategy Department.  At DOE as a Physical Scientist and Program Manager she most recently served as Deputy Director for standing up a new program that included negotiating and implementing a nuclear nonproliferation effort in Russian closed nuclear cities, which ultimately will remove 20,000 weapons from the Russian nuclear stockpile.

She has had management responsibilities for national programs that evaluated feasibility studies for various energy installations as well as first-of-a-kind field demonstrations for synthetic fuels such as tar sands fire flooding, coal gasification and oil shale mining.  She provided oversight for health and safety of uranium enrichment facilities operated by DOE, and ensured transition of these facilities to regulatory oversight by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  Her prior work as a consultant to government and industry produced national guidance to handle hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and she authored a series of national indices and guides for the offshore oil and gas industry. 

She was recognized with Special Service Awards for negotiating a complex regional and national environmental compliance agreement for uranium gaseous diffusion plants that produced costs savings of $1.2B (1991-1995).  Her leadership in highly successful monitoring programs in Russian nuclear cities was recognized in 2001, and her negotiations for additional Russian origin material were recognized in 2003.  She is a member of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, and has authored more than 30 publications related to innovations in energy development and related environmental and international issues.  She also has developed core curricula for training nuclear experts to perform oversight of international nuclear activities.

Ms. Benton received a B.S. degree in biology from Kent State University and her first M.S. degree in Ecology from West Virginia University, with an emphasis on acid mine drainage. She received her second M.S. degree in National Resource Strategy from ICAF in 2000.

Dr. Berg joined the ICAF faculty in July, 1994, as a professor in the Economics Department at the Industrial College of the armed forces. He graduated from Washington University, St. Louis, with high honors. He received an M.A. in economics from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. As a graduate student he studied industrial organization, international economics, and public finance. He did his doctoral dissertation on the interaction of incumbency and advertising and the effects on market performance.

Before coming to ICAF, Dr. Berg taught at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Pennsylvania State University and worked as a researcher in the U.S. International Trade Commission. He has numerous publications in scholarly journals on the effects of trade policies and the economic consequences of U.S. trade laws. He has also managed or served as the principal investigator on studies of the effects of developing countries external debts, the effects of steel import restraints, the effects of NAFTA on the U.S. economy, and the effects of economic sanctions.

Dr. Berg teaches the economics core course and an elective on "International Trade and Finance," has served as an industry study leader for Aircraft and faculty co-lead for the South America RSS. He leads student exercises and conducts independent research.

Functional Expertise:
Economic systems - The Global Trading and Financial System - Market Analysis - Public Sector Economics - U.S. Trade Law

Captain Steve Black currently serves as the U.S. Navy Chair, Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science in the Department of Leadership and Information Strategy and heads the Aircraft Industry Study.

Captain Black comes to ICAF from the Office of the Vice President where he served as Special Advisor on Homeland Security. He served on a variety of White House policy bodies including the Counterterrorism Security Group, the Domestic Readiness Group and Policy Coordination Committees on Emergency Preparedness and Response, WMD Defense, National Exercises, Infrastructure Protection, and Continuity of Government.

Captain Black is a career Naval Flight Officer and Electronic Countermeasures Officer flying the EA-6B Prowler. He has over 3000 flight hours and 70 combat missions, served as a flight instructor and airwing strike lead, and has deployed on seven different aircraft carriers. He commanded Electronic Attack Squadron 138 onboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington.

Captain Black has served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Air Operations and Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Ranges for the Commander, Navy Region Northwest. He has also served as an Experiment Director in the Navy Warfare Development Command’s Maritime Battle Center and was the lead Navy planner for Joint Experimentation conducted with the United States Joint Forces Command.

Captain Black is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the Naval Post Graduate School, the Joint Forces Staff College and a distinguished graduate of the College of Naval Command and Staff at the Naval War College. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, a Master of Arts in National Security Affairs (Russia and Eastern Europe) and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies. He has studied at the United States/Canada Institute in Moscow and the Kuznetzov Naval Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Functional Expertise:
Leadership - Homeland Security - National Security Process and the Federal Interagency - Air Warfare / Navy Strike Warfare - Experimentation and Innovation - Installation Management

Regional Expertise:
Russia - Eastern Europe

David Blair is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics at the Industrial College. He has been a professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, where he directed a series of workshops on political and economic development for very senior leaders of East European and Central Asian countries. He was a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Air War College, where he developed and was the first director of the Defense Economics program. He was the Avoiding Nuclear War Fellow at Harvard University and Olin Fellow at the Naval War College. He was Research Coordinator of the 1987 President’s Commission on Integrated Long-term Strategy and a senior researcher at Pan Heuristics. He as also a writer of editorials at the Wall Street Journal. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee.

Functional Expertise:
He directs the Financial Services Industry Study. In this position, he is responsible for maintaining close contact with banks, investment banks, corporate financial officers, regulators and all other aspects of the capital allocation system. In this capacity, he typically meets with over sixty companies and other industry representatives in the US, Europe, and Asia per year. Another principal research area is the role of entrepreneurship in economic development.

Regional Expertise:
His major area of research has been Russia, Central Asia, and the Balkans. He has visited each of these areas many times—most significantly he spent the summer of 2004 visiting and researching more than fifty small and medium-sized businesses in Russia. The point of this research was to determine the current entrepreneurial utilization of technical capabilities that were built up during the Soviet period. He also regularly meets with financial companies in Japan, China, and Korea. During the 1980s, he was a reporter in Central America and also worked on the land reform program in El Salvador.

Robert Book is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Industrial College. Prior to joining ICAF, he held a position as Senior Associate at The Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm, where he analyzed the growth of diagnostic imaging and cost changes resulting from improved technology; forecasted effects of Medicare payment changes on the long-term, acute care, and rehabilitation hospital industries; analyzed costs in pharmacy and physician practices; and studied the impact of medication therapy management by pharmacists. Prior to joining Lewin, Dr. Book served as a Research Analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), where he led the validation portion of the Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) study of the Navy’s personnel budgeting system, analyzed Navy housing policies, evaluated earned value management training programs for acquisition personnel, and analyzed factors affecting Defense health care spending. While at CNA, he also developed a Navy vehicle replacement model and conducted cost-effectiveness studies of proposed DoD and NASA programs, including joint urban warfare training, human and robotic spaceflight, and efficient utilization of NASA’s real property. While a student, he worked at The Aerospace Corporation, where he conducted Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations of launches for the Titan IV rocket program. Dr. Book earned a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, an M.A. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University, and a B.S. in Mathematics and History from Duke University.

Functional Expertise:
Health Economics - Industrial Organization - Economic Impact of Research Funding on New Technology - Incentives in Payment Systems and Acquisition Contracts - Economics of Regulation - Statistics and Probability

Linda Brandt is a Professor of Acquisition at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), National Defense University. Prior to joining ICAF, Dr. Brandt served as a senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses where she headed up acquisition studies for the Navy Secretariat. She has also worked as a management consultant for the firm of Touche Ross & Company, where her clients included a variety of major defense and non-defense manufacturing companies, and as a Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Material, Department of the Navy. Before moving to Washington, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach. She received her Doctorate in Political Science at the University of Colorado. She has completed the Senior Executive Program at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a variety of executive business and acquisition courses.

Dr. Brandt has written extensively on acquisition issues, participated on a number of Defense Science Board and National Academy of Sciences studies, and testified as an expert witness before Congress. Her work includes articles and studies on acquisition reform, streamlining, technology management and transfer, manufacturing productivity and modernization, and other acquisition and public policy related subjects. She has received numerous awards and honors, to include the American Society for Public Administration's Department of Defense Outstanding Professional of the Year award presented by the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Navy's Meritorious Civilian Service Award. She was selected as a Fellow of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Most recently, Dr Brandt was inducted to the rank of "Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite" by the President of the Republic of France.

Functional Expertise:
Acquisition Policy - Technology Management - Space Policy

Stephen Brent is a Senior Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Chair of the Department of Economics at ICAF. Prior to joining ICAF he led USAID’s support for the Millennium Challenge Account (a new U.S. Government program to support poverty reduction in developing countries through economic growth), coordinating the threshold program to help countries improve their performance on MCA indicators so they can become eligible for the MCA. From 1999-2003 he served as Associate Director of USAID/Egypt, leading U.S. assistance in democracy/governance, health, and education, where he worked with Egyptian business leaders to improve management and workforce skills. He served in South Africa from 1992-1999, leading USAID assistance to democracy during that country’s transition to majority rule. Prior to that, he was a special assistant in USAID’s Africa Bureau in Washington, leading the development of the first democracy programs in Africa and coordinating relief efforts for the 1992 Southern Africa drought. Before joining USAID in 1987, Dr. Brent was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Chair of the Africa Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He served six years as a U.S. Naval officer, including duty in Vietnam, at the Center for Naval Analyses, and at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He has a PhD in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an MS in Operations Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a BA in Economics from Duke University.

Functional Expertise:
Development Economics - Foreign Assistance Programs - Lessons of Asian Development - Role of Local Business in Economic Development.

Regional Expertise:
Africa

Professor Briggs served as ICAF's Federal Aviation Administration Chair from 1998 through 2000, and joined the ICAF faculty in 2001. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Illinois in 1968, a Master of Public Administration degree from George Washington University in 1979, and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Management from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1997. He is currently working toward his PhD in Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Professor Briggs is a Professor of Acquisition, Course Director for the Acquisition Core Course, faculty leader of the Aircraft Industry Study, and has taught courses in executive information systems, news media, ethics, and acquisition policy (innovation and change). Professor Briggs was a Viet Nam era Air Force pilot, and has equally divided his public service career since between the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation, having served as the lead aircraft procurement appropriation analyst for the Secretary of the Navy Comptroller and manager of the FAA's capital budget division, among other acquisition and budget positions. Published articles include, "The 'Seven Percent Provision' and the Railroad Regulatory Reform Act," for the Transportation Research Forum.

Functional Expertise:
Federal Major System Acquisition - Federal, State and Local Capital and Operations Planning, Programming, and Budgeting - Public Administration and Policy - Public and Private Sector Change and Innovation - News Media - Transportation: highways, railroads, aviation (commercial pilot & air traffic control)

Regional Expertise:
Southeast Asia - North America - Europe

Colonel Brown joins the faculty as an instructor in the Department of Military Strategy and Logistics. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Personnel Management, a Master of Science degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in Logistics Management and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from ICAF. He enlisted in the US Army as a Military Policeman and served at Ft. Myer and the Pentagon before receiving a Reserve Commission in the Engineer Corps. He subsequently received a Regular Army Commission in the Medical Service Corp specializing in Medical Logistics. He is a graduate of the Army Medical Department Officer Basic and Advance Courses, the Combined Arms Service Staff School, the Command and General Officer Course, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He has held numerous leadership positions from platoon leader in a Combat Heavy Engineer Company through Depot Command. He deployed to Somalia in 1992 during Operation Restore Hope commanding the 32nd Medical Logistics Battalion (FWD). In 1995 he deployed to Tasar, Hungary as S-4 and subsequently as Executive Officer of Task Force 67 and the 67th Combat Support Hospital supporting Operation Joint Endeavor. He has served as the Logistics Officer for four Army Medical Department hospitals, most recently at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii.

Functional Expertise:
Health Care Logistics - Supply Chain Management

Regional Experience:
Western Europe - NATO

Dr. Jim Browning joined ICAF in 2003 as a faculty member of the Department of Strategic Leadership, teaching the Strategic Leadership core curriculum and the elective Lessons in Leadership. In addition, he designed and conducts a 2-part voluntary program for ICAF students, "Life after ICAF: Success in the First 90 Days of Your Next Job." He has served as one of the faculty members for the Health Care, Transportation, and Manufacturing Industry Studies. Currently, Dr. Browning serves as the Department of Strategic Leadership Chair.

Previously, Dr. Browning, a 1982 National War College Graduate, served as the Navy’s first Senior Fellow and faculty member at the NDU War Gaming and Simulation Center 1982 – 1984. Prior to retiring from active duty as a Navy Captain in 1992, Dr. Browning served as the Director of the Navy’s Command Excellence and Leader Development Division (responsible for all officer and enlisted leadership development policies and programs). Following retirement, he served as President and CEO of the Athena Group, Inc., a leadership and management training and consulting company based in the Washington, D.C. area from 1992 – 1996. In 1996, he was asked to revamp and revitalize the training and development function at the Library of Congress; and from 1996 – 2003 he served as the Chief of the Library of Congress Corporate University.

He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and earned a MA in Human Resources Management, MBA, and Ph.D. in Leadership and Human Behavior (specializing in Management and Organizational Development).

Functional Expertise:
Leadership and Management - Organizational Development and Change - Corporate Universities - Mobilization, Disaster, and War Planning - Gaming and Simulation

Lieutenant Colonel Bryant joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in July 2007 as a professor of Military Strategy and Logistics. She is an Army Strategic Plans and Policy Officer. She was commissioned in 1989 into the US Army Ordnance Corps as a munitions officer. Her early assignments included two tours on the Korean peninsula and a tour in the Opposing Forces Regiment at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin Ca.

In 1996, Lieutenant Colonel Bryant was selected to serve on faculty in the Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point. After finishing her Master’s Degree, she served three years as an assistant professor of International Relations. She was then selected as an Army Strategist. In that capacity, she has served as an Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, a strategic fellow on the Joint Staff and as a strategist on the Army Staff. She also served as the Chief of the Strategic Initiatives Group for Combined Forces Command Afghanistan and as Chief for Key Leader Engagement, International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan.

Lieutenant Colonel Bryant has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Politics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service; A Master’s Degree in International Relations from Yale University; A Master’s in Operational Studies from Marine Corps University and is currently enrolled in the Doctoral Program for Liberal Studies at Georgetown University. She is also a former Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and a Columbia University Next Generation Fellow. Her military education includes the Ordnance Munitions Officer Basic Course, The Combined Logistics Officer Advanced Course, US Army Command and General Staff College, US Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting, the Joint Forces Staff College Joint and Combined Warfighting Course, and the US Army War College’s Defense Strategy Course. She has written and published several monograph’s on the Korean Peninsula and is currently focusing on NATO’s experiences in Afghanistan.

Joined the staff in March 1996. Mr. Buchanan is the Director of Operations. Mr. Buchanan retired from active duty from the Army in 1994.

Colonel Deborah Buonassisi serves on the faculty of the Department of National Security Studies and as the Senior Air Force Reserve Advisor to the President, National Defense University. Colonel Buonassisi entered the Air Force in 1988, receiving her commission through the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Delaware. Her first assignments were in the military personnel career field.

After leaving active duty in 1992, Colonel Buonassisi became the wing executive officer at the 934th Airlift Wing in Minneapolis, MN. She returned to active duty status in 1997 to work for the Air Force Reserve Policy Integration Directorate, HQ USAF, where she worked multiple policy issues as well as legislative affairs for the Air Force and Air Force Reserve.

In 1999, Colonel Buonassisi served as a Legislative Fellow through the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University. She worked for Senator Max Cleland (D-GA) as a member of his national security team and was also his legislative assistant for senior citizen and social security issues. Upon her return to the Pentagon, Colonel Buonassisi directed the Air Force Reserve’s Congressional Outreach program, setting policy and advising senior leaders on interaction with Congress, as well as educating all members of the Reserve on legislative operations through briefings and publications.

In 2002, Colonel Buonassisi was selected to attend the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. While at ICAF, she was a member of the News Media Industry Study, completed a year-long research program and authored an award-winning paper entitled, “The News Media Prism: Shaping America’s Opinion of Congress.” Colonel Buonassisi graduated in June 2003 as the class Honor Graduate.

Colonel Buonassisi returned to the Air Staff and served for four years under the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS) for Strategic Plans and Programs. After three years in the Strategic Planning Directorate, she was appointed director of strategic communication for the DCS.

Colonel Buonassisi earned her BA in sociology in 1987, her MS in political science (with a minor in history) in 1991, and a MS in national resource strategy in 2003. She also completed coursework through Georgetown University on congressional operations, the advanced legislative process, the advanced budget process, and preparing and delivering congressional testimony.

Functional Expertise:
Congress and the legislative process - The News Media - History

Areas of Interest:
Sub-Saharan Africa - Europe

Colonel Mace Carpenter graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Troy Sate University, a Master’s of National Security Strategy from the National War College (Distinguished Graduate), and a Master’s of Airpower Art and Science from the Air University. After completing undergraduate pilot training at Laughlin AFB, TX, in 1981, the Air Force assigned him to the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron at Shaw AFB, SC as an O-2A forward air controller. In 1984, Colonel Carpenter attended the F-111A upgrade pilot training at Mountain Home AFB, ID, where he was a distinguished graduate and earned Top Gun honors. He transferred to the 77th Fighter Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford, United Kingdom. While assigned to the 77th, Colonel Carpenter was an F-111E instructor pilot, supervisor of flying, and nuclear alert force commander. In 1989, he was assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom. While assigned at RAF Lakenheath, he flew 30 missions during Operations DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM and was twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism. He left to attend Air Command and Staff College in 1992 where he was a distinguished graduate and was also the Academic Scholarship Award recipient. Colonel Carpenter then attended the School of Advanced Airpower Studies at Maxwell AFB, AL, 1993. His next assignment took him to the Air Staff, Strategy Division, where he served as the chief of Air Force strategy development from 1994 to 1996. Among other efforts, he was the primary author of the Air Force Core Competencies. The Air Force then assigned him to Holloman AFB, NM, where he served as the assistant operations officer for the 9th Fighter Squadron, F-117/T-38 flight examiner, Operations Officer for the 8th Fighter Squadron, and chief of the 49th Operations Group Standards and Evaluation, and Commander of the 9th Fighter Squadron. While at Holloman AFB, he flew combat missions during Operation ALLIED FORCE earning a third Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism, served at the Combined Air Operations Center in Vicenza, Italy, for 45 days, and the recipient of Air Combat Command Jabara Award for Airmanship. He culminated his assignment at Holloman AFB in 2000 as the commander of the 9th Fighter Squadron.

Colonel Carpenter became the Commander, 32 Air Operations Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, in 2001. He began commanding the 32nd AOG immediately following the 9/11 attacks. He led the development of two highly classified plans and, with the EUCOM Commander, briefed them to the Secretary of Defense and the Vice President of the United States. Colonel Carpenter led the development of a plan to support Operation IRAQI FREEDOM with airpower and command and control from the EUCOM Theater. The 9th Air Force Commander personally selected Colonel Carpenter to serve his Chief of Strategy for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Colonel P. Mason Carpenter, USAF, was a member of the Joint Staff from June 2003 until July of 2007. Initially assigned as the J8 Deputy Division Chief of the Joint Capabilities Division, Colonel Carpenter helped institute the Joint Capabilities and Integrated Decision System (JCIDS). Colonel Carpenter served as the J5 Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Division Chief. He led assigning the combating weapons of mass destruction mission to Strategic Command, the publishing of Joint Doctrine for Combating Weapons of mass Destruction, and the publication of the Military Strategy for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction. Colonel Carpenter then served as the US Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee Pentagon Operations Officer. A command pilot, Colonel Carpenter has logged over 1,500 hours in the F-111, 900 hours in the O-2A, 600 hours in the F-117, and 350 hours in the A/T-38 aircraft. His decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, & the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. He is married to retired Colonel (Dr) Karen Reece Carpenter and they have three children, Paul, Sean, and Kelly—and a dog named Paladin.

Functional Expertise:
Military Strategy - Airpower Employment - Command & Control - Campaign planning - National Security Strategy - Air Force History - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction - Military Capability Development - Energy - Online Gaming

Regional Interest:
Southwest Asia - Europe

Currently, Professor of History, Department of National Security Studies, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University in Washington D.C. He previously served as Chief Historian and Research Director with the Department of Energy and as a historian with the Army, Air Force, and National Park Service, and with the Cruiser Olympia Association. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Weidner University, the U.S. Army War College, The George Washington University and the American Military University. He is also a past Executive Director of the Society for Military History.

A graduate in history from Rutgers University, he holds M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve 1956-1963. A former officer and trustee of the Society for Military History and past Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, he held an advanced research fellowship from the Naval War College in 1974. He has received the Distinguished Research Award from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Douglas Southall Freeman award from the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, the Fletcher Pratt award from the New York Civil War Round Table, and the Moncado award from the American Military Institute for his writings. He also received the Victor Gondos Memorial Service Award from the Society for Military History.

Among his publications are Benjamin Franklin Tracy: Father of the Modern American Fighting Navy (1973); Symbol, Sword, and Shield: Defending Washington During the Civil War (1975, reprinted 1992); editor, War, Business, and American Society (1977); editor, The New American State Papers: Military Affairs (1979); Gray Steel and Bluewater Navy; The Formative Years of America's Military-Industrial Complex, 1881-1917 (1979); co-author, Combined Operations in War and Peace (1979); editor, War, Business, and World Military Industrial Complexes (1981); Forts Henry and Donelson; Key to the Confederate Heartland (1988); co-author, Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington (1988); Jubal Early's Raid on Washington (1989); editor, Case Studies in the Development of Close Air Su port (1991); editor, Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority (1994); editor, Robley D. Evans, A Sailor's Log (1994); Monocacy; The Battle that Saved Washington, (1997); Fort Donelson's Legacy War and Society in Tennessee and Kentucky, 1862-1863 (1997); USS Olympia; Herald of Empire (2000) and several hundred articles, essays and reviews on aspects .of military, naval and other history.

He is currently writing - "'Maryland, My Maryland;' From the Peninsula to the Antietam" and "To Franklin, Nashville and Beyond; The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1864-1866."

Dr. Corvette has extensive experience in business, law, taxation, accounting and finance, human and organization development, and negotiation. Her professional experience includes sixteen years in commercial law including business tax law. Her commercial legal experience encompasses mergers & acquisitions, securities and syndications, banking, new ventures, insurance, and a variety of transactional work along with some litigation. She also served seven years in the practice of public accounting and several years in business and organization development. She is an Attorney-at-Law licensed in the state of Virginia. She is a CPA licensed in Michigan, Virginia, & D.C.; and, she is a Certified Clinical Sociologist with specialization in conflict and organizations. She has served in the diverse positions of Controller, Vice President of Finance, General Counsel, Chief Operating Officer, Independent Consultant, Expert Witness, and Chief Regional Academic Officer & Regional Dean. She has also served on and advised several Boards of Directors.

She has more than ten years of experience teaching graduate- and professional-level courses in leadership, conflict, negotiation, organization behavior & development, law, strategic management, accounting & finance, and executive skill development. She also authors and teaches continuing legal education courses to practicing attorneys. Her text book on Conflict Management was released by Prentice-Hall in February 2006.

Dr. Corvette is Director of the Electives Program for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (“ICAF”), National Defense University. She is also a Professor of Behavioral Science in the Strategic Leadership Department of ICAF. She joined ICAF in July, 2005.

Functional Expertise:
Conflict Management and Resolution - Negotiation - Organizational Behavior & Development - Commercial Law - Mergers & Acquisitions - New Venture Initiation - Individual Skill Development

Dr. Crandall joined the faculty as Professor of Economics at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1994. She is a Cum Laude graduate of Smith College, and holds an MA and Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. She was the lead faculty member for 10 years on ICAF’s Energy Industry Study. She has taught at Lake Forest College, Wellesley College and MIT, and was a Sloan Faculty Fellow at the MIT Energy Laboratory. She has also served as Adjunct Professor in the School of Foreign Affairs, Security Studies Program, at Georgetown University, teaching the Energy and Security course. She was named an Illinois State Scholar Dissertation Fellow by the AAUW, and earned Certificates in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University and the College of Petroleum Studies at Oxford, UK. She was a senior consultant at Foster Associates, Inc. dealing with energy and antitrust issues, and has testified in Federal District Court. She spent a number of years in the U.S. intelligence community, where she won the Director of Central Intelligence's National Intelligence Medal of Achievement. She has served as a faculty member for the Reserve Components National Security Course. She was appointed to several terms on the Secretary of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Commission, and has served on committees of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. She is currently President of the National Capital Area Chapter of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics, the largest and most active local chapter of the national organization, and previously was a member of the Board of Editors of The Energy Journal. She is presently on a committee of the National Energy Commission. Her book entitled “Energy, Economics and Politics in the Caspian Region: Dreams and Realities” was published by Praeger in 2006. She is the author of numerous classified papers and briefings on energy, and has published several articles in defense and civilian journals.

Functional Expertise:
Economics - U.S. Energy Issues; International Energy Issues - Antitrust Economics

Regional Expertise:
OPEC - Mercosur Energy Relations - European Natural Gas and Electricity Markets - Caspian Energy and Political developments - NAFTA Energy

James T. Currie graduated Summa cum Laude from the University of Mississippi in 1968. He then attended the University of Virginia, from which he received his M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1975) degrees. He is a 1993 graduate of ICAF. He was the first Historian for the US Department of Education and was Assoc. Historian of the US House of Representatives. From 1984-1989 he was legislative assistant to Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., and from 1985-1991 he was a professional staff member for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, for which he was also the Press Spokesman. Since July 1991 he has been Professor of Political Science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. At ICAF he directs the News Media Industry Study and teaches an elective on "Congress and the Legislative Process." He has taught in the CAPSTONE program at the National Defense University and is a faculty member for the Reserve Components National Security Course. He is the author of three books, including histories of both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Army Reserve, and twenty-two articles. One of his articles, "Benjamin Montgomery and the Davis Bend Colony," won the Charles Thomson Prize. His OpEd pieces have been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Des Moines Register. From 1995-1999 he was moderator and host of the nationally-broadcast television program "America's Army." He retired from the Army Reserve with the rank of colonel. Military awards included the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Army parachute badge.

Functional Expertise:
Congress and the Legislative Process - The News Media - The Reserve Components of the Military - The US Political System

Ms. Eileen M. Daniels joined the staff in December 2000 as the executive officer for the Commandant. She graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor's degree in education and maintains current Virginia state teachers certification with endorsement in English. She holds a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia. Her government training includes the Defense Information School's Public Affairs Officer Course (honor graduate), Army Force Management School, and several Army Institute for Professional Development (AIPD) management courses. Ms. Daniels' career path covers teaching positions in both public and private schools and a variety of assignments with the Department of the Army where she held increasingly responsible positions in civilian personnel, public affairs, protocol, and education. Prior to coming to ICAF, she worked as an education program specialist with the Army's school liaison program. Her Department of the Army awards include the Achievement Medal for Civilian Service and the Commander's Award for Civilian Service (bronze laurel leaf cluster).

COL Mark K. Davis, Psy.D., ABPP, is a Professor of Behavioral Science in the Strategic Leadership Department and a graduate of ICAF. He has a doctorate in Psychology, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and is Board Certified in Clinical Health Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has held a number of positions as a Clinical Psychologist in the U.S. Army. COL Davis was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007. His last assignment prior to coming to ICAF was as the Psychology Consultant for the Southeast Regional Medical Command; Chief of Outpatient Behavioral Health Services on Fort Gordon, GA; and the National Coordinator of the U.S. Army Clinical Psychology Residency Programs.

Functional Experience:
Military Psychology - Clinical Psychology - Clinical Health Psychology - Stress Management

COL Craig DeDecker joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces after graduating in June 2008 and is a member of the Acquisition Department.

Commissioned as an Infantry Officer in May 1985, COL DeDecker served his initial operational assignment in the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3d Brigade, 82d Airborne Division serving in various staff and command positions. In 1991, COL DeDecker was then assigned to the 2d Battalion, 15th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 3d Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany where he served in various staff and command positions until 1994.

COL DeDecker entered the Army Acquisition Corps in 1994 in the 18th Airborne Corps, 1st COSCOM, Fort Bragg as a Contingency Contracting Officer, supporting various Corps units during CONUS and OCONUS deployments, to include Operation Uphold Democracy, Haiti. In 1999 COL DeDecker served as a Congressional Fellow to Congressman Jerry Lewis in the capacity of a Military Legislative Assistant working defense acquisition and defense appropriations issues. He then served on the Army Staff in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller as a Congressional Budget Liaison Officer to the Senate and House of Representatives Appropriation Committees working an Acquisition portfolio. In October 2001, COL DeDecker was reassigned to the Ground Applications Program Office, United States Special Operations Command, as the Deputy Program Manager. In 2004 COL DeDecker assumed command of the Northern Region Contracting Center, Fort Eustis. During his command tour, Colonel DeDecker served in Iraq as the Principle Assistant Responsible for Contracting - Forces, supporting 150,000 coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

COL DeDecker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Illinois State University, a Master’s degree in Procurement and Acquisition Management, and a Master’s degree in Management from Webster University, St Louis, Missouri, and a Master’s degree in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. COL DeDecker is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Functional Expertise:
Acquisition – Contracting – Privatized Military Operations – Program Management – Congress/Legislative Process – Special Operations

Richard deVillafranca is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He currently serves on the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. deVillafranca served as Political Adviser (POLAD) to the Commanding General, Combined Forces Command, Afghanistan.

From 2004-2005, Mr. deVillafranca was Senior Adviser and Maritime Security Coordinator in the State Department’s Bureau for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. In this position, he coordinated U.S. maritime counter-terrorism activity with East Asian partners, particularly in the Malacca Straits and its approaches.

From 2001-2004, Mr. deVillafranca was the Director of the Office of Regional and Security Policy (RSP) in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, with management and oversight responsibility for U.S. multilateral diplomacy in East Asia, counter-terrorism policy, strategic planning for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, regional security policy and East Asian transnational issues.

Mr. deVillafranca has also served as Special Assistant for South Asia to the Deputy Secretary of State, Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and in other positions in Japan and in the State Department.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), University of Illinois (MA) and the National War College (MS), Mr. deVillafranca is a recipient of the Army’s Distinguished Civilian Service Award and a four-time recipient of the Department of State’s Superior Honor award. He is married with two children.

Professor Dorsey was appointed Associate Dean of Faculty in June 2004. He joined the ICAF faculty in January 2002 as a professor of Acquisition. Prior to this assignment, he served for over 24 years as an Army Judge Advocate, specializing in government contract and fiscal law. He holds a J.D. from Duquesne University and is a 1999 Distinguished Graduate of ICAF. He served as the Army Judge Advocate Chair at ICAF in 1999 - 2000, as a Professor of Grand Strategy and Acquisition. Prior to his retirement from active duty, he served twice as a Staff Judge Advocate and legal advisor to Heads of Contracting Activities, a professor of contract and fiscal law and holder of the Gilbert A. Cuneo Chair of Government Contract Law at the Army's Judge Advocate General's School, a contract litigation attorney, and as a contract law attorney at several installations, two major subordinate commands, and a major acquisition command. He served two tours in Europe and was the U.S. Army Europe's senior acquisition and fiscal law policy advisor during the first phase of Operation Joint Endeavor in the Balkans

Functional Expertise:
Government Contract Law - Fiscal Law - Acquisition Policy - International Law - Ethics - Environment - Transportation

Terry Egland hails from Minnesota. He graduated from Hastings High School (1974), Gustavus Adolphus College (1978) and the University of Minnesota Medical School (1986). He accepted a commission the US Navy in 1981. He completed his postgraduate medical training in pediatrics at Loma Linda University and Portsmouth Naval Medical Center (1991). Subsequently, he was on the teaching faculty for the Charleston family practice (1991-1995) and Portsmouth pediatric (1995-2000) postgraduate residency training programs. He then served as Associate Director for Primary Care and Medical Specialties at the National Naval Medical Center. His became associated with the National Defense University in 2002, first as the university physician and later as an ICAF student. Following graduation (2004), he served as the Director of Business Planning for Navy Medicine until now joining the ICAF faculty.

Functional Experience:
Pediatric and Executive Medicine - Healthcare - Business Management - Supply Chain Management

Career Air Force officer with 22 years of operational, and academic experience. Upon graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1984 and pilot training the following year, he began his career as flight instructor in the T-37 aircraft at Columbus AFB, MS. After over three years of experience as an instructor pilot, Col Farquhar transitioned to the F-16 and spent the next five years an operational fighter pilot with assignments at Osan AB, Korea, Homestead AFB, FL, and Moody AFB, GA. His duties included operational plans, standardization and evaluations, and flight commander. In 1995, Col Farquhar was selected as one of three AF officers to study abroad as an Olmsted Scholar. After completing a year of language training, he studied International Relations at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. Following a year at Air Command and Staff College, Col Farquhar returned to F-16 operations at Aviano AB, Italy then again at Osan AB, Korea. He culminated these six years of operational leadership as the Squadron Commander of the 36th Fighter Squadron at Osan. Col Farquhar joined the ICAF faculty after graduating from the class of 2006 as a Distinguished Graduate. He teaches in the Department of National Security Studies.

Functional Expertise:
Air Combat - fighter operations and support, flight training - Allied Air Operations - Political Science / International Relations

Regional Expertise:
NATO (air operations) - Korea (air operations and international relations) - Northeast Asia (international relations)

Lt Col Stephen Ford joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces after graduating in June 2007 and is a member of the Acquisition Department.

Lt Col Ford is a career acquisition officer with assignments at the research laboratory and program office levels. His program management experience includes leadership of a successful small arms technology demonstration with the Joint Service Small Arms Program (JSSAP), Picatinny Arsenal, NJ; Airborne Laser (ABL) beam control/fire control system proof of concept testing at North Oscura Peak, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and responsibility for both satellite bus and payload major system procurements at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Chantilly, VA. He has also worked as the Chief, Director’s Action Group, for the NRO’s Imagery Systems Acquisition and Operations Directorate (IMINT), responsible for the processing of all formal actions and requests for information associated with the $13B+ IMINT portfolio. Lt Col Ford is Level III certified in Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering.

Lt Col Ford holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and an MS in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. Lt Col Ford is also a graduate of the Air Force Squadron Officer School and Air Command and Staff College.

Functional Expertise:
Acquisition - Systems Engineering - Program Management - Space - Remote Sensing - Directed Energy

Colonel Fosnaugh joined the Industrial College of the Armed Forces faculty in July of 2007. He is a career Marine Corps officer of over twenty-five years, with operational experience as a CH-53 helicopter pilot and Infantry Battalion Air Officer. His Command experience is as a Commanding Officer of a CH-53D helicopter squadron and as the Battalion Commander of the Headquarters and Service Battalion, Marine Corps Base, Quantico. His staff experience includes the Staff Secretary to the Commander, Marine Corps Forces Atlantic and II Marine Expeditionary Force; Personnel Management Officer, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps; J-8 of the Joint Staff as the Division Chief of the Force Protection Assessment Division, and the Division Chief, Force Application Assessment Division. He is Joint Service Officer designated. Colonel Fosnaugh holds a Bachelors of Science Degree from The Ohio State University with a focus of study in Logistics and Transportation Management, a Masters of Arts Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies, from the Naval War College, and a Masters of Science Degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

Functional Expertise:
Joint Force capabilities development, integration; program and weapon systems assessment - Assault Support operations and functional logistics - Amphibious operations - Marine Air-Ground operations - Command and leadership of large disparate organizations

Regional Expertise:
Mediterranean - Central Pacific

During his tenure at the Industrial College, he has served as director of the Elements of National Power course, the Values, Ethics, and Leadership program, the New Faculty Development program, and the Environment Industry Study group, while also teaching executive-level courses in political science, ethics, mobilization, national power, environmental security, social issues and national security, and strategic brainstorming.

A West Point graduate and former regular army officer, Mr. Foster holds a doctorate in public administration from The George Washington University. He has held adjunct faculty appointments at The Johns Hopkins University and The American University, where he has taught graduate courses in business ethics, management science, and public management. He has published widely in the areas of national security affairs, civil-military relations, ethics, public management, and futures research. His publications include The Strategic Dimension of Military Manpower (Ballinger, 1987) and Paradoxes of Power: The Military Establishment in the Eighties (Indiana University Press, 1983).

Prior to joining the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Mr. Foster served as the first director of the National Defense University's Command and Control Research Program. Before that, he held a number of research management posts in the private sector, including Director of Research and Manager of Washington Operations for the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Director of the Center for Security and Policy Studies, Science Applications, Inc.

Functional Expertise:
Public Administration - Organizational Theory and Behavior - Civil-Military Relations - Ethics - Environmental Security - Mobilization - Emergency Management - Strategy - Training/Education

Regional Expertise:
Europe - Asia-Pacific

Mark Foulon is a member of the Senior Executive Service in the United States Department of Commerce. Since July 2008, he has been on detail to the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he is on the Economics faculty. At Commerce, Foulon was Deputy Undersecretary for Industry and Security from 2003–2006 and Acting Under Secretary of Industry and Security from 2006–2007. He also served on detail to the Department of the Treasury as Chief of Staff for International Affairs.

Foulon came to the Commerce Department from the Department of State, where he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff and a senior speechwriter to the Secretary of State. A former Foreign Service Officer with experience in the Middle East and Europe, Foulon also served as an aide to U.S. Senator Bill Bradley focusing on trade and national security.

Foulon also brings to his position business experience gained as a consultant for McKinsey & Co. and as a principal in several high-technology start-up businesses.

Foulon’s publications include Foulon, Mark, Padilla, Christopher A, “In Pursuit of Security and Prosperity: Technology Controls for a New Era,” Washington Quarterly, Spring 2007; and Foulon, Mark, Chambers, Elizabeth G., Handfield-Jones, Helen, Hankin, Stephen, Michaels, Edward G. III, “The War for Talent,” McKinsey Quarterly, 1998, Number 3; as well as numerous articles, op-eds, and speeches as a speechwriter for various U.S. Government principals.

A native of Spokane, Washington, Foulon is a graduate of Yale and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Functional Expertise:
Business (General) - Government/Industry Relations - Trade and National Security

Regional Interest:
Middle East/Persian Gulf - Foulon also led successful negotiations with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce

Dr. Joseph Goldberg is a Professor of National Security Studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He has been a faculty member at ICAF since 1990, served as its Director of Research from 1994-2002, and from July 2002 served as the chairman of the Department of Political Science. Prior to joining the faculty at I.C.A.F., he served as Professor of Research in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University from 1985-1990. Before entering governmental service, he was a faculty member at the University of Virginia (1969-1975) and Hampden-Sydney College (Virginia) (1975-1985) where he also served as Chairman of the Department of Political Science. Professor Goldberg has taught at the Defense Intelligence College and was an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University for many years.

Professor Goldberg was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa where he received his B.A. Degree, and earned his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Political Science from the University of Washington. He did graduate study at the University of Minnesota as well.

His professional interests have ranged from Middle Eastern politics, political philosophy, and South Asian politics with special emphasis on terrorism. In recent years he has done extensive work on biotechnology. Among his publications in these areas are: (1996) An Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Greenwood Press) edited and written with Dr. Bernard Reich ;“Understanding the Dimensions of Terrorism,” Perspectives on Political Science (Spring, 1991) and “The Terrorist Threat to Corporations,” in Global Corporate Intelligence: Opportunities, Technologies, and Threats in the 1990s. edited by George S. Roukis, Hugh Conway and Bruce Charnov, Quorum Books, 1990).

He directs the ICAF Biotechnology Industry Study, teaches an elective on Terrorism, and the South Asian Regional Studies course in addition to National Security Studies.

He is married to Mary Jo Goldberg, a Montessori teacher. They have three sons.

Functional Expertise:
Terrorism - Biotechnology/Bioterrorism - Political Founding

Regional Expertise:
South Asia - The Middle East

Dr. Alan Gropman has been a member of the Industrial College Faculty since 1991. He was the Chairman of the Department of Grand Strategy and Mobilization for six years, teaching core and elective courses in both semesters. He served 27 years in the United States Air Force, including two tours in Vietnam where he accumulated more than 670 combat missions. He retired as a Colonel. He also served as a war planner in Europe and the Pentagon. He has a Ph.D. in History from Tufts University, earned a diploma from the National War College, and is a distinguished graduate of the Air War College. He has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University for five years. He is vice chairman of the Advisory Board for the George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He has written four books and edited another and more than 250 op-ed essays, anthology chapters, book reviews, and articles.

Functional Expertise:
Aerial Navigation and Bombardment - Military Doctrine - Military Planning - Military and National Security Strategy

Col Sean Herr joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces after graduating in June 2006 and is a member of the Acquisition Department.

Col Herr is a career acquisition officer working at the program office and Air Staff levels. His program management experience includes JDAM proof of concept, the Defense Dissemination System, E-10A multi-sensor command and control aircraft and the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP). He has worked for the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) at the Pentagon in the Air Force Program Executive Office for Fighter and Bomber Programs and as a Program Element Monitor in the Information Dominance Capabilities Directorate. He is a Level III certified Program Manager and a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College. His other assignments include Air Officer Commanding (AOC) and Deputy Group AOC at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Col Herr holds a BS in Management from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an MBA from Chapman University, and an MS in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. Col Herr is also a graduate of the Air Force Squadron Officer School and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Functional Expertise:
Program Management - Acquisition Policy - News Media

Functional Expertise:
Healthcare Administration - Transporation Operations - Medical Logistics Management

Captain Anthony W. Jiles was born in Fort Rucker, Alabama and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated and received his commission from the United States Naval Academy in May 1980 where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering. Following commissioning he earned his Surface Warfare Designation and has been assigned to various surface combatants homeported on the east and west coasts. He served as Executive Officer in USS CHANDLER (DDG 996) in San Diego, California and was the Commanding Officer in USS WADSWORTH (FFG 9) also station in San Diego. Other sea assignments included Destroyer Squadrons THIRTY-SIX and SEVEN. He completed several deployments to Mediterranean, South America and the Persian Gulf.

Captain Jiles shore tours included student at Naval Postgraduate School and Naval Command and Staff College, United States Transportation Command, COMUSNAVCENT in Bahrain, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command and his last tour as Commanding Officer/Professor of Naval Science at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University which also serves Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College.

Captain Jiles’ personal awards include the Legion of Merit (two awards), Defense Meritorious Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), the Joint Meritorious Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (four awards), and various campaign and service ribbons. Additionally he earned the subspecialty of Operation Analyst (042P) and is a designated Joint Specialty Officer (JSO).

He has two children, Andrea and Austin.

Education:
BS: Aerospace Engineering – United States Naval Academy
MS Operations Analysis - Naval Postgraduate School
MA National Strategic Studies - Naval War College