Ambassador, International Affairs Advisor
Joyce A. Barr

Dean of Students
COL Randall L. Keys

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

Associate Dean of Faculty & Academic Programs
Colonel Sean Herr, USAF

Director of Institutional Research
Vacant

Air Force
Colonel Bill Andrews, USAF

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colonel Mace Carpenter, USAF

Army
Colonel Kathleen Knapp, USA

Navy
Captain Stephen Black, USN

Coast Guard
Captain Janet Florey, USCG

Marine Corps
Colonel Matthew Cicchinelli, 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.

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

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.

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

Dr. Shannon A. Brown holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where his studies focused on the history of technology and modern world history. Now serving as an associate professor in the department of National Security Studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Dr. Brown worked in and around Washington, D.C., as a contract historian and analyst for a number of years. His clients have included the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Treasury, U.S. Census Bureau, and a variety of private organizations and companies, among them the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and the Tokyo Electric Power Company. He is the editor of Providing the Means of War: Historical Perspectives on Defense Acquisition, 1945-2000 (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2005) and Resourcing Stability Operations and Reconstruction: Past, Present, and Future (Eisenhower National Security Series Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 2006), and several articles on technology and military subjects. Dr. Brown teaches graduate-level history courses on military technology, material culture, and urban infrastructure as a visiting professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic and State University’s NoVa Graduate Center in Falls Church, Virginia.

Colonel Brown arrived at ICAF in June 2009. His civilian education includes B.S. in Management from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, N.C.; M.S. in Human Resources Administration from Central Michigan University; and M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Transportation Corps through Army ROTC in 1985. Colonel Brown’s military education includes the Army Transportation Corps Basic & Advanced Courses, Army Supply/Service Management Course, Navy Shiploading/Stowage, and Ocean Transportation/Marine Terminal Courses, Army Strategic Mobility Planning Course, Army Combined Arms Services Staff School, Joint Course on Logistics, Army Command & General Staff College, and ICAF.

Colonel Brown served as Platoon Leader, 494th Transportation Company and Movements Officer, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Kentucky; Training Officer, 37th Transportation Command, Germany; Company Commander, 501st Transportation Company, Germany [and SW Asia during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm]; Port Operations Officer, Military Traffic Management Command, North Carolina; Operations Officer, 14th Transportation Battalion, Italy; Executive Officer, 839th Transportation Battalion, Italy [and the Balkans during Operation Joint Endeavor]; Logistics Systems Manager, Combined Arms Support Command, Virginia; Test Director, Joint Theater Distribution Joint Test & Evaluation, Virginia; Battalion Commander, 14th Transportation Battalion, Italy [and Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom] and Transformation Director, Southern European Task Force (SETAF) (Airborne), Italy; and BRAC 2005 Program Manager, Defense Logistics Agency, Virginia.

Colonel Brown’s awards include the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal with three bronze stars, Kosovo Campaign Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, GWOT Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal, NATO Medal, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Liberation Medals. He is also authorized to wear Parachutist and Air Assault Badges.

Regional Experience:
Europe - SW Asia

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 is an assistant professor in the Department of National Security Studies and the 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.

In 1999, Colonel Buonassisi served as a Legislative Fellow for Senator Max Cleland. Upon her return to the Pentagon, she directed the Air Force Reserve’s Congressional Outreach program, setting policy and advising senior leaders on interaction with Congress.

While a student at ICAF, she was a member of the News Media Industry Study, completed a year-long research program and authored “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 under the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS) for Strategic Plans and Programs; she was appointed the director of strategic communication for the DCS in 2006.

Colonel Buonassisi has a BA in sociology, an MA in political science (minor in history), and an MS in national resource strategy. She also holds a certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown University.

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.

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

Colonel Matt Cicchinelli joined the National Security Strategy Department in June 2009 after serving as a Group Commander with III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, Japan. He previously served with the Joint Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy (J5) as the Division Chief for Central Asia, South Asia and as the Afghanistan Branch Chief. He is a Marine Aviation Command and Control Officer with extensive experience across all facets of air command and control planning and operations. He has taught Information Operations at the Joint Forces Staff College, commanded a Marine Corps Recruiting Station and is a combat veteran as the Commanding Officer of a Marine Air Support Squadron. Colonel Cicchinelli received his commission through Reserve Officers’ Training in 1984 and holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Duke University. He received a Masters of Science in Strategic Studies and National Security Affairs from the Naval Command & Staff College and has served as a National Security Fellow with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Functional Expertise:
Leadership - Aviation command and control - Military personnel procurement;

Regional Interest:
Afghanistan/Pakistan

Colonel Brian Collins, USAF, joined the ICAF faculty in 2009. He was previously the Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs at the National War College. He has served staff tours on the Joint Staff, where he worked NATO issues in J-5, and at SHAPE, in Mons, Belgium, where he worked the initial NATO military contacts with former Warsaw Pact members. This eventually blossomed into NATO’s Partnership for Peace program. His operational assignments include flying tours in various Air Battle Manager positions in both USAF and NATO AWACS units, where he participated in operations and exercises over the US, other NATO countries, the Persian Gulf and Middle East region and the Balkans. While with the NATO AWACS Component, he was the Component Test Director, responsible for all flight testing. He led the combined program acceptance and Initial Operational Test and Evaluation of the NATO-US AWACS Radar System Improvement Program. He also led the Follow-On Test and Evaluation of the Mod Block I to establish standard operating procedures for the ESM and JTIDS modifications. Finally, he led the NATO operations, logistics, and software team participating in the Integrated Product Team development of the NATO AWACS Mid-Term Modification Program. He was an Olmsted Scholar, attending the Freie Universitaet Berlin, and is a graduate of the Air Force Academy (BS Soviet Area Studies), Harvard University’s Kennedy School (MPA), and Georgetown University (PhD international relations). He is also a graduate of the USAF Fighter Weapons School and the German Armed Forces Staff College (Fuehrungsakademie der Bundeswehr). He has published numerous articles, and one book:
Behind the Cyberspace Veil: The Hidden Evolution of the Air Force Officer Corps.

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

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

Colonel Denney is an Assistant Professor of Acquisition at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) arriving in 2009. Colonel Denney has a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Central Florida, a Masters of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in Military Operational Art and Science from the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), and a Masters of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the ICAF. He is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Executive Program Manager’s Course.

Colonel Denney has broad acquisition experience in the areas of program management, laboratory research, development and operational test, and as a Program Element Monitor. Colonel Denney has commanded a materiel squadron, served in the Air Force Research Laboratory, a Test Wing, a Joint Test Force, and in several Air Force headquarters-level positions. He has experience in space acquisition and launch operations, structural maintenance and repair of aging aircraft, flight and ground test of fighter and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons test, command and control and electronic warfare testing, and testing of other classified programs. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School and has flight test/instructor hours in over twenty various aircraft to include the F-15, F-16, T-38, and the E-8C Joint STARS. Prior to arriving at the ICAF, Colonel Denney commanded the 682nd Armament Systems Squadron responsible to developing and fielding the $3.2 billion Small Diameter Bomb II (ACAT-ID) for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Functional Expertise:
Acquisition Program Management - Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation – Systems Engineering – Aircraft and Weapons Development/Testing

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.

CAPT Fred Drummond joined ICAF in 2009 as a faculty member of the Military Strategy and Logistics department. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a BA in English and earned a Masters Degree in Political Science from Auburn University at Montgomery. He is a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College, and was the Navy Fellow for 1998-1999 at Boston University, analyzing and writing on the Russian Federation Armed Forces for the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy.

CAPT Drummond is an EA-6B Prowler Naval Flight Officer, with tours in 4 squadrons. From 1988 to 1991 he was an exchange officer with the USAF, flying in the EF-111A, and was the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing Tactical Aviator of the Year for 1990.

Other assignments included staff/instructor duty at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center and Commander, Carrier Group 4. Prior to reporting to ICAF, CAPT Drummond was assigned to the Navy Staff, working first in OPNAV N80 as a programmer and then OPNAV N122, heading active and reserve current manpower allocation.

Functional Expertise:
Joint Air Warfare - PPBE - Manpower determination and resourcing

Areas of Interest:
Europe - Russia

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

Captain Janet Florey joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 2009 as the U.S. Coast Guard Chair and Assistant Professor of Acquisition. Captain Florey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University at Arcata, California (1985), a Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland (2001), and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (2008). While attending the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Captain Florey concurrently graduated from the Defense Acquisition University’s Senior Acquisition Course.

Captain Florey comes to ICAF from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the Principle Deputy Assistant Director for Product Acquisition and Deployment. In this position, she was responsible for implementing DHS acquisition policies and providing budget oversight. She worked with interagency program managers to develop, acquire, procure and deploy nuclear radiation detection and identification systems that satisfied jointly established DNDO/user requirements to defeat trafficking of illicit nuclear material and weapons.

Captain Florey has served in a wide variety of key leadership positions, including the Executive Officer of the Coast Guard Recruiting Command located in Arlington, Virginia; the Coast Guard’s liaison to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Military Personnel and Policy); Congressional Fellow on the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, U.S. House of Representatives; Assistant Operations Officer at Coast Guard Group Miami; Comptroller at the Coast Guard Support Command in Alameda, California; and as a Deck Watch Officer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter CITRUS in Coos Bay, Oregon.

Functional Expertise:
Leadership and Management – Federal Budget Process – DHS Acquisition System

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.

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

Patrick J. Haley was assigned as CIA Chair to ICAF in June 2009. Patrick has spent 23 years in CIA, serving in each of the Agency's four directorates as an analyst, administrative officer, instructor - and for the last 14 years - as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). Patrick has a B.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts in Boston (1983), a M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College (1994), and a M.A. in Political Science from Northeastern University (2001).

Col Herr is a career acquisition officer and has served 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 Acquisition University. 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.

Col Sean Herr joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces after graduating in June 2006. He is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs and teaches in the Acquisition Department. In addition to teaching the Acquisition core curriculum and the Defense Acquisition University Senior Acquisition Course, he has led the News Media Industry Study.

Functional Expertise:
Program Management - Acquisition Policy - News Media

Damion Higbie joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed forces in 2009, representing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Mr. Higbie’s most recent position within DHS was Deputy Director of the Office of Infrastructure Protection’s Partnership and Outreach Division. In this capacity, Mr. Higbie was responsible for overseeing the development of national-level plans, procedures, and mechanisms that fostered mutually beneficial relationships with the owners and operators of the nation’s critical infrastructures and key resources.

Previous to this role, Mr. Higbie was the Director of the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center (NICC), which was officially established by DHS in February 2004. While at the NICC, Mr. Higbie ensured the successful execution of its mission: to maintain operational awareness of the nation’s critical infrastructures and to provide a focal point for information sharing and coordination between and among government and industry partners. Mr. Higbie was one of the original team members of the NICC, and he led the development of the initial Concept of Operations for the center.

Additionally, Mr. Higbie has regularly contributed to the development of critical-infrastructure-related national plans and policy, including the Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Support Annex to the National Response Framework and the National Infrastructure Protection Plan.

Prior to joining the Federal government, Mr. Higbie spent nearly ten years working in the private sector, specializing in the areas of program management, business-process engineering, and information sharing/communications. Mr. Higbie also served as an adjunct faculty member for two years at Minnesota State University. Mr. Higbie is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and holds masters degrees from Minnesota State University and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Colonel David E. Hill, Jr. joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in July 2007. He is a career Army Officer with 25 years of experience as a Special Forces Officer and Comptroller. COL Hill’s most recent assignment was as Comptroller, Multinational Force-Iraq from 2006-2007. Other Comptroller assignments include Chief of Operations/Internal Review for NATO’s Land Component Command-South in Madrid, Spain from 2003 to 2005 and Comptroller, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment from 2000-2003. Colonel Hill’s operational assignments include multiple tours with 10th Special Forces Group as a Detachment and Company Commander and staff assignments from battalion to US Army Special Operations Command. He also served as the Chief of Operations for the NATO Training Mission-Iraq from 2004-2005.

Colonel Hill graduated from the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Syracuse University and a Masters of National Security and Strategic Studies from the Army War College. He is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Special Forces Detachment Officer Qualification Course, and Command & General Staff College and is also a Certified Defense Financial Manager. His military qualifications include the Master Parachute Badge as well as Ranger and Special Forces Tabs.

Functional Expertise:
Resource Management – Special Operations – Multinational Operations (NATO) – Privatized Military Operations

Regional Expertise:
East Europe - Russia

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).

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

Professor King has extensive line and staff experience in army and joint logistics operations, United Nations peacekeeping, budget and finance, inter-agency budget coordination at the national level, information systems, and officer education. He was directly involved in most of the Canadian Forces' strategic financial management and cost reduction efforts following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was awarded the Deputy-Minister of Defence of Canada Commendation for his work. In 1990, he was appointed as Comptroller of the Army and received the Commander of the Army Commendation for his work on cost reduction and development of the first Army-wide computer network that was subsequently replicated throughout the Canadian Forces. He also served on the faculty of Canada’s National Defence College. He was assigned to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) in 1995. He joined the civilian faculty in 2001.

At ICAF, he has been active in the design of the economics curriculum and developed the International Strategic Economics Exercise based on the Oxford Economics Macroeconomic Model. He has worked in the Materials, Biotech, Environment, and Weapons Industry Studies, the Canada and Mexico RSS programs, advised on the structure of the Industry Studies Program and currently leads the Information and Communications Technology Industry Study.

Professor King is a graduate of the Canadian Military Staff Colleges in Kingston (Army) and Toronto (Joint), the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and holds a diploma from the National Defence College of Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Bus. Admin.), a Master of Public Administration (George Washington University), is currently ABD at Virginia Tech and is a professionally qualified management accountant. He is a member of the CATO Institute, the National Association of Business Economists, the National Economics Club, the American Society of Public Administration, and the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario.

Colonel Kathy Knapp joined the Strategic Leadership faculty and the Weapons Industry Study at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 2007 after serving for 2 years with European Command in the Strategic Resourcing Directorate as the Command Programmer. She is an Army Engineer Officer with experience in Construction Engineering, Prime Power Engineering and US Army Corps of Engineers strategic planning. Her experience also includes working on the Army Staff at the Pentagon in the Army Resourcing (G-8) Integration Office. During this assignment, she led integration of the Army’s Stryker Brigade procurement, fielding, transformation, training and war-time deployments. Colonel Knapp received her commission through Reserve Officers’ Training in 1984 from The University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from The University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. She is a graduate of the Armed Forces Management Staff College, Army Command and General Staff College, and received her Masters of Science in National Resource Strategy from NDU-ICAF in 2005.

Functional Expertise:
Force Management/Force Development - PPBE

Department of Leadership and Information Strategy. Commissioned in the U.S. Army from the United States Military Academy in 1970. Service in armored cavalry and armor units in Vietnam, Korea, and the United States. Received MS and PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Washington in 1979. Taught leadership and psychology at West Point and leadership at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Served in leadership policy and training development positions on the Army Staff and at the Center for Army Leadership. Retired from the Army in 1992 and took current position at ICAF as a Professor of Behavioral Science. Chair of Department of Leadership and Information Strategy from 2002-2003.

Regional Expertise:
No specific areas - Some Experience in SE Asia.

Mr. Koprucu is currently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chair at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). He joined DHS in 2004 after retiring from service in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer (Nuclear). He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (B.S., 1984), the Air Force Command and Staff College and ICAF (M.S., 2007).

Mr. Koprucu previously served in the DHS Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) Directorate and the Preparedness Directorate. He acted as Director, Plans and Policy in Preparedness during the post-Hurricane Katrina environment and assisted in the subsequent reorganization efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Most recently he was the Director of IT Business Planning in the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). His experience at DHS encompasses the areas of Emergency Preparedness, Infrastructure Protection, Cyber security and Acquisition.

On active duty, Mr. Koprucu served as the Commanding Officer, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, Washington, DC. He led the organization through a series of technology introductions, most notably the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). He also helped pioneer Navy efforts and processes for change management in transitioning to an outsourced service model. His command was the winner of the US Atlantic Fleet 2003 Personnel Retention Award in recognition of superior command climate and excellent personnel morale. He concurrently served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Naval District Washington where he was assigned additional duty to the Department of the Navy CIO office to conduct strategic planning for Navy-wide enterprise architecture. He has been a guest speaker at the National Defense University (NDU) in areas involving government outsourced IT solutions and Joint C4 issues. He has completed the CIO Certificate program and Information Assurance certification at the Information Resource Management College (IRMC).

Sea duty assignments include USS VICKSBURG (CG 69), USS LEYTE GULF (CG 55), USS BUCHANAN (DDG 14) and USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). He has made multiple deployments to the Middle East, Mediterranean and Western Pacific areas of operation and has extensive experience in both Joint and NATO military operations. He is qualified as a naval nuclear engineer and master training specialist.

Other shore duty assignments include the Chief of Naval Operations staff (OPNAV) in the Information Warfare Division (N64), founding member of the Navy Operations Group (DEEP BLUE) responsible for strategic operational planning and the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, Office of Program Appraisal. He assisted in development of the Navy portions of both the 1997 and 2001 Quadrennial Defense Reviews (QDR).

Dr. Steven Philip Kramer has been Professor of Grand Strategy at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University in Washington, D.C. since 1992. He was also Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1996-2002 where he focused on long-term issues and on issues related to France. Dr. Kramer has taught Contemporary European history and government at the University of New Mexico and Georgetown University, served as a Council of Foreign Relations Fellow in the U.S. Department of State, directed the Face to Face program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was the John J. McCloy Distinguished Fellow in Residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and was a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown. He has written widely on European politics and culture. His most recent books are Does France still Count: The French Role in the New Europe, Praeger/CSIS, 1994 and Trouble in Paradise, Europe in the 21st Century, NDU Press 1996, coauthored with Professor Irene Kyriakopoulos. He has also written Socialism in Western Europe: The Experience of a Generation and a biography of the cineaste Abel Gance. Professor Kramer received his B.A. in History from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Functional Expertise:
Political History - Government - Intellectual and Cultural History

Regional Expertise:
Europe with specialization in France - Latin America

Col Pat Kumashiro joined the ICAF faculty after graduating as a distinguished graduate in June 2008. He is an Assistant Professor of Military Strategy & Logistics and the Director, Supply Chain Management Concentration Program.

Col Kumashiro was commissioned in the USAF in 1989 and is a career aircraft maintenance officer last serving as the Deputy Division Chief, Director’s Action Group, Directorate of Strategic Planning, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Programs, HQ USAF, Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he provided senior Air Force leaders with analysis, assessments, and decision aids to shape Joint and Air Force strategic plans and programs. Col Kumashiro has commanded both an aircraft maintenance squadron and a munitions squadron. Throughout his career, he has served in a variety of aircraft maintenance and munitions assignments at the squadron, wing, major command, and Air Staff level. Previous assignments include Holloman AFB, NM, Osan AB, ROK, Spangdahlem AB, Germany, Langley AFB, VA, Pentagon, Lackland AFB, TX, and Aviano AB, Italy. He has also been deployed to Joint Base Balad, Iraq.

Col Kumashiro holds a BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma, a Master of Military Studies from Marine Command & Staff College, and a MS in National Resource Strategy from ICAF.

Functional Expertise:
Logistics – Strategic Planning – Financial Services

Dr. Irene Kyriakopoulos is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. She joined the faculty there in 1983 and served as Chair, Department of Economics, from 2000-2004. While on sabbatical leave in 2004-2005, she earned two honorary appointments as Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United States, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Kyriakopoulos teaches economics of strategy and resources management, and political economy of the European Union. Professor Kyriakopoulos' teaching experience and interests include macroeconomics, industrial economics with emphasis on the financial services sector, economics of defense and European economic integration. Prior to her appointment on the ICAF faculty, she served as Research Associate on the staff of The Brookings Institution, as Faculty Fellow at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and as Associate Professor of Economics at The George Washington University. Dr. Kyriakopoulos has lectured, consulted and collaborated with academic institutions and government organizations and agencies, including Oxford Economics, the National War College, Defense Leadership Management Program, Center for Naval Analyses, the U.S. State Department Foreign Affairs Training Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies. Her research activities are in the areas of European economic integration and economics of international security. Recent publications of hers include “After Expansion: Europe in Dis-Union?” Mediterranean Quarterly, Winter 2004; and Economic Notes, an edited collection of Readings in the Economics of Strategy and Resources Management (National Defense University, 2003). She has authored articles and papers on economic aspects of international security and was co-author of Trouble in Paradise? Europe in the 21st Century, National Defense University Press, 1996 (with S. Kramer). Professor Kyriakopoulos earned her Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Maryland, and her Master’s and Ph.D degrees, also in Economics, from The George Washington University.

Functional Expertise:
Economics of National Security Strategy - Economics of National Resource Strategy - Economics of Human Resources - Political Economy of the European Union

Regional Expertise:
European Union - Greece - Southeastern Europ

Dr. Chris Lafferty is Professor of Behavioral Science, Department of Leadership and Information Strategy, and Director of Research and Writing, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. She joined the faculty there in 2004. A commander during both Desert Shield/Storm and Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Dr. Lafferty served 28 years in both the active duty Air Force and the Air Force Reserve in public affairs, logistics, policy development and, most recently, as the Senior Are Force Reserve Advisor to the National Defense University President and ICAF professor.

Her past assignments include Individual Mobilization Augmentee to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Reserve Affairs, the Pentagon, and Mission Support Group Commander, 908th Airlift Wing, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL. Dr. Lafferty’s civilian career has included work as an advance practice oncology nurse at Georgetown University Medical Center and Hospice of Northern Virginia. She has taught communications at Ohio University and Arizona State University; lectured at Air University, Howard University and The George Washington University, where she also served as adjunct professor at the Center for the Study of Learning; and worked as a defense analyst.

She and her therapy dog, Layla, are privileged to represent the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in outreach service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

EDUCATION:
2003 Doctor of Education; The George Washington University
2002 Air War College
1998 Master of Science in Nursing; George Mason University
1995 Associate of Science - Nursing; Troy State University
1988 Air Command and Staff College
1986 Squadron Officer School
1979 Officer Training School
1976 Master of Arts - Communication; The Ohio University
1974 Bachelor of Science - Education; The Ohio University

Functional Expertise:
Organization and Human Development - Communication (organizational and interpersonal) - Logistics (aerial port) - Public Affairs - Clinical Nursing (oncology and hospice) - Research & Writing

Area of interest:
Central America

2007 – 2008: Director, Office of Strategic Communications, Business Plans and Operations, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Mr. Lawrence directed and implemented NRO interactions with Congress, Executive Agencies, media, foreign partners, and private sector entities on legislative and public relations issues. He also served as the primary advisor to the NRO Director, Deputy Director, and other Senior NRO officials regarding legislative matters.

2001 – 2007: Principal Director of Legislative Affairs, National Security Agency (NSA). Mr. Lawrence was the first outside hire for the NSA in this position. He was also the longest serving and only, Principal Director for Legislative Affairs for NSA. He was awarded the highest civilian award from the Director in 2007 for his long list of legislative accomplishments on behalf of the Agency.

1999 – 2001: Acting Director Legislative Affairs, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Executive Office of the President. Responsibility for the implementation of the President’s National Drug Control Policy before Congress. Strategic planner for ONDCP reauthorization and appropriations process. Coordinated drug budget submissions for all Federal agencies.

1993 - 1996: Director of Congressional and Public Affairs, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Managed and directed the congressional and intergovernmental activities for the Office of Special Counsel. Served as the agency’s technical advisor on all aspects of legislative and intergovernmental activities.

1989 – 1993: Senior Legislative Officer, Office of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor. Principal representative for implementing and planning the Secretary’s strategy for the Employment and Training Administration. Communicated the Department’s position on the successful passage on the JTPA amendments and the Extended Unemployment Benefits program.

1985 – 1989: Director of Congressional Affairs, Office of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce. Planned and managed the legislative agenda for the Minority Business Development Agency. Provided legislative support for the White House conference on Small Business. Briefed officers of the Department in connection with appearances before Congressional committees.

Functional Experience:
International business and marketing in the South East Asian Region - Asian Business Cultures - Asia-Pacific Affairs

Regional Expertise:
Indonesia - East Timor

Functional Expertise:
Geospatial Intelligence - Remote Sensing - Photogrammetry - Image Interpretation - Geographic Information Systems - Geodesy

Regional Expertise:
Southeast Asia - Latin America

Dr. Don Losman began teaching at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) in 1982 and also holds a diploma from ICAF. He has worked in senior professional military education since 1978, having taught at the U.S. Army War College and the National War College as well. Earlier, he was a civilian academic for 14 years. Dr. Losman holds a PhD in international economics from the University of Florida, with a minor in international politics. He has also served as a consultant to the Small Business Administration and the World Bank; he has worked in the Pentagon and for an economic consulting corporation. Dr. Losman is the author of four books, over 60 scholarly articles, and op-ed pieces in all our nation's leading newspapers as well as in overseas publications. He has regional expertise in the Middle East and is recognized as an authority on economic sanctions. He also has expertise in defense industrial base issues and the electronics industries.

Functional Expertise:
International Trade & Finance - Defense Industrial Base & Mobilization - Economic Leverage & Sanctions - Public Finance - Comparative Economic Systems - Economic Development

Regional Expertise:
Middle East - Persian Gulf

Dr. Sorin Lungu joined ICAF/NDU in October 2006 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military Strategy and Logistics. He teaches also courses in net assessment, crisis management, and supports both the JLASS program (analytical frameworks) as well as the aircraft industry study (issues related to the European defense industrial base; previously he was a faculty on the land armaments industry teaching team). He also lectures regularly on the future security environment at the NATO Staff Officer Course (NDU). Previously he taught at the U.S. Air War College in the Department of Joint Military Operations (July 2005-October 2006). A naturalized U.S. citizen, he earned his PhD in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1999-2005) with a dissertation titled "European Defense Market Integration: The Aerospace Sector in 1987-1999." He holds an MA in National Security Affairs (Western Europe concentration) from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey (1997-98) and a BS/MS in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, Romania (1987-92). He also attended the Vienna-based Austrian Diplomatic Academy (1994-95) and was awarded research fellowships by the WEU Security Studies Institute (Paris, France - 2001) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany, 2001-02). He's a graduate of MIT's senior executive program Seminar XXI (Sept. 2007 -- May 2008). Since February 2006 he is a Member of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. His articles appeared in The RUSI Journal, Comparative Strategy, Defense and Security Analysis, American Diplomacy, and Strategic Insights. In 1992-94 he was broker at the Romanian Commodities Exchange (Bucharest), and then (1994-98) a member of the Romanian diplomatic corps.

Research interests/expertise:
Long-Term Competition in International Affairs - Risk Assessment, Strategic Planning, Crisis Management - Euro-Atlantic Security - Defense Industry Western Europe - Business-Government Relations Western Europe (Germany and France) - Economic Security and Economic Intelligence - The Interrelationships of Political, Economic, and Defense Policies - Romania (Black Sea Area)

Mr. Matheny joined the ICAF Faculty in August, 2007 following six years in the Policy office of the Secretary of Defense. During that time, he served as the Department’s representative on the USG delegation that drafted a political framework agreement which was the basis for ending ethnic strife in Macedonia, as Director of Psychological Operations Policy during Coalition operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and against al Qaida, and Director, Support to Public Diplomacy (a new office under the Principle Deputy Undersecretary for Policy).

Following retirement from the Air Force in 1986, Mr. Matheny entered the civil service, resigning from the Senior Executive Service in 1990 to take a job in the private sector.

As an Air Force officer, Mr. Matheny served in a variety of challenging positions including six years in the White House on the NSC staff and as Military Assistant to two Vice Presidents. A 1982 graduate of the National War College, he became Director of Negotiations Policy for the Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1984 and was a principal negotiator and contributor to the NATO-Warsaw Pact Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty.

Beginning in 1990, Mr. Matheny served for ten years as Director of Operations and Equipment Standards for the United States Golf Association, during which he established the first performance limits on golf clubs, instituted a legal department, managed the organization’s response to outside litigation challenges, and supervised the USGA’s Centennial celebration, including the creation of a book and film series.

Mr. Matheny holds a Masters Degree in political science from TCU, is married and has two children. He has extensive experience in international negotiations and USG interagency processes, lay legal and regulatory expertise, and more recently experience in strategic communication, including public diplomacy and information operations. He rejoined the civil service in 2002.

Tim McCandless joined the ICAF faculty in 2008 as a faculty member of the Department of Strategic Leadership. Tim comes to ICAF from the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany, where he served as the Naval Attaché for three years.

Tim was commissioned in 1980 and is a career Surface Warfare Officer and has served on a variety of ships and staffs.

Tim is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a graduate of the Naval War College. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies.

Colonel Doug McCarthy was commissioned as an army Logistics Officer in 1983 on graduation from the Royal Military College of Canada, and was awarded an Honours BA in Economics & Commerce as well as the Governor General’s Silver Medal for academic distinction. He was a Distinguished Graduate on the year-long joint Canadian Forces Command and Staff Course in 2000, received a Master of Defence Studies degree in Decision Modeling from the Royal Military College in 2004, and was a Distinguished Graduate and awarded a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 2009. Colonel McCarthy joined the ICAF faculty in 2009 as a member of the economics department. He was promoted to his current rank in 2006.

Colonel McCarthy has served the majority of his career in army field units and has commanded at the platoon, company and battalion level. He considers himself extremely privileged to have served as the Commanding Officer of 2 General Support Battalion, Petawawa, from 2004-2006, during which time his battalion force-generated and trained three National Support Elements for deployment to Afghanistan. In the latter part of his career he has served in several strategic and operational level joint staff positions within National Defence Headquarters, Canadian Expeditionary Force Command and Canadian Operational Support Command, all focussed on planning for and oversight to Canadian Forces expeditionary operations.

Colonel McCarthy has deployed on three overseas operations: Cyprus (UNFICYP), the 1991/92 Persian Gulf War (with 1 (UK) Armoured Division), and Bosnia (NATO SFOR). He deployed on Canadian domestic operations in support of the Winnipeg flood relief in 1997 and with 1(UK) Armoured Division on Exercise SAIF SAREEA II, a three month combined and joint desert exercise in the Oman in 2001.  He has served twice on two-year exchange officer postings with the British Army in northern Germany.

Dr. McGuire is a Professor of Behavioral Science in the Strategic Leadership Department. He teaches the core course Strategic Leadership and an elective course entitled, “Creative, Critical and Reflective Thinking.” Additionally, he serves as the lead faculty member on the Education Industry Study which examines the role of the American education system at all levels in supporting U.S. national security interests (includes examining corporate education and school to work transition programs). Mark also supervises the annual ICAF New Faculty Development Program as well as the ICAF Continuing Education Program. Born in White Plains, New York, Mark graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA) in 1977 and commissioned in the Field Artillery. Served in the Army as a Field Artilleryman for 30 years in a variety of CONUS, Korea and Germany duty assignments. Last assignments were as Paladin Battalion Commander from 1995 to 1997, staff officer in Office of DCSPER in 1998, student at ICAF from 1998-1999, and was a commander for Combat Support Coordination Team #1 in Korea in 2000. Earned a Masters in Industrial Organization at the University of Washington in 1987 and taught in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at USMA from 1987 to 1990. Received his doctorate degree in Higher Education Administration at The George Washington University.

Functional Expertise:
Worked with joint and coalition forces
Studied the art and science of leadership and taught both undergraduate and graduate students in the professional military education system
Interested in senior level leader development to include mentoring and coaching

Regional Expertise:
Served 1 tour in Germany
Served 2 tours in the Republic of Korea

Captain John Meier joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Acquisition. An active duty Navy Supply Corps Officer with over 23 years of commissioned service, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Michigan Technological University (1986), a Master of Science in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School (1994) and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (2003). He is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Senior Acquisition Course; the Executive Education Training Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College. CAPT Meier is a member of the Department of the Navy Acquisition Professional Community, and holds the Joint Qualified Officer (JQO), Submarine Supply Corps Officer and Surface Warfare Supply Corps Officer qualifications.

CAPT Meier has served in a variety of key leadership positions afloat and ashore. At sea, he served as the Supply Officer, USS James Madison (SSBN 627), and as the Assistant Officer in Charge and Stock Control Officer, USNS Concord (T-AFS 5). His shore duty assignments include: Integrated Logistics Support Management Specialist, Logistics Management Division, Naval Air Systems Command; Transportation Policy Officer, Plans and Policy Directorate (J5), United States Transportation Command; Supply Officer, Naval Support Activity, Bahrain; Staff Officer, Mobility Division, Logistics Directorate (J4), Joint Staff; and Director, Logistics Operations (N3), Naval Operational Logistics Support Center.

Functional Expertise:
Leadership and Management – Operational Logistics – Logistics Planning and Joint logistics

Professor Steven E. Meyer joined the faculty as the CIA Chair in 1998. He became a permanent member of the ICAF faculty in 2000. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. degree from Fordham University, and a PhD from Georgetown University--all in Political Science. In addition, he has done specialized and post-doctoral work in Political Science and foreign languages at Glasgow University (Scotland), the Free University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Arizona State University, and Columbia University. He teaches courses in Political Science, American foreign policy, European politics, Critical American Social Issues, and Environmental Issues. Since 2002 he has been the Director of the Regional Security Study program and lead instructor of the Environment Industry Study since 2004. His major areas of academic interest include: the development of American foreign and security policy, European politics (especially the Balkans), globalization and the changing structure and function of the international system, international law, comparative politics, and religion and politics. His most recent publications include: The Carcass of Dead Policies: The Irrelevancy of NATO (Parameters, Winter 2003/2004), American Policy Towards the Balkans (Woodrow Wilson Center Occasional Paper, August 2002), and contributions to a chapter on “Prospects of South Eastern European Security,” in European Integration and the Balkans Centre for South Eastern European Studies, Belgrade, 2002). He is currently under contract to write a book on The Changing Structure of the International System: Discussions in Governance.

Functional Expertise:
American Foreign and Security Policy - European Politics, especially the Balkans - The Changing International System - Sovereignty - International Law - Issues of Globalization

CAPT Meyers joined the ICAF faculty as an assistant professor of military strategy and logistics in July 2009. An active duty Navy Supply Corps Officer with over 24 years commissioned service, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural & Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis, a Master of Science in Transportation Logistics Systems & Material Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. Qualified as a Submarine and a Naval Aviation Supply Officer, his professional subspecialties include Operational Logistics and Transportation and he is a member of the Acquisition Professional Community. He has served afloat on the USS MEMPHIS (SSN 691), USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) and as Supply Officer of USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) where he led the sea-based multi-service/agency/national logistics effort during the Indonesian tsunami relief operation. His shore billets include headquarters tours at Submarine Forces Atlantic; Naval Air Forces Pacific; Naval Supply Systems Command; Defense Logistics Agency; Supply Officer of Naval Air Station, North Island; Fleet (Aviation) Readiness Centers, and finally USTRANSCOM, where he was the Director of the Distribution Process Owner & Strategy Division in the J5/4. CAPT Meyers is a three-time recipient of the CNO’s VADM Stan Arthur Award for Logistics Excellence (1999 - Individual, 2003 - Team, 2005 - Team) and lead the cross-agency team that garnered both the 2009 DoD Supply Chain Operational Excellence Award and the 2009 Supply Chain Council Global Award for Supply Chain Excellence.

Functional Expertise:
Distribution Process Owner - Supply Chain Management & Optimization - Operational and Joint Logistics - Transportation - Leadership - Metrics

Regional Expertise:
Southeast Asia - Latin America

Professor Mark Montroll joined the faculty in July 1998. He holds a bachelors degree in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the University of Rochester, a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a doctor of philosophy degree in Acoustics from the Catholic University of America. He teaches courses in acquisition, shipbuilding industry analysis, Research and Technology Policy and the Emerging and Breakthrough Technologies. His major areas of academic interest include the management and deployment of innovation and creativity, and the affects of the federal policy on research and technology development. Since 2000 he has been the director of the exchange program between ICAF and the Center for Higher Education in Armaments (CHEAr), a senior service school of the French Acquisition service (DGA) in Paris. His publications include the chapter on Maintaining the Technological Lead in the book “Transforming America’s Military, published by the NDU Press.

Functional Expertise:
Defense acquisition - Research and Technology Policy - Shipbuilding Industrial base analysis - Management of Innovation and Creativity - Transatlantic Cooperation

Regional Expertise:
Western Europe

Kelly Morris joined ICAF in 2008 as the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Chairperson. She is a faculty member in the Acquisition Department, teaching the core Acquisition course, as well as the Senior Acquisition Course electives and Supply Chain Management electives. Prior to coming to ICAF, she was responsible for leading DLA’s partnership efforts and liaison support to Unified Combatant Commanders in order to influence and improve collaborative, integrated adaptive planning capabilities and logistics sustainment. She was also responsible for leading the Distribution Process Owner engagement and governance process with USTRANSCOM.

From August 2007 – February, 2008, Ms. Morris served as the Deputy Executive Director for the DLA HQ’s Logistics Analysis and Business Integration Office in DLA Headquarters, responsible for matters related to logistics analysis, readiness, and performance assessment, as well as logistics operational resource requirements management, business planning and administration. She oversaw the administration and centralized coordination and management of internal and external logistics partnerships and issues which crossed multiple business areas and multiple agencies such as US Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) and General Services Administration.

Following her graduation from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 2002, Ms. Morris was integrally involved in the strategy, development, implementation and execution of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program for DLA. She led the integration of Customer Outreach, Opportunity and Account Management, Service and Analytics processes and managed the user adoption and execution of the processes using SAP CRM for the multi-billion dollar DoD organization.

From September 1998 until August 2001, Ms. Morris was Director, Direct Delivery Fuels at the Defense Energy Support Center, where she led a $544.5 million direct vendor delivery contracting program for ground fuel, into-plane and ship bunkers products. She led the development of a variety of electronic commerce tools including the DoD Fleet Card, AIR Card and Paperless Ordering & Receipt Transaction Screens (PORTS), a web enabled ordering and receipts system.

Prior to joining Direct Delivery Fuels, Ms. Morris was a Contracting Officer and helped to lead the dynamic, award winning DoD Natural Gas Program. As of her departure in 1998, the Gas Program had produced over $175 million in cost avoidance to Federal Government installations since its inception in 1990. In addition to the significant cost avoidance, the DoD Natural Gas Program was recognized by winning the DoD Productivity Award (1994), the DoD Superior Management Award (1995), the David Packard Excellence Award (1996) and the DLA Scissors Award (1997).

Ms. Morris has a Master’s Degree in National Resource Strategies from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences and German from the University of Northern Colorado. Ms. Morris is Level III certified in Contracting under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) and is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corp.

Functional Expertise:
Logistics - Contracting/Procurement – Project Management - Energy – Supply Chain Management - Leadership – Distribution Process Owner - General Business – Metrics/Balanced Scorecard

Kenneth B. Moss is currently Chairman of the Department of National Security Studies. Between May 2000 and December 2004 he was Associate Dean for Academic Programs. From March 2005 to March 2006 he was a visiting scholar at The Center for Congress at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana) and the German Institute for International and Security (Berlin), during which he conducted research and began writing a forthcoming book titled "Waging Imperfect War: The Constitution and Modern Warfare." He teaches courses in national seucrity studies and on American and foreign processes of maintaining government control over the use of military force. He worked in the Electronics Industry Study as its director or as supporting faculty between 1994-2004 and also directed the course on Values Ethiucs and Leadership between 1999-2004.

He holds an M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1978) in history from the University of Minnesota, where he concentrated on American foreign policy, and a B.A. in history and German from Indiana University (1971). He has taught courses in U.S. diplomatic history at the Universities of Minnesota, Nebraska, and Alabama in Huntsville. In spring 1997 he was a visiting professor at the University of Goettingen in Germany, where he taught lecture and seminar courses on Congress and U.S. foreign policy. He has lectured on this same subject before the European Area Studies program at the Foreign Service Institute since 1988 and in a variety of settings throughout Europe. In 1996, the Institute designated him as a distinguished lecturer. Dr. Moss was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Prior to coming to the Industrial College in 1994, Professor Moss was a member of the staff of the House Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East (1982-1987) chaired by Representative Lee H. Hamilton, a senior research associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (1987-89), and manager for policy analysis for the U.S. government affairs office of Siemens (1990?1994), a large German industrial electronics corporation. He was also a registered lobbyist for Siemens. He has published on a variety of subjects, including an edited book on new weapons technologies, Technology and the Future Strategic Environment (Wilson Center Press, 1991), and has published Congressional reports, articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on U.S. relations with NATO and the European Union, Congress, sanctions in foreign policy, U.S.- German relations, U.S. policy in the Mediterranean, as well as on the U.S. electronics industry.

Functional Expertise:
Congress, Foreign Policy, and War Powers - Government-Industry relations - History of U.S. Foreign Relations

Regional Expertise:
Europe--especially Germany or the Mediterranean

Desaix (Terry) Myers joined the ICAF faculty in 2007. Prior to ICAF, he served four years as USAID’s Mission Director to Russia.  Focusing primarily on issues of health, democracy and economic growth, USAID programs in Russia operate with a budget that in recent years has ranged up to $90 million. USAID’s mission to Russia was established in 1992, and Terry, serving as Russia desk officer from 1992-1994, was part of the team that helped start the program there. Although the Mission is headquartered in Moscow, USAID programs operate across the country in an area covering eleven time zones.

Before arriving in Russia, Terry served almost five years as Mission Director in Jakarta, Indonesia. He oversaw USAID programs for both Indonesia and for the newly independent East Timor which focused on democracy, economic growth and humanitarian assistance to thousands of displaced people by a variety of natural and man-made disasters.

During his career, Terry has held a variety of positions within USAID and in the non-profit and government sectors. He served as deputy director for the USAID/India, 1994-1998. Other international assignments include a tour in Senegal, an earlier assignment to Jakarta, and work in East Pakistan before it became Bangladesh.  He received the Secretary of State’s Award for Valor for the evacuation of Americans from Chittagong during the Pakistan civil war.  

Between stints in USAID, Terry worked for ten years helping launch a private, non-profit research company, Investor Responsibility Center (IRRC), reporting for institutional investors on issues of corporate social responsibility.  During his time at IRRC, he served as a consultant for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and for Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford Foundations on issues relating to U.S. investment in South Africa. 

The author of books on the role of US business in South Africa and nuclear power development in the U.S, Terry has written numerous articles on development, business and corporate social responsibility. He has also taught as an adjunct professor of business at Georgetown University.   

Terry received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

CAPT Myhre joined the ICAF faculty as an assistant professor of military strategy and logistics in July 2005. An active duty Navy Supply Corps Officer with over 27 years commissioned service, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The University of Tennessee and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from The Industrial College of the Armed Forces. His professional subspecialties include Operational Logistics and Transportation, he is a member of the Acquisition Professional Community and holds the Joint Service Officer, Foreign Area Officer, Naval Aviation Supply Officer, and Surface Warfare Officer designations. He has served afloat in four ships including as Supply Officer of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) and around the world at various shore commands, spending three years as Air Logistics Coordinator for Commander, Fleet Air Mediterranean in Naples, Italy. Additionally, he has served in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy (BRAC) and at Headquarters, Defense Logistics Agency. Captain Myhre teaches courses in both the Acquisition and Military Strategy & Logistics Departments.

Functional Expertise:
Operational Logistics - Transportation

Regional Expertise:
Europe

Dr. Needham joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in July 1996. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Logistics Management from the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. His publications include articles related to transportation and inventory tradeoff decisions along with examination of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Dr. Needham's professional experience includes over 23 years of active duty service with the U.S. Air Force in a variety of logistics positions at all levels. He also has experience as a logistics consultant working of DOD related logistics studies. His awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Force Commendation Medal. He is a graduate of the Air War College.

Functional Expertise:
Defense Management and Administration - Business and Military Logistics - Foreign Military Sales - Defense Resource Management - War Gaming and Simulation.

Regional Expertise:
Iran

Born at Barksdale, Army Air Field , commissioned 2lt, USA on graduation from The Citadel in 1960, MS in Public Administration from Shippensburg University in 1979, graduated Army Command & Staff college in 1970, graduated Army War College in 1979.

Served 30 years in the Army & 2 years on US Senate staff as National Security Advisor to Senator Trent Lott. Army service included two combat tours in the Republic of Vietnam, battalion command in 101st Airborne Division, joint command as COMJTF-B (Hondouras), Army Staff, & Joint Staff (J-5, International Negotiations), assistant G-3, Plans & Operations in 3rd Inf Div (Germany).

Functional Expertise:
Joint operations - Combined Arms Operations - International Negotiations - National Security Affairs

Regional Expertise:
Central America - Southeast Asia - Western Europe

Ms. Pham is a faculty member in the National Security Studies department at ICAF, National Defense University. She teaches the core course on National Security Strategy and directs the Regional Security Studies on Southeast Asia.

At the Department of State, Ms. Pham was the Office Director for Strategic Planning and Evaluation, an SES/FE-OC equivalent position. Ms. Pham possesses expertise on development of strategies, goals, and performance indicators for foreign affairs and wrote the State Department’s first guidebook on Performance Planning that was published in 2000. She coordinated the Senior Policy, Performance and Resource Reviews for Secretary Powell and Deputy Secretary Armitage. She also led efforts to develop the first joint State-USAID strategic plan that provided the foundation for the subsequent integration efforts with respect to policy and foreign assistance. As the overall agency coordinator for the President’s Management Agenda initiative on Budget and Performance Integration, she led State to move from a low baseline score of “Red” to “Green” on OMB’s scorecard rating that resulted in State winning the prestigious President’s Quality Award, the first in its history. Ms. Pham was personally recognized by the President in an interagency ceremony as being one of five individuals from State that made significant improvements to the organization. She served as an Adjunct Professor for Strategic Planning at the Foreign Service Institute from 2003-2005.

Ms. Pham has also worked in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific (EAP) Affairs, EAP Regional Security and Policy (Senior Advisor), EAP Japan Desk (Political Officer), Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and Office of the Secretary, War Crimes Issues (Special Assistant to the Ambassador) and served at the U.S. missions in Laos and Vietnam.

Ms. Pham holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, a Master Degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, a B.A. in Government and International Relations and Asian Studies from Cornell University. Ms. Pham is a recipient of the following awards: Superior Honor Award from the Chief Financial Officer and Coordinator for Intelligence resources and Planning, Secretary of State Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Work during Kosovo crisis, 1999 Secretary of State Certificate of Appreciation for Exemplary Performance during 1995 U.S.-Vietnam normalization of relations visit, and Quality Step Increase Award in 2005 for the President's Quality Award.

Professor Prevost joined the ICAF faculty in December 2007 as a professor of Acquisition. Prior to this assignment, he served for over 10 years as a Senior Legal Counsel for the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN RDA)), specializing in government contract and fiscal law and ethics. He holds a J.D. from Syracuse University, as Masters of Strategic Studies from the US Army War College and, a Masters of Science Degree in Business Administration from Boston University. Professor Prevost has served over thirty years in the US Army and US Army Reserve as a Judge Advocate. He currently is the Staff Judge Advocate of the 1st Military Support Command, Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico. Prior to his current reserve assignment he served as a Command Judge Advocate and served as a Military Law Judge. He has served over eight years overseas as either a military judge advocate or as a government civilian attorney specializing in contract, fiscal law and ethics. He was the Staff Judge Advocate of the U.S. Army Contracting Command Europe (fwd) with offices in Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary the second phase of phase of Operation Joint Endeavor in the Balkans.

Functional Expertise:
Government Contract Law - Fiscal Law - Acquisition Policy - International Law - Ethics – Law of Armed Conflict – Conflicts of Law

Regional Expertise:
Europe - Balkans

Dr. Russo joined the ICAF faculty in June 2006, as an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He graduated from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA with a B.S. in Accounting in 1984 and an M.S. in Economics in 1985. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1998 with concentrations in Game Theory and Industrial Organization. His doctoral dissertation explored the conditions under which an efficient voting mechanism could determine both taxation and the provision of public goods.

Between his graduate degrees, Dr. Russo served as a KC-135 navigator for the US Air Force. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Russo provided economic analysis to the Federal Aviation Administration. His most notable projects included writing a section of the Secretary of Transportation’s Airport Competition Study, calculating the costs for commercial aviation to meet the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol under a wide range of potential conditions, and representing the United States as part of the Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection process. From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Russo analyzed regulations proposed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. These regulations spanned most aspects of operations and equipment for the trucking and intercity busing industries.

Dr. Russo’s teaching experience ranges from community colleges to public and private research universities in North Dakota, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, DC. He has taught microeconomics, macroeconomics, corporate finance, law and economics, and game theory.

Functional Expertise:
Game theory - Public sector economics - Regulation - Industrial organization - Elections - Mathematical modeling

Captain Schnell was born in Indiana and grew up in Canada. In 1983 he graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY), Potsdam (B.A. History). He was commissioned via AOCS in April 1984 and designated as a Naval Aviator in May 1985. Captain Schnell is a 1994 graduate of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (M.A., National Security Affairs) and the Joint Forces Staff College. In 2000, he completed a Congressional Fellowship with Congressman Steve Buyer (R-IN). He is a designated Joint Service Officer and holds sub-specialties in Strategic Planning & International Negotiations and Operational Logistics. Captain Schnell arrived at ICAF in July 2009 and is assigned to the Military Strategy & Logistics department.

Captain Schnell flew the CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter operationally with Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5), Guam, and HC-11, San Diego. He also served as the Air Officer aboard USS Vancouver (LPD-2). Ashore, Captain Schnell’s assignments have included CH-46D instructor pilot; CH-46D Readiness Officer, CNAP San Diego; Operations Officer, HC-3; and Operational Logistics Analyst at OPNAV N81, Washington, DC. In August 2002, he assumed command of Helicopter Training Squadron Eighteen (HT-18) in Pensacola, FL. During this tour, the squadron received the Navy’s Meritorious Unit Award and was named Navy training squadron of the year. In 2004, he was assigned to NATO as the Assistant Chief of Staff (Plans) for Commander Maritime Air Naples, Naples, Italy. Following selection for major command, Captain Schnell served as the Commanding Officer of Naval Station Great Lakes, IL from August 2007 until July 2009.

Captain Schnell has logged over 3,200 flight hours. Medals he is authorized to wear include: Legion of Merit; Joint Meritorious Service Medal; Meritorious Service Medal (two awards); Air Medal with bronze star; Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards); Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal (three awards); and various campaign medals and unit awards.

Functional Expertise:
Politics - Congress

Regional Expertise:
Europe - NATO - Italy

Dr. Paul M. Severance joined the ICAF Faculty on August 16, 1993 as a professor of Military Strategy and Warfare. Dr. Severance served 30 years on Active Duty with the United States Army, retiring in the grade of Colonel on 1 August 2000. From July 2000 until February 2001, Dr. Severance was employed in private industry as a Program Manager with TRW, Inc., supporting the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) in Alexandria, VA. In March 2001, Dr. Severance rejoined the ICAF Family as a Professor of Military Science.

In addition to Military Strategy and Warfare, Dr. Severance teaches or has taught Strategic Logistics and Mobilization in the core curriculum;l electives in Strategic Geography, Geography and Warfighting, and Civil Military Relations and Challenges to Democratization; the NATO Europe Regional Security Study; the Reserve Components National Security Course; the JCRA National Security Seminar; the CAPSTONE Spouses Executive Development Course; and Values, Ethics and Leadership. He has served as the faculty leader for the Land Vehicles and, subsequently, the Land Combat Systems industry studies and has been an associate in the Financial Services Industry Study. During his tenure at the Industrial College, Dr. Severance also served as the Deputy Chair of the Military Strategy and Logistics Department and Program Director for the Military Strategy and Warfare course from July 1995 until July 2000 as well as Chairman of the Department of Military Strategy and Logistics from 2002 to 2004. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Severance also conducts the annual Adult Learning Workshop for newly assigned faculty and has served for several years on the Faculty Committee.
Dr. Severance holds a B.S. (Cum Laude) in Education from Northeastern University, an M.S. in Systems Management from Florida Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Human Development (Adult Learning) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Severance's military education includes the Infantry and Transportation Officer Basic Courses; the Transportation Officer Advanced Course, the Rotary Wing Aviator Qualification Course, the Air Command and Staff College, The Operations Research-Systems Analysis Military Applications Course, Army Logistics The Defense Systems Management College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he was a Distinguished Graduate of the Class of 1991.

Academic areas of interest include: The Civil War and the Battles of Gettysburg, Antietam, First Manassas and Fredericksburg; the Normandy, Market-Garden Campaigns and the Battle of the Bulge; Executive Education; Educational Evaluation; Hermeneutics; Geography and Geopolitics, Organizational Behavior; Alliance and Multinational Operations; and the Interagency Process.

Dr. Severance's professional presentations and publications include his dissertation entitled “Characterizing the Construct of Organizational Unity of Effort in the National Security Policy Process (May 2005), ”Organizational Responsibilities for National Security, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, November 2001; "The Geography of a Campaign," co-presented with Professor F.H. Dillon, III, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1999; "Strategic Geography," co-presented with Professor F.H. Dillon, III, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 1997; "Joint Live Fire (JLF) Lessons-Learned Workshop," Aircraft Survivability, Winter, 1993; "Live Fire Test and Evaluation Requirements for Directed Energy Weapons," presented at 8th Department of Defense Conference on Directed Energy Weapons, San Diego, CA, June, 1992; "The Threat of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism: Are Civil Emergency Services Prepared?" Executive Research Project, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, June 1991; "Victory Corps 2000 Regionalization Study," Headquarters, V United States Corps, June 1990; and "Analysis of the Battle of Mechanicsville," Executive Research Project, Air Command and Staff College, April, 1983.

Functional Expertise:
Weapons Systems Acquisition Program Management - Test and Evaluation - Life Fire Test and Evaluation - Aviation Operations and Logistics - Safety - Logistics Management and Integrated Logistics Support - Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) - Emergency and Crises Management - Emergency Services (Fire/EMS) - Incident Response, Command, and Operations

Regional Expertise:
NATO - Western Europe

Colonel Patrick M. Shaw is a Professor in the department of Military Strategy and Logistics at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He joined the faculty in July 2006.
A native of Seattle, Colonel Shaw graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Business and was commissioned through Officer Training School in 1982. He went on to fly as a weapon systems officer on F-111s in Europe and the US for many years. He completed tours in operational and developmental test and evaluation on precision weapons and flight systems as well as a deployment to Operation Desert Storm. After graduating from the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Colonel Shaw commanded the 32nd Air Operations Squadron in Germany to include its deployment for the NATO war with Serbia. He next attended the National War College graduating in 2001. Following a short tour on the Air Staff he was selected to command the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Prior to his assignment to ICAF he led the Joint Concepts Division for the Joint Staff J-7.

Functional Experience:
Guided weapons (air-to-ground) - Joint Concept Development and Experimentation - Air Combat - fighter operations and support - Air Operations Center -

Regional Expertise:
Western Europe

Dr. Richard Shipe joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 2004 as a Professor of Acquisition. He holds a Bachelors degree in Economics and Geography from Radford University, a Master of Science Degree in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Program Management Course and the Air Command and Staff College. Dr. Shipe entered the Army as a Transportation Corps officer in 1984. After serving as a strategic mobility planner at the Military Traffic Management Command and commanding a transportation company in the 2nd Infantry Division, he joined the Army Acquisition Corps. Dr. Shipe's acquisition assignments include tours with the Program Executive Officer for Tactical Wheeled Vehicles, Army Test and Evaluation Command, Department of Army Staff, and Defense Acquisition University.

Functional Expertise:
Program Management - Test and Evaluation - Integrated Logistics Support - Strategic and Tactical Transportation - Economic Analysis

Regional Expertise:
Korea - Western Europe

Professor Stavrakis is currently Professor of Political Science at the National Defense University, and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont.

He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1986, 1980), and his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Delaware (1978). Professor Stavrakis teaches courses in Political Science, National Security Decision-making, Russian Foreign and Domestic Politics, International Relations and Balkan politics. He is the author of Moscow and Greek Communism, 1944 - 1949, (Cornell, 1989), and editor of Beyond the Monolith: The Emergence of Regionalism in Post-Soviet Russia (Johns Hopkins, 1997), and is the author of numerous articles on post-Soviet politics, U.S. foreign assistance, democratization, and comparative politics. His article "The Evolution of Russia as a Predator State," (2002) appeared in the U.S. Congress's Joint Economic Committee study of the Russian economy, and is part of an ongoing comparative study of the political dynamics of post-imperial states.

During the 1990s, Professor Stavrakis served as Deputy Director of The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He has testified before the US Congress on numerous occasions, and served as an advisor for, among others, the US Congress, Department of State, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and various corporations and NGOs. Dr. Stavrakis authored or supervised the development of more than a dozen successful individual and institutional grants with a combined value of in excess of $3 million.

In 2000 Stavrakis helped organize and create UVM United Academics, the faculty union at the University of Vermont, affiliated with the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers. In 2001 he was subsequently elected and served as the first President of UVM United Academics.

Stavrakis is of Russian and Greek descent, speaks Russian and Portuguese, and was born in Wilmington, Delaware.

Dr. Paul Sullivan has been a professor of economics at the National Defense University (NDU) since July 1999. He is an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University, where he teaches classes on energy and security. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Georgetown’s Department of Science, Technology and International Affairs, where he teaches about energy security in the Middle East, and natural resources and conflict in Africa and the Middle East. While at NDU he taught a very popular elective course on the Islamic world, and has organized and participated in NDU panels and talks related to energy security, interfaith dialogue, US-Arab relations and more.

Dr. Sullivan was Senior Fellow at the East West Institute (EWI) during 2007. As part of his responsibilities he co-lead an EWI delegation to Jordan, where he met with some present and past senior leaders of the country, including members of the Royal Family, to discuss western-Arab relations. He was also part of the first meeting of the EWI Trialogue21 with high-level delegations from China and the EU. He was a central speaker at the EWI conference on natural resources and security in Berlin, Germany in December 2006. Dr. Sullivan has also been a research fellow at the Independent Institute, for whom he has written articles on Middle East issues.

Dr. Sullivan has also been involved in the energy work at the UNCTAD with a focus on energy cooperation issues and Africa. In December 2006 he was part of an expert meeting on energy issues in developing countries for UNCTAD in Geneva, Switzerland.. In late May 2007 he was a central participant in UNCTAD’s Oil and Gas conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

He has also been part of another energy security process based in Washington that is confidential in nature. Dr. Sullivan has been part of the Energy Consensus Group of Washington, DC. He is often invited to brief various groups in the Washington, DC area on various energy, Middle East and Islamic issues.

He has been the lead of the Energy Industry Study and the North Africa and Levant Regional Security Study. He is now part of the Environment Industry Study at NDU. Dr. Sullivan had organized, set up the logistics and lead teams of 15-17 persons from ICAF on international and domestic field studies in agribusiness, energy and the environment industries. Dr. Sullivan has considerable experience in setting up high-level visits to companies, universities, think tanks, government leaders and others.

This summer he has been 9 weeks in Egypt and Jordan meeting with high-level officials, members of the Jordanian Royal Family, academics, military officials, diplomats from the EU and the Arab world, business persons, and more. He also gave talks at the Institute of Diplomacy in Amman, The Arab Thought Forum (where he was introduced by a member of the Royal Family), The Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, and an all-hands talk at the Jordan National Defence Academy. He is writing up policy and other documents related to this trip.

He was a member of the seminar on religion and development at Georgetown, and he has been an active member of the working groups on Iraq, Iraq, Libya and "The New Marshall Plan for Water and Energy in the Developing World" at the Atlantic Council. Dr. Sullivan was an active participant in the Iraq Roundtables run by PILG, which focused on the Iraqi Constitution and other economic-legal issues. He was also part of the Fusion Group on Public Diplomacy at the State Department, and has been involved in many meetings related to strategic communications with the Arab and Muslim worlds. He has been quite active over the years in policy debates on many issues.

For six years before his time at NDU, Dr. Sullivan taught and researched at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where he taught classes on the economics and economic history of the Middle East. He started new courses on the economic history and economics of Israel the West Bank and Gaza, and on environmental issues in Central Asia and the Middle East. He was also involved in the Model UN as a speaker and mentor, and in international internet-based debates and negotiation sessions with the University of Texas, Austin. While in Egypt he was also invited on Egyptian TV to debate with some of the most prominent people in the country, and was regularly interviewed by the international press and other media. He was also on the editorial board of the Cairo Papers in Social Sciences and wrote a column for the Middle East Times. Dr. Sullivan has traveled extensively in the region, and is quite well connected in the region.

Before he moved to Egypt, Dr. Sullivan was a consultant to major law firms and others on energy, environment and due diligence issues, and an international energy economist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has lectured at many universities and other venues in the US and worldwide, and was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University for two summers.

Over the years, he has been interviewed and quoted by numerous media outlets on five continents. Dr. Sullivan has also given dozens public talks on issues related to economic development, international trade, US-Islamic relations, US-Arab relations, US-Egyptian relations, the economics and politics of various Arab states and Iran, energy security at the domestic and global levels, Islam, nuclear power and proliferation issues, the Middle East, Pakistan, and many other topics.

He is an active member of Columbia University’s GULF2000 network. He has published on a wide variety of issues related to the economics of war and peace, the political economy of oil and gas, energy security, US-Islamic and US-Arab relations, Iraq, extremism and more. He also has experience in India; having done is Yale Ph.D. research in the country. Dr. Sullivan was elected to the College of Fellows of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES), and he is a member of the advisory board of the US-Egyptian Friendship Society.

He has been a long-term student of Arabic, and is quite fluent in the cultures, politics, economics of the Middle East and North Africa. His research and travels have also in recent years brought him considerable knowledge of water, energy, land, and non-energy minerals connections with conflict and conflict resolutions.

• Certificate -- Seminar XXI (2006) MIT, International Relations
• Ph.D. (1986) Yale , Economics
• M.Phil (1983 ) Yale, Economics of Developing Countries
• M.A. (1982) Yale, Economics
• B.A. Summa Cum Laude (1979) Brandeis, Economics

Functional Expertise:
Energy - Islamic Societies and Economies - Economics - Public Diplomacy - Economic Diplomacy - Political Economy - US-Arab and US-Iranian Relations.

Regional Expertise:
Middle East and North Africa - West Asia - South Asia (Ph.D. on India) - Islamic World

CAPT Dave Swain is assigned to the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces as Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the Strategic Leadership Department. He is a 1985 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison NROTC program with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics; a 1993 graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California with a Master of Science degree in Systems Technology (Space Systems Operations); and a 2005 graduate of the National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), with a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy.

CAPT Swain is a carrier-based Navy helicopter pilot. During his aviation career, he has accumulated over 3,200 flight hours in six aircraft models, including the HH-60H and the SH-60F. CAPT Swain served as Commanding Officer of the “World Famous Red Lions” of HS-15. His squadron earned the CAPT Arnold J. Isbell award for Anti-submarine and Anti-surface Warfare (ASW and ASUW) excellence and the Admiral Jimmie Thach award for outstanding achievement and contribution to carrier air wing aviation.

He has completed Joint Duty assignments at United States Space Command (J-3) in Colorado Springs, Colorado and most recently with the Joint Staff (J-5), Washington, DC. In his last assignment he served as the Strategic Deterrence and Strike Policy Division Chief where he provided advice to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Nuclear Weapons, Space and Missile Defense Policy.

Functional Expertise:
Carrier Strike Group Operations - Joint and Combined Operations and Exercises - Combat Search and Rescue - Naval Special Warfare Support - NATO Nuclear Policy - U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy - Space Operations and Policy - Missile Defense Policy.

John Terpinas currently serves as the FBI Chair at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), National Defense University, Ft. Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. Mr. Terpinas joined the ICAF staff in the summer of 2008 and is a Professor of National Security Studies. Mr. Terpinas came to ICAF after serving as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia where he taught in the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Prior to teaching in the LDI, Mr. Terpinas held numerous managerial positions within the FBI’s counterterrorism program both in the field and at headquarters. This included his role as Chief of the Risk Assessment Unit and Chief of the Program Management and outreach Unit at the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force. Mr. Terpinas also held leadership positions in the area of National Security within the interagency community. He served as Director of Law Enforcement and Investigations in the White House Homeland Security Council, Domestic Counterterrorism Directorate, where he helped formulate strategic national counterterrorism policies and was part of the White House crisis management team.

Mr. Terpinas holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Military Studies from the Marine Corps University, and a Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law. Mr. Terpinas is a native of Chicago, Illinois where he worked as an Assistant State’s Attorney prior to joining the FBI.

Functional Expertise:
Inter-Agency Process - Counterterrorism Mission and Operations - Intelligence Sharing and the Domestic Threat - National Security Law and Executive Guidelines - Law Enforcement & Federal Criminal Law - Leadership and Management

Professor Lynne Thompson joined the faculty in May 1999. He holds a bachelors degree in communications from The College of the Ozarks, a masters degree in sociology from Pepperdine University, and a doctorate in human resources development from The George Washington University. He has taught courses in strategic leadership, information strategies for senior leaders, analysis of the information technology industry, and Southeast Asia Regional Security Studies. His major areas of academic interest include leadership development and leveraging technology to improve organizational effectiveness. He has severed in a number of positions at ICAF including Professor of Behavioral Science, Blackboard Site Administrator, Director of Educational Technology, and Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs. He was director of the 2005 symposium: “U.S. Defense Industrial Base: Implications of a Globalized World.”

Functional Expertise:
Leadership Development - Information Technology Management - Budget and Administration - Joint Planning and Operations - Research (quantitative and qualitative)

Regional Expertise:
Southeast Asia

COL Mark Troutman joined the ICAF Economics Department in July 2009 after serving with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Office of Secretary of Defense. COL Troutman was Director, Army Programs and oversaw all OSD and Interagency level release policy for sale of weapons systems to partner nations. An Armor (Operations) officer, he has had a variety of field assignments in the Second, Third and Tenth Cavalry Regiments as well as command of US Army Troop Command, Korea. Strategic Plans assignments include Plans Officer, Multi National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I, 2005) and member of an assessment team for transition of leadership to NATO headquarters in Afghanistan (2006).

Colonel Troutman is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1983. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, School of Advanced Military Studies and the Army War College (National Security Policy Program). Civilian education includes Master, Public Policy from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and ABD (Economics), George Mason University.

Colonel Mark A. Vaitkus has served as an Army research psychologist since 1985 and joined the ICAF faculty in the Leadership and Information Strategy Department in 2007. He is a Distinguished Graduate of ICAF’s Class of 2007 and holds a B.A. from Northwestern University in sociology and anthropology, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan.

COL Vaitkus began his Army career at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) where he led the data collection and management of the Army’s evaluation of the Unit Manning System from 1986 to 1989, which involved tracking and analyzing cohesion, morale, and leadership climate from over 100 company-sized units. While serving as deputy commander from 1990 to 1994 at WRAIR’s medical research laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, he continued to conduct research and publish on psychosocial issues related to Operations Desert Shield and Storm, to include the incidence of depression and other psychiatric symptoms, as well as the unique stressors and support issues faced by Army families. From 1994 to 1998, he served as assistant professor and sociology program director in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy, where he also taught organizational studies in the Tactical Officer Education Program.

As acting director and chief of research at the Army Physical Fitness Research Institute at the U.S. Army War College, COL Vaitkus conducted studies with leading researchers in the fields of heart disease, stress management, physiology, prostate cancer, and nutritional health as these applied to senior leaders over the age of 40. In 2003, he became the first liaison officer between PEO Soldier, the Rapid Equipping Force, and the Army’s Medical Research and Materiel Command. With the approval of the Army Surgeon General, his mission was expanded to include the role of product manager for the entire Ground Soldier System. He was subsequently chosen as the Deputy Technology Program Manager for the Future Force Warrior Advanced Technology Demonstration, leading the Soldier Systems integration effort with Future Combat Systems.

COL Vaitkus has published in such venues as Military Medicine, Military Psychology, and Behavioral Medicine, and is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Military Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and the Interuniversity Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. He co-edited The U.S. Army Guide to Executive Health and Fitness and produced the The Total Trainer CD-ROM for the Army’s Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.

Functional Expertise:
Social Psychology – Leadership and Command Climate – Complex Organizations – Cultural Belief Systems, Religion, and Ideology – Socialization – Deviance and Social Control – Executive Health and Fitness – Mass Media – Research Methods and Statistics

Prior to joining ICAF as Industry Chair and Visiting Professor in the Strategic Leadership Department in 2009, Cynthia Valles was Executive Vice President for American Express, based in London, leading Customer Service International - an organization of over 10,000 employees across 21 countries, responsible for Customer Service, Card Issuance, Risk and Fraud Operations. In her role, Cynthia transformed the business, attaining unprecedented results in Customer and Employee Satisfaction, productivity improvements and cost savings.

Before that, Cynthia led the US Consumer Travel Network for American Express as Senior Vice President and General Manager. American Express is the largest travel agency in the US and Cynthia was responsible for changing the organization from a cost center to a profit center in just three years. Among the innovations she led were; establishing a web strategy for travel purchases including the “pay with points” program and revitalizing the Travel Agency Network. She also developed a flexible staffing plan that allowed American Express to withstand major industry crises, such as the SARS outbreak, without lying off a single employee. This plan was widely praised and emulated in the travel industry.

Other positions Cynthia held at American Express include Vice President / General Manager of Global Corporate Services and Vice President of Business Travel – both for the Eastern US Region. She joined American Express in 1994 as part of the company’s acquisition of Thomas Cook Travel where she was the Vice President for Group Travel Management Services.

In addition to numerous awards within her company, Cynthia has been sited in two books and many publications. She has also served on the Board of Directors for The Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York, The Advisory Board of The United Way, New York City and as a member of American Express’ Committee for the World Monuments Fund.

Pete Van Deusen joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces after graduating in June 2007 and is an assistant professor of Military Strategy. He is a career Air Force Officer with 20 years of operational, staff, and instructing experience flying primarily B-1s. He has served at all squadron levels culminating as the 337 Test and Evaluation Commander. Colonel Van Deusen has taught at the USAF Weapons School and served on the 8AF staff as a member of the Commander's Action Group. Colonel Van Deusen holds degrees from Florida State University, The Army Command and General Staff College and NDU.

Functional Expertise:
Guided weapons (air-to-ground) - Composite air operations and support - Operational test

Ms. Vargo is a Professor of Military Strategy and Logistics at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. She teaches the War Studies curriculum and leads the Strategic Supply Industry Study. Professor Vargo is a distinguished graduate of the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, earning a Master of Business Administration degree. She is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Senior Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University. Ms. Vargo holds a Bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Toledo, Ohio.

Ms. Vargo previously served as a Professor of Acquisition on the faculty from 1999-2002. In addition to teaching the Defense Acquisition University Senior Acquisition Course and the Acquisition core curriculum, she led both the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Study and the China Regional Security Study.

Professor Vargo recently completed 30 years of active service as a Captain, Supply Corps, United States Navy. Ms. Vargo served in a wide variety of assignments both afloat and ashore including two sea tours supporting naval operations in the Mediterranean and Arabian Gulf.

Functional Expertise:
Weapons Systems Acquisition - Integrated Logistics Support - Supply Chain Management - Advanced Manufacturing

Regional Expertise:
China

Dr. Weissman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. Prior to joining the ICAF faculty in 2006, he was an International Economist at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State, and a Lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is currently completing an economics textbook, Essentials of Economics, to be published by McGraw Hill in 2009. He was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has a PhD in Economics from Columbia University, and bachelor's degrees in economics and philosophy from Yeshiva University.

Dr. Alan Whittaker was appointed to the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), National Defense University in 1990. His positions of service to the college have included Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs (2006-2009), Chairman of the Department of National Security Studies, Director of Regional Studies, and Director of Exercises and Simulations.

His teaching areas have included International Relations, USG inter-agency dynamics, US National Security Strategy and Policy, Political Psychology, and Ethno-Political Conflict. His current research interests include understanding how cultural and psychological factors contribute to problems in international relations; intra- and international conflict prevention, management and resolution; psychological assessments of political leaders and leadership groups, and the psychology of terrorists and terrorist groups.

His most recent publication is an annual report on: “The National Security Policy Process: The National Security Council and Inter-agency System” which is used at the White House, State Department, in the USG’s war college system, and at numerous colleges and universities. The report is available on the ICAF website homepage. Prior to his appointment at NDU, Dr. Whittaker worked as a political psychologist and intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. At the CIA, Dr. Whittaker worked on psychological analyses of foreign leaders and leadership groups in the USSR, China, and Eastern Europe, international politics and conflict, international negotiations, and cross-cultural psychological differences.

During his government career, Dr. Whittaker has served on the Intelligence Community Staff, as an advisor for summit meetings, bi-lateral and multi-lateral negotiations, and inter-state and ethnic conflict working groups, as well as testifying before the U.S. Congress. His awards include CIA, Intelligence Community Staff, and National Defense University citations for Exceptional Accomplishment and Exceptional Performance, and the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute’s Adjunct Faculty Award. Dr. Whittaker was named NDU’s “Professor of the Year” at ICAF in 2004.

Dr. Whittaker holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology (University of North Texas), a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology (Southern Methodist University), a Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology and a Ph.D. in International Studies (University of South Carolina). He is a member of the American Psychological Association and other professional organizations, including having served on the Executive Committee and the Governing Council of the International Society of Political Psychology.

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