CAPT David W. Newton, USCG
Senior Research Fellow

Captain Newton is the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate’s Senior Research Fellow to the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University (NDU). In this capacity, he also serves as the liaison for the Undersecretary for S&T to NDU. CAPT Newton comes to CTNSP from a three-year assignment as the Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate’s Borders and Maritime Security Division. While acting as the Director from March 2007 to August 2009, he structured a portfolio that focused departmental research and development efforts to align with operational capability gaps for the major components of DHS. Captain Newton’s assignment prior to S&T was as the Coast Guard Executive Fellow to the National Defense Research Institute at the RAND Corporation. His research focused on capability based assessments of C4IT architecture in a net centric environment for the J6 staff and a small ship study for theater security cooperation for the US Navy.

CAPT Newton has 24+ years of operational experience as an Officer for the United States Coast Guard (USCG). He has served in three Coast Guard Cutters including tours as Executive Officer (XO) and Commanding Officer (CO). His shore assignments include tours at the CG Telecommunications & Information Systems Command, XO of the Electronics Systems Support Unit (ESU) Miami, FL and CO of ESU Boston, MA where he oversaw all facets of C4IT for the Coast Guard in the Northeast US.

Captain Newton holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a Masters of Science in Computer Information Systems/Masters Certificate in Telecommunications Management from the University of Miami.