Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Service Chairs
Air Force
Colonel David Gerber, USAFArmy
Colonel Broc Perkuchin, USAChairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
VacantCoast Guard
Captain Janet Florey, USCGMarine Corps
Colonel Jorge Ascunce, USMCNavy
Captain Dave Schnell, USNFaculty Roster
Army
COL Michael BlackLTC Sonya Finley
COL William Fuller
COL Bruce Haselden
COL Kathleen Lynn Knapp
COL Douglas McCarthy, CF
LTC Craig Myatt
COL Broc Perkuchin
COL Cheryl Smart
COL Alicia Smith
COL Thomas Steffens
COL Mark Vaitkus
COL Kelly Ward
Navy
CDR Youssef Aboul-EneinCAPT Kevin Coyne
CAPT Fred Drummond
CAPT Gerard Hall
CAPT John Lauer
CDR Kyle Luksovsky
CAPT John Meier
CAPT Tony Partridge, RAN
CAPT Dave Schnell
CAPT Chandler Swallow
Air Force
Col Brian CollinsCol David Gerber
Col Clark Groves
Col Shahnaz Punjani
Col Patrick M. Shaw
Col Ken Stefanek
LtCol Jerome Traughber
Marines
Col Jorge AscunceCol Sean Blochberger
Coast Guard
CAPT Janet FloreyCivilian
Dr. Gerald AbbottMr. Richard Altieri, Esq.
Dr. Stephen A. Basile
Ms. Janie B. Benton, DOE Chair
Dr. Gerald C. Berg
Dr. David Blair
Dr. Linda Brandt
Dr. R. Stephen Brent
Mr. Donald Briggs
Dr. Shannon Brown
Dr. James Browning
Mr. Robert Buchanan
Dr. B. Frank Cooling
Dr. Barbara Corvette
Dr. Maureen Crandall
Dr. Faye Davis
Mr. D. Purnell Delly
Mr. James Dickmeyer
Dr. Tom Dimieri
Dr. Stephen Ford
Dr. Gregory Foster
Mr. Mark Foulon
Dr. Joseph Goldberg
Mr. Patrick Haley
Mr. Tom Hauser
Dr. Nayantara Hensel
Mr. Damion Higbie
Dr. David King, CF (Ret.)
Dr. William Knowlton
Mr. Feza S. Koprucu, USN (Ret.) - DHS Chair
Dr. Steven Kramer
Mr. William Kurtz, FBI Chair
Dr. Irene Kyriakopoulos
Dr. Christina Lafferty, USAF (Ret.)
Mr. Mike Lawrence, NSA Chair
Dr. Andrew Leith
Mr. James Lepse, USN (Ret.)
Dr. Scott Loomer, NGA Chair
Dr. Donald L. Losman
Dr. Sorin Lungu
Mr. Ted Mann
Dr. Mark A. McGuire, USA (Ret.)
Dr. Mark Montroll
Ms. Kelly Morris, DLA Chair
Dr. Kenneth Moss
Dr. Paul Needham
Mr. Gustav Otto
Mr. James Perkins, USN (Ret.)
Mr. Richard J. Prevost
Dr. Stephen Randolph, USAF (Ret.)
Mr. Anthony Romano
Dr. Tim Russo
Dr. Paul Severance
Dr. Richard Shipe
Ms. Martha Erin Soto
Dr. Paul Sullivan
Dr. Lynne Thompson
Ms. Jeanne Vargo, USN, (Ret.)
Ms. Leanne Viera, IBM
Mr. Bradley Wallach
Dr. Seth Weissman
Dr. Alan Whittaker
Faculty Biography
Dr. Gerald W. Abbott
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 administration 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). Most recently, Dr Abbott was inducted to the rank of "Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite" by the President of the Republic of France.
Functional Expertise:
Weapons systems acquisition - Integrated logistic support - Industrial
base analysis - International acquisition systems - Transatlantic
cooperation in armaments development and production - Economics
- Logistics Management
Western Europe - Japan - Sub-Saharan Africa
Commander Youssef Aboul-Enein, USN
Youssef H. Aboul-Enein is a U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps Commander, Middle East Foreign Area Officer, and is author of “Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat,” published by Naval Institute Press. He currently is Adjunct Military Professor and Islamic Studies Chair at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF).From 2006 to 2009, he served as a Senior Counter-Terrorism Advisor, Warning Officer, and Instructor on Militant Islamist Ideology at the Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating Terrorism (JITF-CT) in Washington DC. CDR Aboul-Enein was Country Director for North Africa and Egypt, Assistant Country Director for the Arabian Gulf, and Special Advisor on Islamist Militancy at the Office of the Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 2002-2006. At the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he helped prepare Defense Department officials engage in ministerial level talks with their counterparts from Morocco to the Persian Gulf. He has attended many working level interagency meetings on counter-terrorism, disarmament, and Middle East regional security issues. Among the interagency working groups he participated in were, Libyan disarmament, coordinating the first Defense Ministry level bilateral talks with Algeria, arranging the freedom of 407 Moroccan POWs held by the POLISARIO Front, and Saudi Energy Infrastructure Security.
He has published many articles on Islamist militancy, Arab affairs, and Middle East military tactics for Military Review, the Infantry Journal, the Marine Corps Gazette, Small Wars Journal.com, and the Foreign Area Officer Journal. CDR Aboul-Enein is author of Ayman Al-Zawahiri: The Ideologue of Modern Islamic Militancy, published by the U.S. Air Force Counter Proliferation Center in March 2004. He is co-author of Islamic Rulings on Warfare, published by the Army War College in October 2004. CDR Aboul-Enein is engaged in a long-term project to highlight Arabic works of military interest in the pages of the U.S. Army’s Armor and Infantry Journals. Aboul-Enein has published in U.S. military journals, a multi-part series on Usama Bin Laden Arabic literature, and is working on an eleven-part series on the Father of Iraqi Sociology Dr Ali al-Wardi for the U.S. Army Armor Journal. He highlighted excerpts of memoirs by Egyptian, Syrian and Algerian Generals. CDR Aboul-Enein is cited in two Project Air Force/RAND studies on Islamist Radicalism and two Naval Institute books by naval historian Thomas Cutler.
His education consists of a B.B.A from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), an M.B.A and Masters in Health Services Administration from the University of Arkansas, an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College, as well as an M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. CDR Aboul-Enein’s operational tours include Liberia, Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf. CDR Aboul-Enein’s personal awards include the Army Commendation Medal presented by General Tommy Franks, the Joint Service Achievement Medal presented by the Commandant of the Joint Forces Staff College and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal awarded by the Secretary of Defense. CDR Aboul-Enein is rated proficient in the Egyptian, Peninsular, Levantine, Modern Standard and Iraqi dialects of Arabic by the Defense Language Institute.
Mr. Richard T. Altieri, Esq. (Colonel, U.S. Army Retired)
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.
Functional Expertise:Defense weapons systems acquisition; defense procurement and contracting; law; information and communications technology. Mr. Altieri has been the faculty leader at ICAF of the Information Technology Industry Study. He teaches in ICAF’s core curriculum Acquisition Course and offers electives in ICAF’s Senior Acquisition Course.
Regional Expertise:
Mr. Altieri has traveled extensively in Asia through his leadership
of the ICAF Information Technology Industry Study. He currently
serves as the Asia-Pacific Coordinator of the Industry Studies
Program. He also has served as faculty of the Russia Regional
Security Study.
Dr. Stephen A. Basile
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. Janie B. Benton, DOE Chair
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.
Functional Expertise:
Manage groups of diverse individuals to achieve negotiated measures
that promote nuclear nonproliferation goals, national security
objectives or scientific solutions in concert with U.S. government
interagency policy and international agreements. Apply scientific
principles to create technical solutions that serve as a foundation
for policy and implementation of major U.S. government initiatives.
Develop innovative leaders and teams capable of conducting successful
field evaluations in the U.S. and abroad.
Regional Expertise:
Ms. Benton has traveled extensively in Russia as a leader in the
DOE National Nuclear Security Administration, and throughout the
U.S. as a technical expert conducting field studies and evaluations
for energy development.
Dr. Gerald C. Berg
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
Dr. David G. Blair
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.
Dr. Linda S. Brandt
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
Dr. R. Stephen Brent
Stephen Brent is Chair of the Department of Economics, which teaches the school’s core courses in Economics of National Security Strategy (fall) and Industry Analytics (spring). He has taught electives on development, foreign assistance, and expeditionary economics. Prior to joining ICAF, Dr. Brent was a career Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). At USAID he led the Agency's support for the Millennium Challenge Account; served as Associate Director of USAID/Egypt (where he worked with Egyptian business leaders to improve management and workforce skills); and served in South Africa (leading USAID assistance to democracy during that country’s transition to majority rule). 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. He holds 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
Regional Expertise:
Africa
Mr. Donald Ray Briggs
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 is ABD in his pursuit of a PhD in Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Professor Briggs is the Director of the Industry Studies Program and is an Associate Professor of Acquisition, has served as Course Director for the Acquisition Core Course, as faculty leader of several industry studies, 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 Brown
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.
Dr. James Browning
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
Mr. Robert Buchanan
Joined the staff in March 1996. Mr. Buchanan is the Director of Operations. Mr. Buchanan retired from active duty from the Army in 1994.
Brian Collins, Colonel, 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. 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. 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 at the Freie Universität Berlin and is a graduate of the Air Force Academy, Harvard University’s Kennedy School, and Georgetown University (PhD international relations). He is also a graduate of the USAF Fighter Weapons School and the German Armed Forces Staff College (Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr). He has published numerous articles, and two books: Behind the Cyberspace Veil: The Hidden Evolution of the Air Force Officer Corps and NATO: A Guide to the Issues.
Dr. Benjamin F. Cooling
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. Barbara Corvette
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.
She received Juris Doctor and M.B.A. degrees from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from The Fielding Institute, and a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Louisville.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. Maureen S. Crandall
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 11 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 was 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, was a member of the Board of Editors of The Energy Journal, and has served several times on the national council of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. Additionally, she served 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
Dr. Faye Davis
Dr. Faye Davis is a professor of Acquisition and the Biotechnology Industry Study Leader at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) at the National Defense University (NDU). Dr. Davis has a diverse portfolio of teaching and administrative experience. Prior to her assuming her current assignment, Dr. Davis was the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)Chair at ICAF, taught ICAF core course programs in the Leadership, and Military Strategy and Logistics Departments; taught in the ICAF electives and regional security programs; and served as the Director of the ICAF Industry Studies Program. Her tenure in academia includes more than 12 years of combined experience teaching undergraduate studies well as the Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) graduate programs at NDU/ICAF. Prior to ICAF, Dr. Davis’ professional experience included progressive leadership assignments as an Air Force program manager; as the director of contracting at DLA Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC); as manager of DLA-DSCC base realignment and closure project; and as the DLA-DSCC senior contracting executive. Dr. Davis is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps and has a level III certification in contracting. She received a PhD and Master of Science from the University of Cincinnati and is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. She also is a graduate of the Air Force Education with Industry Program, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Seminar XXI Program, and the ICAF Senior Acquisition Course. Dr. Davis is a recipient of the Air Force Association Award, the DOD Superior Civilian Service Award, the Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and the ICAF Faculty Outreach Award.Dr. Davis has been the director of the ICAF Industry Study Program and faculty leader for the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Security Study. She teaches in ICAF’s core curriculum Acquisition Course; leads the Biotechnology Industry Study and offers electives in ICAF’s Senior Acquisition Course.
Functional Experience: Defense business systems acquisition - Defense procurement and contracting - Logistics & Supply Chain Management.
Mr. D. Purnell Delly
Mr. Delly served as Director for Iraq at the U.S. State Department from August 2009 to June 2010, following a “bridge assignment” on the Foreign Service Board of Examiners. In 2008 he served as Foreign Policy Advisor (“POLAD”) to MNC-I Commander LTG Lloyd Austin at Camp Victory in Iraq.Before arriving in Baghdad he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam. He was Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs 2004-2005, and prior to becoming Special Assistant was Deputy Chief of Mission in Khartoum.
Mr. Delly joined the State Department in 1983. His assignments include Counselor for Political and Economic Affairs in Copenhagen, Deputy Economic Counselor in Ankara, and international economist in the Office of Regional Economic Policy for Latin American and the Caribbean. Mr. Delly also served in Edinburgh and in El Salvador during the war. He has received Superior and Meritorious Honor awards, and the Award for Valor.
Mr. Delly received a Bachelor's degree in Literature with a minor in Russian language from Dartmouth College, and a Master's in Literature from University of Chicago. Subsequently he earned a J.D. from William & Mary with a concentration in international law focusing on EU integration and international trade and investment regimes. Mr. Delly also has a Master's in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and is a graduate of the Foreign Service Institute’s long-term training in International Economics.
Prior to arriving at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Mr. Delly served for a year as State Department Chair at Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. He is also a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Mr. James Dickmeyer
Jim Dickmeyer joined the ICAF faculty in July, 2010. He is the State Department Chair and a member of the faculty of the National Security Studies Department. He also teaches the Mexico regional studies seminar and a course on public diplomacy. Jim is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister counselor. He joined the Foreign Service in 1984. His assignments include public affairs officer at the U.S. embassies in Mexico, Bolivia and Paraguay. Jim’s other overseas postings were in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Guatemala, where he was the embassy’s press attaché. In his most recent domestic assignments, Jim was director of the State Department’s Foreign Press Centers, director of the public diplomacy office in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and coordinator for policy, planning and resources for the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. He has a Masters degree in history from the Ohio State University and received a BA from Coe College.Dr. Tom Dimieri, Institutional Research
Tom Dimieri is a native of New York City and attended Fordham College (BA) in Sociology and Brown University (MA, Ph D) in Sociology with a concentration in demography and organizational behavior. His dissertation was a study of reform initiatives in the NYC Police Department supported by a research grant from the Justice Department. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) and Wellesley College (MA). His academic research focused on ideology and social movements with particular attention to national ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
He was a senior research analyst in Wang Labs’ Advanced Systems Laboratory and conducted research on the impact of IT technology on the organization of work. He also worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as U.S. manager of market research and competitive analysis. He has conducted many independent consulting engagements on product development, market studies, program evaluation, and human resource issues.
He returned to higher education as Director of Institutional Research and Planning at Simmons College (Boston, MA) and later in a similar role at Bryant University (Smithfield, RI), He assumed his new responsibilities at ICAF in January 2010. His role at ICAF is to enhance the evidence base for assessing and improving student learning and institutional effectiveness.
Captain Fred Drummond, USN
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
LTC Sonya Finley, USA
LTC Sonya Finley joined ICAF as a faculty member of the Military Strategy and Logistics Department in 2010. She is an Army Strategist. After initial assignments as an Air Defense Artillery officer, she served as an assistant professor of international relations in the Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point. She then served as a strategist and speechwriter in Commander's Initiatives Groups for the United States Forces-Korea Commander (2004-2008) and Army Chief of Staff (2008-2009). Her last assignment was deputy director, Commander's Initiatives Group, United States Forces-Iraq, Baghdad.
LTC Finley has a BA in international relations and German literature from Emory University and a MPA (international relations) from Cornell University. She is a former East-West Center fellow and former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has written and published several articles in academic and professional journals.
Captain Janet Florey, USCG
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
Colonel Sean Blochberger, USMC
Colonel Sean Blochberger joined ICAF in 2011 as a faculty member of the Military Strategy and Logistics Department. After designation as a Naval Aviator and AV-8B Harrier II pilot, Colonel Blochberger served in various operational assignments, both afloat and ashore. While serving in duties as a combat-ready attack pilot he also served in positions as a Logistics Officer, Aviation Safety Officer, Quality Assurance Officer, Assistant Operations Officer, Director of Standardization and Safety, and Maintenance Officer, Harrier Detachment Officer-in-Charge, and Squadron Commanding Officer.
Colonel Blochberger has participated in operational deployments to Japan, the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central Asia. Among these deployments were combat tours in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH (1998, 2003), Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (2003), and Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and MOUNTAIN STORM (2004).
Colonel Blochberger's staff assignments include tours with Headquarters, United States Marine Corps (Aviation Department), United States Central Command (J5 Plans), and United States Southern Command (Director, Washington Office).
Colonel Blochberger is also an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University's College of Professional Studies where he instructs in Strategic Change Leadership.
Colonel Blochberger holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (with Merit) from the United States Naval Academy (1987), a Master of Business Administration (with Honors) from the George Washington University (2002), and a Master of National Security Strategy (Distinguished Graduate) from the National War College (2008).
Dr. Stephen Ford, USAF (Ret.)
Dr. 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.
Dr. 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. Dr. Ford is Level III certified in Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering.
Dr. 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. Dr. 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
Dr. Gregory D. Foster
Gregory D. Foster is Professor of Political Science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., where he previously has served as George C. Marshall Professor and J. Carlton Ward Distinguished Professor and Director of Research. He also is Executive Director of the Defense Environmental Forum, a joint venture between the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations & Environment) and the President of the National Defense University.
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
Mr. Mark Foulon
Mark Foulon is Professor of Industry and Business at the National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). At ICAF, he leads the Business Strategy Program and serves on the Economics faculty.
Prior to joining the ICAF faculty, Foulon was a member of the Senior Executive Service in the United States Department of Commerce. 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.
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
Colonel David K. Gerber, USAF, USAF Chair
Colonel David K. “Boomer” Gerber joined the department of Military Strategy and Logistics as ICAF’s Air Force Chief of Staff Chair in June 2011.Colonel Gerber was commissioned in 1984 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps upon graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He flew F-15Cs operationally at several bases across Europe and the United States. Colonel Gerber is a graduate of Air Command and Staff College and the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, and he was also a Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellow at FedEx Express headquarters where he assisted with corporate strategy and reengineering. Colonel Gerber commanded an Operations Support Squadron, the Air Force’s Officer Training School, and the 14th Flying Training Wing, Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. His staff experience includes the Strategy Division of U.S. European Command, the Global Strike CONOPS Division Chief to integrate the Air Force’s most advanced weapons portfolios, and executive officer to two Air Force Vice Chiefs of Staff. Prior to joining the ICAF faculty, Colonel Gerber was the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategy Working Group at the Pentagon.
Dr. Joseph Goldberg
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
Colonel Clark Groves, USAF
Colonel Groves received his commission in 1991 at Officer Training School and has served in operational and staff positions at wing, major command, headquarters Air Force, and interagency levels. His duties have included flight line weather officer, bomber flight scheduler, space wing crew commander, technical intelligence analyst, assistant professor of physics, program manager for spacecraft technology acquisition, and public opinion research director. Colonel Groves has directed or participated in research activities with NRO, NASA, AFRL, AFIT, CIA, DARPA, ARDA, NRL, NSF, Title 3, AFOSR, JHU/APL, and multiple universities and defense industry research centers. He was a NASA principle investigator and NRO program manager on a spacecraft launch project and research initiative creating a new scientific model of the Van Allen Radiation Belts. He received his PhD is physics from Utah State University, is a distinguished graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at National Defense University, and is a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University Senior Acquisition Course. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and Midwest Association of Public Opinion Researchers.Mr. Patrick Haley
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).
Dr. Nayantara Hensel
Dr. Nayantara Hensel is Professor of Industry and Business at Industrial College of the Armed Forces. She previously served as the Chief Economist for the Department of the Navy, where she provided economic guidance on the defense industrial base, the financial health of defense contractors, commodities and strategic materials, the federal budget, interest rates, unemployment, exchange rates, and inflation as well as trends in the broader economy and in the defense sector. She was extensively involved in various aspects of the Undersecretary of Defense (AT&L)’s Better Buying Power Initiative and led several of the sub-initiatives.Dr. Hensel received her BA, MA, and Ph,D. from Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and specialized in finance and economics. She has served as the Pentagon Scholar in Residence, and has taught at Harvard University, the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU), and the US Naval Postgraduate School. In the private sector, Dr. Hensel previously served as Senior Manager and Chief Economist for Ernst & Young’s litigation advisory group, managing economist for the New York City office of the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG), and an economist in the economic consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan.
Dr. Hensel has written over 50 articles and research reports. Her recent research has focused on strategic materials and rare earth minerals, globalization and the US and EU defense industrial bases, the aerospace industry (including the USAF tanker competition), the role of defense mergers in improving weapons systems cost efficiency, efficiency in IPO auctions relative to traditional processes, the factors impacting discount rates for US Marine Corps personnel, and market structure-specific and firm-specific factors impacting economies of scale and density in European and Japanese banking sectors. She has published in journals such as the International Journal of Managerial Finance,the Review of Financial Economics,Business Economics, the European Financial Management Journal,the Journal of Financial Transformation,Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. She is on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) and the National Economists Club (NEC). Dr. Hensel is one of 34 elected members to NBEIC, which is a group composed of the top corporate economists in the US, and is a member of the Harvard Industrial Economists Group and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Industry Roundtable. Dr. Hensel has given seminars at a number of institutions and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg Radio, and CNNMoney.
Mr. Damion Higbie
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.
Mr. David L. King, COL. (ret.) Canada
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 Kathleen Lynn Knapp, USA
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
Dr. William A. Knowlton, Jr.
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.
Functional Experience:Leadership - Organizational Psychology - Military History - Health Care
Regional Expertise: No specific areas - Some Experience in SE Asia.
Mr. Feza S. Koprucu, USN (ret), DHS Chair
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). He is currently conducting his doctorate work at Georgetown University.
During his time at the Industrial College, Mr. Koprucu has served as Deputy Director, Department of National Security Studies (DNSS); Director, Regional Security Studies (RSS) program; and Faculty Lead, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry study, while also teaching executive-level courses in homeland security and national security studies. Mr. Koprucu also instituted and led ICAF’s Language and Culture program which has become an integral part of the colleges curriculum. He has developed and led field studies groups to El Paso, TX over many years to examine the interagency processes and challenges inherent in border security. He has also led ICT industry study groups to visit government and business organizations in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Mr. Koprucu was awarded the 2010 ICAF Outstanding Achievement in Service Award for his leadership and contributions in a variety of academic pursuits.
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). He was concurrently the Director of IT Business Planning in the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). His experience at DHS encompasses the areas of Cybersecurity, Emergency Preparedness, Infrastructure Protection, 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 initial implementation of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). He also helped pioneer Navy efforts and processes for change management in transitioning to an outsourced service model. 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. His command won the US Atlantic Fleet 2003 Personnel Retention Award in recognition of superior command climate and excellent personnel morale. 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).
Functional Expertise:
Homeland Security – Interagency Coordination – Cross Cultural
Awareness - US Foreign Policy – Border Security and Narco-violence
– Information and Communications Technology
Regional Expertise:
Turkey – Middle East – China - Canada
Dr. Steven Philip Kramer
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
Mr. William Kurtz, FBI Chair
William “Bill” Kurtz entered on duty with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1990. His first assignment was the FBI Los Angeles Field Office where he worked on a joint FBI-Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) anti-gang taskforce. After a tour at FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) in the Counterterrorism (CT) Division, Mr. Kurtz was assigned to the FBI Phoenix Field Office, as supervisor of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). He was then again assigned to FBIHQ as the founding chief of the CT Investigative Unit’s ‘Fly Team’ where he led multiagency efforts to various world locations during high-profile investigations. During the course of his career, Mr. Kurtz also served as Chief of the National JTTF, an entity comprised of over 40 different agencies, and as a member of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), the lead domestic law enforcement CT tactical unit.Mr. Kurtz is currently pursuing a doctorate degree from The George Washington University (GWU) where his research interests are in storytelling and identity formation. He holds a Master’s degree from The Marine Corps War College in Strategic Studies and a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). His undergraduate degree in Business Administration is from the University of Vermont (UVM).
Dr. Irene Kyriakopoulos
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. Christina L. Lafferty, USAF (Ret.)
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:
Cognitive Neuroscience
Mr. Michael G. Lawrence, NSA Chair
Mr. Lawrence joined the University Faculty in 2008. Mr. Lawrence is the highest ranking Intelligence Officer at the University. In June of 2007 Mr. Lawrence was awarded the “Director’s Distinguished Service Medal,” in recognition of his exceptional distinguished service, unsurpassed leadership, and support to the National Security Agency’s mission. In July of 2008, Mr. Lawrence was awarded the “National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Medal of Distinguished Service” for his lasting and critical contributions to the mission of the NRO. Mr. Lawrence brings a wealth of leadership experience to the Strategic Leadership Department, where he teaches the core course on Strategic Leadership. Mr. Lawrence also teaches an extremely popular course on “Executive Communications for Strategic Leaders”. Mr. Lawrence was co-faculty lead on two Regional Security Studies, Europe and Central Asia. He also was a faculty lead on the Media Industry Study and the Space Industry Study. Mr. Lawrence serves as a mentor to the International Fellows and has co-led new faculty development for the last two years.
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.
B.A. in Criminal Justice with honors, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mr. Lawrence also attended law school in Michigan.
Dr. Andrew Leith
Andrew Leith has been a member of the ICAF faculty since July 2005 and teaches economics and leads one of the College’s capstone Industry Study programs focusing on stabilization and reconstruction. Relevant experience includes operational deployments with the Australian Army as a United Nations Military Observer on the Iran-Iraq Cease Fire Line in 1989 and as a Military Liaison Officer on the Headquarters of the International Force in East Timor in 1999. From 2000 to 2002 Andrew Leith was employed by the United Nations as the civilian Deputy Head of the Division of Trade and Investment for the Transitional Administration in East Timor and from July 2010 to June 2011 resided in the Solomon Islands where facilitated research on behalf of the Australian Government’s Asia Pacific Civil Military Centre of Excellence focusing on the lessons learned by the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands.
Functional Experience:
Reconstruction & Stabilization in Post Conflict Countries - Private
Sector Development in Fragile and Conflict Affected States.
Regional Expertise:
South Pacific (Australia / Timor Leste / Solomon Islands)
Mr. James Lepse, USN (Ret.)
Jim Lepse initially joined the ICAF faculty in July 2006. He teaches Military Strategy and Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and Industry Studies. After serving 27 years as a Supply Corps officer, he retired from the U.S. Navy in August 2008. While on active duty, he served in numerous assignments, including joint duty at the Defense Logistics Agency and Joint Staff (J-4). A qualified Surface Warfare Officer, he served aboard four U.S. Navy ships and made deployments to the Mediterranean, Arabian Gulf, and Western Pacific areas. He is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps and Level III certified in both Program Management and Information Technology. Besides graduating from ICAF, he graduated from Saint Olaf College (BA, Economics), the Ohio State University (MBA, Logistics and Marketing), and the University of Southern California (MS, Systems Management). Mr. Lepse has also completed executive education programs at the Harvard Business School, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate (Ph.D.) at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).Functional Experience:
Logistics - Supply Chain Management – Business Analysis and Information
Systems – Financial Management – Acquisition Program Management
Regional Expertise:
China - South Asia - South East Asia
Dr. Scott A. Loomer, Colonel, USA (Ret.), P.E., NGA Chair
Dr. Loomer joined the ICAF faculty in 2006 as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Faculty Chair. Dr. Loomer is a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (DISL). He was a 1997 ICAF graduate. Dr. Loomer was a career Army officer, retiring after 27 years of service in 2001. As a Corps of Engineers officer, he served in a variety of assignments most of which involved topographic engineering including Digital Data Branch Chief, Cruise Missile Support Activity, USPACOM; US Army Pacific Theater Mapping, Charting and Geodesy Staff Officer; and Professor of Geospatial Information Science and Deputy Head, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, US Military Academy, West Point. Dr. Loomer joined NGA (then the National Imagery and Mapping Agency—NIMA) in 2001 as the Senior Scientist for Geospatial Science. He led NGA’s Academic Research Program which annually funds basic research grants at US academic institutions. Dr. Loomer has BS and MS degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Geography from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and an MS degree in National Resource Strategy from ICAF. He is a registered professional engineer in Wisconsin.
Functional Expertise:
Geospatial Intelligence - Remote Sensing - Photogrammetry - Image
Interpretation - Geographic Information Systems - Geodesy
Regional Expertise:
Southeast Asia - Latin America
Dr. Donald L. Losman
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
Dr. Sorin Lungu joined ICAF/NDU in October 2006 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military Strategy and Logistics. He is the lead of the Aircraft Industry Study program and directs the Long-Term Strategy electives concentration (where he teaches courses in net assessment, strategic planning, and crisis management and analytical frameworks in JLASS). He also lectures 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 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 was a fellow in MIT's Seminar XXI program (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 - Defense and Aerospace
Industry Analysis - Risk Assessment, Strategic Planning, Crisis
Management - 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
Colonel Doug McCarthy, Canadian Forces
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. He was promoted to his current rank in 2006 and joined the ICAF faculty in 2009, where he teaches Economics, Regional Security Studies Canada and Private Sector Support to Operations Industry Studies.
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. Mark A. McGuire, USA (Ret.)
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. Earned a Masters in Industrial Organization at the University of Washington and his doctorate degree in Higher Education Administration at The George Washington University.
Functional Expertise:
Worked with joint and coalition forces
Interested in leadership and senior level leader development
Regional Expertise:
Served 1 tour in Germany
Served 2 tours in the Republic of Korea
Captain John G. Meier III, SC, USN
Captain John Meier joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Acquisition and assumed responsibilities as the Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs in June 2011. In addition to teaching the Acquisition core curriculum and Senior Acquisition Course (SAC) electives, he has led the Electronics Industry Study.
An active duty Navy Supply Corps Officer with over 25 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
Dr. Mark Montroll
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
Ms. Colleen (Kelly) Morris, DLA Chair
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
Dr. Kenneth Moss
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
Dr. Paul M. Needham
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
Mr. Gustav Otto, DIA
I'm the first Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Chair at ICAF, and arrived in July of this year. will be working to shape the roles of the chair over the next few years. I hope to improve both faculty and student understanding of what DIA does and what it means to National Security. I'm also assigned to be one of the Afghanistan Pakistan faculty leaders, with two tours in Afghanistan I hope I can put a practioner's perspective in the Regional Security Studies (RSS) in the Spring Semester.I'm a career intelligence officer, first as a USAF Officer, and for the last six years as a DIA Civilian. My specialty and profession is Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and Counterintelligence (CI). My career presented me unique insights into conflict around the world, resulting in eight deployments -- I returned from my most recent to Kandahar in March 2010. I hope to explain and demystify what DIA, HUMINT and CI are, so please ask.
In addition to many deployments, I was stationed around the U.S. and Japan. My deployments included two to the Middle East, four to the Balkans, and two to Afghanistan.
Before entering government service I worked for 6-plus years in the entertainment industry and almost four years as a staff member at the University of Cincinnati.
Captain Tony Partridge, Royal Australian Navy
Captain Partridge is a Combat Systems engineer in the Australian Navy and recently completed the International Fellow’s program at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) graduating as a Distinguished Graduate. Holding a bachelor degree in electronic engineering, Tony joined the Navy in 1989 having grown up on the beach in Australia’s tropical north east. In his 22 year career, Tony has spent 13 years at sea with five tours of duty to Iraq. Tony served with the USN on exchange in 1999/2000 in Washington DC, working in the NAVSEA organization as a combat systems design and test engineer. In addition to his acquisition and sustainment experience, Tony was responsible for developing the Australian Navy’s five and 25 year strategic plans in Navy Headquarters. In what proved to be his most rewarding role, Tony became qualified as an Executive Coach, where he created and introduced an Officer’s development and leadership programs. Prior to joining ICAF, Tony served as the Surface Combatant Commander followed by his role as the Navy Fleet’s Chief Engineer.Richard J. Prevost, Esq., Colonel, USAR
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
Colonel Shahnaz M. Punjani, USAF
Colonel Shahnaz Punjani joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 2010 as Assistant Professor of Acquisition. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylania State University at University Park, Pennsylvania (1991), a Masters of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (1995), and a Master of Science degree from the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama (2006). She is also a graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School's Flight Test Engineer Course (1999).Colonel Punjani is a career acquisition officer with assignments at the research laboratory, flight test center, program office, and Air Staff levels. Her most recent program management experience includes command of the Space Test Operations Squadron at Kirtland AFB, NM. In this position, she was responsible for the test and evaluation programs for demonstration satellites and launch system telemetry relay. Her other experience includes chemical defense systems; hypersonic propulsion technology; weapons systems flight test; and science and technology budget. Col Punjani is Level III certified in Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering, Test and Evaluation, and Program Management.
Functional Expertise:Acquisition - Systems Engineering - Program Management - Space - Hypersonics - Propulsion - Test and Evaluation
Dr. Stephen Randolph, Colonel, USAF (Ret.)
Now serving as the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Programs, Dr. Randolph arrived at ICAF in 1997. Since his arrival he has served as the Air Force Chair and as Department Chairman for the Department of Grand Strategy and the Department of Military Strategy and Logistics, and he has directed both the Space and the Agribusiness Industry Studies. He was recognized as the ICAF Educator of the Year in 2009 and for Outstanding Research Contributions in 2007.While on active duty, Dr. Randolph served in the Air Force from 1974 to 2001, flying F-4s and F-15s. He also served on the Joint Staff from 1993-1995 as director of NATO and European Policy, as then as the Special Assistant to the Assistant to the CJCS. Subsequently he directed the Secretary of the Air Force Staff Group for two years.
Dr. Randolph graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1974 as a Distinguished Graduate. He completed a master’s program in the History of Science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1975 and a doctorate in history from The George Washington University in 2005.
In 2007, he published Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive with Harvard University Press. He is now working on a follow-on study of Nixon as war president.
Functional Expertise:Space policy and industry - Military Strategy and Policy - Air Operations - Military History – Interagency Processes and Strategic Decision Making – Vietnam War
Geographic Expertise:
Central and Eastern Europe (has instructed regional study courses
in each area) - Professional experience in US-European Relations
and European Defense Policy
Mr. Anthony F. Romano, USAF (Ret.), DAU Chair
Mr. Romano currently holds the DAU Chair at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and serves concurrently as the Associate Dean, Outreach and Mission Assistance, Defense Systems Management College - School of Program Managers (DSMC-SPM). In his position as the DAU Chair, he represents DAU as a member of the ICAF Acquisition Department faculty, teaching a core course in Acquisition, two Senior Acquisition Course electives (including PMT-401), and serves as a member of the Land Combat Industry Study faculty team.After concluding a 28 year career in the United States Air Force, Mr. Romano joined the DAU faculty and PMT-401 team in January 2007 as a Professor of Acquisition Management. In October 2008 he was selected as an Associate Dean responsible for leading DSMC’s mission assistance efforts and executive overview training for senior military and civilian defense leaders, all designed to provide real time support and rapidly deliver program, technical and business solutions to the defense Acquisition Technology and Logistics (AT&L) workforce. He is a career acquirer with extensive experience at the program office, major command, and Air Staff levels. Commissioned in 1978, he entered active duty as an Acquisition Project Officer at Electronic Systems Center, working strategic communications programs. Following an operational tour as a Minuteman II ICBM crew commander, evaluator and senior evaluator, he served as a Systems Officer for both Peacekeeper in Minuteman Silos and Small ICBM, and later as the ICBM Systems Division Chief at HQ Air Force Systems Command. Subsequent assignments include Program Manager for the ACAT 1C AWACS Radar System Improvement Program; Deputy Division Chief for Airborne Radar and Ground C2 Systems, and then Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), Pentagon; Director of Plans and Programs, and then Director of Operations, Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, and finally as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Chair and Professor of Acquisition, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. He is Level III certified in Program Management and a graduate of both the DAU Program Manager’s Course (91-1) and PMT-401 (07-1).
A native of Boston Massachusetts, Mr. Romano holds a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, an MBA from the University of South Dakota, and an MS in National Security Resource Strategy from the National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Class of 2000.
Functional Expertise:
Weapon System Acquisition - Program Management – The Congress
Dr. Tim Russo
Dr. Russo joined the ICAF faculty in June 2006, and is now an Associate Professor in the Economics Department. 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 Stony Brook University 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 universities in North Dakota, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, DC. He has taught microeconomics, macroeconomics, corporate finance, law and economics, and game theory.
Dr. Russo’s teaching experience ranges from community colleges to public and private 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 David A. Schnell, USN, USN Chair
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, Ph.D.
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, USAF
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, USA
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
Ms. Martha Erin Soto, USAID
As a first year faculty member, Ms. Soto brings over 25 years of development and leadership experience to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and serves in the Strategic Leadership Department and the South Asia Regional Security Studies program. Her overseas experience includes six countries in West Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Since 2006 she served as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director in Cambodia and more recently in India. In these positions she was a member of the Country Team and responsible for the U.S. foreign assistance strategy, programs and staff. She led programs in HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, human rights, political party development, environment, economic growth, basic education, anti-corruption, energy, and local government among other programs. Over the course of her career, Soto held various positions with USAID, including Director of a counter narcotics program in Peru; a Democracy Officer in Haiti and Mali, the Latin America Coordinator and strategist for the Democracy Center. Prior to joining USAID, Ms. Soto served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala She has won numerous awards including three Meritorious Honor, three Special Act, and four Superior Honor Awards. A native of Indiana, Soto received her undergraduate degree in education from the University of Wisconsin and a Master’s degree in public administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Functional Expertise:
Democracy and Governance, Behavior Change Communication
Regional Expertise:
India, Southeast Asia, Haiti, Latin America
Colonel Ken Stefanek, USAF
A native of Cleveland, Colonel Stefanek graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1984. He flew F-16s operationally in Europe, Northwest Asia, and in the U.S. and completed over 50 combat missions during Operation DESERT STORM. Colonel Stefanek also completed two tours as an Operational Test and Evaluation pilot and is a graduate of the USAF's Fighter Weapons School, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the College of Naval Warfare. Colonel Stefanek's staff assignments include tours at Air Combat Command as the Chief of F-16 modernization, at the Joint Staff as a Strategic Planner and Executive Assistant, and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy as a Senior Military Assistant. He also commanded the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron and was the 39th Air Base Wing Vice Commander. Before joining the faculty at ICAF, Colonel Stefanek served as a senior advisor on NATO nuclear policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy). Functional Expertise:
Air-to-Ground and Air-to-Air Weapons - Air Combat - fighter operations
and support - Operational Test and Evaluation - Nuclear policy
Regional Expertise:
Europe
COL Thomas Steffens, USA
Colonel Tom Steffens was commissioned a Finance Officer in 1985 as a Distinguished Military Graduate of Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting. He has also earned an MBA from Syracuse University in 1993 and a Masters Degree in National Security Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. Throughout his Military career, he has provided Financial Management support to virtually every level of the Army and Department of DefenseColonel Steffens' most recent assignment was that of Executive Officer to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASA-FM&C) where he devoted attention to a number of senior leader Army initiatives to include developing a cost culture for the leadership as well as supporting the efforts to develop auditable financial statements. While in his most recent tour at the Pentagon, he also served as Chief of Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) Integration where he linked the Financial Community’s efforts with that of the requirements and program sponsors to ultimately build and defend the annual President’s Budget as it pertains to Department of the Army.
Colonel Steffens’ other operational assignments included Comptroller for the United States Army European Command (USEUCOM) from 2007-2009; Commander of 9th Finance Battalion at Ft Lewis, WA and Balad, Iraq 2003-2006; Chief of the Financial Management Branch, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001-2003; and various other command and staff positions. Colonel Steffens has been a Certified Defense Financial Manager since 2002.
Dr. Paul Sullivan
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 and Science, Technology and International Affairs at Georgetown University, where he teaches classes on global energy and security, energy security in the Middle East, and natural resources and conflict in Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Sullivan was the Vice President, Programs, for the United Nations Association, National Capitol Area, where he was a strategic leader and adviser for the many programs and committees run by UNA-NCA during June 2010 to June 2011. He was an adviser to the Sudan project at the United States Institute of Peace for March 2009-July 2010.
He was Senior Fellow at the East West Institute (EWI) during 2007. Dr. Sullivan has also been involved in the energy work at the UNCTAD with a focus on Africa. He has advised senior US officials on many issues at a high level. He is regularly invited to very high level conferences, such as the Global Creative Leadership Summit and energy and environment conferences in the EU, China and more. For six years before his time at NDU, Dr. Sullivan was at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where he taught classes and did research on the economics, economic history, and political economy of the Middle East. He was also a columnist for the Middle East Times and on the editorial board of the Cairo Papers in Social Science while in Cairo.
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 was a visiting scholar at Cambridge twice.
He has published extensively on the economics of war and peace, the political economy of oil and gas, energy security, water security, resources and development, piracy, US-Islamic and US-Arab relations, US-Iran relations, Iraq, extremism, the economy of Egypt, the Egyptian military, labor markets in Egypt, Sudan, energy in Libya, security implications of Middle East economies, water stress and conflict in South Asia and China, the US economy, the future of energy, oil and gas markets, Pakistan, Afghanistan, African energy issues, US national security, energy and environment connections, energy in future cities, potential water conflicts in the MENA region, and more. He has published in venues as widely diverse as The Arab Studies Quarterly, The New Republic, World Policy Journal, The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, The Jordan Journal of International Affairs, ABC-CLIO, The United States Institute of Peace, The International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Affairs, Middle East Online, UPI, The Middle East Times, The Daily Star (Beirut), Daily News (Egypt), The Independent Institute, Ashgate (book chapter), Routledge (Encyclopedia Chapter Forthcoming), Cairo Papers in Social Science, Comment Visions (EuroNews), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The U.S. Congress (testimony on Canadian Oil), Oil and Gas Journal, Circle of Blue, History News Network, The Review of International Affairs, Review of Middle East Economics, Business Monthly (Egypt), El Wekelah (Egypt), Al Jadid, The National Review, The National Journal, Middle Easy Insight, The Middle East Times, The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, Al Arabiya, Middle East Policy, The Energy Journal, The Independent Institute, MEES, MEED, Oil and Gas North Africa, The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, the East West Institute, The U.S. Congress, MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, and many more. He has also been part of numerous working groups on Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Tigris-Euphrates issues, Sudan, etc at the Atlantic Council of the United States, PILPG, and others. He is a regular contributor on the expert blogs for energy and national security for The National Journal. He writes a column on issues related to the Middle East, global economic issues, international trade, and many other subjects for the major Turkish newspaper, Turkiye Gazetesi.
Publications can be sent out on request.
In the summer of 2008, he was 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 to high-level audiences in Jordan. In the summer of 2010 he was 8 weeks in Egypt meeting with senior military, diplomatic, political and business leaders. He also met with some senior UN people and leadership at the GCSP in Geneva. Dr. Sullivan has also led delegations of senior officials on international field studies to various parts of the world as part of his NDU duties.
He has been quoted on issues related to energy security, the Middle East, extremism, water security, international economic development and more in the media of 5 continents. He has been interviewed and has been on panels on these and other subjects via many TV and radio media including VOA, VOA-Turkish, Al-Hurra, Nile TV, NHK-TV (Japan), NPR, PRI, CNN, CBC, BBC, CBS, Stern (Germany), Veja (Brazil), Epoca (Brazil), Radio Australia, Deusche Welle, Die Zeit, Die Welt, Le Point, The Middle East Times, The Egyptian Gazette, Daily News Egypt, The Jordan Times, The Daily Star, The Straits Times, The Daily Mail, Bloomberg, Colombian National Radio, Semana (Colombia), Politico, Zee News (India), USA Today, Al Jazeera, Time Magazine, The New York Times, the LA Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Toronto Star, C-Span, Oregon Public Radio, Fox News, ABC(Australia),and many more. Most recently he has appeared in the press in China (water issues), Azerbaijan (energy and security issues and issues regarding Iran) and globally on issues related to the uprisings and revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East.
He has given well over 200 public lectures and is an adviser to senior officials and others. He has been a major contributor to the Global Creative Leadership Summit for the last 2 years. Dr. Sullivan recently briefed U.S. Senate staffers on issues related to the situation in the Middle East and energy issues. He was also recently part of a documentary on the state of the energy industry. Dr. Sullivan was part of a 45 minute discussion on C-span, a 1 hour discussion, and in various radio and other interviews on Libya and US-Libya relations. He also recently testified before Congress on a vital energy security issue. He regularly briefs staffers on The Hill and others on various issues related to the Middle East. He also was part of a very high-level discussion on US-China issues at the Aspen Washington Ideas Forum. He is also leading an effort to advise and aid a GCC country on an important educational mission. He recently gave a talk to about 500 policy makers at a conference on US-Arab relations.
Dr. Sullivan is part of the Global Expert list at the Alliance of Civilizations and is a regular contributor to the National Journal Experts Blogs for "Energy and Environment" and "National Security". He has been a part of the group International Network for Economics and Conflict run by USIP. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, The American Geological Association, the Yale Club of Washington, the US Squash Association and Chatham House.
He obtained his BA, Summa Cum Laude, from Brandeis University and has Ph.D. (with highest honors), M.Phil and MA from Yale University. He also is a graduate of the Seminar XXI program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr Sullivan lived for 6 years in Egypt, has been involved with the region for close to 20 years, and has traveled extensively within it. He also has work experience (either leading delegations or doing research) in South Asia, the EU, Turkey, the GCC, North Africa and the Levant, Tanzania, Kenya, Norway, and Australia.
He is an internationally recognized expert on energy security, energy markets, international security issues related to resources (energy, water, land, and non-energy minerals), international economic development (or lack of it), and Middle East and North African economic, political and military issues and more. He is also an expert on US-Canadian energy relations, the US economy, and US energy security. He is also a sought after expert on strategic thinking on a wide variety of economic, political, and technical issues. He is known for his discretion and effectiveness as a member of Track II meetings and other high level efforts.
Education- MIT, Seminar XXI
- Yale, Ph.D. (Highest Honors), Economics, M.Phil, Economics of Development
- Brandeis (Summa Cum Laude and Junior Phi Beta Kappa), Economics
Specialties:
Economics and Politics of the Middle East and various parts of
Africa, International Energy Security, Energy-Water-Land-Food
Security Nexus, Piracy, Terrorism and Trade Security (Political-Economic-International
Relations sides), Resources and Conflict (Esp. in the Middle East
and Africa), Islamic Societies/ Arab Cultural Issues, US-Arab
and US-Islamic Relations, International Economic Relations
Captain Chandler Swallow, USN
Captain Chan Swallow grew up in the Carolinas before attending Tulane University in New Orleans. Graduating in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, he served as Battalion Commander and received his commission through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps. As a Division Officer in the Engineering Departments of the nuclear cruisers VIRGINIA and BAINBRIDGE, he deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and circumnavigated South America while completing his Surface Warfare Officer and Nuclear Engineer Officer qualifications. As the Operations Officer on the destroyer ELLIOT and the Reactor Mechanical Assistant on the aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE, he deployed once to the Mediterranean Sea and three times to the Arabian Gulf in support of United Nations sanctions against Iraq. In May of 1998, he reported to the guided missile Frigate ELROD as Executive Officer and deployed to the Mediterranean Sea supporting the war in Kosovo. In February, 2000, he reported to the Arabian Gulf as the Chief Staff Officer of Destroyer Squadron FIFTY. While serving in the Arabian Gulf, he embarked USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON and USS HARRY S. TRUMAN supporting United Nations sanctions against Iraq. In October, 2000, following the terrorist attack on USS COLE, he emergency deployed to Aden, Yemen as the Chief Of Staff for Joint Task Force DETERMINED RESPONSE. In March of 2003, Captain Swallow assumed command of the guided missile Frigate NICHOLAS and deployed to the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Sea supporting Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.From September 2004 to January 2007 he served as the Current Operations Officer at SEVENTH Fleet, home ported in Yokosuka, Japan, executing tsunami relief and earthquake relief; North Korean missile firings response and execution of the Global War on Terror in South East Asia.
Ashore, Captain Swallow served as the Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, helping to shape defense policy in Europe, Africa, Russia, Eurasia and the Middle East from 2008-2010; earned his Master of Art in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in 2008; his Master of Science Degree in Operations Analysis from the Naval Post Graduate School in 1993; and served on the staff of Naval Surface Forces Atlantic as section head for Officer Affairs.
Dr. Lynne C. Thompson, USAF (Ret.)
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
Colonel Mark Vaitkus, USA, Ph.D.
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
Professor Jeanne K. Vargo, CAPT, USN (Ret.)
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
Mr. Bradley Wallach, USAID
Brad Wallach is a Senior Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has served overseas in Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, West Bank & Gaza, Morocco and Croatia.
A Distinguished Academic Graduate of ICAF (2002), Mr. Wallach also holds graduate degrees from the European Institute for Business Administration (INSEAD) and UCLA.
From 2007-2010, Mr. Wallach served as Director of the Office of Sudan Programs in USAID/Washington. In that capacity he directed and coordinated the largest on-going humanitarian programs in the world and the largest USAID development program in Africa. Mr. Wallach has represented USAID at Interagency Policy Committee meetings at the National Security Council and at senior coordination meetings at State Department and on the Hill.
Colonel Kelly Ward, PhD, USA
COL Kelly Ward joined the ICAF Economics Department in July 2011 after serving as the Chief of Business Operations, Army Office of Business Transformation, Office of the Under Secretary of the Army. COL Ward was an Academy Professor of Systems Engineering and Acquisition Systems Management at the United States Military Academy from 2007-2010. An Armor (Operations) officer, he has had a variety of field assignments in the Second and Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiments, as well as the 4th Infantry Division. COL Ward’s overseas assignments include Germany (1989-1992), Kuwait (1991), and Iraq (2003).Colonel Ward is a native of King Ferry, NY, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1988. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College (USMA Fellow). His civilian education includes a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, and a PhD (Applied Economics) from The Pennsylvania State University. He is also a graduate of the Executive Education Training Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina.
Functional Expertise:
Environmental Economics - Leadership and Management - Systems
Acquisition Management
Research Interests:
Behavioral and Environmental Economics - Entrepreneurial/Expeditionary
Economics - Bureaucratic Incentives and Stewardship
Dr. Seth Weissman, Ph.D.
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
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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