ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

STRATEGY FOR THE POST-COLD WAR ERA

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lieutenant Colonel Doug Beason (U.S. Air Force) currently serves as Chief, Livermore Detachment, where he is the liaison to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, representing the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Warfare). He has also worked for the President’s Science Advisor on the White House staff under both the Clinton and Bush adminstrations, where he was the liaison to the National Space Council and the key White House staffer for space science and technology at NASA and DOD; as an Associate Professor of Physics and Director of Faculty Research at the USAF Academy; and as a Research Advisor to the National Research Council.

Lt. Col. Beason is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he conducted research for this study. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of New Mexico. He is the author of several scientific articles and eleven novels and short works of fiction. His novel, The Trinity Paradox, was nominated for a Nebula Award, the first work of fiction to receive that honor.

DOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era

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