MR. FRANKLIN C. MILLER
Mr. Miller is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, Phi Beta Kappa, in political science from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He also earned a Master's in Public Affairs in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. After graduation from Williams, Mr. Miller entered active military duty with the US Navy. Following completion of officer training, he was designated a distinguished naval graduate at Naval Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as an ensign. He served as communications officer and later, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) officer on board the USS JOSEPH HEWES (DE-1078), with deployments in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. He earned the Surface Warfare Officer designation while aboard the HEWES. Mr. Miller transferred to the US Naval reserve in 1975 in order to pursue his graduate education. While in the reserves, he served as Assistant Weapons Officer on the USS JOHNSTON (DD-82 I -NPF), and as an Intelligence Watch Officer at the Naval Ocean Surveillance Information Center, Suitland, Maryland. After completion of his graduate program at Princeton, he joined the State Department's Politico-Military Bureau, where he worked on a variety of nuclear policy and arms control issues. In this position he was responsible for analyzing and recommending various aspects of naval support of US diplomatic initiatives. He was also a principal State Department action officer on the nuclear weapons deployment plan and various SSBN/SLBM matters. Mr. Miller transferred to the Department of Defense as an Assistant for Theater Nuclear Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In this position, he was involved in NATO's decision to modernize its long-range nuclear forces and in a wide variety of other nuclear policy issues relating to short-range, intermediate-range, and naval tactical systems. Mr. Miller was appointed as the Director, Strategic Forces Policy where he was responsible for the formulation and review of US nuclear deterrence policy and ensuring that US strategic force capabilities and nuclear targeting plans were consistent with national policy objectives. Mr. Miller was promoted Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy. He directed the formulation of DOD policy with respect to strategic offensive forces and strategic targeting theater nuclear forces and arms control, and strategic nuclear arms control. Mr. Miller made major contributions to the START I and START II treaties, to the September 1991 Presidential Nuclear Initiative and to changes in NATO's nuclear posture. He led the Department of Defense's 1989-1991 overhaul of the nuclear planning process and of the US nuclear contingency plan (SIOP). He was promoted to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Policy). Mr. Miller became the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. As Acting Assistant Secretary, he directed the Department of Defense policy for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; US-UK nuclear deterrent cooperation, US nuclear weapons, nuclear forces and targeting; arms control; and interaction between the Department of Defense and its counterparts in the former Soviet Union.