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Brian Green is a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Missile Defense Project . Prior to his current position, he was the founder and principal at Impact Strategies , a national security consulting firm, and served as Executive Director of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Washington Operations Office , with planning and execution responsibilities for the company’...

Carl Rhodes Ph. D. is the founder of Robust Policy , a Canberra-based business that provides evidence-based analysis on defense topics. Carl worked at RAND Corporation from 1997-2021, including four years as director of RAND Australia . Prior to moving to Australia, Carl spent twenty years as a researcher and manager in RAND’s Project AIR FORCE . His research portfolio has covered topics including...

Wendy Baca started her career in 1987 with the Department of Energy in what was then known as the Albuquerque Operations Office . She was hired to fill the W87-1 Small Inter-continental Ballistic Missile (SICBM) Program Engineer position where one of her first tasks was to issue the Phase 3, Development Engineering, authorization to the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex . Although the program was cancel...

Brad is an accomplished senior leader who enjoys a reputation for original thinking and strategic acumen coupled with an affirmative leadership approach. He holds a doctorate from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of the National War College . Most recently Brad served as the Army’s longest-tenured Senior Strategist and Chief of Plans , Brad exercised wide-ranging and global responsibilities...

Juan Vitali is the Assistant Director Nuclear Energy Innovation at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House. Previously, he was the Army’s Nuclear Engineer and Chief of the Nuclear Power Branch where he led a team of engineers to shape conditions for the adoption of nuclear power by the Army. He was the chief concept architect for the development of mobile nuclear power plant f...

Major Frank W. Perry, Jr. is the Chief, Helicopter Operations Division , Twentieth Air Force . In this position Major Perry advises the Commander, Twentieth Air Force on operational and administrative issues for the Air Force’s sole Helicopter Group . He leads planning, coordination, and Operational Plan support for three operational helicopter squadrons, integrating USSTRATCOM and USNORTHCOM miss...

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Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) , where he arrived in 2014. His research focuses on national security, missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and public law. In 2010–2011, he was an American Political Science Association congressional fellow, working w...

Ambassador Eric S. Edelman is Counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He retired as a career minister from the U.S. Foreign Service on May 1, 2009. He has served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well as the White House , where he led organizations providing analysis, strategy, policy development, security services, trade advocacy, public outre...

David Campbell is the Executive Vice President, EnergySolutions and previously served as the Associate Administrator, Office of Congressional, Intergovernmental & Public Affairs at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). As the Executive Vice President at EnergySolutions , Mr. Campbell is responsible for all aspects of business development and implementing the company’s growt...

Dr. Carl Rehberg is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Carl was founder and director of the Headquarters Air Force Asia-Pacific Cell, which played a pivotal role in the development of Air Force strategy, force development, planning, analysis and warfighting concepts supporting initiatives related to Asia-Pacific and the DoD Third Offset Strategy . C...

Dr. Lani Kass is Strategic Advisor for Cyber Reliant Corporation , focused on advancing Cyber Reliant’s National Security & Justice presence and stature in the U.S. national security sector, as well as enhancing and expanding key client and industry relationships. From December 2011 to January 2021, Dr. Kass served the CEO and Executive Chairman of the Board at CACI , as the Senior Vice Presid...

Michael R. Shoults, a member of the Senior Executive Service , is the Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, Headquarters U.S. Air Force , the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Shoults assists in the oversight of the Air Force’s Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction efforts, Nuclear Command Control and Communication portfolio...

David S. Jonas is a partner at the law firm of Fluet, Huber & Hoang (FH+H) . His practice includes corporate transactions, employment law, government contracts, trial and appellate litigation, international law, administrative/regulatory compliance and investigations. He has extensive experience in national security issues and is recognized as one of a handful of experts worldwide in nuclear n...

Pete Newell is a nationally recognized innovation expert whose work is transforming how the government and other large organizations compete and drive growth. A retired Army Colonel and former director of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force , he is the CEO of BMNT Inc ., an internationally recognized innovation consultancy and early-stage enterprise accelerator that helps solve some of the hardest re...

Paul J. Saunders was previously Executive Director of the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI) and remains a member of the Center’s Board of Directors and a Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at CFTNI . He was the Center’s Chief Operating Officer and directed its U.S. - Russian Relations Program in addition to leading projects on other issues, including energy and climate change and U.S.-Jap...

Daniel B. Poneman is president and chief executive officer of Centrus Energy Corp . He also serves on the company’s board of directors. From 2009 to 2014, Mr. Poneman was the Deputy Secretary of Energy , also serving as the chief operating officer of the U.S. Department of Energy . His responsibilities spanned the range of U.S. energy policies and programs – hydrocarbons, renewables, nuclear, and...

Dr. Roehrig is Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College . In addition, he is an adjunct professor at the Harvard University Extension School and a non-resident expert with the Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia University . He was a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University and a past President of the Association of Korean Political Studies ....

The Honorable Robert R. Hood served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs at the Pentagon . In this role, he supported the Secretary of Defense and the Department's other senior leaders by promoting the policies, strategies, and budget of the Department of Defense (DOD) to the United States Congress. Prior to being confirmed as an Assistant Secretary , Rob served as the Vic...

LT COLONEL RAYMUNDO M. VANN JR. is the Deputy Commander of the 90th Operations Group at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) , Wyoming. The group he serves operates fifteen Missile Alert Facilities and one hundred and fifty Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), a third of the nation’s ICBM nuclear alert force, which stand on alert and are constantly ready to launch at the direction of the...

The Honorable Franklin Miller is a principal at the Scowcroft Group . He dealt extensively with nuclear policy and nuclear arms control issues during his 31-year government career, which included senior positions in the Defense Department and on the NSC staff . He was directly in charge of US nuclear deterrence and targeting policy from 1985 to 2001 and also chaired NATO ’s senior nuclear policy c...

Greg’s 36-year military career culminated as the Deputy Director of Global Operations at U.S. Strategic Command , where he was responsible for Department of Defense space activities, ballistic missile defense, cyber operations, strategic deterrence, and nuclear command and control. He was part of the executive leadership team overseeing the operations of 162,000 people, billions of dollars’ worth...

Steve Blank is an adjunct professor at Stanford and a co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Steve consults for the National Security establishment on innovation methods, processes, policies, and doctrine. His book The Four Steps to the Epiphany is credited with launching the Lean Startup movement. He created the curriculum for the National Science Foundation Innov...

Mike Guillot, Colonel, USAF, (Retired) is the former editor of Strategic Studies Quarterly , a position he held for over 11 years (2009-20). As SSQ editor, he produced the first ever special editions covering Cyber, Space, Asia-Pacific, CMR, Austere Defense, Deterrence, and Emerging Technology. During his thirty-year Air Force career, he flew five major weapons systems including the B-52H, KC-10A,...

Brigadier General John W. Weidner assumed the duties as Deputy Director, Plans and Policy, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) , on May 4, 2020. General Weidner was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1991 upon graduation from the Army ROTC program at St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. He completed a Ph. D. in medical p...