Speakers
WILLIAM C. GREENWALT
Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Lockheed Martin Corporation
Bill Greenwalt is the Director, Federal Acquisition Policy in Lockheed Martin Corporation's Washington Operations office. He is responsible for developing and implementing the Corporation's strategy with respect to government acquisition policy matters and manages and coordinates all Lockheed Martin interactions on these issues with the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. government.
Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Mr. Greenwalt was the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Industrial Policy in the U.S. Department of Defense from March 2006 to January 2009. He was the principal advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) on all matters relating to the defense industrial base including foreign direct investment (CFIUS) and mergers and acquisitions reviews. Mr. Greenwalt also served as the co-chair of the Senior Steering Working Group on Foreign Disclosure and Technology Transfer and was a leading participant in the defense cooperation treaty negotiations between the U.S and the United Kingdom and Australia.
Before his appointment at the DOD, Mr. Greenwalt was a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (Senator John Warner, Chairman) from March 1999 until March 2006 and was responsible for defense acquisition policy, industrial base, export control, and management reform issues. In addition, from January 2004, he served as deputy to the staff director and provided oversight and management direction of the committee's legislative activities. He was also the lead staff member for the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support and the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
Previously, he served on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (Senator Fred Thompson, Chairman) as a Professional Staff Member responsible for federal management issues and committee press relations. He also served as a staff member for the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management (Senator William Cohen, Chairman) where he was responsible for legislative efforts to reform federal information technology acquisition culminating in the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. Prior to coming to the U.S. Senate in 1994, he worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Frankfurt, Germany and served as an evaluator with the U.S. General Accounting Office in Los Angeles, California where he specialized in defense acquisition issues.
Mr. Greenwalt graduated from California State University at Long Beach in 1982 with a degree in political science and economics and received his M.A. in defense and security studies from the University of Southern California in 1989. He is married to Paula Mathews and they live with their son, Geoffrey, and daughter Jenna, in Arlington, Virginia.
DR. LOREN B. THOMPSON
Chief Operating Officer
Loren B. Thompson is Chief Operating Officer of the non-profit Lexington Institute and Chief Executive Officer of Source Associates, a for-profit consultancy. Prior to holding his present positions, he was Deputy Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and taught graduate-level courses in strategy, technology and media affairs at Georgetown. He has also taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Mr. Thompson holds doctoral and masters degrees in government from Georgetown University and a bachelor of science degree in political science from Northeastern University. He was born in 1951 and currently resides in McLean, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts with his wife Carla and two children -- Matthew and Ariel, twins born in 1997.
PAUL RAYSON
Global Commercial Director, Jane's Information Group
Paul Rayson joined Jane's in 2006 initially heading up the Global Consultancy division and having Market Development Responsibility for North America for Jane's Products and services. In September Paul was promoted to Global Product sales Director taking on a wider responsibility for all Jane's product sales activity through a combination of Direct sales resources, Sales Agents and other channels.
Before joining Jane's Paul has held a number of senior commercial roles over 20 year career which has including a number of management board positions. Paul joined Jane's from Airclaims, a commercial aviation information and consultancy company, where he was the Managing Director of Information and Consultancy.
Nariman Behravesh
IHS Global Insight Chief Economist
Dr. Nariman Behravesh is Chief Economist and Executive Vice President for IHS Global Insight and author of the recently published book Spin-Free Economics: A No-Nonsense, Nonpartisan Guide to Today's Global Economic Debates (McGraw-Hill). Directing IHS Global Insight's entire forecasting process, he is responsible for developing the economic outlook and risk analysis for the United States, Europe, Japan, China and other emerging markets. He oversees the work of 325 professionals, located in North America, Europe and Asia, who cover economic, financial, and political developments in over 200 countries.
Behravesh and his team were designated #1 in USA Today's 2004 ranking of top economic forecasters, and in Reuters' 2004 survey of major currency exchange rate forecasters. In 2008, he was ranked #2 by USA Today. In The Wall Street Journal's annual ranking of U.S. forecasters, Behravesh was ranked #3 (out of 56) for 2006, and was the only forecaster to place in the top six for 2003, 2004 and 2006.
As IHS Global Insight's chief spokesperson, Behravesh is quoted extensively in the media on such topics as the outlook for the US and global economies, oil prices, exchange rates, the budget deficit, the trade deficit, globalization, country risk, and emerging markets crises. He is cited frequently in leading business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, Business Week, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes and U.S. News and World Report. He also regularly appears on national radio and television programs including BBC World Business Report, NBC Nightly News, CNN Headline News, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Radio, and All Things Considered and Market Place on National Public Radio.
Behravesh was the host of the PBS television series "Inside the Global Economy." He has authored numerous articles in such publications as European Affairs and Credit Week, co-authored two books-Economics U$A and Microcomputers, Corporate Planning and Decision Support Systems-and was a contributing author to a book on scenario analysis, entitled Learning From the Future. His Op-Ed pieces have also appeared in the Financial Times, Newsweek International and the London Times.
Before joining IHS Global Insight, Behravesh was chief international economist for Standard & Poor's. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Oxford Economics U.S.A., Inc. He also held a number of positions, including group senior vice president, during ten years with WEFA. Early in his career Behravesh worked at the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve. He has been covering the global economy for over 30 years.
Behravesh holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has lived in Europe and the Middle East, and is fluent in several languages. He travels extensively to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The Honorable Ike Skelton
Chairman, House Armed Services Committee
U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton (D MO) has represented Missouri's Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1977.
Missouri's Fourth Congressional District is comprised of all or portions of 25 counties stretching from Blue Springs in eastern Jackson County to Lamar, the birthplace of President Harry S. Truman. The district includes Missouri's state capital, Jefferson City, and much of the Ozark region of the state. The northernmost part of the Fourth District includes Ray County, located north of the Missouri River. The southernmost point of the district is Webster County, only 30 miles from the Arkansas border.
Skelton, a native of Lexington, is a graduate of Wentworth Military Academy and the University of Missouri at Columbia where he received A.B. and L.L.B. degrees. He was named as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Law Review. Prior to his election to Congress, Skelton served as Lafayette County Prosecuting Attorney and as a Missouri State Senator.
A leader in the House on defense issues, Skelton was appointed to the House Armed Services Committee in 1981. After serving as the Committee's Ranking Democrat from 1998 to 2006, Skelton became Chairman of the Armed Services Committee in 2007.
Skelton was instrumental in the passage of the Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Skelton chaired a House Panel on Military Education in 1987 1988 and has advocated better strategic thinking and improvements in the intermediate and senior level educational programs for the four services. A former chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Forces and Personnel, Skelton has warned against further cuts in the defense budget and focused on efforts to improve military pay, health care, and quality of life.
Skelton's district is home to Fort Leonard Wood, Whiteman Air Force Base, and the Missouri National Guard Training Center. Skelton was instrumental in bringing the U.S. Army Engineer, Chemical, and Military Police Schools to Fort Leonard Wood and in bringing the B 2 Stealth bomber to Whiteman.
As most of the Fourth Congressional District is comprised of small towns and farming communities, Skelton looks after the needs of rural America. He is a former chairman of a House Small Business Subcommittee and is past chairman of the Congressional Rural Caucus.
Skelton is an Eagle Scout, a member of Sigma Chi social fraternity, a Lions Club member, and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Skelton is an elder of the First Christian Church in Lexington. He and his late wife Susan have three sons.
S. Enders Wimbush
Senior Vice President, International Programs and Policy, Hudson Institute
S. Enders Wimbush is Senior Vice President for International Programs and Policies of Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Hudson, Mr. Wimbush spent 10 years at Booz Allen Hamilton and Science Applications International Corporation analyzing future security environments for both government and corporate clients, with special emphasis on the dynamics of nuclear proliferation, Asia's changing strategic environment, and energy competition. From 1987 to 1993, he served as Director of Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany. Mr. Wimbush directed the Society for Central Asian Studies in Oxford in the 1980s, and in the 1970s he was an analyst of Soviet affairs at the Rand Corporation. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books, numerous articles in professional and popular media, and dozens of policy studies. His ideas have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Journal of Commerce, National Interest, and others.
Mr Thomas Donnelly
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
A defense and security policy analyst, Thomas Donnelly is the coeditor, with Gary Schmitt, of Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007). Among his recent books are The Military We Need (AEI Press, 2005) and Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004). From 1995 to 1999, he was policy group director and a professional staff member for the Committee on Armed Services in the U.S. House of Representatives. Donnelly also served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a former editor of Armed Forces Journal, Army Times and Defense News.
Professional Experience
B.A., Ithaca College
Mark T. Esper, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Global Intellectual Property Center and Vice President, Europe & Eurasia Department, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Mark T. Esper is executive vice president of the Global Intellectual Property Center and vice president of the Europe & Eurasia Department at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he was a senior scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy and an independent consultant. Until February 2008, Esper served as the national policy director for the Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Campaign. Esper also served as the candidate's national security advisor.
Before joining the Thompson Campaign, Esper was executive vice president of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) of America, the premier trade organization representing the nation's aerospace and defense industry. In addition to his duties as COO, Esper was responsible for AIA's defense and international policy offices.
Esper served a number of years on Capitol Hill. His last assignment was director of National Security Affairs for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN). Earlier in his career, he was policy director for the House Armed Services Committee and a senior professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. In each of these positions, he was responsible for a national security portfolio that included a wide variety of foreign policy, trade, intelligence, and defense issues.
From 2002 to 2004, Esper served as the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy at the Pentagon. He was responsible for all arms control, nonproliferation, international agreements, U.N. matters, and related issues for the Defense Department. He led teams of negotiators in Geneva; assisted in delegations to allied capi-tals; and represented the department on Capitol Hill, in U.S. government agencies, and in the media. For his service at the Pentagon, Esper was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Other positions Esper held include serving as the legislative director and senior policy advisor for Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and as chief of staff at The Heritage Foundation, a renowned Washington-based think tank.
Esper is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and infantry officer who served for more than a decade on active duty, including a combat tour in Iraq during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. His last active duty assignment was as a strategy and policy analyst and Asia planning officer at the Pentagon. During his time in uniform, Esper received a number of awards, including the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medals, and Combat Infantryman's Badge.
Esper is a distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He earned an M.P.A. from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and his Ph.D. from The George Washington University.
The Honorable Jacques S. Gansler Ph.D.
Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant to the President
The Honorable Jacques S. Gansler is a Professor and holds the Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise in the School of Public Policy, and is the Director of both the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise and the Sloan Biotechnology Industry Center. Additionally, he is the Glenn L. Martin Institute Fellow of Engineering at the A. James Clarke School of Engineering, an Affiliate Faculty member at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership (all at the University of Maryland). He also served as Interim Dean of the School of Public Policy from 2003 to 2004, and as the Vice President for Research for the University of Maryland from 2004-2006.
He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He currently is chairing three National Academy Committees (one on the "Small Business Innovation Research Program"; one on "Science and Security"; and one on "Special Forces"). Gansler recently served as the Chair of the Secretary of the Army's "Commission on Contracting and Program Management for Army Expeditionary Forces." He is also the National Academy of Engineering's representative on the Academies' Standing Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy; and he currently Chairs a Defense Science Board Task Force on the 21st Century Defense Industry.
Previously, Dr. Gansler served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from November 1997 until January 2001. In this position, he was responsible for all matters relating to Department of Defense acquisition, research and development, logistics, acquisition reform, advanced technology, international programs, environmental security, nuclear, chemical, and biological programs, and the defense technology and industrial base. (He had an annual budget of over $180 Billion, and a workforce of over 300,000.)
Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gansler was Executive Vice President and Corporate Director for TASC, Incorporated, an applied information technology company, in Arlington, Virginia (from 1977 to 1997) during which time he played a major role in building the company from a small operation into a large, widely-recognized and greatly-respected corporation, serving both the government and the private sector. From 1972 to 1977, he served in the government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Materiel Acquisition), responsible for all defense procurements and the defense industry; and as Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Electronics) responsible for all defense electronics Research and Development.
His prior industrial experience included: Vice President (Business Development), I.T.T. (1970-1972); Program Management, Director of Advanced Programs, and Director of International Marketing, Singer Corporation (1962-1970); and Engineering Management, Raytheon Corporation (1956-1962). Dr. Gansler serves (and has served) on numerous Corporation Boards of Directors, and governmental special committees and advisory boards. He has been Vice Chairman, Defense Science Board and member for 10 years; Chairman, Board of Visitors, Defense Acquisition University; Director, Procurement Round Table; Chairman, Industry Advisory Board, University of Virginia, School of Engineering; Chairman, Board of Visitors, University of Maryland, School of Public Policy; member of the FAA Blue Ribbon Panel on Acquisition Reform; member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Advisory Board (10 years); and senior consultant to the "Packard Commission" on Defense Acquisition Reform.
Additionally, from 1984 to 1997, Dr. Gansler was a Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University where he was a frequent guest lecturer in Executive Management courses. He is the author of 3 books, a contributing author of 25 other books, author of over 100 papers, and a frequent speaker and Congressional witness.
Dr. Gansler holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, a MS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, a MA in Political Economy from the New School for Social Research, and a Ph.D. in Economics from American University.
The Honorable Tina W Jonas
Director, Operations Planning & Analysis, joined Sikorsky Aircraft Corp
Tina Jonas, Director, Operations Planning & Analysis, joined Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in September 2008. Tina provides the leadership and direction necessary to plan and control Sikorsky production and supply chain resource requirements, including production planning for all military, commercial and aftermarket business. Her responsibilities include facilities management for Connecticut production operations and macro facility planning oversight for all Sikorsky facilities worldwide.
Tina brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, having previously served as Undersecretary of Defense, Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Defense. Before joining the DoD in 2004, she served as Assistant Director and Chief Financial Officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
She holds a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelor's in Political Science from Arizona State University. She is a recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and the Department of the Navy Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
Dr Jack P London
Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board CACI International
Dr. J. Phillip London is Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc, an information technology and network services company with fiscal 2008 revenue of $2.42 billion. Under Dr. London's leadership, CACI has grown from a small professional services consulting firm to become a pacesetter in IT and communications solutions across markets throughout North America and Western Europe. CACI operations today are worldwide and global in nature.
After serving as CACI's President and Chief Executive Officer for 23 years, Dr. London stepped out of the CEO role to become Executive Chairman on July 1, 2007. In this position, he oversees strategic initiatives to ensure shareholder value, advance client missions, cultivate key client relationships, and monitor major financial transactions, including CACI's legacy mergers and acquisitions (M&A) program, which Dr. London began in 1992. He has an established role as a public figure representing CACI to customers and the federal information technology (IT) industry. Dr. London's efforts also focus on the evolution and transformation of defense, intelligence, information technology, and network communications.
Most recently, Dr. London wrote and published Our Good Name (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2008), documenting CACI's remarkable campaign to challenge the erroneous and exaggerated media reporting of the company's work in Iraq for the U.S. Army. Drawing from official government documents, sworn public testimony, and public records, Our Good Name sets the record straight and details how CACI succeeded in overcoming false allegations while meeting the urgent needs of a nation at war.
CACI has sustained its success in today's new economy in part through Dr. London's highly successful strategic acquisitions program. Since 1992, CACI has made 44 acquisitions that have strengthened its position in managed networks, information assurance, and the security and intelligence services markets.
Chairman of the Board since 1990, Dr. London first joined CACI as a program manager in 1972. He advanced to vice president in 1976, and by 1982 was a division president, managing CACI's extensive work in systems engineering, logistic sciences, and advanced information systems. Having been elected to CACI's Board of Directors in 1981, Dr. London was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in 1984. As a "hands-on" CEO, he was the architect of CACI's operational turnaround in 1984-85 for both revenue and profit growth.
Dr. London is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (1959) and the Naval Postgraduate School (1967), where he earned, respectively, a bachelor of science in naval engineering and a master of science in operations research. He holds a doctorate in business administration conferred "with distinction" from The George Washington University (1971).
During his 12 years of active duty as a regular officer (1959-1971) during the Cold War, Dr. London initially served as a naval aviator and carrier pilot, serving with U.S. Navy "hunter-killer" task forces arrayed against the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear submarine threat. He saw service in the Cuban Missile Crisis (the "thirteen days" of October and November of 1962), and his numerous at-sea deployments included the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. He was with the airborne recovery team for Col. John Glenn's Mercury Program space flight in Friendship 7 in the Caribbean, on February 20, 1962, on the U.S.S. Randolph (CVS-15). Later, at the height of the Vietnam War, he served as Aide and Administrative Assistant to the Vice Chief of the Naval Material Command, Department of the Navy (1969-70). Dr. London left active duty in 1971 and joined the U.S. Navy Reserve, retiring as a captain in 1983, having served as commanding officer of aeronautical engineering units with the Naval Air Systems Command, Washington, D.C.
Dr. London's awards include the KPMG Peat Marwick High Tech Entrepreneur Award in 1995; recognition from the U.S. Newcomen Society for leading CACI as an outstanding example of the free-enterprise system in 2001; George Washington University's CEO of the Year Award, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for Government IT Services, and the Association of the United States Army's John W. Dixon, all in 2003; the Albert Einstein Award for Technology Achievement, Federal Computer Week's "Federal 100" list of IT leaders and Eagle Award, the Northern Virginia Technology Council's Earle C. Williams Leadership in Technology Award, and the Arlington, Virginia Chamber of Commerce Technology Executive of the Year Award, all in 2004; Executive of the Year at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards in 2005; the U.S. Navy League's Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award in 2007; the Association for Corporate Growth Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008; and the Bisnow 2009 Federal IT Power 50 in 2009. Also, in rec
ognition of Dr. London's dedication to ethics, in 2002 the HR Leadership Awards of Greater Washington established its Ethics in Business Award in honor of Dr. London, and he presents the award each year to a new recipient.
Dr. London serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Naval Institute, the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, the Naval Historical Foundation, and the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and is a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He has served on numerous other boards and foundations. Dr. London is also a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Navy League, the U.S. Naval Institute, the Naval Order of the U.S.A., the American Legion, the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA), and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Dr Michael O'Hanlon
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institute
Michael O'Hanlon specializes in U.S. national security policy. He is senior author of the Iraq Index. A former defense budget analyst who advised members of Congress on military spending, he specializes in Iraq, North Korea, homeland security, the use of military force and other defense issues.
His expertise includes, arms treaties; Asian security issues; homeland security; Iraq policy; military technology; missile defense; North Korea policy; peacekeeping operations; taiwan policy; military analysis; U.S. defense strategy and budget.
David A. Ochmanek
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development
David Ochmanek is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development. Prior to joining the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he was a senior defense analyst and director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program for Project Air Force at the RAND Corporation, where he worked from 1985 until 1993, and again from 1995 until 2009. From 1993 until 1995, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy.
Prior to joining RAND, Mr. Ochmanek was a member of the Foreign Service of the United States, serving from 1980 to 1985 in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, U.S. Embassy Bonn, and the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. From 1973 to 1978, he was an officer in the United States Air Force.
He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown and George Washington Universities.
Mr. Ochmanek is the author of numerous publications, including:
The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries (with Lowell H. Schwartz), RAND, 2008.
A New Division of Labor: Meeting America's Security Challenges Beyond Iraq (with Andrew R. Hoehn et al), RAND, 2007.
Military Operations Against Terrorist Groups Abroad: Implications for the United States Air Force, RAND, 2003.
The Real and the Ideal: Essays on International Relations in Honor of Richard H. Ullman (editor, with Anthony Lake), Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
NATO's Future: Implications for U.S. Military Capabilities and Posture, RAND, 2000.
To Find and Not To Yield: How Information and Firepower Can Transform Theater Warfare (with Ted Harshberger, et al), RAND, 1998.
"Rethinking U.S. Defense Planning," in Survival, Spring 1997 (with Zalmay Khalilzad).
Strategic Appraisal 1997: Strategy and Defense Planning for the 21st Century (editor, with Zalmay Khalilzad), RAND, 1997.
The New Calculus: Analyzing Airpower's Changing Role in Joint Theater Campaigns, RAND, 1993 (with C. J. Bowie, et al).
Next Moves: An Arms Control Agenda for the 1990's, The Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1989 (with Edward L. Warner III).
Peter F. Verga
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Integration and Chief of Staff
Current as of 4/8/2009 Mr. Verga is the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Integration and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and serves as the first assistant to the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. He is responsible for oversight of security cooperation policy implementation, technology security policy, detainee policy, and missing persons and prisoners of war issues. Mr. Verga also oversees the management and day-to-day operations of the Policy organization and is responsible for ensuring the integration and implementation of national security and defense policies. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Verga served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs, acting as the principal advisor on matters related to homeland defense activities of the Department of Defense and regional security matters for the Western Hemisphere, including Defense participation in homeland security interagency activities. He is a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency National Advisory Council. Mr. Verga also served as the Special Assistant for Homeland Security and Director of the Department of Defense Homeland Security Task Force; as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Integration, successfully negotiating the return of a U.S. EP-3 Aircraft in 2001; and as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Support. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1947, Mr. Verga holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration from the University of La Verne, La Verne California, and a Master, of Science degree in Public Administration from Troy State University, Troy, Alabama. A graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, he is a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. Mr. Verga has been a career member of the Senior Executive Service since 1998.
Mr. Verga is a retired U. S. Army officer with over twenty-six years of service in a variety of command, operations and management positions, including combat operations in Vietnam from September, 1969 to November, 1971. Prior to retirement from active service, he served as the Deputy Director for Emergency Planning in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he was responsible for a variety of special and sensitive activities and interagency matters regarding emergency preparedness and wartime continuity of government policy and on the White House staff as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Management and Administration, advising on a variety of matters including continuity of government and sensitive emergency plans and programs in direct support of the President. This followed duty as Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency Operations of the White House Military Office and in the Operations Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Mr. Verga has been awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive and has been awarded two Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Awards and the Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award. During his military service his awards included, among others; the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, four Bronze Star medals, the Purple Heart, three Defense Meritorious Service Medals, twenty-one Air Medals, and the Presidential Service Badge.
Mr. Verga is married to the former Elizabeth Anne McAneny, they currently reside in Alexandria, Virginia.
Ms. Amy Woolf
Specialist in Nuclear Weapons Policy in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service
Amy F. Woolf is a Specialist in Nuclear Weapons Policy in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress. She joined CRS in April, 1988, and provides Congress with information, analysis, and support on issues related to U.S. and Russian nuclear forces and arms control. She has authored many studies and participated in numerous seminars on these issues, addressing such topics as nuclear weapons strategy and doctrine, nuclear force structure, strategic arms control and the U.S-Russian arms control agenda, ballistic missile defense policy, and issues related to nuclear weapons and threat reduction in the former Soviet Union. Ms. Woolf has spoken at numerous conferences and workshops, discussing issues such as Congressional views on arms control and ballistic missile defenses, cooperative threat reduction with Russia, and U.S. nuclear weapons policy.
Before joining CRS, Ms. Woolf was a member of the Research Staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in Alexandria, Virginia. She also spent a year at the Department of Defense, working on the 1994 Nuclear Posture Review.
Ms. Woolf received a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1983 and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University in 1981.