- Admiral Steve Abbot, USN (Ret.)
Admiral
Steve Abbot is President and CEO of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief
Society.- Admiral Abbot previously was Deputy Director of the Office of Homeland Security. Immediately prior to assuming this position, he was the Executive Director of Vice President Cheney's National Preparedness Review.
- Admiral Abbot served in the U.S. Navy from 1966 until his retirement as a four-star admiral in 2000. His final military assignment was that of Deputy Commander in Chief of the U.S. European Command during the conflict in Kosovo. In his illustrious naval career, he was an aviator, commanding a carrier-based squadron and serving as a test pilot for the F-18 and other aircraft. He commanded the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt from 1990 to 1992, a period that included the Persian Gulf War. He subsequently commanded the Roosevelt Carrier Battle Group. Admiral Abbot also served as the Deputy Director of Operations for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the end of the previous Bush administration and at the outset of the Clinton Administration, and as Commander of the Sixth Fleet.
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- Ambassador Donald K. Bandler
Ambassador
Donald K. Bandler is currently a Senior Director with Kissinger
McLarty Associates in the Washington D. C. office and his previous
position was that of Senior Vice President Government Affairs
with Monsanto Company.- In 2002, Donald Bandler completed a distinguished career with the State Department as Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, where he worked closely with the United Nations, European Union, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus on matters affecting American interests in the strategic Mediterranean region. Prior to his ambassadorship, Bandler served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, as well as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Paris. A career Senior Foreign Service Officer, he has also served as Counselor for Political and Legal Affairs at the American Embassy in Bonn and as Director of the State Department Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs.
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- Dr. John Goodman
John
Goodman is a Managing Director at Accenture, where he leads the
Management Consulting practice in the Government Operating Group.
John has overall responsibility for the sales and delivery of
management consulting services – including strategy, human
performance, supply chain management, finance and performance
management, and customer relationship management – to government
organizations around the world. - Prior to joining Accenture in 1998, John served for five years in the Federal Government – as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial Affairs and Installations (1996-1998), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Affairs (1994 to 1996), and on the staff of the National Economic Council in the White House (1993-1994). Before the NEC, John was an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he taught, conducted research, and consulted in the areas of business strategy, international business, and business-government relations.
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- Dr. Michael Haltzel
Dr.
Michael Haltzel is the Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic
Relations of John's Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies. Prior to this position, he was a Senior Foreign Policy
Advisor and Principal at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP. - Dr. Haltzel served for eleven years as the senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and was staff director of the Subcommittee on European Affairs of the committee. He was also the lead Democratic Senate staffer on NATO and Balkan policy. Before joining the Senate, Dr. Haltzel was the Chief of the European Division at the Library of Congress. From 1985 to 1992, he served as Director of West European Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Dr. Haltzel helped found the Aspen Institute Berlin, where he was the first deputy director. He has authored and edited ten books and is a frequent contributor to American and European publications and the electronic media. He is a member of the board of the World Affairs Council of Greater Washington, the boards of advisors of the European Institute, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, and the Washington Program of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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- LtCol Marlin L. “Buzz” Hefti, USMC (Ret.)
Buzz
Hefti, currently a Vice President with Van Scoyoc Associates,
Inc., served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Legislative Affairs during the George W. Bush administration.
In this capacity, he provided advice to both the Secretary and
the Deputy Secretary of Defense on all legislative matters.- Prior to his service in the Department of Defense, Hefti’s positions in private industry included Vice President, Government Relations, for Honeywell International and defense lobbyist for The Boeing Company. He has served as national security advisor to U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Virginia. A career U.S. Marine Corps officer, he also served as liaison officer to the U.S. House of Representatives while on the staff of the Secretary of the Navy from 1977 through 1980. Prior to serving in this capacity, Mr. Hefti served three years as Director of National News Media for the Marine Corps.
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- General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.)
General
Jim Jones is the President and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century
Energy, an affiliation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.- General Jones retired on February 1, 2007, having completed 40 years of active duty service. His last assignment was Commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). General Jones was the 32nd Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. His distinguished career also included assignments as platoon and company commander in Vietnam, Commanding General of Second Marine Division, Marine Forces Atlantic, Deputy Chief of Staff for Marine Corps Plans, Policies, and Operations, and Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
- General Jones has a Batchelor of Science degree and an Honorary Doctorate from Georgetown University. His personal decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Silver Star Medal, Legion of Merit with four gold stars, Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V", and the Combat Action Ribbon.
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- General George Joulwan, USA (Ret.)
Since
his retirement from the Army in 1997, General George Joulwan has
continued to serve his country as an advisor to private industry,
a consultant in both the public sector and on senior defense boards,
and as a teacher and educator. - General Joulwan’s 36-year distinguished military career consisted of exemplary military service and foreign policy experience. His final military assignment was as Commander in Chief, United States European Command (CINCEUR) and as NATO’s 11th Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). As SACEUR, General Joulwan was instrumental in developing the Partnership for Peace Program, which led Russian and U.S. military forces to conduct joint operations in Bosnia. General Joulwan also served as the Commander in Chief of U.S. forces in Central South America, where he was instrumental in bringing peace to El Salvador and democracy to Panama, and professionalizing the militaries of Latin America.
- In addition to his 18 years of service in Europe, General Joulwan served two combat tours in Vietnam; served in the Pentagon as the Executive Officer for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and was Special Assistant to the President of the United States.
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- CSM A. Frank Lever III, USA (Ret.)
CSM
Lever presently serves as a Senior Consultant for American Business
Development Group, Arlington, VA and also serves as the President
of the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United
States (EANGUS).- Before retiring in November, 2005, Frank Lever served his last five years in the Army National Guard as the Command Sergeant Major, Army National Guard. During these years, the Army National Guard experienced the largest mobilization since World War II.
- He has chaired and served on advisory boards and commissions at the Department Of Defense, Headquarters, Department of Army, and National Guard Bureau level. He served as the senior enlisted advisor to the Director of the Army National Guard and advisor to the Chief, National Guard Bureau on Army National Guard enlisted policy and procedures. He was the Army National Guard enlisted advisor to the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.
- Prior to his assignment at the National Guard Bureau, Frank held all leadership positions culminating with his appointment as the State Command Sergeant Major, South Carolina. Frank received his BS Degree in Political Science from The Citadel and his Masters Degree, Management from Webster University.
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- The Honorable Jan M. Lodal
Jan
M. Lodal is chairman of Lodal and Company and of CoManage, Inc. - Lodal has had many periods of service in the federal government with the most recent being that of Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the Clinton Administration. Mr. Lodal has also served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Ford Administrations.
- Lodal’s business experience includes founding two computer software companies, Intelus and American Management Systems (AMS). AMS helped reform the financial systems of New York City and other major cities. He also designed and developed computer systems for numerous major hospitals.
- Mr. Lodal is well published. In addition to his book Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Challenge to American Leadership, he has had many articles on the subjects of national defense and foreign policy published in such publications as the Washington Post, The New York Times and Foreign Affairs.
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- General Richard “Butch” Neal, USMC (Ret.)
General
Richard (Butch) Neal serves as a senior fellow for the CAPSTONE
Program at the National Defense University and is a Senior Mentor
for the U.S. Marine Corps.- General Neal’s distinguished 36 year military career was capped by his being selected as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps in 1996. Prior to that assignment, he served as the Commanding General of the 2d Marine Division and as the Deputy Commander in Chief/Chief of Staff of the US Central Command. General Neal served as Commanding General on the Joint Task Force for Operation GITMO, a humanitarian relief effort for Haitian migrants at Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba. During Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, he was the Deputy for Operations at the US Central Command. General Neal’s career included two tours in Vietnam, assignment at the National War College and Director of the Amphibious Warfare School in Quantico.
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- Dr. Michael E. O'Hanlon
Michael
O'Hanlon is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings
Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the
use of military force, homeland security and American foreign
policy. He is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, and
a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
and the Council on Foreign Relations. - O’Hanlon has written numerous books, dozens of op-ed pieces for major newspapers and has appeared hundreds of times on the major news networks and cable stations as an expert on defense and security issues.
- O'Hanlon was an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1989-1994. He also worked previously at the Institute for Defense Analyses. His Ph.D. from Princeton is in public and international affairs; his bachelor's and master's degrees, also from Princeton, are in the physical sciences. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Congo/Kinshasa (the former Zaire) from 1982-1984, where he taught college and high school physics in French.
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- Mrs. Alma Johnson Powell
Alma Powell sits on the boards of several educational, cultural,
charitable and civic organizations. She is the chairman of the
board of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth,
whose mission is to mobilize people from every sector of American
life to build the character and competence of youth. Mrs. Powell
also serves as the vice chair of the board of trustees of the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and chairs the advisory
board for the Pew Center for Civic Change.- From 1989 to 2000, she served as the chairman of the National Council of the Best Friends Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of young girls.
- Mrs. Powell is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Human Letters from Emerson College and the Civic Change Award from the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. She has also been honored by Washingtonian magazine as Washingtonian of the Year and is the recipient of the Leadership Award from the Women’s Center in Virginia.
- In addition to her many service-minded activities, Mrs. Powell has added “author” to her list of credits. In 2003, her two children’s books, My Little Wagon and America’s Promise, were launched with great success.
- Alma Powell was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and went on to study speech pathology and audiology at Emerson College in Boston. She worked as the staff audiologist for the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing.
- Alma and Colin Powell were married in l962. Mrs. Powell spent the next 33 years raising a family and accompanying her husband on his various military assignments in the United States and overseas. While her husband was stationed at the Pentagon, she served as the Army liaison to the National Red Cross as part of a team of volunteer consultants from the military services. During General Powell’s tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she was the Advisor to the Red Cross of the Military District of Washington. Most recently, during her husband’s tenure as the 65th Secretary of State, Mrs. Powell served as the honorary president of the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide. She also sat on the advisory board of the Hospitality and Information Service and was an honorary member of the Department of State Fine Arts Committee.
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- Dr. William J. Perry
Dr.
William J. Perry is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor
at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the School
of Engineering, the Institute for International Studies and the
Hoover Institution.- Dr. Perry was the nineteenth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from February 1994 to January 1997. His previous government experience was as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993–94) and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977–81).
- Perry's business experience includes serving as a laboratory director for General Telephone and Electronics (1954–64); founding and serving as the President of ESL (1964–77); Executive Vice-President of Hambrecht & Quist (1981–85); and founding and serving as the Chairman of Technology Strategies and Alliances (1985–93). He serves on the Board of Directors of Anteon International Corporation and several emerging high-tech companies and is Chairman of Global Technology Partners.
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- General Joseph Ralston, USAF (Ret.)
General
Joseph Ralston is currently Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group in
Washington D.C.- In 2003, General Ralston completed a distinguished 37-year Air Force career as Commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO. As NATO commander, General Ralston contributed to preserving the peace and security and territorial integrity of the NATO member nations and also led the efforts to integrate the three nations that were admitted to NATO in 1999 and oversaw the process to invite seven nations to join NATO in 2002.
- General Ralston served as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1996-2000), the nation's second highest-ranking military officer. His previous assignments included Commander of the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia and he commanded the Alaskan Command and the Alaskan NORAD Region. He has served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force for Plans and Operations, as Director of Tactical Programs in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and as Director of Air Force Operational Requirements.
- General Ralston is a command pilot with more than 2,500 flying hours, including 147 combat missions over Laos and North Vietnam.
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- The Honorable Joe R. Reeder
Joe
R. Reeder, Managing Shareholder for the Mid-Atlantic region of
the 1300-lawyer firm Greenberg Traurig, was formerly the Undersecretary
of the Army and Chairman of the Board of the Panama Commission
(1993-97). His legal areas of experience include complex commercial
litigation, government contracts, public policy, defense and national
security affairs, and legal ethics and professional liability.- As the Army's 14th Undersecretary, Joe, overseeing a $65Bn annual budget, essentially served as the Army's COO. His responsibilities included long-range planning, material requirements, readiness, acquisition reform, infrastructure reduction, and financial management of the Army. He served as the Army's focal point for international affairs, with specific focus on NATO, Panama and Latin America. As Chairman of the Panama Canal Commission's Board of Directors he oversaw a massive, multibillion dollar infrastructure program, and laid the groundwork for the historic turnover pursuant to Treaty. As Army Undersecretary he also oversaw military support to local, state and federal agencies related to civilian law enforcement, civil disturbance, disaster relief, and emergency planning.
- Joe currently serves on a number of corporate and charitable boards (USO, Armed Forces YMCA, the Marshall Legacy Institute, Army Air Force Mutual Aid Association).
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- Lieutenant General Thomas G. Rhame, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant
General Thomas G. Rhame, USA (Ret.) currently serves as Vice President
for Finance and Administration at the Association of the United
States Army (AUSA). His distinguished Army career ended with his
retirement in September, with his last assignment being director
of the Defense Security Assistance Agency.
The General’s active military career began in 1963 when he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Infantry, through the Reserve Office Training Corps at Louisiana State University. Prior to his final military assignment, General Rhame was the chief of the US Military Training Mission to Saudi Arabia. During Operation Desert Storm, General Rhame was the Commanding General 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.
Prior to that position he served as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for personnel, US Army, and Commander of the US Army Community and Family Support Center in Washington, DC. Among the other positions General Rhame held in his illustrious military career was that of Senior Advisor to the 1st Brigade, 40th Infantry Division of the California National Guard. General Rhame also served two tours of combat in Vietnam .
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- Ambassador Rozanne L. “Roz” Ridgway
Rozanne
“Roz” L. Ridgway is currently a member of the Board
of Directors for 3M, The Boeing Company, Sara Lee Corporation,
Emerson Electric Co. and the New Perspective Fund. She is also
a Trustee for the Brookings Institution, the George C. Marshall
Foundation, the National Geographic Society and Hamline University,
her alma mater in St. Paul, Minnesota. - Ridgway was a career diplomat for 32 years, serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic from 1982 to 1985 and as the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from 1977 to 1980. She capped her career as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs from 1985 to 1989. From 1989 to 1996, she was President and then Co-Chairman of the Atlantic Council of the U.S., a non-partisan network promoting constructive U.S. leadership and engagement in international affairs. In 1998, she was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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- Major General Alan Rogers, USAF (Ret.)
Al
Rogers is Executive Vice President of the Enterprise Management
Services Operating Group, CACI International, Inc. Previously
he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Federal
Defense Group at American Management Systems (AMS) and prior to
AMS with Gemini Consulting.- He completed a career in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Major General, and served as the Director for Operational Plans and Interoperability on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon. He also served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, NATO, and as Deputy Chief of Staff for operations and Inspector General for the Stategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. He commanded two Bomber Wings including the first operational B-1 Bomber Wing at Dyess AFB. TX. A command pilot, he has flown fighters, bombers, tankers, trainers and 100 F-105 combat missions over North Vietnam.
- He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduated from the US Air Force Academy. He serves on the Board of the Association of Graduates, USAFA, and is an outside Director on the RGS Associates Board. Also he is a Trustee of the Falcon Foundation and a member of Information Technology Executive Council, Kogod Graduate School of Business, American University.
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- Mr. Reed L. Russell
Reed
L. Russell, is an attorney with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer &
Feld LLP. Reed is engaged in litigation and counseling in employment
law matters.- Mr. Russell received his B.S. in business administration from Wake Forest University in 1991 and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. He received his J.D. in 1999 from Catholic University of America. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Florida Bars and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court of Maryland and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
- Mr. Russell is a former major in the Army National Guard and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he served in Ramadi and Bagdad as an advisor to the Iraqi Security Forces and earned the Bronze Star for meritorious service.
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- Lieutenant General Roger Schultz, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant
General (Retired) Roger Schultz currently serves as a Sr. VP for
Security and Intelligence Programs in UNITECH. He retired in October
2005 with over 42 years of service in the Army and the Army National
Guard. His most recent tour was in the National Guard Bureau.
In that capacity he served for 7 years as the Director of the
Army National Guard. His last tour of duty places him as the longest
serving director in the history of the National Guard. He assumed
duties as Director, Army National Guard, National Guard Bureau,
Washington, DC on June 1, 1998.- The General's active military service began in 1963. He was commissioned an Infantry officer following Officer Candidate School. Prior to his final military assignment, General Schultz served as the Deputy Adjutant General, Iowa National Guard and as the Deputy Director for Military Support on the Department of the Army Staff. In that capacity, General Schultz was responsible for coordinating all Department of Defense military support to civilian authorities, to include disaster relief operations. Prior to duty in the pentagon, he also served as the Operations Officer and Chief of Staff for the Iowa National Guard. He has 27 years of emergency management experience at the state and national level.
- General Schultz brings years of family readiness experience to our board. Throughout his career he has focused on the well-being of Soldiers and their families. In 1968 his National Guard unit was called to active duty for the Vietnam War. Later as Chief of Staff for the Iowa National Guard he was responsible for coordinating the Iowa National Guard support for the 1ST Gulf War. And most recently, as the Army Guard Director, General Schultz remained a leading advocate for military families and their needs.
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- General Lawrence A. Skantze, USAF (ret.)
Since his retirement from the Air Force in 1987, General Lawrence A. Skantze has been an independent consultant to the Aerospace Industry. His last position in his 41-year distinguished military career was that of Commander, Air Force Systems Command. Prior to that, General Skantze was Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force and Commander, USAF Aeronautical Systems Product Division.- General Skantze started his military career in 1946 when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy upon completion of high school. In 1948 he received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in engineering and a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He received a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
- General Skantze was a command pilot and earned the Senior Missile Badge. His military decorations and awards include the Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster and Army Commendation Medal.
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- The Honorable Walter B. Slocombe
Walter
B. Slocombe is an attorney in Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington,
D.C. office.- Mr. Slocombe’s time at the firm has been interrupted by two periods of service in the United States Department of Defense, most recently as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 1994 to 2001 and in 2003, as Senior Advisor for National Defense in the Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq. In 2004, President Bush appointed him to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.
- Mr. Slocombe was awarded the Department of Defense’s Distinguished Public Service Medal (1981, 1995, 1997, 2001) and the Joseph Kruzel Award for Distinguished Service in the Pursuit of Peace (2000), and has been named an Honorary Submariner by the Fleet Submarine Force. His international service has been recognized by awards from the Polish, German, and Korean governments. Mr. Slocombe has published numerous articles and monographs on tax law issues and on defense policy and organization.
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- Ryan Vaart
Ryan Vaart is a policy advisor for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington D.C. Mr. Vaart represents clients on issues including federal appropriations, defense, homeland security, military base enhancement, and space and technology before Congress and the executive branch. He specializes in providing strategic advice, public relations recommendations, and tactical assistance in planning and implementing legislative activities necessary to achieve client objectives.
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Vaart served as a professional staff member on the House Committee on Armed Services. While working for the committee, he supported three different chairmen over a period of more than 10 years, most recently U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA). He was the primary staff adviser to members of the committee on issues relating to military construction, base realignment and closure activities and infrastructure management-related authorities. From 1996 through 2002 Mr. Vaart served in the communications office of the committee, conducting media relations for former U.S. Reps. Bob Stump (R-AZ) and Floyd Spence (R-SC). Before joining the Armed Services Committee staff, Mr. Vaart worked for the House Republican Conference under U.S. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), providing analysis of legislation before the House of Representatives to members of Congress and their staffs.
Mr. Vaart received his B.A. in government from Cornell University in 1995. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, he has been a resident of the Washington, D.C., area since 1973, and currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.- Return to Top
- Mrs. Margaret Vanderhye
Ms.
Margaret Vanderhye has a background in international relations
and econonics and has long been involved in local, state and national
politics. She currently serves as Virginia Governor Mark Warner's
appointee to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Ms.
Vanderhye was a Presidential appointee to the National Capital
Planning Commission (NCPC) and served on the Commission's Security
Task Force until 2001. She chaired the task force for NCPC's Museums
and Memorials Master Plan which won several national awards and
resulted in legislation to amend the Commemorative Works Act of
1986. She has worked at the White House as a staff member on the
National Security Council, and as a research consultant at the
Brookings Institution. She has held state level appointments in
Virginia in planning, transportation, and environmental fields.
R.
James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002 as a Vice
President and officer in the firm’s Global Resilience practice,
located in McLean, Virginia. Previously Mr. Woolsey served in
the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held
Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic
administrations. He was also previously a partner at the law firm
of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, where he practiced for 22
years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute
resolution.