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1992 – present
President, AMH Consulting, Potomac,
Maryland |
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Heads a small consulting firm focusing
on defense and environmental matters - including
program planning and independent assessments
for the Federal government and participation
in projects, studies, management reviews,
market and budget analyses, and business
development activities - including proposal
plans and execution - for a wide variety
of private industry clients. Technical and
programmatic specialties include chemical
weapons demilitarization, Cooperative Threat
Reduction Program nuclear weapons demilitarization,
chemical and biological defense, defense
against terrorism, force protection, military
preparedness, nuclear weapons complex cleanup,
and strategic defense.
Recent consulting projects have included
assisting in preparations to perform post-conflict
WMD disposition operations in Iraq, managing
the Vozrezhdeniya Island anthrax cleanup,
orchestrating a multi-study analysis on
the vulnerabilities of U.S. forces to chemical
and biological attacks (the "CB 2010, Pope-Bragg,
and Port " studies); chairing an "Overarching
Issues Assessment" of the U.S. chemical
demilitarization program for the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Chemical
Demilitarization); performing detailed management
and safety reviews of chemical demilitarization
facilities; providing market assessments
and penetration assistance to several clients
for U.S. and Former Soviet Union nuclear
and chemical demilitarization projects;
developing specific company-oriented DOE
and DoD business plans; and managing several
major proposals. |
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1986 - 1992
Director, Strategic Planning;
Advanced Systems Manager; Senior Staff; TRW
Inc., Fairfax, Virginia |
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Performed strategic planning and handled
external relations for TRW Environmental
Safety Systems Inc., a TRW subsidiary whose
focus was the $100 M/yr systems engineering,
development and management contract for
the Department of Energy's Civilian Radioactive
Waste Management System (Yucca Mountain).
Specific accomplishments at TRW included:
- Planned, prioritized, and performed
business development activities, including
R&D, resource allocation, and proposals,
successfully moving a major TRW Division
into the Federal Government environmental
business market.
- Managed large, complex, multi-company
teams in two unique proposals, one for
a $100 M system engineering contract for
the U.S. Army Chemical Systems Disposal
Program and one for the $1 B contract
which led to the formation of TRW Environmental
Safety Systems Inc.
- Developed the first Five-Year Strategic
Plan for the TRW Federal Systems Group.
Analyzed engineering services, information
systems, command and control centers,
and facility security systems markets;
developed strategy for growth of sales;
defined resource requirements, including
selecting personnel; and orchestrated
pursuits of identified opportunities.
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1981-1986
Deputy Assistant Secretary (R&D);
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (R, D&A);
Deputy Under Secretary; U.S. Army, The Pentagon,
Washington, D.C. |
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Presidential appointee responsible to
the Secretary and the Under Secretary of
the Army for research and development, test
and evaluation, and acquisition policies,
procedures and programs. Oversaw the budgets,
technical developments and complex research
efforts of forty-one Army laboratories.
Managed the Army's R&D staff.
Specific accomplishments included:
- Key government advocate in obtaining
Congressional support for production of
binary chemical weapons and chemical defense
equipment.
- Orchestrated the multi-billion-dollar
Army program for the demilitarization
of the U.S. stockpile of chemical munitions,
including coordinating with EPA, the public,
and Congress; developed and defended the
Programmatic EIS.
- Led the Army restructuring of its $400
M/year ballistic missile defense research
program to meet Reagan Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) technical objectives.
- Negotiated the Compact of Free Association
between the Marshall Islands and the United
States providing for continued use and
modernization of the Kwajalein Atoll for
testing.
- Negotiated a tri-agency program for
development of a heavy lift helicopter
and the Army-Navy agreement to transfer
the V-22 between the two Services.
- Systematized and augmented the Army
utilization of technical advisors. Established
three new advisory organizations - the
Board on Army Science and Technology at
the National Academy of Sciences, a Center
for Army Command and Control work at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Army
Arroyo Center at the Rand Corporation.
- Primary Administration spokesperson
on Army materiel policies and programs
for the public, the media, and Congress,
including appearances on Sixty Minutes,
the Today Show, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report,
and Good Morning America. As a member
of the select President's Surrogate Group,
represented the Administration in speaking
engagements, particularly to hostile audiences,
on the defense buildup, the chemical demilitarization
program, and Army and SDI programs.
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1975-1981
Deputy Division Director; Assistant
to the President, System Planning Corporation,
Arlington, Virginia |
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Developed, marketed, staffed,
and led the execution of projects on arms
control, Soviet strategy, theater nuclear
warfare, chemical warfare, and other national
security matters. |
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1974-1975
Member of the Technical Staff,
General Research Corporation, Santa Barbara,
California |
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1971-1974
Consultant with the Albert Wohlstetter
group |
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1963-1971
Member of the Technical Staffs
of The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA;
Analytic Services, Inc., Arlington, VA; and
Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA |
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AB, Political Science, Stanford University,
1963.
Graduate Studies, Mathematics and Operations
Research, Stanford University, American University,
UCLA, 1965-1969.
HONORS:
Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service,
Department of the Army.
Chemical Corps Regimental Association Hall
of Fame.
PRO BONO GOVERNMENT
ACTIVITIES:
Member, National Research Council Committee
on Army Science and Technology for Homeland
Defense, 2002.
Member, Defense Science Board Task Forces:
Intelligence Needs for Homeland Defense, and
Chemical Warfare Defense, 2001.
Member, National Guard Bureau Terrorism Advisory
Council, 1998.
Representative of the United States, by Presidential
Appointment, to the Joint Commission on the
Environment of the United States and Panama,
1992-1997.
Member, Atlantic Council Task Force on "Defining
a New Relation-ship: The Issue of U.S. Access
to Facilities in Panama," 1996.
Member, Office of Technology Assessment Advisory
Panel on "Defense Simulation and Modeling,"
1993.
Chair, Technology Sharing & Export Control
Panel, Defense Nuclear Agency International
Conference on Controlling Arms, 1993.
Member, White House Task Force on Women and
Minorities in Science and Engineering, 1987-1990.
Member, Defense Science Board Summer Study
on Chemical Warfare, 1980.
Member Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff
Science Advisory Board, 1977-1982.
MAJOR
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Focus
Group. Member since 2005.
NBC
Industry Group. Founding Member, and
Member of the Board of Directors, 1996-2000;
Chair, 2001.
Council on Foreign Relations.
Member since 1981.
National Security
Industrial Association. Chair, Environment
Committee, 1996-1997 and Chair of NSIA's "First
Defense Industry and the Environmental Agenda"
conference.
American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics. Member,
Missile Systems Technical Committee 1986-1990,
Session Chair, Strategic Systems Conference,
1988; member of biannual Strategic Systems
Conference Committees through 1994.
Past Board memberships: American Helicopter
Society; Military Operations Research Society
(President, 1980-1981); Committee on the Present
Danger; Chemical and Biological Arms Control
Institute.
Current Board memberships: Center for Security
Policy; Women in International Security.
INDUSTRY BOARDS:
Member, Board of Directors, Versar Corporation.
Chairman, Board of Directors, EAI Corporation
(a Geo-Centers Company) 2001-2005
COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES:
Member, Board of Directors, House of Ruth.
Member, Kennedy Center Washington Committee for the Arts (KCWCA)
CLEARANCES:
Most recent EBI in 2005.
PUBLICATIONS:
Author and co-author of numerous books and
articles on chemical warfare, military strategy,
Soviet military doctrine, U.S. defense policy
options, U.S. Army programs and policies,
and environmental management issues, including
The Chemistry of Defeat, Conventional
War and Escalation, Soviet Strategy
for Nuclear War, "The Soviet View of Deterrence,"
"The Neglected Threat of Chemical Warfare,"
"Reality and SALT," and "The Case Against
the Case Against Counterforce."
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