William Hedgcock Webster is an American attorney and jurist who most recently served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020. He was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before becoming director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991. He is the only person to have held both positions.
Norman (Norm) Ralph Augustine is a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
Rand Beers is an American government official. He served as Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President of the United States during the Barack Obama administration. He also served as acting Secretary of Homeland Security following the resignation of Secretary Janet Napolitano on September 6,2013 until Jeh Johnson assumed that office on December 23,2013.
Henry Stanislaus Rowen was an American national security expert,economist,and academician.
Executive Schedule is the system of salaries given to the highest-ranked appointed officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government. The president of the United States appoints individuals to these positions,most with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. They include members of the president's Cabinet,several top-ranking officials of each executive department,the directors of some of the more prominent departmental and independent agencies,and several members of the Executive Office of the President.
Richard A. Falkenrath Jr. served as deputy commissioner of counter-terrorism of the New York City Police Department from 2006 to 2010. He was the third person to hold this position. His predecessors were Frank Libutti and Michael A. Sheehan.
Paul Allan Schneider is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. He had previously served as the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Management. He was responsible for all the department's budget,appropriations,expenditure of funds,accounting and finance;procurement;human resources and personnel;information technology systems;facilities,property,equipment,and other material resources;and identification and tracking of performance measurements.
Donald Blessing Rice is a California businessman and senior government official. He has been president and chief executive officer of several large companies including RAND Corporation,and has sat on numerous boards of directors,including Wells Fargo &Company. Rice also served as the seventeenth Secretary of the Air Force,1989–93.
Robert Edwards Hunter is an American government employee and foreign policy expert who served as United States ambassador to NATO during the Clinton administration.
Phillip Eugene Carter is an American lawyer,writer,and former officer in the United States Army. Carter was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America,and he also served as a principal of the Truman National Security Project. He was senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security,and director of the CNAS research program on the Military,Veterans &Society. Beginning September 2018,he served as the Director of the Personnel &Resources Program at the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center in Washington,D.C. Carter now works as senior director,corporate counsel for Salesforce,supporting the company’s public sector businesses,and teaches as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
David Charles Gompert is an American government official and former diplomat who served as the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) following the resignation of Dennis C. Blair in 2009. Prior to his ascension as DNI,he was Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and continued serving in that capacity until 2011.
Bernard Daniel Rostker was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979;Director of the United States Selective Service System from 1979 to 1981;Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1994 to 1998;Under Secretary of the Army from 1998 to 2000;and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in 2000-2001. From 1996 to 2001,he also served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses.
Richard Harvey Solomon was an American diplomat and academic who served as Director of Policy Planning from 1986 to 1989,Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1989 to 1992,and U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from 1992 to 1993. In September 1993,he became president of the United States Institute of Peace,a position he held until September 2012. He subsequently joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Fellow.
Michael H. Decker was the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight. from September 2009 to February 2014. Before that he was Assistant Director of Intelligence,Marine Corps Intelligence,United States Marine Corps. He served as Director of Intelligence during Operation Iraqi Freedom II from January 2004 to June 2005.
Dr. Paul N. Stockton is the President of Paul N Stockton LLC,a strategic advisory firm in Santa Fe,NM. From 2009-2013,Dr. Stockton served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs,where he helped lead the Department's response to Hurricane Sandy. He was responsible for Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection,Western Hemisphere security policy,domestic crisis management,continuity of operations planning,and a range of other responsibilities. While Assistant Secretary,Dr. Stockton also served as Executive Director of the Council of Governors. After serving as Assistant Secretary,Dr. Stockton was the Managing Director of Sonecon LLC,an advisory firm in Washington,DC,from 2013-2020.
Major General (Retired) Bruce M. Lawlor is a retired United States Army officer. He is prominent as the first commander of Joint Task Force-Civil Support. In addition,he was one of five White House staff members who wrote the plan to create the Department of Homeland Security,and he was the first DHS Chief of Staff.
Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall is an American government official who serves as the 11th homeland security advisor for U.S. President Joe Biden.
Linton Wells II is an American public servant and educator who served a total of 51 years in government service. He served 26 years in the United States Navy as an officer,and then was appointed by the President of the United States as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense,serving through two administrations of both parties,both the Democrat Bill Clinton and the Republican George W. Bush. He wrote many books,articles,and white papers on matters of national security,including important texts related to the use of American military capabilities in global humanitarian operations. His expertise focused on the strategic impacts of technological change and on building resilience to natural and man-made disasters as issues of US national security. He shaped,over five decades of public service,current US Department of Defense directives that link policy and technology with public-private cooperation. His writings significantly altered U.S. and international approaches to civil-military engagement,US policy in global humanitarian assistance,and global public-private partnerships in disaster relief. He has also made fundamental contributions to technical areas that have defined network-enabled military capabilities and cyberspace operations. After retiring from public service,he continued to contribute to the international STAR-TIDES network that he had founded in 2007,a consortium of several thousand global nodes comprising agencies,organizations,institutions and individuals in 40+ countries that promote the free exchange of research results on global issues of human security. As of 2021 he is Executive Advisor to the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) at George Mason University and chairs the Advisory Group of the C4I and Cyber Center there. C-RASC has been working with the People-Centered Internet (PCI) on ways to “put humanity at the center of the Internet”and support a variety of revitalization initiatives. He is on the board of PCI,and also the President and CEO of Global Resilience Strategies and Senior Advisor to Resilient Japan. He was listed by Fortune magazine in 2009 as one of the top 16 "Players of Tech".
Christine Elizabeth Wormuth is an American defense official and career civil servant who serves as the United States secretary of the Army since 2021. Wormuth previously served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2014 to 2016.
