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List of Phase II Briefers
MEETING 1: AUGUST 24 AND 25, 2022 (THE PENTAGON AND KECK, WASHINGTON, DC)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC)
Micah Lowenthal, Senior Director of CISAC
Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD/OUSD)
Michael Hodgkin (OSD)
Matt Kurtz (OUSD Policy)
Joint Staff, Strategic Stability (J5)
Dr. Austin G. Long, Acting Director, J5 and Strategic Stability
Joint Staff Nuclear Terrorism Assessments (J3 and J5)
COL Jeremiah Aeschleman, Ms. Heather Burgess, Ms. Sarah Pisarcik, Mr. Scott Dunn
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
Ricky Boyer, Joint Special Operations University and J10
National Security Council
Pranay Vaddi. Senior Director, and others
Missile Defense Agency
Mr. Dennis Mays, MDA Director for Engineering
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Strategic Integration
Mr. Donald Wenzlick, Chief, Strategic Trends Division
Greg Weaver, Strategy to Plans, LLC
MEETING 2: OCTOBER 24 AND 25, 2022 (VISIT TO U.S. STRATEGIC COMMAND (USSTRATCOM), OMAHA, NE)
USSTRATCOM
BG John Weidner, J5P (host to the committee)
Session 1: Escalation Dynamics/Decision Calculus
Mr. Rich McManus, J5STO
Ms. Jennifer Bradley, J57
Session 2: USSTRATCOM Risk Assessment Methodologies
Mr. Pete Huggins, J5P
Session 3: Uses of and Alternative Approaches to Strategic Risk Assessment
Roundtable: Facilitator BG Weidner
Session 4: Panel Discussion on Risk Methods and Uses
BG John Weidner, J5P
Maj Gen John Nichols, J3
Mr. Bob Taylor, J8
Brig Gen Ricky Mills, J2
Mr. Chad Stevenson, NEC
Mr. JB Miller, J7
Session 5: USSTRATCOM War Gaming Design, Execution, and Assessment
Dr. Terry Buckman, J712
Mr. Joe Williams, J571
Session 6: Discussion on Potential Solutions to Address Strategic Deterrence Gaps
Mr. Steve Pettit, DJ5
Mr. Pat McKenna, J5/STA
Mr. Bob Taylor, J8
Mr. Chad Stevenson, NEC
MEETING 3: NOVEMBER 7, 2022 (VIA ZOOM)
Brad Roberts, LLNL
MEETING 4: DECEMBER 12 -14, 2022 (FORRESTAL AND KECK, WASHINGTON DC)
General (retired) James Mattis
DOE-IN: Rebecca Lucast, Branch Chief, Security Branch, NMIP; Amanda Weaver, Deputy Director, NMIP; Sarah Bender; Dan Migrone, Branch Chief, Nuclear Terrorism and Security Branch, Foreign Nuclear Programs (FNP) Division; Donald Puglisi, director FNP; Drew Nichols, director, NMIP
NNSA: Jay Tilden, NNSA Associate Administrator and Deputy Under Secretary for Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation (NA-80); Dallas Boyd, executive director and chief of staff for NNSA, NA-80
NIC: NIO for Counterterrorism, John Murphy
Amb. Rose Gottemoeller, Stanford University (previously with NATO and Department of State)
Major General (retired) Julie Bentz
Department of State: Aaron Miles, Senior Advisor, Office of Strategic Stability and Deterrence Affairs, Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance (AVC); Constantinos (Costa) Nicolaidis, Acting Director, Office of WMD Terrorism, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN); Nicole Rothenberg, Program Advisor, Cooperative Threat Reduction program, ISN
Caryn Leslie, Director of ICSB, National Academies
National Intelligence Council (NIC): James Murphy, National Intelligence Officer for WMD
MEETING 5: JANUARY 26 AND 27, 2023 (KECK, WASHINGTON, DC)
Jennifer Pavlick, Risk Lead, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Directorate, DHS
Jeff Cooper, PANTHR Program Manager, Science and Technology Directorate, DHS
Thomas Breske, Senior Advisor, WMD-CT Division, National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), ODNI
Drew Ryan, Issues Manager, WMD-CT Division, NCTC and National Counter-proliferation and Biosecurity Center (NCBC), ODNI
Mark L. Sward, Chief, Nuclear Effects Division, Nuclear Technologies Department, Research and Development Directorate, DTRA
Caleb Fullerton, Intelligence Analysis, Federal Bureau of Investigation
MEETING 6: MARCH 23 AND 24, 2023 (KECK, WASHINGTON, DC)
Thomas W. Geyer, Director, Strategic Initiatives, White House Military Office, DoD
Richard C. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Nuclear and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (N-CWMD), Office of the Secretary of Defense, DoD
