NSS | Board of Advisors

National Security Studies (NSS) is the product of The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.  The purpose of the National Security Studies Board of Advisors is to support the efforts of the Max efforts of the Maxwell School to design and conduct programs in support of NSS for the premiere Executive Management and Development Program in security policy.  It is the work of the Board to guide NSS in maintaining a standard of excellence and currency in each of the courses NSS offers to the military and civilian leadership of the public and private sectors.

Honorable Les AuCoin, Former Representative to the United States House of Representatives from the State of Oregon, First Congressional District.

Mr. David J. Berteau, Director of Homeland Security, Homeland Defense, Clark and Weinstock; former Senior Vice President for Science Applications International Corporation; former NSS Director.

Dr. James Blandin, Professor, Naval Postgraduate School; former Dean of Management and Security Studies.

Mrs. Natalie W. Crawford, Vice President and Director, Project Air Force, the RAND Corporation.

General Ed Eberhart, USAF, (Ret.), Former Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command.

General Larry Ellis, USA, (Ret.), President and CEO, DHB Industries; former Commander, United States Army Forces Command.

Mr. Richard E. Friedman, President and Chair, National Strategy Forum, Inc.; Chair of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security; and Chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Legal Historical Society.

Dr. Kevin C. Gottlieb, Adjunct Professor, Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; and President, Gottlieb and Associates.

General Joseph P. Hoar, USMC (Ret.), Chairman, NSS Board of Advisors; President, J.P. Hoar & Associates; former Commander-in-Chief Central Command.

Honorable Susan Morrisey Livingstone, former Under Secretary of the Navy.

Honorable Sean O'Keefe, Chancellor, Louisiana State University; former administrator of NASA; former Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget; former Secretary of the Navy; former NSS director.

Mr. A.L. Papenfus, Former Director of  Personnel & Security, Washington Headquarters Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Colonel F. William Smullen, III, USA (Ret.),  Director, National Security Studies; Maxwell Senior Fellow in National Security; Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.

Dr. Janet E. Wall,  President, Sage Solutions, Rockville, MD; Vice President, Corporate Assessment, National Loyalty Academy.

Honorable G. Kim Wincup, Corporate Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation; former Assistant Secretary of the Army; and former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.

Honorable George C. Wortley, Retired member of the U.S. House of Representatives, President of Sunrise Holdings Inc., Principal in Dierman, Wortley & Zola, Inc.