EMPLOYMENT 2011 2013 Deputy Secretary of Defense The #2 position and chief operating officer of the DOD, overseeing more than $600 billion per year and 2.4 million military and civilian personnel, and managing global 24/7 operations. Led two major reviews of the defense strategy and budget that were adopted by the President and Secretary of Defense, including the Asia-Pacific "pivot" and the new cyber warfare strategy. Formulated the current DOD investment strategies for cyber/enterprise IT, space, manned and unmanned weapons systems, intelligence and reconnaissance systems, special forces, counterterrorism and counter-weapons of mass destruction, energy innovation, healthcare, logistics and supply chain, personnel, and all other aspects of DOD operations, technology, and R&D including funding for DARPA and NSA. Completed major international cooperative defense efforts, arms sales, and export controls reforms, including major transactions with India, NATO, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. 2009 2011 Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics The #3 position in the Pentagon, with responsibility for procurement of all technology, systems, services, and supplies, bases and infrastructure, energy and environment, and more than $50 billion annually in R&D. Led huge manufacturing and logistics programs to successful completion, including the restructuring of the Joint Strike Fighter (the largest DOD program in history), the Boeing-Airbus competition for the KC-X tanker (the largest procurement in DOD history), and the 2010 "surge" in Afghanistan (building more than 200 new bases and delivering 8,000 new MRAP armored vehicles to theater in 16 months). Canceled hundreds of billions of dollars of underperforming programs like the VH-71 Presidential Helicopter. Led major partnering initiatives with industry, including new and small business via DARPA and other funding arms overseen by the Undersecretary. 1
1996-2009 Senior administrator, researcher, author of noted books and articles on national security policy and technology policy, speaker, and teacher; investment advisor in technology, aerospace and global risk; government advisor; board member of prominent non-profit research and technology institutions. Chair, International Relations, Security & Science Area Faculty & Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs John F. Kennedy School of Government Co-Director (with William J. Perry) Preventive Defense Project Harvard & Stanford Universities Defense Policy Board, U.S. Department of Defense, 1997-2001 Defense Science Board, U.S. Department of Defense, 1991-93, 1997-2001 International Security Advisory Board to the Secretary of State, 2004-2009 MIT Lincoln Laboratories Advisory Board, 1998-2009, Chairman 2004-2008 Board of Trustees, The MITRE Corporation, 1989-93, 1996-2009 Senior Partner, Global Technology Partners, LLC, 1998-2009 Consultant to Goldman Sachs on international affairs and technology matters, 1998 2009 Draper Laboratory Corporation, 1999-2009 Miretek Systems, Inc. Board of Trustees, 1997-2007 National Security Advisory Group to Senate Democratic Leadership, 108 th Congress, 2006 2008 Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, 2004 2009 National Missile Defense White Team, 2001 2009 National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, 2001-2003 Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000 2009 Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Defense, 1998-2002 2
1998-2000 Senior Advisor to the North Korea Policy Review U.S. Department of State Deputy to William Perry, charged by President Clinton with negotiating with South Korea, Japan, China, and North Korea regarding the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula and North Korea's nuclear program. Involved travel to North Korea for direct talks with Pyongyang. 1993-1996 Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy U.S. Department of Defense Responsible for policy regarding the former Soviet States, strategic affairs, and nuclear weapons policy. Ran the Nunn-Lugar program, a $400-$500 billion per year program to secure nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union. Accomplished the removal of all nuclear weapons from the territory of Ukraine, Kazakstan, and Belarus and the elimination of thousands of nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles, and nuclear bombers. Responsible for establishing defense relationships with Russia and all 15 new states resulting from the breakup of the Soviet Union. Secured Russia's participation in NATO council and in the peacekeeping force for Bosnia. 1990-1993 Director, Center for Science and International Affairs Director of the largest research center in the Kennedy School of Government, supervising and conducting studies that included the proposals to control the nuclear weapons of the former Soviet Union that became the Nunn-Lugar program. Author or co-author of noted and longselling technical books on ballistic missile defense, space technology, nuclear command and control, nonproliferation, and national science and technology policy for competitiveness. Board of Trustees, German Marshall Fund, 1992-93 Sandia National Laboratory, President's Advisory Council, 1992-93 Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Advisory Panel on START Verification Technologies, 1991-92 Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, Advisory Council, 1990-93 Defense Science Board Task Force on New Scenarios and Intelligence, 1990 National Academy of Sciences Panel on National Security Export Controls, 1990-91 White House, President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, Panel on National Security, 1990-91 National Research Council Naval Studies Advisory Committee on the Future of the Aircraft Carrier, 1990-91 3
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, 1990-1993 Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on the Premises of the NATO Alliance, 1989 Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Business and Government in an Interdependent World, 1989 Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on START Verification Technologies, 1989-90 Chairman of the Editorial Board, International Security, 1988-93 Commission on The Presidency and Science Advising, 1988 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Committee on International Security Studies, 1987-92 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security, 1984-1991 Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1987-93 Advisory Panel on Military Uses of Space, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, 1985-86 Selection Committee, MacArthur Foundation Grants for Research and Writing in International Security, 1987-88 Kistiakowsky Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987-88 Consultant, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, 1986-1988 Selection Committee, MacArthur Foundation Fellowships in International Security, 1986-88 Joint Chiefs of Staff Advisory Group on the Future of U.S.-Soviet Military Relations, 1988-89 Steering Group on Space Weapons, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985-86 Core Study Group on the Effects of Military Efforts in Space, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1985-86 Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984-93 Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution, 1982-93 1988-1990 Professor, and Associate Director, Center for Science and International Affairs 1986-1988 Associate Professor 1984-1986 Assistant Professor 4
1982-1984 Research Fellow, Center for International Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology Authored first public report based on full access to classified information of the "Star Wars" initiative. Analyzed the prospect that space-based chemical, free-electron, or excimer lasers, or neutral particle beams, or space-based interceptors, could protect the United States from nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. Report's finding that such defenses were not technically feasible attracted wide attention. 1981-1982 Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Technology and program analyst in the office of Secretaries of Defense Brown and Weinberger on programs for missile defense, nuclear command and control, space programs, the nuclear arsenal, and continuity of government 1980-1981 International Security and Commerce Program Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress Co-author of noted study on MX Missile Basing, the U.S. DOD's efforts to base the MX Intercontinental Ballistic Missile so that it would not be vulnerable to a first strike by the Soviet Union and thus undermine nuclear stability. 1979-1980 Research Associate, Theoretical Physics Rockefeller University, New York Research and publication on time-reversal invariance and dynamical symmetry breaking. 1977-1979 Physics Instructor ("Tutor" in the Oxford system) Oxford University Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Research and publication on tests of the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (the force that holds quarks into protons, neutrons, and other particles) by computing solutions to the theory for the case of high-energy electron-proton collisions in accelerators via perturbation theory. 1975-1976 Experimental Research Associate Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory Yale University-led experiments on polarization of prompt muons as a sign of decay of the W meson, mediating quantum of the weak interactions (that cause beta decay), in high energy accelerator beams. 5
EDUCATION 1976-1979 Oxford University Ph.D., Theoretical Physics Rhodes Scholar Senior Scholar, St. John's College Best Participant Prize, NATO Center for Subnuclear Physics 1972-1976 Yale University B.A., summa cum laude Honors in Medieval History Honors in Physics Phi Beta Kappa Andrew D. White Essay Prize in European History HONORS Distinguished Public Service Medal, Department of Defense (awarded five times 1994, 1995, 2010, 2012, 2013). The highest civilian award of the Department of Defense. Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award, awarded by the Chairman and Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2013. Defense Intelligence Medal, from the Defense Intelligence Agency, April 1998. Eisenhower Award, from the National Defense Industrial Association, for contributions to national defense and the defense industrial base, 2013. Forum Award, American Physical Society, For his clear and lucid exposition of the physics issues in the nuclear arms race and his unique ability to combine his physics background and good judgment to clarify the technical parameters of these important public policy issues, 1988. Ten Outstanding Young Americans, United States Jaycees, 1987. 6
CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Physical Society Aspen Strategy Group Council on Foreign Relations International Institute for Strategic Studies National Committee on U.S. - China Relations PUBLICATIONS Ash Carter is author or co-author of 11 books and more than 100 articles on physics, technology, national security, and management. 7