Staff

David J. Berteau, Senior Advisor and Director:

David J. Berteau is senior adviser and director of the CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, where he leads research related to the health and management of the defense industrial base, including projects on defense acquisition reform, export controls, contracts for federal services, the U.S. defense software industrial base, and complex program management. Mr. Berteau serves on Defense Science Board task forces on the defense industrial structure and on integrating commercial systems into defense. He also serves on the secretary of the army’s Commission on Army Acquisition and Program Management in Expeditionary Operations.

Prior to joining CSIS, he was director of national defense and homeland security for Clark & Weinstock, with state governments, academic institutions, associations, and private firms as clients. A former director of Syracuse University’s National Security Studies Program, Mr. Berteau is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a member of the Defense Acquisition University Board of Visitors, and a director of the Procurement Round Table. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the Federal Outreach Advisory Committee of the Association of Defense Communities. Previously, Mr. Berteau was a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for seven years, and he served in the Defense Department under four defense secretaries, including four years as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for production and logistics.

Mr. Berteau graduated with a B.A. from Tulane University in 1971 and received his master’s degree in 1981 from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.

Greg Kiley, Senior Associate:

Gregory Kiley is a Senior Associate at CSIS, covering national security and defense budget matters.  Having recently left Capitol Hill, Mr. Kiley spent the past six years as a Senior Professional Staff Member for the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC).  As Staff Director for two SASC subcommittees, his oversight portfolio included all air and ground forces, military readiness, the Department of Defense budget, information technology, and defense business transformation efforts.  Responsibilities included coordinating and conducting congressional hearings, developing and drafting legislation, and negotiating and staffing passage of annual National Defense Authorization Acts and supplemental spending bills. Prior to joining the SASC, Mr. Kiley spent 3 years as a Principal Analyst for the National Security Division of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concentrating on logistics and readiness issues.  He authored two major reports entitled The Effects of Aging on the Cost of Operating and Maintaining Military Equipment (August, 2001) and The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans (January 2003).  Prior to the CBO, Mr. Kiley served 15 years in the US Air Force, primarily as a C-130 Pilot, deploying throughout the world including Southwest Asia, Europe, the Far East, and Latin America.  He also held positions as a Wing Plans Officer, Maintenance Officer, and Information Management Officer.  Mr. Kiley is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy (1988), the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland (1990), and the Seminar XXI Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003). 

Gary Powell, Senior Associate:

Gary Powell is a Senior Associate with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  Prior to joining CSIS, Mr. Powell spent more than thirty years with the Department of Defense, most recently, as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Defense for Industrial Policy (ADUSD(IP)), the senior career DoD executive for all matters related to the defense industry and industrial policy.  As the ADUSD(IP), Mr. Powell directed or oversaw all corporate DoD industrial capability assessments to identify potential near-term industrial bottlenecks and long-term industrial capability viability concerns. He also represented DoD equities to Congress for current and proposed “Buy American” legislation; and other industrial base-related statutes and policies. 

Mr. Powell directed DoD mergers and acquisitions reviews for both antitrust (Hart-Scott-Rodino) and national security (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) purposes.  Mr. Powell also directed DoD’s Defense Priorities and Allocations System and Priority Allocation of Industrial Resources Task Force to ensure the most important DoD programs receive priority delivery when faced with production resource constraints; most recently supporting U.S. and coalition operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Finally, Mr. Powell's responsibilities also included the development of policies, procedures, analyses, and recommendations relating to defense industrial resources and defense industry trends; and the programmatic, industrial, financial, and economic impacts of DoD acquisition strategies on the industrial base.

Hardin Lang, Senior Fellow:

Hardin Lang is a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program. Previously he worked at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations, where he was responsible for Afghanistan and Haiti and helped establish the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Haiti, directed by former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Lang has spent over 11 years working for the United Nations and other international organizations in conflict zones, including in Central America, the Balkans, Gaza, and Iraq. His areas of expertise include peacekeeping and stability operations, humanitarian assistance, displaced populations, human rights, and economic dimensions of peace building. He has published widely, including for the Economist Intelligence Unit, and has been a contributing author to numerous UN reports. His research on political violence in Central America was published by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He holds a masters in public administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and a masters in international history from the London School of Economics.

Guy Ben-Ari, Fellow:

Guy Ben-Ari is a fellow with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group in the CSIS International Security Program, where he works on projects related to U.S. and European technology and industrial bases supporting defense.

Prior to joining CSIS, Mr. Ben-Ari was a research associate at the George Washington University’s Center for International Science and Technology Policy, where he worked on European research and development policies and European network-centric capabilities. From 2000 to 2002, he was involved with collaborative research and development programs for Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., an Israeli high-technology company in the field of satellite communications, and from 1995 to 2000, he was a technology analyst for the Israeli government. He has also consulted for the European Commission and the World Bank on innovation policy and project evaluation.

Mr. Ben-Ari holds a master’s degree in international science and technology policy from the George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Tel Aviv University. He is the coauthor of Transforming European Militaries: Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap (Routledge, 2006) and the author of various book chapters and articles.

Matthew Zlatnik, Fellow:

Matthew Zlatnik is a fellow with the CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, where he focuses on how technological, industrial, and budgetary issues affect defense policy. At CSIS he has spent significant time on the Organizing for a Complex World project and on the Resources Working Group of the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR), a research study assessing and recommending changes to the national security system.

Mr. Zlatnik previously spent 10 years in investment banking, primarily working with corporate clients in the telecommunications industry. He holds an M.A in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Carleton College.

Ashley Chandler, Research Associate:

Ashley graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) in December 2008 with a M.S. in twentieth to twenty-first century global politics. At the LSE, she focused on intensifying globalization; the changing nature of the nation-state; the transformation of world financial markets and global inequality; conflicts and shifts in geopolitical power; and HIV/AIDS. Her graduate thesis examined the level of coherence in the diplomatic maneuvers and policies of the Organization of American States, United Nations, and United States during the 1991–1994 crises in Haiti.

Before commending graduate studies, Ashley was selected as the sole research proxy for the late Professor Kennell Jackson at Stanford University and spent a semester at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Ashley also has a M.A. in U.S. history from George Washington University, where she concentrated on nineteenth to twentieth century U.S. foreign policy. She received a B.A. in U.S. history from Stanford University, where she studied immigration, race and ethnicity, civil rights movements, and U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

Joachim Hofbauer, Research Associate:

Joachim Hofbauer is a research associate with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He specializes in U.S. and European defense acquisition and industrial base issues, and their impact on the transatlantic defense market. Before joining CSIS, Mr. Hofbauer worked as a freelance defense analyst in Germany and the United Kingdom. His analysis has been published in several U.S. and German defense publications. Mr. Hofbauer holds a B.A. in European Studies from the University of Passau, and an M.A. with honors in Security Studies, with a concentration in Defense Analysis, from Georgetown University.

Thomas Patterson, Research Associate:

Thomas Patterson is a research associate with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS. Previously, he interned with the Washington Quarterly, CSIS's flagship journal of international affairs, and in early 2009, he contributed to a report of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Brink (CSIS, February 2009). He also worked as a reporter and editor for the Berlin Reporter in New Hampshire and the Martinsville Bulletin in Virginia. He received an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in Asian studies, with a focus on Islamic studies and the modern history and  politics of Pakistan, and a B.A. in history from Washington and Lee University.

Greg Sanders, Research Associate:

Greg Sanders is a research associate with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS, where he gathers and analyzes data on U.S. defense policy issues. He has worked on DIIG’s software industrial base study and its complexity series. He previously worked as an intern for the CSIS Global Strategy Institute, where he focused on long-term global trends. Mr. Sanders holds an M.A. in international relations from the University of Denver and a B.A. in government and politics and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Maryland.

Tara Callahan, Project Manager:

Tara Callahan is a project manager with the Defense Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS. She has lived and studied in France and speaks fluent French. Since joining CSIS, she has helped to coordinate the oral histories component of the Project on Nuclear Issues U.S.-UK Nuclear History Project and contributed an article to the CSIS publication, U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation After 50 Years (2008). Ms. Callahan holds a B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle and an international diploma from l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France.

Roy Levy, Consultant:

Roy Levy is a Consultant with the Defense-Industrial Initiative Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he specializes in financial aspects of the U.S. defense industrial base. Before joining CSIS, Mr. Levy was a Policy Analyst with a New York City-based economic research firm and was a Fellow at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies between 2007 and 2009. He is the author and co-author of several published articles on international security issues.  Mr. Levy holds a B.A. in Political Economy from the City University of New York.

Daniel LaGraffe, Research Intern:

Dan LaGraffe is a research intern with the Defense Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University focused on transnational security threats and security and development. He holds a B.A in political science from Arizona State University, as well as a certificate in international studies. While at Arizona State University, he studied the Arabic language and studied abroad in Amman, Jordan.  His prior experiences include service in the United States Marine Corps and an internship at the Institute for Terrorism Research and Response.

Nicholas Sever, Research Intern:

Nicholas Sever is a research intern with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS. His prior experience includes work with a firm providing contract and acquisition training to the federal government, as well as an internship with Sen. John Kerry. He holds a B.A. in economics and French from Georgetown University and a certificate in political studies from l’Institut d’Études Politiques de Lyon in Lyon, France.