Join us this Friday, February 10, 2023, @ 0800-1000 ET DEFTECH Coffee Call
(Microsoft TEAMS Link Below)
Topic: A View From the Beltway (Wash DC): Defense Implications for 2023
Guest Speaker: Ted Anderson is a seasoned Government Relations specialist and managing director with the SIGNAL Group (https://signaldc.com/ ).
Ted is a retired Army combat arms officer with extensive experience in worldwide joint contingency planning and operations, legislative programs, and Department of Defense policy. After serving nineteen years on parachute status at FT Bragg, NC in various elite airborne units, he completed his twenty-three-year career at the Pentagon. Since retiring in 2003, Mr. Anderson has provided strategic planning and marketing, business development and government consulting services to a wide variety of defense companies and contractors.
Prior to retirement from the Army, Mr. Anderson served four years in the Office of Legislative Liaison for the Secretary of the Army. He was personally accountable for developing and implementing congressional goals and objectives for Army transformation policy, readiness/training issues, current/strategic/contingency world-wide operations and policy, and mobilization plans and policy, and aggressively implemented strategies that contributed in large part to the Army’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). While serving as Chief of the Policy Branch in Legislative Liaison, Mr. Anderson was additionally responsible for all Army personnel issues, military construction/real estate, base realignment and closure, Army medical issues, chemical demilitarization, Army logistics and material command accounts, and the Army National Guard and Army Reserve affairs portfolio.
In his capacity as a liaison officer to the Congress, Mr. Anderson traveled extensively while escorting Members and staff throughout the world. Additionally, he planned and conducted numerous joint service trips, including field hearings on the East and West Coasts that further solidified the lasting relationships with Members, committee staff, and personal staff.
Mr. Anderson has held multiple combat command assignments and following the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Mr. Anderson was awarded the Soldiers Medal for Valor, the nation’s highest award for bravery in peacetime, which was presented by the Secretary of the Army for heroism rendered on behalf of the many victims he rescued from the burning building on that fateful day.
His other military tours included, 82d Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), other units within XVIIIth Airborne Corps, and an assignment as a Department of Defense Arms Control Inspector with the On-Site Inspection Agency, and various Classified (Assignments) tours overseas.
Ted holds an Associate of Arts Degree in Government Affairs from New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, New Mexico, a B. A. in Education from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and a M. A. in International Relations from the Government Affairs Institute, Georgetown University. He was awarded lifetime membership to the Wounded Warrior Project, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and belongs to the American Legion and The Association of the United States Army.
Show up early at 0800 for the DEFTECH Early Bird or at the 0830 Opps Update to join the DEFTECH Team as we review current federal technology opportunities.
*Note: The link is the same as the Coffee Call.*
**Note: If you have a topic that you would like to present or recommend, please let us know at deftech@ncmbc.us
2023 DEFTECH Coffee Call Connection Instructions:
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