• Chemical and biological defense and the U.S. chemical demilitarization program
• Homeland security and defense against terrorism including CBRNE terrorism
• Cooperative Threat Reduction-sponsored nuclear, chemical and biological weapons demilitarization
• Military threat analysis, preparedness and force protection
• Training and communications projects for Iraq and Afghanistan
• Nuclear weapons complex cleanup.

Specific consulting projects have included assisting in planning for demilitarizing the chemical agent stockpiles in Libya and Syria, preparing for potential WMD disposition operations in Iraq, planning the Vozrozhdeniya Island anthrax cleanup, orchestrating a multi-study analysis on the vulnerabilities of U.S. forces in CONUS to chemical and biological attacks (the “CB 2010,” “Pope-Bragg,” and “Port” studies), chairing an "Overarching Issues Assessment" of the U.S. chemical demilitarization program for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Chemical Demilitarization).

Other projects undertaken have included performing detailed management and safety reviews of chemical demilitarization facilities, providing market assessments and capture assistance to several clients for U.S. and Former Soviet Union nuclear, chemical and biological security and demilitarization projects, developing specific company-oriented DHS, DOE and DoD business plans, and managing a number of major capture and proposal efforts as well as serving on planning and review teams for business development and proposal pursuits.

Specific accomplishments at TRW included:

• Planned, prioritized, and performed business development activities, including R&D resource allocation, and proposals, successfully moving a major TRW Division into the Federal Government environmental business market.
• Managed large, complex, multi-company teams in two unique proposals, one for a $100 M system engineering contract for the U.S. Army Chemical Systems Disposal Program and one for the $1 B contract which led to the formation of TRW Environmental Safety Systems Inc.
• Developed the first Five-Year Strategic Plan for the TRW Federal Systems Group. Analyzed engineering services, information systems, command and control centers, and facility security systems markets; developed strategy for growth of sales; defined resource requirements, including selecting personnel; and orchestrated pursuits of identified opportunities.

Specific accomplishments included:

• Key government advocate in obtaining Congressional support for production of binary chemical weapons and chemical defense equipment.
• Orchestrated the multi-billion-dollar Army program for the demilitarization of the U.S. stockpile of chemical munitions, including coordinating with EPA, the public, and Congress; developed and defended the Programmatic EIS.
• Led the Army restructuring of its $400 M/year ballistic missile defense research program to meet Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) technical objectives.
• Negotiated the Compact of Free Association between the Marshall Islands and the United States providing for continued use and modernization of the Kwajalein Atoll for testing.
• Negotiated a tri-agency program for development of a heavy lift helicopter and the Army-Navy agreement to transfer the V-22 between the two Services.
• Systematized and augmented the Army utilization of technical advisors. Established three new advisory organizations – the Board on Army Science and Technology at the National Academy of Sciences, a Center for Army Command and Control work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Army Arroyo Center at the Rand Corporation.
• Primary Administration spokesperson on Army materiel policies and programs for the public, the media, and Congress, including appearances on Sixty Minutes, the Today Show, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, and Good Morning America. As a member of the select President’s Surrogate Group, represented the Administration in speaking engagements, particularly to hostile audiences, on the defense buildup, the chemical demilitarization program, and Army and SDI programs.

• Representative of the United States, by Presidential Appointment, to the Joint Commission on the Environment of the United States and Panama, 1992-1997.
• Member, Atlantic Council Task Force on "Defining a New Relationship: The Issue of U.S. Access to Facilities in Panama," 1996.
• Member, Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on "Defense Simulation and Modeling," 1993.
• Chair, Technology Sharing & Export Control Panel, Defense Nuclear Agency International Conference on Controlling Arms, 1993.
• Member, White House Task Force on Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 1987-1990.
• Member, Defense Science Board Summer Study on Chemical Warfare, 1980.
• Member Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff Science Advisory Board, 1977-1982.

• National Security Industrial Association. Chair, Environment Committee, 1996-1997 and Chair of NSIA's “First Defense Industry and the Environmental Agenda” conference.
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Member, Missile Systems Technical Committee 1986-1990, Session Chair, Strategic Systems Conference, 1988; member of biannual Strategic Systems Conference Committees through 1994.
• Past Board memberships: American Helicopter Society; Military Operations Research Society (President, 1980-1981); Committee on the Present Danger; Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute.
• Current Board memberships: Center for Security Policy; Women in International Security.