IWG Sponsors, Co-chairs, Members, and Project Advisors

IFPA provides organizational support for the IWG. This includes organizing and hosting IWG meetings as well as substantive and editorial inputs into the reports produced under IWG auspices. The IWG consists of sponsors, co-chairs, members, and project advisors.

  • sponsors
  • co-chairmen
  • members
  • project advisors
IWG Sponsors
  • American Foreign Policy Council
  • Claremont Institute
  • Department of Defense and Strategic Studies
  • Missouri State University
  • Free Congress Research and Education Foundation
  • George C. Marshall Institute
  • Heritage Foundation
  • High Frontier
  • Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Institute of the North
IWG Co-chairmen
Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies

The Fletcher School, Tufts University

President, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis

Dr. William R. Van Cleave

Professor Emeritus

Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University

IWG Members
Mr. Ilan Berman

Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council

Ambassador Henry F. Cooper

Chairman, High Frontier

Former Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization

Former Chief U.S. Negotiator to the Geneva Defense and Space Talks

Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis

Executive Vice President, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis

Dr. Daniel I. Fine

Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mr. Thomas Karako

Director of Programs, Claremont Institute

Mr. Brian Kennedy

President, Claremont Institute

Mr. Jeff Kueter

President, George C. Marshall Institute

Mr. Eric Licht

President, Coalitions for America

Senior Policy Analyst, Free Congress Research and Education Foundation

Mr. R. Daniel McMichael

Independent Consultant and Defense/Security Analyst

Secretary, Carthage Foundation

Secretary, Sarah Scaife Foundation

Dr. Kiron Skinner

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Stanford University

Mr. H. Baker Spring

F.M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy

Heritage Foundation

Mr. Mead Treadwell

Senior Fellow, Institute of the North

Professor Robert F. Turner

Co-Founder and Associate Director, Center for National Security Law

University of Virginia Law School

Vice Admiral J.D. Williams, USN (Ret.)

Williams Associates International, Inc.

Former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Naval Warfare

and Commander, U.S. Sixth Fleet

Dr. Lowell Wood

Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Stanford University

Commissioner, Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States

IWG Project Advisors
Dr. Gregory Canavan

Scientific Advisor, Physics Division Los Alamos National Laboratory

Mr. John H. Darrah

Former Chief Scientist, U.S. Air Force Space Command

Dr. William R. Graham

Chairman and CEO, National Security Research, Inc.

Former Science Advisor to the President

Dr. Jack Hammond

Senior Scientist, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Former Director of Kinetic Energy and Directed Energy Programs

Strategic Defense Initiative Organization

Dr. Charles M. Kupperman

Vice President of Washington Operations, Lockheed Space and Missile Sector

Former Special Assistant to the President for Administration (Reagan administration)

Former Executive Director, General Advisory Committee on Arms Control

Dr. John Norton Moore

Walter L. Brown Professor of Law Director, Center for National Security Law

Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy

University of Virginia Law School

Dr. Keith B. Payne

President, National Institute for Public Policy

Professor and Department Head, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies

Missouri State University in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Michael J. Rendine

President, Assured Space Access Technologies

Former Director, Special Projects

Strategic Defense Initiative Organization