Austin Branch
Professor of Practice, University of Maryland, Applied Research Lab for Intelligence & Security
Austin Branch is a national security and intelligence senior executive with over 35 years in federal service and private sector. He served in multiple Army Command and Staff positions, including becoming the Army's first Information Operations Officer. Branch also served as OIE Technology & Integration Director and Senior Advisor at Secretary of the Air Force Directorate for Concepts, Development and Management; and in several senior roles in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
OPINION -- Senior policymakers, military leaders, technologists and narrative strategists had one thing on their minds as they gathered in a Reston conference room last week - how decision advantage, [...] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — In 1943, a body washed up on a beach in Huelva, Spain. It was the body of a Royal Marine officer, Major William Martin. Martin was carrying papers, cuffed to his wrist in a [...] More
