The Hoover Institution is pleased to welcome its 2022–23 class of the Robert and Marion Oster National Security Affairs Fellowship Program.
The distinguished group includes eight fellows who are high-ranking officers representing US military branches and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They have each taken a sabbatical from their operational duties to spend their academic year at Hoover and pursue independent research.
The program offers these national security professionals the valuable opportunity to engage with Hoover’s fellowship and scholars across the Stanford campus, as well as audit classes, attend seminars, and participate in workshops, roundtables, and other events with policy experts and government officials. In addition, National Security Affairs Fellows (NSAFs) can develop lasting professional networks and personal relationships with Silicon Valley industry leaders, former government officials on campus, and Hoover fellows.
These unique resources afford the officers an environment that allows them to gain an interdisciplinary perspective about public policy and think strategically about America’s national security challenges.
In addition to conducting research, the NSAFs are also expected to provide mentorship to three or four of Stanford University’s top undergraduate students who are interested in international policy and security studies. For NSAFs, their mentorship offers a way to engage in life at Stanford University. For students, it’s the chance of a lifetime to receive leadership training from professionals at the top of their field. Students also have the opportunity to collaborate with NSAFs on designing a ten-week lecture series and organizing an “alternative spring break” to military bases and political offices in Washington, DC, in order to achieve a better understanding of civil-military relations.
The National Security Affairs Fellows Program, directed by Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow Amy Zegart, began in 1969 and has more than two hundred distinguished alumni, including H. R. McMaster (US Army, ret.), Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow and the former White House national security advisor; John Abizaid (US Army, ret.) former CENTCOM commander and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia; John Negroponte (US State Department), former US ambassador to the United Nations and former director of national intelligence; and former US representative Chris Gibson (US Army, ret.).
The 2022–23 class features eight distinguished professionals representing five US uniformed service branches and the FBI:
Commander Bart Michael D’Angelo (US Navy): Commander Bart D’Angelo is an intelligence officer with afloat tours aboard multiple aircraft carriers. He has served ashore with submarines, maritime patrol aircraft, Pacific Fleet headquarters, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and NORAD/US Northern Command. Most recently D’Angelo served as deputy for intelligence on the US Seventh Fleet staff in Yokosuka, Japan. His awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal, as well as multiple unit and service awards.
Commander Corey Allen Braddock (US Coast Guard): Commander Corey Braddock is a 26-year veteran of the US military—18 years with the Coast Guard and eight with the Army. He has served both services leading troops and piloting aircraft, and as a staff officer across a myriad of organizational constructs. He recently completed a tour as Air Station San Francisco’s executive officer. He has also served at Air Stations Detroit, Michigan; Air Station Savannah, Georgia; the Helicopter Tactical Interdiction Squadron in Jacksonville, Florida; and US Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, DC. As an army officer, he commanded troops in the Second Infantry Division, the 101st Airborne Division, and the 337th Infantry Regiment (Active Component/Reserve Component). He has achieved over four thousand hours flying the MH-65 Dolphin, UH-60 Blackhawk, and OH-58 Kiowa Warrior and is an instructor pilot, maintenance test pilot, and Federal Aviation Administration airline transport pilot.
Colonel Henry C. Brown (US Army): Colonel Henry C. Brown is a logistics officer and served in various assignments in the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Indo-Pacific. He has also deployed to the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters multiple times. Brown’s most recent command was with Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy Middle East in Bahrain from 2017 to 2019. He was the senior regional leader for DLA Energy, responsible for the storage, supply, and distribution of bulk petroleum products to US Forces, US Department of State, and Allied Forces throughout the CENTCOM area of operations. In his most recent assignment, Brown was the operations/exercises chief in the Logistics Directorate for US Forces Korea.
Colonel Joshua Michael Gaspard (US Army): Colonel Joshua Gaspard has served in a variety of command and staff positions in the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Italy, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In addition, Gaspard was an academic instructor at the US Military Academy at West Point in the Department of Systems Engineering (focused on operations management and supply chain management). His most recent assignment was the US Army Hawaii and 25th Infantry Division’s operations officer at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Special Agent Kari Denise McInturff (FBI): Special Agent Kari McInturff is assigned to the National Security branch of the San Francisco field office of the FBI. Since 2008, she has investigated complex threats in economic espionage, counterproliferation, and domestic terrorism, as well as criminal violations in international human trafficking, public corruption, and civil rights. She has devoted her government career to building partnerships that safeguard the scientific community both domestically and internationally. McInturff’s expertise in biological weapons and countermeasures has allowed her to work within academia as well as the public and private sectors to identify key research around emerging technology that has dual-use potential.
Lieutenant Colonel James Michael Harrington (US Air Force): Lieutenant Colonel James Harrington is a cyberspace officer with a background in deployed communications, network engineering, information operations, cyberspace operations, and joint planning. He commanded two separate communications squadrons and served in US Central Command, at NATO’s Strategic Operational Headquarters, and on the Air Staff. He has deployed several times, supporting various named operations around the world. Most recently, Harrington served in the Pentagon as the cyber protection branch chief, within the office of the Air Force chief information security officer.
Lieutenant Colonel Mathew Beck (US Space Force): Lieutenant Colonel Mathew Beck is a space operations officer with a focus on satellite command and control. Most recently, he commanded a National Reconnaissance Office squadron conducting continuous command, control, and communication operations for multiple satellite systems. He has also served on the Air Force Space Command staff as a member of the space force stand-up team. Beck has deployed to Southwest Asia on the director of space forces staff and was an instructor at the Air Force Weapons School.
Lieutenant Colonel Arun Shankar (US Marine Corps): Lieutenant Colonel Arun Shankar has served in a variety of command and support roles throughout his twenty-year career as a communications officer. As a lieutenant, he served as the S-6A for the Third Marine Regiment. As a captain, he spent 28 months in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) across various billets. As a major, Shankar served in three years of company command across the First Marine Logistics Group and First Marine Division. He also attended the School of Advanced Warfighting and served as an instructor at the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Staff Training Program.
This fall, PolicyEd, the Hoover Institution’s multimedia education platform, is releasing a new video series, To Serve & to Lead: An Examination of Leadership in National Security, featuring the 2021–22 class of National Security Affairs Fellows. In eight episodes, the fellows reflect on their careers in the armed forces and diplomacy and provide leadership wisdom that they acquired in their service to America.
For more information on the National Security Affairs Fellowship, contact Taylor McLamb at twj@stanford.edu, (650) 723-1395.
