Planning

Rich is a US Naval Officer with 20+ years of leadership experience working within the Joint Operations Environment. He has extensive planning involvement at both the strategic and joint level, with knowledge across the European, NATO and Maritime domains. Rich has worked multiple Operations Plans against near peer adversaries and was part of a five person team instructed to evaluate and develop a naval reestablishment plan for Ukrainian naval forces after the annex of Crimea.  Rich is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, holds a Masters degree from the University of Maryland and completed Joint Professional Military Education (JPME I) from the Air Command and Staff College.