Bryan Smith Email & Phone Number

Fairfax, Virginia

Senior Fellow -- research and writing on national security issues, including North Korean denuclearization, advanced technologies, security clearance reform, and budgetary issues. Career mentoring.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Advisor assistance on intelligence programs and resources

Washington Dc

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Prepared management agenda in intelligence for new Administration

The Capitol, Hvc-304, Washington D.C.

-- Played a lead role in passage of five consecutive years of intelligence authorization bills after several years of non-passage-- Led a professional staff of 15 in making detailed funding, policy, and management recommendations to Committee Members on the intelligence budget (roughly $70 billion) for the annual Intelligence Authorization bill-- Presented formal testimony and briefings to the Committee Members on my assessments and recommendations-- Led production of the Classified Annex to the bill, which contains detailed direction to the Intelligence Community. -- Formulated recommended responses to Administration reprogramming requests-- Led oversight on policy issues related to energy security, economics, arms control, and foreign weapons of mass destruction-- Conducted extensive overseas travel in performance of oversight responsibilites

Washington D.C.

-- Authored a proposed Presidential agenda for U.S. intelligence-- Helped nominate potential candidates for top intelligence posts

Washington D.C.

-- Co-led Committee's oversight activities-- Advisor to the Committee's Vice Chairman, Sen. Kit Bond, on budget matters-- Led committee oversight on financial management, acquisition, energy security, foreign weapons of mass destruction, and arms control-- Served as lead Republican staff member in U.S. Senate on verification policy issues during the ratification process for the New START Treaty and produced the comprehensive committee report on treaty verification issues-- Helped vet Presidential nominees for nominees for Senate-confirmed intelligence positions

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-- Led a staff of 120 responsible for budget formulation and execution, program analysis, independent cost analysis, and financial management-- Led the process to formulate the roughly $50 billion National Intelligence Program budget -- Reviewed and approved numerous program analysis studies and independent cost estimates-- Devised and authored a detailed strategy and implementation plan to Congress for producing auditable financial statements for the Intelligence Community-- Led preparation of testimony to Congress on the President's Budget and briefed Congressional staff on the budget

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-- Returned to OMB to lead OMB's policy and budget work on the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) -- formulated three supplemental appropriation requests for Afghanistan, Iraq, and other GWOT efforts-- Served as OMB's representative to National Security Council Deputy Committees and Policy Coordinating Committees on issues involving resources for military operations -- Led OMB's formulation of approximately half the annual DoD budget (O&M, military pay, and Working Capital Funds)-- Formulated policy and legislative proposals on special pay and benefits (e.g. wounded warriors)-- Mediated interagency disputes on funding, personnel, public land use, and environmental regulations-- Served as acting Deputy Associate Director for National Security during the Katrina crisis. As such, advised OMB Director on policy decisions regarding employment of National Guard and resources required for emergency disaster assistance -- Formulated DoD portion of two supplemental appropriation requests for Katrina during one month of the crisis

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-- Assigned to the NRO as a Senior Intelligence Officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-- Performed Deputy CFO duties, managing a staff of about 100, to produce the NRO's roughly $10 billion budget, accounting and finance, and legislative liaison-- Led the NRO's effort to achieve its first "clean" opinion of its annual financial statements -- the first to achieve this in the U.S. Intelligence Communities-- Led the NRO's initiative to modernize and integrate its business enterprise IT systems; terminated a major system development that was not delivering promised functionality-- Conceived and led an initiative to professionalize the resource management cadre of the NRO-- Led an NRO-wide effort to rebalance billets; recommendations accepted by the Director-- Led formulation of supplemental appropriations requests, as well as advocacy to OMB-- Participated in all major budgetary decisions -- including the post-911 build-up-- Represented the NRO in joint Intelligence Community resource deliberation boards, led by the Director of Central Intelligence

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-- Led, in turn, all three branches of OMB's National Security Division,which together comprise theentire Department of Defense's budget, as well as that of the Intelligence Community-- Turned around performance and morale of all three branches, each of which was fraught with personnel problems and underperformance when I assumed leadership, but were all high-performing organizations when I left them after one or two years-- Formulated annual budgets in each area of responsibility -- involved setting "top line" budget levels in negotiations with DoD and the Intelligence Community, and ensuring that Presidential priorities and initiatives were sufficiently supported -- Mediated interagency disputes on funding, personnel, and regulations -- Formulated policy and legislative proposals in my areas of responsibility -- Specific accomplishments included: staffing the President Clinton's first use of his line item veto authority (later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court); terminated a major satellite and a cruise missile program on the basis of poor cost-effectiveness; authored key Presidential transition papers on the defense budget

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-- Performed cost-benefit and policy and budget analysis on U.S. strategic forces, missile defense, nuclear weapons production, and arms control-- Represented OMB in NSC working groups related to arms control-- Weekly briefed OMB Director Darman on defense issues-- Based on extensive cost-benefit analysis, made major proposals for downsizing U,S. strategic forces for the post-Cold War period -- most were ultimately adopted by Presidents Bush and Clinton-- Authored Presidential transition papers on missile defense and strategic forces-- Drafted key sections of the Nunn-Lugar legislative proposal

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-- Staff architect of verification regime for the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and for the Strategic Arms Talks (START) -- required expert knowledge of Soviet forces, U.S. intelligence capability, and U.S. policy needs-- Drafted key portions of INF and START treaty text -- Served as Advisor to the U.S. INF Treaty Delegation in Geneva Switzerland during the treaty's "end-game" negotiations in 1983. --- As Co-Chair of the US-Soviet "Elimination Working Group", negotiated the detailed procedures by which INF missiles and launchers would be destroyed.-- Prepared INF verification briefing presented to President Reagan by my agency director, Ken Adelman-- Served as Executive Secretary for the INF Red Team Study prepared for President Reagan-- Performed analysis of Soviet non-compliance with SALT II and represented my agency in inter-agency working groups that recommended Presidential determination on Soviet arms control compliance. -- Represented my agency on the US-Soviet "Bilateral Consultative Commission", which was the forum for discussing compliance concerns with the INF Treaty

Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

-- Planned and conducted HUMINT operations world-wide against technical Soviet intelligence targets and wrote resulting intelligence reports-- Several reports were briefed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff-- Completed tradecraft training school-- Honor graduate of Air Intelligence school-- Graduated from USAF Officer Training School and commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Relations And Affairs (International Economics)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History