Colonel Leo E. Bradley (U.S. Army, Retired) is a consultant and subject matter expert providing world class expertise and thought leadership in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), counter improvised device (C-IED), counter weapon of mass destruction (C-WMD) and explosives safety. He served 29 years in the United States Army, most of those in ordnance and explosive ordnance disposal assignments, including commander of the 71st Ordnance Group (EOD) and Combined Joint Task Force Paladin (Counter-IED) in Afghanistan (July 2011-June 2012), the Chief of EOD and Humanitarian Mine Action in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy; the EOD Division Chief for the Army Staff, and the commander of the 184th Ordnance Battalion (EOD), including a deployment to Baghdad, Iraq in 2005. He walked down on his first suspect IED in 1994, in Wichita Falls, Texas, as an EOD company commander; shortly followed by his company’s response to the Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City, an event that continues to drive his focus today. He is a senior staff engineer and subject matter expert for the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, an adjunct instructor at the Oklahoma State University Graduate School of Forensic Sciences, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Science from the Pennsylvania State University.