Richard White

Dr. White is a retired Air Force officer and semi-retired university professor living in Colorado Springs. During his twenty-year Air Force career he served as a programmer analyst, network engineer, software engineer, Communications Director for Operation Provide Comfort, Deputy Communications Commander for Cheyenne Mountain, and professor of military studies at the Air Force Academy. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Security and conducted research for the Department of Homeland Security while teaching in the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has published five books and more than twenty professional articles on homeland security, including “A Theory of Homeland Security” in 2019. He also spent three-years developing homeland security exercises for USNORTHCOM. Dr. White is now a private consultant and teaches an online emergency planning course for Tulane University.