IBM Center for The Business of Government

Cindy Williams is a Principal Research Scientist in the Security Studies Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work at MIT includes an examination of the processes by which the U.S. government plans for and allocates resources among the activities related to national security and international affairs, a study of options for reform of military personnel policies, and an examination of the transition to all-volunteer forces in the militaries of Europe and North America.

John Whitley is currently a researcher and advisor with the Institute for Defense Analyses and other organizations. In government, he most recently served as the acting secretary of the Army and, prior to that, served as the assistant secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller and in acting positions as the director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (DCAPE) and deputy chief management officer (DCMO) of DoD.

William L. Waugh, Jr., is Professor Emeritus in Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and an adjunct professor in the Executive Masters of Emergency and Crisis Management at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He taught at Mississippi State University and Kansas State University before joining the public administration and political science faculties at GSU in 1985.

Chris Whitlock has worked defense and national security issues for the past 30 years. For the last 20, he focused primarily on strategy consulting on intelligence issues from an analytic perspective. He co-founded and was the CEO of Edge Consulting, which applied empirical methods and management consulting techniques to advise on major programmatic issues confronting DoD and the Intelligence Community. He holds a B.A. in History (Mississippi), an M.A. in National Security (Georgetown) and an M.B.A. (George Mason).