Past Events

The Future of Computing
The Future of Computing
Thursday, October 31, 2019 For 50 years, Moore’s Law has driven revolutionary technological advances that have altered the way we live. We are now reaching the end of Moore’s Law, and with that, the end of conventional, scaling-based computing progress. Beyond conventional CMOS, Boolean logic, a...
The Future of Deep Space Exploration
The Future of Deep Space Exploration
Center for Enterprise, Exploration, and Defense in Space (CEEDS) presents: The Future of Deep Space Exploration The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies hosts a panel discussion on the exciting work being done in the exploration of deep space. The Institute’s Center for Enterprise, Exploration, a...
African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond
African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond” In the face of African security challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional state...
The Next Space Industry: Low Earth Orbit Commercialization
The Next Space Industry: Low Earth Orbit Commercialization
Friday June 21st, 2019 moderated by former NASA Administrator MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr. As NASA continues to work towards a future in which it is one of many customers in a vibrant space economy, it is critical to understand both the markets that will drive that transition, and the role that gov...
Jerusalem and Washington: A Life in Politics and Diplomacy
Jerusalem and Washington: A Life in Politics and Diplomacy
Zalman Shoval is an Israeli politician and diplomat who was a 4-term member of the Knesset, first representing David Ben-Gurion's Rafi-State List and then the Likud and who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States during the George H. W. Bush presidency and, later during the Clinton admi...
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”
In the face of expanding national, regional, and global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, outbreaks of endemic diseases, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional statecraft to broader missions? A panel of distinguished U.S....

reistBrigadier General David G. Reist, USMC (Ret.), is a Senior Fellow with the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.  

He most recently served as the Assistant Deputy Commandant, Installations and Logistics Department, (LP), Headquarters, United States Marine Corps, Washington, DC.

Brigadier General Reist’s command assignments include: CO Company A, 2nd Landing Support Battalion (1981-1982); CO Company A, Marine Barracks 8th & I (1985-1986); CO Beach & Port Company, 2nd Landing Support Battalion (1989-1990); CO 1st Landing Support Battalion (1997-1998); CO 1st Transportation Support Battalion (2002-2004) (redesignated Transportation Support Group during Operation Iraqi Freedom; Combat Service Support Group-11 during Operation Iraqi Freedom-II) and CG 1st Force Service Support Group (redesignated 1st Marine Logistics Group) (2005-2007).

Brigadier General Reist’s staff assignments include: Division G-4, 3rd Marine Division (1982-1983); Head, Motor Transport, Engineer, and Utilities Writer Section, Marine Corps Institute (1983-1984); Registrar, Marine Corps Institute (1984-1985); Operations Officer, MSSG-22 for LF6F 4-87 and 1-89 (1987-1989); Executive Officer, 2nd Landing Support Battalion (1990); Ground Prepositioning Program Sponsor (1990-1992) and Maritime Prepositioning Program Sponsor (1992-1993), Plans, Policies, and Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps; Current Operations Officer, U.S. Central Command J-4/7 (1994-1997); Deputy G-3, 1st FSSG (2000); Faculty Advisor (2000-2001) and Deputy Director (2001-2002), Marine Corps Command and Staff College; Chief of Staff, 1st FSSG (2004-2005) and Deputy CG (Support), I Marine Expeditionary Force Forward (2006-2007).

Brigadier General Reist graduated from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He also holds a Master of Strategic Studies from the Marine Corps War College and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.