Past Events

ICTS Seminar - Terrorism and the Media: Dilemmas for Government, Journalists, and the Public
ICTS Seminar - Terrorism and the Media: Dilemmas for Government, Journalists, and the Public
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies International Center for Terrorism Studies April 20, 2017 The role of the press in reporting on terrorism has been under public debate for decades. Many issues have been considered, including whether the media encourages terrorism and whether governments shoul...
International Cooperation in Combating Terrorism
International Cooperation in Combating Terrorism
The current deteriorating Middle East security architecture gravely challenges the international community more than ever before. The lingering crisis of national identities coupled with escalating extremism and violence is resulting in unprecedented social, economic, and strategic costs. These regi...
ICTS Seminar-Latin America’s Security Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-Castro Era
ICTS Seminar-Latin America’s Security Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-Castro Era
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies December 16, 2016 Latin America’s multiple security challenges include organized crime, terrorism, migration, economic development, and threats to democratic governance. Experts with governmental, academic, and professional experience meet to discuss current a...
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9/12 "From Data to Knowledge in Neuroscience: Building Toward Individualized Medicine"
The current wealth of data in neuroscience has the potential to lead to groundbreaking neuroscientific discoveries and revolutionize clinical treatments for mental health and neurological disorders. Combining neuroscience data with information in other data-rich fields, such as genomics, will make p...

Colonel David Chaffee Senior FellowThe Potomac Institute would like to welcome Colonel David Chaffee.

Colonel David Chaffee, USAF (retired) is a Senior Fellow of the Institute.  He had a distinguished career in the Air Force, 24 years of which were direct acquisition program engineering and management.   After retiring from the Air Force, Mr. Chaffee joined a large Defense Industry prime contractor where he continued in roles of program management, business unit management and director of Business Development and Strategy for 13 years.  His experience includes management of multiple ACAT I programs and spans domains of space, airborne, and ground systems for direct combat, sustainment, command and control, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions.  His expertise in acquisition includes Department of Defense and Intelligence Community programs and contracts.

In his early career, Mr. Chaffee became program manager of the F100-PW-220 and 220 Equivalent jet engine programs during the “Great Engine War”.  After a tour in the Pentagon, he became the Deputy Program Manager and COTR for the Lockheed Martin entrant for the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) Program and later in the same role for the Concept Development Phase of the early Joint Strike Fighter Program.  After pinning O-6, he served two years with classified programs at a Logistics Center ending his last tour as the System Program Director for Air Force and Joint Battle Management/Command and Control Programs.  This portfolio included two ACAT I programs, one of which was joint and the other a cooperative C2 system. Joining Northrop Grumman in 2002, Mr. Chaffee continued in leadership and management roles for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance programs.  Well steeped in the Distributed Common Ground Systems programs, he also managed a portfolio of intelligence programs supporting several Agencies of the DNI.  He concluded his career in a space program where he was responsible for Advanced Development Concepts and Program Advocacy and Outreach.

A graduate of the Air Force Academy, 1977, Mr. Chaffee attended all military schools in residence and was a Distinguished Graduate in several.  He completed all required levels of Acquisition Management and went on graduate from the Senior Acquisition Management course, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Executive Program Management at Fort Belvoir, The Wharton School of Business Financial Management Course and the Chicago School of Business for Strategy.  With a Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering (AFIT) and another in National Resource Strategy, Mr. Chaffee also served as Assistant Professor of Aeronautics at the United States Air Force Academy.