The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is pleased to announce that Colonel Jean D. Reed, US Army (Ret.), has been named a  Potomac Institute Senior Fellow. Col. Reed joins the Institute after four and one-half years as Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical Biological Defense and Chemical Demilitarization and almost fifty years combined military and civilian government service. 
 
Regarding his appointment as a Senior Fellow, Col. Reed said,"“I am delighted to join the Institute and to have as colleagues so many distinguished scientists, engineers, policy makers, and academicians for whom I have the highest esteem.”
 
As Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Col. Reed was responsible for oversight, coordination, and integration of the chemical and biological medical and non-medical defense program and the program for destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions, each program totaling over $1.5 billion annually. 

 Col. Reed also served for 15 years as a professional staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Armed Services, where he had principal responsibility for staff oversight of Navy research and development, Defense-wide science and technology, test and evaluation, chemical-biological defense, and chemical weapons demilitarization programs. 

Col. Reed’s military career included 30 years experience in  line and staff positions of increasing responsibility, including field artillery battery  and battalion command,  two combat tours in Vietnam as an advisor and as a brigade operations and intelligence officer, US Field Artillery School combat developments staff officer, deputy commander of a  nuclear-capable corps artillery in Germany, major research and development laboratory command, and two tours on the Department of the Army General Staff.  As a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program manager and Assistant Director for Weapons Technology, he was responsible for the Assault Breaker and Tank Breaker weapon system demonstration programs (which were later fielded as the Army Tactical Missile System and the Javelin medium anti-armor missile system).
Col. Reed received his BS in Physics (with Distinction) in 1960 and an MS in physics in 1963 from the University of Oklahoma, and pursued post-graduate studies at Georgetown University in 1970-1971.  He is a graduate of the National War College, the Army War College, and the Army Command & General Staff College, where he earned the degree of Master of Military Art & Science.  He was a Research Fellow at the National Defense University and a Senior Army Fellow at the Army's Strategic Studies Institute. He is a member of the American Physical Society and Phi Beta Kappa.