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In unprecedented ways, adversaries threaten U.S. national security and actively seek to erode our technological and military superiority.

To counter these threats, it is imperative that we create an intellectual advantage by developing leaders who can out-think opponents and work together to solve the most serious issues facing our nation.

NDU is a strategic national resource that prepares senior leaders to think and operate effectively at the highest levels of decision making in an increasingly dynamic, complex, and unpredictable international security environment.

W inning the great power competition and fighting complex, volatile threats requires agility, technological advancements, and an integrated approach with deep-rooted cooperation across

the government, military, private sector, and with U.S. international allies.

Under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), NDU is the nation’s preeminent education institution for advanced national security strategy and leadership development. NDU prepares selected civilian and military professionals from the U.S. and over 75 allied countries to serve as tomorrow’s decision and policy makers at the highest levels of command in military, government, and key industry sectors.

Through specialized Masters’ degrees, certificates, experiential learning, research, and training, NDU develops critical thinkers, joint warfighters, and strategic national security leaders equipped to understand, develop, and employ strategies that incorporate all elements of national power to prevail against the threats of today and tomorrow.

ACQUISITION AND RESOURCING • CYBER SECURITY • DEFENSE STRATEGY & RESOURCING • LOGISTICS • COUNTERTERRORISM • CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER LEADERSHIP • CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER LEADERSHIP • • IRREGULAR WARFARE • SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT • JOINT COMMAND & CONTROL OPERATIONS • IT MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE • ECONOMIC/ENERGY/FOOD/ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY • NATIONAL SECURITY & THE INDUSTRIAL BASE • ELECTRONIC WARFARE • STATECRAFT • DATA TECHNOLOGY

THE NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

The National Defense University Foundation Exists to Provide Mission-Critical Support to the National Defense University (NDU).

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NDU Creates Strategic Advantage for the United States, Allies, and Partners.

Imagine, Create, and Secure a Stronger Peace

” NDU is a catalyst for strategic thought and developing strategic leaders…who can build coalitions and integrate diverse perspectives to solve complex problems.”

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. USMC

300 5th Avenue, Marshall Hall, Suite 212, Fort Lesley J. McNair • Washington DC, 20319-5066 www.NDUFoundation.org

NDU AND NDU FOUNDATION PROGRAMS

NDU President’s Lecture Series (PLS)

Industry Innovation Seminars

National Security Briefings

Private Sector Chairs and Private Sector Fellows

Industry Sector Faculty Fellows & Guest Lecturers

“ From an industry perspective we view NDU as a national treasure for

this country. It’s one of the only American institutions that really does bring together members of

military, the government, civilians and industry and help shape

tomorrow’s leaders.”

Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty, Executive Chairman, IBM (former

Chairman, President & CEO)

Supporting the NDU Foundation is an Investment That Strengthens Our Collective National Security

The NDU Foundation is a non-partisan, nonprofit, philanthropic organization focused exclusively on championing NDU’s mission of advanced national security education and leader development.

By bringing together leaders from the National Security Innovation Base, private industry, and Defense Industrial Sector with those at the highest levels across DoD, Intelligence, Military, Diplomacy, Government and NDU, the Foundation enables collaboration on our nation’s most important and complex transformation issues relative to national security, domestic stability and defense. Our ongoing goals:

SECURE resources for high priority, performance-based initiatives not covered in NDU budgets or public funding

FORGE public-private partnerships and build programs that ensures NDU remains the crown jewel of joint interagency education

FACILITATE relationships that provide a conduit for private sector expertise and capabilities that enables best-in class transformation

Our commitment to the University and its students ensures that the education and professional development of these promising leaders is never compromised by an uncertain budget. The lasting measure of our success is found in the peace and security enjoyed by the United States and our partners, friends, and allies.

National Security Forum ChicagoL to R: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News, Admiral Michael Rogers, USN (Ret.), 2nd Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and 17th Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Admiral Patrick Walsh, USN (Ret.), 59th Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet, and the Honorable Robert Work, the 32nd U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.

National Security Research Advisory Council

NDU Global Alumni Summit

American Patriot Awards

International Fellows Program Initiatives

Academic Chairs (The Colin Powell Chair for Character & Ethics)


Since 1924, NDU’s colleges have graduated 20,000 current and former military generals and flag officers, senior agency officials, U.S. ambassadors, and industry executives. Notable alumni include The Honorable Colin Powell, General James Mattis USMC (Ret.), Lieutenant General Nadja West, USA (Ret.), Admiral James G. Stavridis USN (Ret.), General T. Michael Moseley, USAF (Ret.) and many others.

NDU Alumni Working for Our Country

ROBERT LEAHY, CIO, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

JULIETA VALLS NOYES, Deputy Director, Foreign Service Institute

PAT FLANDERS, CIO Defense Health Agency, DoD

TODD JACKSON, COO, U.S. Army

J. MICHAEL DANIEL, President & CEO Cyber Threat Alliance

HARRY PETREY, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of State (INR)

NDU International Fellows Alumni

4,500 International Fellows (1947-2020)

146 Countries Represented

485 Active Allied General/Flag Officers Worldwide

71 International Hall of Fame Inductees

An Investment in Our Collective National Security and Strategic Leadership Advantage

Notable International Alumni

Benjamin Gantz, Minister of Defense and Alt Prime Minister, Israel

General Yamazaki, Joint Chief of Staff,

Japan Self-Defense Forces

Her Royal Highness, Major General Aisha bint Hussein,

Defense Attaché Jordanian Embassy to the United States

Commodore Melissa Ross, Deputy Chief

of Navy, New Zealand

Sediq Sediqqi, Spokesperson for Afghan

President Ashraf Ghani

BG Michel-Henri St-Louis, Deputy Commanding General

of Operations, Canada

The 2018 National Defense Strategy defines NDU as a unique and key U.S. strategic asset focused exclusively on educating, developing and inspiring National Security Leaders.

NDU is world-renowned for providing a holistic, interactive, small seminar post-graduate experience that enables our nation to:

STRENGTHEN America’s agility and intellectual capital to over match China and Russia

FACILITATE seamless interoperability for globally integrated operations

SEEK “Whole of Government” solutions with private industry skillsets and expertise

ESTABLISH a relationship infrastructure built on trust to solve complex issues without conflict

ANTICIPATE AND MANAGE threats with international fellows and industry partners

ENABLE AND ACCELERATE direct access and an ongoing feedback loop with private sector business and key industries on the latest capabilities and solutions

THE NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY Interactive Approach and Illustrious Alumni


NDU Students Average 20 Years Professional Experience and 4+ Years Advanced Study

Research Institute, Advanced Professional Development, Senior Officer Training

National War College: National Security Strategy

Established in 1946

The Eisenhower School: National Resource Strategy

Established in 1924

The College of International Security Affairs: Strategic

Security StudiesEstablished in 1949

Joint Forces Staff College: Joint Operations

Established in 1946

Institute for National Strategic Studies

College of Information and Cyberspace: Government Information LeadershipEstablished in 1964

General/Flag Officer & Senior NCO Courses (1-star, 3-star, E-9)

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“ I left NDU with a renewed sense of purpose and urgency in my service to my country, seeking to approach challenges not as walls to climb but as opportunities.”

AMB Yousef Al Otaiba Eisenhower School Class of

2000 UAE Ambassador to the United States

“ Of all the things I have done in my 30-year career in public life, including serving as an Ambassador overseas and as a policy advisor in the White House, it is this (NDU) work supporting the next generation of government employees that I am most proud of.”

Ambassador Nancy McEldowneyInterim President and SVP of the National Defense

University from 2011-2013. NDU Alumni. Former Director of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) and Director of European

Affairs on the White House’s National Security Council Staff. United States Ambassador to Bulgaria.

“ A recent high-level foreign official made this stark comment about what differentiates NDU from other top-level academic institutions: The (NDU) seminar room provides the practitioners’ perspec-tive as the reality our students face is that people will live or die based on the decisions they make.”

Ambassador Michael A. HammerNational Defense University Alumni, United States Ambassador to Democratic Republic

of the Congo 2018- Present & United States Ambassador to Chile, 2014-2016

Middle States Commission on Higher

Education

Joint Staff & DoD Civilians

IC, State, & Federal Agencies Senior Personnel

Military Service

Members

International Fellows

Private Sector Industry Fellows

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International Allied Alumni in positions of prominence as of 2020:

7 Minister or Chief of Defense

15 Chief of Service

5 Ambassador

4 Prime Minister (not Defense)

Located within The National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., the NDU Foundation was established to provide critical support for the post-graduate education and leadership development of strategic defense, national security, and peacekeeping professionals studying at NDU.

Like any publicly funded state college or university, NDU relies on private funding and partnerships to bridge and augment its public funding. These investments provide NDU with the “margin of excellence” necessary to accomplish its mission and to maintain its capabilities as the world’s premier national security institution for military, national security, and defense professionals.

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