Andrew Johnson

Experience

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  US Army

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2010

  Special Forces Officer

  10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)

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  Army Staff

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Assistant Branch Chief, Antiterrorism Branch

  Responsible for development and revision of Army Antiterrorism Regulations and training. Antiterrorism Level II (Unit/Installation) and III (General Officer) Instructor. Following atttacks on 911, served in the Army Operations Center supporting Homeland Defense and then appointed as Temporary Assistant Inspector General and conducted Antiterrorism inspections and readiness assessments at Army installations in CONUS and Germany. Devised readiness inspection program and assisted in the development of the Random Antiterrorism Measures Program (RAMP) currently in use by all Army installations. 收起

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  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Instructor

  Taught strategic and operational curriculum for the Department of Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Operations. Selected as a member of the team that re-introduced counterinsurgency into the CGSC curriculum at the tasking of then-LTG Petraeus. Knowledge of Foreign Internal Defense, combined with understanding of strategic and operational concepts resulted in selection as lesson author for several general curriculum lessons. Created and was the principle instructor for a Foreign Internal Defense elective that developed some of the first Military Transition Team (MiTT) leaders in Iraq. Principle instructor for the Special Operations Forces track of study. 收起

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  U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS)

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Instructor

  Course author and principle instructor for “21st Century Conflict,” a graduate level course on the contemporary and future operational environment and warfare, and was the catalyst to re-institutionalizing the study of future conflict and special operations into the SAMS curriculum. Served as director for 17 Master’s monographs, member of the curriculum redesign working group, as a seminar leader, and as the liaison for Special Operations education and integration. Students are selected for SAMS from all U.S. military services, U.S. government agencies and several foreign countries for a 10-month graduate course that awards a Masters of Military Arts and Sciences degree. 收起

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  U.S. Army Human Terrain System

  May 2010 - Sept 2014

  Design & Development Lead

  Led multiple collaborative multi-disciplinary working groups and efforts to design and develop institutional, operational and educational initiatives that enhance understanding of Human Domain aspects of the Strategic and Operational Environments. Analyzed requirements and knowledge gaps and then designed, developed, implemented and evaluated the introductory course for HTS candidates, who are a mix of military, former military, academics, and naturalized U.S. citizens, to create a base of knowledge about the Human Terrain System and the military and operational context in which it functions. 收起

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  Personnel Recovery Proponent Office

  Sept 2014 - Mar 2015

  Task Order Manager

  Contract lead for Army Personnel Recovery and SERE training development. Leads collaboration with PRPO to develop training courses and supporting materials in accordance with Army standards and guidance. Planned production and delivery process and schedule and manages contractor team to achieve milestone objectives, including courseware approval and course validation of the Army SERE-C (High Risk) course at Fort Rucker, AL.

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  University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (UFMCS)

  Mar 2015 - Aug 2016

  Critical Thinking Facilitator

  Enabled dozens of defense professionals to effectively anticipate change, reduce uncertainty, and improve operational decision-making through increasing their applied critical thinking and groupthink mitigation aptitude, as well as prepared them to examine problems from alternate perspectives with the goal of developing adaptive and flexible strategies.Successfully prepared and executed multiple applied critical thinking courses, varying from 1 to 6 to 18 weeks.Facilitated 2 Army-wide seminars that developed bottom-up recommendations accepted for implementation by the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Sergeant Major of the Army. 收起

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  Global Cultural Knowledge Network (GCKN)

  Aug 2016 - now

  Senior Research Analyst