Vice President, Security Service Integration

L3 Communications/MPRI

 

 

Daniel M. Gerstein joined MPRI, an L-3 Company, in July 2006 as the Vice President for Strategic Security Integration.   He runs a business unit which specializes in biodefense, emergency and health services, maritime security, infrastructure physical security, and strategic planning and exercises.

 

Mr. Gerstein has 28 years of experience in the security and defense sectors, having served on four different continents with units involved in combat, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, and homeland security operations in addition to serving for almost ten years in the Pentagon in various high level staff assignments.   He has held positions which required interface across Department of Defense, within the interagency and with Congress.   Mr. Gerstein also has significant international experience, having served on Holbrooke Delegation that negotiated the peace settlement in Bosnia, analyzing negotiating positions for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) talks, and developing an initiative to improve cross border communications between Colombia and neighboring Andean Ridge nations.  

 

Additionally, Mr. Gerstein was selected to lead the Army’s most comprehensive restructuring since World War II called Transformation (2000-2001) and served on the Secretary of the Army’s Transition Team (2004-2005).   He has been awarded numerous military and civilian awards including a military award from the Government of Colombia and the Department of State’s Distinguished Service Award.  

 

He has published numerous articles on national security, globalization, communications, and information technology including Securing America’s Future: National Strategy in the Information Age (Praeger Security International, September 2005); Leading at the Speed of Light (Potomac Books, November 2006); and Assignment Pentagon (Potomac Books, May 2007).   He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Mr. Gerstein graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and has masters degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in Operations Research, the National Defense University in National Security & Strategic Studies and the Command & General Staff College in National Security Strategy & Policy.   He is currently a PhD candidate in Biodefense at George Mason University working on a dissertation titled “Examining the Potential for a Bioterror Attack.”