Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex:
A Supply Side Briefing on the Future of the Defense Industry
Panelist Biographies
Byron K. Callan joined Merrill Lynch in 1993 as first vice president and senior industry analyst. He is responsible for U.S. equity research coverage of aerospace, defense, and defense electronics companies and is the global coordinator of Merrill Lynch’s worldwide coverage of this sector. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Callan worked for nine years at Prudential Securities, where he covered defense electronics, engineering, and construction stocks. He is a member of Institutional Investor magazine’s All Star Team and in 2000 was ranked number one by the Greenwich Survey of analysts for his coverage of aerospace and defense electronics. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Electronic Defense and was president of the Aerospace Analysts Group from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Callan is frequently quoted in periodicals and newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Barrons. He has also appeared as a guest on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.
Stan Crock is a senior staff writer and the chief diplomatic correspondent for Business Week in its Washington bureau. Since 1995, he has covered the State Department, Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Council, and local defense companies such as Lockheed Martin Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. His articles have been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, New Republic, and the Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, and he has appeared on Court TV, CNNfn, CSPAN, White House Chronicles, Fox News, and National Public Radio’s To the Point and On Point.
Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow at AEI and author of AEI’s National Security Outlook. Before coming to AEI, he served as the director of strategic communications and initiatives at Lockheed Martin and deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century. From 1995 to 1999, he was the policy group director, as well as a professional staff member, for the Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Donnelly has also been the executive director of the National Interest, editor of the Army Times, and deputy editor of Defense News. He is the author of several books, including Operation Just Cause: The Storming of Panama (1992); Clash of Chariots: A History of Armed Warfare (1990); The Khobar Towers Bombing Incident (1996); Military Readiness 1997: Rhetoric and Reality (1997); and Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (2000).
Richard Perle is a resident fellow at AEI and cochairman of Hollinger Digital. He has codirected the Commission on Future Defenses, a group organized to explore the use of advanced technology to increase the productivity of the armed forces. Mr. Perle is a member of the Defense Policy Board and a consultant to the secretary of defense. He was the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy and the chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization High Level Defense Group from 1981 to 1987. He writes frequently for the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, and other publications. He is the editor of Reshaping Western Security (1991) and the author of Hard Line (1992), a political novel.
Andrew L. Ross is professor of strategic studies and director of studies in the strategic research department of the U.S. Naval War College’s center for naval warfare studies. He served as director of the Naval War College’s project on “Military Transformation and the Defense Industry After Next” and during the 2001–2002 academic year served as the acting director of the college’s advanced research program and as coleader of the college’s strategy task group. From 1989 to 2000, he served as a Secretary of the Navy senior research fellow and then a professor of national security affairs in the college’s national security decision making department. His work on grand strategy, national security and defense planning, regional security, weapons proliferation, the international arms market, defense industrialization, and security and development has appeared in numerous journals and books. He is the editor of The Political Economy of Defense: Issues and Perspectives (1991) and coeditor of three editions of Strategy and Force Planning (1995, 1997, and 2000). He is currently writing a book on military transformation. He has held research fellowships at Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, the University of Illinois, and the Naval War College; he also taught in the Political Science Departments of the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky.
Ronald D. Sugar was elected chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation in April 2003. He also serves as a member of the Northrop Grumman Board of Directors. Previously, he was president and chief operating officer, having assumed that position in September 2001. Mr. Sugar joined Northrop Grumman following the company's acquisition of Litton Industries Inc., a diversified defense and technology company. He previously served as Litton's president and chief operating officer and as a member of its Board of Directors. Before joining Litton, Mr. Sugar was president and chief operating officer of TRW Aerospace and Information Systems and a member of the Chief Executive Office of TRW Inc., a global automotive, aerospace, and information systems company. TRW Inc. was acquired by Northrop Grumman in December 2002. In his nearly twenty years with TRW, Mr. Sugar also served as that company's chief financial officer and as executive vice president and general manager of TRW's global automotive electronics business. Earlier, he was vice president of TRW space communications division and played key roles in TRW's advanced military, scientific, and commercial space and electronics programs. In 2003, he received the University of Southern California’s Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award. Mr. Sugar is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a trustee of the National Defense Industrial Association, and a governor of the Aerospace Industries Association. He was appointed by the president to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
