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Dr. Feinstein a seasoned executive with over forty years of experience with DOD and Civilian agencies, tier-one consulting companies, and is an internationally acclaimed author and authority in the areas of telecommunications and network architecture design, artificial intelligence, large system integration and acquisition support, advanced information systems, modeling and simulation, as well as pilot demonstrations of new and emerging technologies. Dr. Feinstein is currently a professor at The George Washington University and consults to Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, startups, serves on boards of a number of companies, and is a C-level advisor to others. He currently has an active Top Secret Clearance and is a nominee to the DIA Advisory Board. He presents a series of seminars around the world, and has lectured at Princeton, University of Virginia, Oxford, and Harvard.

Formerly associated with the Department of Defense, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, ICF, the Stanford Research Institute at Stanford University, and MITRE (formerly part of MIT’s Lincoln Labs); Dr. Feinstein conducted research at Harvard as a Visiting Fellow, in developing automated techniques founded on artificial intelligence and operations research technology to measure an individual’s or group’s subjective decision preference intensities in order to translate subject matter experts’ gut feelings into hard numbers for use in market research, decision making, and threat analyses. The new methodology develops metrics for group decision stability and forecasts the likelihood of a decision change given new information. The methodology has been implemented in code, has earned the AOL Best Application Award as well as a best paper Award at the Annual Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Symposium. The application has been briefed to the Intelligence community as well as organizations involved with threat assessment for Homeland and Infrastructure security as well as computer and sensitive system security. In a partnership with Google, other research in content analysis enables one to mine the Google database, and other resources, in order to track Internet “Buzz” over time and space for brands, individuals, issues, and companies.

Dr. Feinstein collaborated with the Naisbitt Group (John Naisbitt, Megatrends) to employ Systems Dynamics and other automated techniques to forecast the impact of rapidly changing technology on organizations and corporate profitability; clients included the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, DOD, DuPont, Copolymer, and others.

As a Vice President at ICF, Dr. Feinstein led the Advanced Information Systems Division in applying artificial intelligence and neural network solutions to public and private sector clients.

While with MITRE / Mitretek Dr. Feinstein consulted to the US Postal Service on implementing advanced technology applications and provided acquisition support for the USPS billion-dollar modernization initiative, enterprise-wide telecommunications and LAN outsourcing, and served as a member of their Electronic Commerce Task Force. He advised the Defense Intelligence Agency on the design and deployment of a billion-dollar worldwide classified videoconferencing, broadcast, and telecommunications network that includes hundreds of sites interconnected via a mesh of high-speed telecommunications links.

A senior advisor to the US Air Force, Dr. Feinstein worked with the Assistant Chief for Studies and Analysis to oversee the development of the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) prototype and served as a special consultant to the British Home Office on applications of emerging technology for counter insurgency operations.

Dr. Feinstein earned a Bachelors of Science in Physics from the University of Oklahoma, a Masters of Science in Physics / Systems Engineering from The New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Information & Decision Systems with a minor in Organizational Behavior from the George Washington University, and conducted research at Harvard as a Visiting Fellow. In addition, he attended the Naval Post Graduate School where he studied the DOD Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Process.