CNS Staff: Dennis M. Gormley

Email: dennis.gormley[at]miis.edu

Dennis M. Gormley is a Senior Fellow at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, D.C. He is also a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and a Research Associate at the University's Ridgway Center for International Security Studies.

During 2002, he was a Consulting Senior Fellow for Technology and Defense Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Mr. Gormley served as a senior vice president for 20 years with Pacific-Sierra Research (PSR), where he founded PSR's Defense Policy Group. From 1989 to 1992, he directed PSR's Washington Operations staff of 140 scientists, engineers, and policy analysts in providing analytical studies and applications software to government clients and served as a member of PSR's Board of Directors. Mr. Gormley has chaired or served on many U.S. Department of Defense advisory committees, including chairing a 1997 Summer Study for the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy on Nuclear Weapons and the Revolution in Military Affairs; at present, he serves on a panel assisting the Deputy Director of National Intelligence (Analysis) plan and implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for improving intelligence integration. He frequently furnishes expert testimony to Congress and has served as a consultant to Sandia National Laboratories and The RAND Corporation, among many others. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. Before joining PSR in 1979, he was head of foreign intelligence at the U.S. Army's Harry Diamond Laboratories in Washington, D.C. Mr. Gormley received a BA and MA in history from the University of Connecticut in 1965 and 1966 and attended Office Candidate School at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, serving on active duty from 1966 to 1969.

He is the author of three books, including Dealing with the Threat of Cruise Missiles (Oxford University Press, 2001) and has contributed frequently to leading journals and newspapers internationally.

Areas of Expertise:

Missiles:

Proliferation of cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles

Ballistic missile proliferation

Missile Technology Control Regime

Export controls

Ballistic and cruise missile defenses

Nuclear:

Former Soviet tactical nuclear weapons

Nuclear storage and command and control

Strategic arms control treaties/verification

Military Affairs:

U.S., allied, and regional adversary strategy, doctrine, and operations

Revolutions in Military Affairs

Advanced conventional weapons