David Berteau

David Berteau provides Clark and Weinstock clients with 30 years experience in public and private sector management, including 15 years in senior defense management positions, in acquisition and procurement, logistics, manpower and personnel, environment, and budgeting.

He specializes in defense, technology, and homeland security and in federal procurement issues, and his strategic and tactical advice to clients permits them to integrate their legislative endeavors with the activities of the agencies in the Executive Branch.

David is Senior Adviser and Director of the Defense Industrial Initiatives Group for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He is currently serving on two Defense Science Board task forces, one on the defense industrial structure and one on integrating commercial systems into Defense Department systems. He also serves on the Secretary of the Army’s Commission on Army Acquisition and Program Management in Expeditionary Operations.

The former Director of Syracuse University’s National Security Studies Program, David is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, a member of the Defense Acquisition University Board of Visitors, and a Director of the Procurement Round Table. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and currently chairs their panel on Joint Land Use Studies for the Defense Department. He is also a member of the Federal Outreach Advisory Committee of the Association of Defense Communities, and he chaired the National Research Council’s 2005 study of printed circuit boards for national security.

David was a Senior Vice President for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the nation’s largest employee-owned high technology research and development firm, until early 2001. He is an award-winning columnist and a frequent public speaker on a wide range of policy topics.

Prior to joining Clark & Weinstock in 2003, David led the National Security Studies Program, the Defense Department’s premiere executive leadership activity for combined military and civilian leaders. From 1993 through 2000, he was a senior vice president for Science Applications International Corp., where he managed programs for government and commercial customers, including information technology, defense, law enforcement, biometrics, computer security, and procurement.

During his 12 years of senior management experience at the Pentagon, David supported four defense secretaries and three Presidents on a broad array of issues in management, resources, policy, and acquisition. He testified before Congress more than 100 times and ran the base closure process for defense secretaries Cheney and Aspin. He was the Administration’s lead spokesman on defense industrial policy, and in 1992 and 1993, he chaired the national Defense Conversion Commission.

David is a graduate of Tulane University and holds a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. A native of Louisiana, he lives in Derwood, Maryland, with his wife, Jane Berteau; they have two grown children.

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