Staff
Strategies, Programs, Analyses, Research, and Concepts
Andy is a Research Fellow with the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO). He joined the CETO team in October 2014 after retiring from the Marine Corps with 30 years of service. Andy was designated as an Infantry Officer.
Command tours have included platoon command in 2d Battalion (Bn), 8th Marines and 2d Bn, 2d Marines, company command in 2d Bn, 7th Marines and battalion command in 2d Bn, 4th Marines and 2d Bn, 3rd Marines. Additionally, he commanded the Marine Corps’ Training Command and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. He has participated in a combat deployment as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), plus disaster relief missions in the Philippines and as part of operation Tomodachi in Japan.
In addition to his command time, Andy was a staff platoon commander and tactics instructor at The Basic School. He served as an instructor and the Associate Chairman of the Physics Department at the United States Naval Academy. Staff tours have included time with the III Marine Expeditionary Force Operations, Operations Officer for the 31st MEU, Ground Advocate for Headquarters Marine Corps and the deputy commander at the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab.
Andy holds a BS degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Penn State, and Master’s Degrees from The Naval Postgraduate School in Applied Physics and the National War College in National Security Strategy.
Mr. Michael Hoglund, PMP, currently provides strategic planning assistance to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NSWC IHEODTD). This assignment varies broadly from the development of new strategic goals and objectives, implementation of non-traditional systems aimed at spurring innovative solutions, to the development of new business areas and partnerships. Our nation has accepted risk in our energetics based weapons system development over the past several decades with our superiority rapidly declining compared to potential competitors. Mr. Hoglund is helping lead a campaign to reenergize naval energetics RDT&E to ensure the Department of Defense intelligently invests in systems that will keep our nation safe for the future. He brings a lengthy history of government S&T and R&D program management for multiple DoD and executive branch clients. Mr. Hoglund earned his BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary and a MS in Biotechnology from the Johns Hopkins University.