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Expert R. Expert has over thirty years of executive and operational experience in strategic planning, vision development, long-range resource analysis, strategic forecasting, international operations and management, systems and operations analysis, systems engineering, warfare gaming and analysis, technology planning, and inspirational leadership under demanding (including combat operations in two wars) conditions. He is the founding President and CEO of his consulting firm. Additionally, he is a Consulting Senior Systems Engineer and Systems Analyst for a number of major defense and consulting firms. Expert served as a naval officer from June 1967 until February 1994. His naval service included three commands at sea, including the AEGIS Cruiser USS MOBILE BAY (CG 53), serving as the four-carrier Battle Force ZULU Anti-Air Warfare Commander (AAWC) during the Gulf War in the Northern Arabian Gulf, in addition to command of USS KING (DDG 41) and USS LUISENO (ATF 156).
Experience in strategic planning and vision development includes support of the Army Digitization Office (ADO), the future of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) for the Vice Chairman of the Joint Staff, and similar work for OSD (C3I), BMDO (MDA), JTAMDO, Navy PEO IT, the DoN Secretariat, CNET, Navy SEALs, Army SMDC, ONR, PEO IWS, and many others. Professionally, Expert has supported the analysis and development of such C4ISR-related systems and capabilities as Athena (the Navy's revolutionary approach to Theater Command and Decision), the Joint Interface Control Officer (JICO) capability, Y2K testing and analysis, the Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) capability, Land Attack and NSFS, TAMD, JBMC2, Joint Fires, the Navy Distributed Engineering Plant (DEP), Common C&D, and Open Architecture. He has also supported the New Design SSN, CV (X), CNV-76, DD-21, DD(X), the LCS, and the CG(X).
In addition to his consulting work, he is active as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strike, Land Attack, and Air Defense (SLAAD) Division of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), including service as Study Director on a number of influential Industry-Government study efforts. His most recent new NDIA study for the Navy was delivered to Sponsors (N8, N7/N7) in the Office of the CNO. He also supports the NDIA Systems Engineering, Undersea Warfare, C4ISR, Missile Defense, and Expeditionary Warfare Divisions. Expert is the author of a book and numerous strategic plans, articles and papers. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, since 1994.

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Supporting the Lockheed Martin-CSC Future Cruiser / CG(X) Design Team with systems engineering, UML and DOORS requirements modeling, modeling and simulation, CONOPS development, and naval warfare SME services
(2005-present)Supported Lockheed Martin with technology planning and ACTD development services for their complex C4ISR Research and Development Program (2003)Supported the US Navy PEO IWS5 ASW Program Office with a series of strategic planning tasks that developed a complete ASW Master Plan for the US Navy which achieved consensus support across all areas of the ASW community (surface, air, submarine, and other related areas) (2003-2005)Supported the Navy Secretariat with strategic planning in the development of Visionary Guidance for the Naval Program for PR01, the first time it had been done since John Lehman was Secretary of the Navy (1998)Supported the Lockheed Martin, Hughes, and Raytheon team with a systems engineering effort to prepare a CONOPS and systems engineering approach for a visionary intial approach for future Open Architecture Combat Systems for Navy warships, called "Athena." (1997)

Today, this visionary effort has been carried into practice as the Navy Open Architecture Program under PEO IWS7.