Linking Technology, Strategy and Decision-Making
Wells Analytics LLC links technology, strategy and decision-making. It helps leaders address challenges posed by converging, accelerating, and disruptive technologies. The company draws on Managing Partner Dr. Linton Wells II’s more than twenty years of senior government leadership experience, along with ongoing analyses and a global network of contacts.
This experience includes service as acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (ASD NII) and Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO). Other senior positions have been related to Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I), and the interface between policy and technology. As Assistant Secretary (acting) and DoD CIO he oversaw the Defense Department’s $30 billion budget for information technology and related areas and was responsible for enhancing the Department’s networked capabilities and support structures.
From 2010 to 2014 he led the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, a research center at the National Defense University. The center’s research emphasized four broad areas:
(1) The integration of civil and military activities, public-private cooperation, and building communities with diverse organizations in and out of government. This included STAR-TIDES, a research project (www.star-tides.net) emphasizing affordable, sustainable support to populations under stress (post-war, post-disaster, impoverished).
(2) Innovative learning--tapping into the explosion of innovation in private sector adult education and applying it to national security institutions.
(3) Emerging challenges, such as cyber, space, energy and autonomous vehicles, and
(4) Science and technology, emphasizing human hardiness and chemical/biological defense.
This experience includes service as acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (ASD NII) and Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO). Other senior positions have been related to Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I), and the interface between policy and technology. As Assistant Secretary (acting) and DoD CIO he oversaw the Defense Department’s $30 billion budget for information technology and related areas and was responsible for enhancing the Department’s networked capabilities and support structures.
From 2010 to 2014 he led the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, a research center at the National Defense University. The center’s research emphasized four broad areas:
(1) The integration of civil and military activities, public-private cooperation, and building communities with diverse organizations in and out of government. This included STAR-TIDES, a research project (www.star-tides.net) emphasizing affordable, sustainable support to populations under stress (post-war, post-disaster, impoverished).
(2) Innovative learning--tapping into the explosion of innovation in private sector adult education and applying it to national security institutions.
(3) Emerging challenges, such as cyber, space, energy and autonomous vehicles, and
(4) Science and technology, emphasizing human hardiness and chemical/biological defense.