Stan Supinski, Ph.D. and Rick White, Ph.D.

Dr. Supinski is a senior consultant to the Center for Homeland Defense and Security(CHDS).  He was formerly the Director of CHDS Academic Partnenship Programs; an associate professor at Long Island University’s Homeland Security Management Institute; and has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts and University of Denver. He is the former deputy for training and education for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command; founder and former director of the Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium (HSDEC); and a career USAF intelligence officer and professor at the US Air Force Academy. Dr. Supinski has conducted research and authored numerous articles on homeland security and defense, technology support to education, and language acquisition. He holds a PhD in instructional systems design from Florida State University and a master’s degree in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. White is a retired Air Force officer and university professor living in Colorado Springs. During his twenty-year Air Force career he served as a programmer analyst, network engineer, software engineer, Communications Director for Operation Provide Comfort, Deputy Communications Commander for Cheyenne Mountain, and professor of military studies at the Air Force Academy. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Security and conducted research in infrastructure risk analysis for the Department of Homeland Security while teaching for the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has published five books and more than twenty professional articles on homeland security, including “A Theory of Homeland Security” in 2019. He also spent three-years developing homeland security exercises for USNORTHCOM.