Stephen Bryen

📍Washington DC

Apr 05, 2024

is a former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and is a leading expert in security strategy and technology. Bryen writes for Asia Times, American Thinker, Epoch Times, Newsweek, Washington Times, the Jewish Policy Center and others.

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Focus

→ War and deterrence
→ Security strategy and technology
→ Military power

“The Pentagon is supposed to follow the Buy America Act. Usually it is interpreted to mean that more than half the cost of an acquisition must be from domestic sources. Vendors, however, are allowed to count installation costs in figuring the percent of US content. Moreover, Buy America requirements are often waived. That has been necessary for the past three decades since Chinese made computers, laptops, modems, and other electronics are used regularly even in strategic nuclear submarines. This is done by using ‘waivers’ that are in the Act and in the Act's regulations.”

Background

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Trade Security Policy
Senior Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
President of Finmeccanica North America
Founder of the Defense Technology Security Administration
Defense Department—Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Civilian Service Award

🏛️ Ph.D. in International Politics, Tulane University
🎓 M.A. in International Politics, Tulane University

Biography

Dr. Stephen Bryen is Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute. He is a highly respected security and defense analyst. He served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Trade Security Policy and was the founder and first director of the Defense Technology Security Administration.

As the digital era began, he was this country’s early warning system for technology transfer and arms sales to hostile powers, and for his work he received the highest civilian honor from the Defense Department, the Distinguished Service Medal, and Distinguished Civilian Service Award, twice.