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.
JJ Carroll brings much-valued leadership, management, planning, and decision-making skills to the Potomac Institute as a Research Fellow for the Center of Emerging Threats and Opportunities. A career infantry officer with over 30 years in the US Marine Corps. As a Marine Forces Deputy Commander, he led troops around the world, including Europe, Africa, and Korea. As Commander of the Marine Combat Training Battalion and Mountain Warfare Training Center, he is well versed in how to train and educate Marines of all ranks and military occupational specialities. He also served as Chief of Staff of the Counter-IED Operations Integration Center, where he coordinated the staff actions of all "Attack the Network" Counter-IED actions in support of tactical forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In all of these positions, he has grown accustomed to leading and supervising hundreds of personnel to a common goal. After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in Biology, he went on to earn a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College and a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the Air War College.
Chris Haliday is a Research Fellow with the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO). He joined CETO in June 2012.
Mr. Haliday possesses extensive leadership and management experience in military logistics and operations, both at the staff level and in the field. During his 28-year active duty Marine Corps career, he served in a range of service, joint and combined assignments, including company, battalion and installation command, as well as with the logistic plans and policy staffs of Headquarters Marine Corps, U. S. Central Command and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His strengths cover the areas of multifunctional logistics, particularly relating to support of Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) operations; transportation and distribution operations; strategic planning and policy development; force structure analysis, design and planning; and installation management, including base operating support, public works, physical security, community services and military support to civil authorities.
Mr. Haliday’s education includes a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Duke University, master's degree in Security Studies from the Marine Corps University and additional graduate work in International Economic Relations at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
Gordon O'Neill, Senior Research Fellow, CETO