Dr. Jeffrey Star
SAF/CDM - Director for Research & Advanced Analytics,
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Dr. Jeffrey Starr is the Director for Research & Advanced Analytics, Air Force Concepts, Development and Management (CDM), Office of Competitive Activities, Secretary of the Air Force. Dr. Starr is responsible for evaluating and utilizing emerging technologies and methodologies and developing platforms and programs for use in the Air Force and the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. In this role, he directs the activities of CDM programs and initiatives in advanced analytic tradecraft, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, analysis of commercial and economic data, digital transformation of various intelligence analysis domains, to create innovative strategic effects to deter and actively defend against conflict.
Previously, as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF), he evaluated risks posed by adversarial AI programs to US defense interests. He developed an investment strategy for importing and integrating AI methods into transportation mode workstreams for the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office at the U.S. Department of Transportation and co-authored an AI Playbook on “Getting to Pilot” to advise USG agencies on-boarding AI capabilities into their workstreams.
Dr. Starr was Co-Founder of Neo Prime, Inc., a cyber security and risk modeling firm, which quantified client cyber risks and probabilistically forecasted expected cyber losses over time both to hedge financial losses from cyber-attacks and to prioritize security control modernization reflecting actual sources of loss in networks. He holds two US patents on quantitative methodologies to detect, assess and counter cyber threats and malware behaviors. During this time, he also founded Neo Prime Risk Management Solutions, which assessed foreign military technology threats, and financial and political risks for government and commercial clients.
Dr. Starr is a visiting senior research scholar in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, where he designed and taught for six years an honors undergraduate laboratory seminar covering the development of mobile security apps and self-aware mobile platforms exploiting data flows from sensors native to mobile devices. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Corporate Development for G4S Americas, leading business planning for $3 bn businesses in North and South America and integrating business analytics with legacy security services to raise average margins from 4% to 15-20% for major contracts. He was one of 25 senior managers selected globally for the G4S Strategic Leadership Network program, an intensive one-year development program. From 2006-2010, he was Vice President in the Business Intelligence Group of Goldman Sachs in New York, using innovative data methods to evaluate and mitigate risks of exposure to illicit financial activities facing the Firm from its investment and product development activities in Emerging Markets. His areas of focus included Eurasia, Middle East and Africa.
From 1985 to 2006, Dr. Starr served in the U.S. Government, reaching the rank of Senior Executive Service 5 (Tier 3). From 2001 to 2006, he worked in the Department of Defense Office of Special Operations as the Senior Advisor for Combating Terrorism, designing information operations campaigns, and conceiving and developing a new DoD program to identify and disrupt terrorist financial networks in support of U.S. military engagement in Iraq,
Previously, as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF), he evaluated risks posed by adversarial AI programs to US defense interests. He developed an investment strategy for importing and integrating AI methods into transportation mode workstreams for the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office at the U.S. Department of Transportation and co-authored an AI Playbook on “Getting to Pilot” to advise USG agencies on-boarding AI capabilities into their workstreams.
Dr. Starr was Co-Founder of Neo Prime, Inc., a cyber security and risk modeling firm, which quantified client cyber risks and probabilistically forecasted expected cyber losses over time both to hedge financial losses from cyber-attacks and to prioritize security control modernization reflecting actual sources of loss in networks. He holds two US patents on quantitative methodologies to detect, assess and counter cyber threats and malware behaviors. During this time, he also founded Neo Prime Risk Management Solutions, which assessed foreign military technology threats, and financial and political risks for government and commercial clients.
Dr. Starr is a visiting senior research scholar in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, where he designed and taught for six years an honors undergraduate laboratory seminar covering the development of mobile security apps and self-aware mobile platforms exploiting data flows from sensors native to mobile devices. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Corporate Development for G4S Americas, leading business planning for $3 bn businesses in North and South America and integrating business analytics with legacy security services to raise average margins from 4% to 15-20% for major contracts. He was one of 25 senior managers selected globally for the G4S Strategic Leadership Network program, an intensive one-year development program. From 2006-2010, he was Vice President in the Business Intelligence Group of Goldman Sachs in New York, using innovative data methods to evaluate and mitigate risks of exposure to illicit financial activities facing the Firm from its investment and product development activities in Emerging Markets. His areas of focus included Eurasia, Middle East and Africa.
From 1985 to 2006, Dr. Starr served in the U.S. Government, reaching the rank of Senior Executive Service 5 (Tier 3). From 2001 to 2006, he worked in the Department of Defense Office of Special Operations as the Senior Advisor for Combating Terrorism, designing information operations campaigns, and conceiving and developing a new DoD program to identify and disrupt terrorist financial networks in support of U.S. military engagement in Iraq,