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Institutional
Affiliations
Hudson Institute: Adjunct Fellow/former staff member (1, 2)
Center
for Security Policy: Member, National Security Advisory
Council (5)
Project
for the New American Century: Signed several letters (6)
National Institute for Public Policy: Member of team that produced NIPP's 2001 report, "Rationale and Requirements for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control."
Government
Service
Defense Science Board: Chairman (9)
Department of State's Defense Trade Advisory Group: Member (current) (2)
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States ("Rumsfeld Missile Commission"): Member (1998) (3)
President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament: Chairman (1987-1993) (2)
Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission: Member (3)
State Department: Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology (1982-1986) (2)
Office of Management and Budget: Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs (1981-1982) (2)
U.S. House of Representatives: Staffer (1976-1981) (2)
U.S. Senate: Staffer (1971-1976) (2)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
International Planning
Services, Inc.: President (1)
G2
Satellite Solutions: Advisory board (11)
Defense Forecasts International: Member, Board of Directors (3)
Defense Group, Inc.: Member, Board of Directors (4)
Education
New York University: Ph.D. (1968) (1)
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Highlights
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William
Schneider, Jr. (not to be confused with the right-wing
media pundit William
Schneider) has served on several presidential commissions and
government advisory bodies dealing with counter-terrorism, intelligence,
foreign affairs, defense, and economic policy. He is currently the
chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Science Board and a member the
State Department's Defense Trade Advisory Group.
Schneider
is connected to a number of conservative outfits, including the
Project for the New American Century, the Hudson Institute, and
the Center for Security Policy. He also participated in a study
group that produced "Rationale and Requirements for Nuclear
Forces and Arms Control," a report published by the hawkish
National Institute for Public Policy in 2001. According to the World
Policy Institute, the NIPP study served as a blueprint for George
W. Bush's Nuclear Posture Review. Among the study participants were
several current and former Bush administration
officials, including Stephen
Cambone, Stephen
Hadley, Robert
Joseph, and Keith
Payne (NIPP's director). (8)
Before serving on the NIPP group, Schneider helped produce the final report of the so-called Rumsfeld Missile Commission (1998), a controversial congressional commission which concluded that several rogue nations would be capable of attacking United States with ballistic missiles within a few short years. Other members of the Rumsfeld-chaired commission included James Woolsey, Stephen Cambone, and Paul Wolfowitz. For more on the commission, see "What They Didn't Do" by Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright in the November/December 1998 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (10)
Schneider
is president of International Planning Services, an international
trade and advisory company, and serves on the advisory board (along
with Jack
Kemp and Frank
Carlucci) of G2
Satellite Solutions, which is a division of PanAmSat Corporation,
one of the world's largest owners of private satellites.
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