John F. Morton is currently a Distinguished Fellow and the Homeland Security Lead for the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR).  He is PNSR’s sole provider of homeland security input to its analysis of the current national security system.  He is responsible for assembling and leading a growing team (external to PNSR) of over 60 senior- to operational-level HLS professionals—who have or have had line authority to execute broad HLS missions/functions—to do analyses and make and implement recommendations.  In addition, he is also the Strategic Advisor to DomesticPreparedness.com, the Internet information service for and by homeland security professionals, and a consultant to Gryphon Technologies under a contract supporting the Navy’s Surface Warfare Directorate, SEA 21.  He is a member of the Criminal Justice Advisory Consortium, Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Institute, Anne Arundel Community College (MD). 

Mr. Morton has over 25 years experience in research and analyses, consensus facilitation and all-media risk communication for complex homeland and national security issues.  His orientation is to interagency, intergovernmental and international solutions to homeland security strategy, policy and planning—in particular, consequence management.  In addition, he has a thorough knowledge of the defense budget process, acquisition and program management. 

Mr. Morton has conducted independent research and analyses for among others: BAE Systems/Detica (strategic development), Technology Strategies & Alliances (under a contract with the OSD Office of Net Assessment), V, L.L.C. (representing layered voice analysis technology), United Defense, L.P. (UDLP), Business Executives for National Security (BENS), Forecast International/DMS, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Washington public relations firm Smith & Haroff, American Security Council and Annapolis City Police Department. 

His communications consulting has extended to such leading defense and aerospace firms as Lockheed Martin Government Electronics Group, ITT Defense Electronics, Westinghouse Government Electronics Systems and Alliant Techsystems.  He served as defense advisor to the 1986 congressional campaign of Robert Neall (R-MD). 

For the King Communications Group, Inc., he conceived, produced, and hosted some 100 government/industry/operational & user-community conferences on national security, defense, program management, DOE environmental management and homeland security in which has specialized since 1998.  In October 1998, he convened the first major Washington conference on WMD and domestic preparedness and the following year held groundbreaking conferences on critical infrastructure protection and cyber security.  Both sets of conferences involved direct White House support from the Office of the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, Richard A. Clarke.  Subsequently for the defense publication Armed Forces Journal International, he launched and ran the Armed Forces Journal conference & exhibition group with professional associations and the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT).  Topics were on military support to civil authorities, bio-terrorism consequence management and homeland security communications interoperability.  Additional topics were in defense areas such as multi-national C3I interoperability, military logistics and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).

Mr. Morton has been extensively published and has written for virtually every major defense publication.  He is currently completing a book for the U.S. Naval Institute Press tentatively titled When, Not If: Instituting American Resilience Now, sponsored by a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to the Center for the Study of the Presidency.  Previously the Naval Institute Press published his Mustin: A Naval Family of the 20th Century to coincide with the commissioning of the Aegis destroyer USS MUSTIN (DDG-89).   Mustin is on the CNO’s Book List for Leadership and Management.  He has been a regular contributor to the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, National Defense Industrial Association’s National Defense and Defense News.  He served as contributing editor for McGraw Hill’s Federal Technology Report, Arab Defence Journal and Asian Defence Journal.  He wrote also for Seapower, Aerospace Daily, Technology Transfer Business, Journal of Defense and Diplomacy and The World and I. 

Mr. Morton received his B.A and M.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University.