Dr. Stephen R. Woodall has over thirty years of executive and operational experience in strategic planning, vision development, long-range resource analysis, strategic forecasting, international operations and management, systems and operations analysis, systems engineering, warfare gaming and analysis, technology planning, and inspirational leadership under demanding conditions, including combat operations in two wars. Additionally, Woodall is a Consulting Senior Systems Engineer and Systems Analyst for a number of major defense and consulting firms.
Woodall served as a naval officer from June 1967 until February 1994. His naval service included three commands at sea, including the AEGIS Cruiser USS MOBILE BAY (CG 53), serving as the four-carrier Battle Force ZULU Anti-Air Warfare Commander (AAWC) during the Gulf War in the Northern Arabian Gulf, in addition to command of USS KING (DDG 41) and USS LUISENO (ATF 156).
Experience in strategic planning and vision development includes support of the Army Digitization Office (ADO), the future of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) for the Vice Chairman of the Joint Staff, and similar work for OSD(C3I), BMDO (MDA), JTAMDO, Navy PEO IT, the DoN Secretariat, CNET, Navy SEALs, Army SMDC, ONR, PEO IWS, and many others.
Professionally, Woodall has supported the analysis and development of such C4ISR-related systems and capabilities as Athena (the Navy's revolutionary approach to Theater Command and Decision), the Joint Interface Control Officer (JICO) capability, Y2K testing and analysis, the Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) capability, Land Attack and NSFS, TAMD, JBMC2, Joint Fires, the Navy Distributed Engineering Plant (DEP), Common C&D, and Open Architecture. He has also supported the New Design SSN, CV(X), CNV-76, DD-21, DD(X), the LCS, and the CG(X).
Wodall is active as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Strike, Land Attack, and Air Defense (SLAAD) Division of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), serving as Study Director on a number of influential Industry-Government study efforts, including "AADC Joint Air Defense Firepower Coordination," "Integration, Control, and Deconfliction of Joint Fires," "Roadmap to the Single Integrated Picture (SIP),” “FORCEnet, the Naval Component of the GIG," "The Future of the Navy in Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (JIAMD)."
Woodall’s most recent NDIA study for the Navy entitled, "Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (JIAMD) Integration and Interoperability," was delivered to Sponsors (OPNAV N8, USFFC N8) on 16 February 2007. He also participates in the NDIA Systems Engineering, Undersea Warfare, C4ISR, Missile Defense, and Expeditionary Warfare Divisions. Woodall is the author of the book "Strategic Forecasting in Long-Range Military Force Planning," and numerous strategic plans, analyses, journal articles and papers. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, since 1994.
Woodall received his Ph.D. and Masters Degree in World Politics from Catholic University of America. He also earned a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from Naval Postgraduate School and received his undergraduate degree from the U.S. Naval Academy. Woodall has also served as a Fellow for The Brookings Institution.