Dr. Paul N. Stockton is the President of Paul N Stockton LLC, a strategic advisory firm in

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. From 2009-2013, Dr. Stockton served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs, where he helped lead the Department's response to Hurricane Sandy. He was responsible for Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection, Western Hemisphere security policy, domestic crisis management, continuity of operations planning, and a range of other responsibilities. While Assistant Secretary, Dr. Stockton also served as Executive Director of the

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. After serving as Assistant Secretary, Dr. Stockton was the Managing Director of Sonecon LLC, an advisory firm in Washington, DC, from 2013-2020. In September 2013, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel appointed Dr. Stockton to co-chair th
Independent Review of the Washington Navy Yard Shootings
which recommended major changes to the Department's security clearance system that are now being implemented. Dr. Stockton is Chair of the Grid Resilience for National Security subcommittee of the Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Committee. He also serves on th
Homeland Security Advisory Council
for the Department of Homeland Security and is Co-Chair of the Council's Cybersecurity Subcommittee. In 2020, he was appointed to the

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Electricity Advisory Council
He is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Analytic Services Inc. and the National Institute for Hometown Security, and on advisory boards for the Idaho National Laboratory, the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security Studies at the Auburn University, and other organizations.

Education and early career

Education

Dr. Stockton earned a BA ''Summa Cum Laude'' in government from

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in June 1976 and a Ph.D. in government from

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in November 1986. He was born in

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and attended River Falls Senior High in River Falls, Wisconsin before graduating from Highland Park Senior High in

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in 1972.

Early career

Dr. Stockton served as a

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for the International Institute for Strategic Studies from 1982–83, and was a Legislative Assistant to Senator

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from 1986–89, where he was responsible for foreign relations, defense, and intelligence issues. Dr. Stockton then joined the faculty of the

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(NPS) in Monterey, California in 1990. Dr. Stockton held a number of positions at NPS before becoming Associate Provost in 2000. During his NPS tenure, Dr. Stockton founded and led its School of International Graduate Studies, the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, and the Center for Civil-Military Relations. Dr. Stockton was appointed Senior Research Scholar at

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’s

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in 2006 and held the position until 2009.

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and America’s Security Affairs

Nomination

President

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nominated Dr. Stockton to be Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Homeland Defense and America's Security Affairs (HD&ASA) on April 28, 2009, and was confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 2009.

Tenure

As ASD HD&ASA, Dr. Stockton was responsible for DoD initiatives to strengthen security in the Western Hemisphere and help partner nations build their capacities to meet emerging security challenges. He also guided the Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection program, served as DoD's Domestic Crisis Manager, and helped lead the Department's response to Hurricane Sandy, Deepwater Horizon and other disasters. Dr. Stockton was responsible for DoD policy on domestic counter-terrorism, continuity of operations planning, maritime domain awareness,

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, and preparedness for chemical, biological radiological and nuclear events.Article title
From 2010 until January 2013, Dr. Stockton also served as Executive Director of the

, where he helped Governors, the National Guard, DoD, the

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and the

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adopt initiatives to strengthen Federal-State collaboration and unity of effort. These initiatives were codified into law in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, Section 515. From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Stockton served as the Acting U.S. Co-Chair of the Canada-U.S. Permanent Joint Board of Defense, the premier organization for defense policy coordination between the two Nations.

Accomplishments and awards

Dr. Stockton was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, DoD's highest civilian award, in 2011 and again in 2013. The Department of Homeland Security also awarded Dr. Stockton its Distinguished Public Service Medal. While ASD, Stockton led the teams that created the Department's first-ever

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Strategy, the Complex Catastrophe Initiative for defense support to civil authorities in extreme events, and the implementation of installation and personnel security measures following the shootings at Fort Hood in 2009.

Private sector consulting

Dr. Stockton is President of Paul N Stockton LLC, a strategic advisory firm in Santa Fe, NM. In this role, Dr. Stockton provides strategic advice to industry and government clients on

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and

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issues. He also performs studies, prepares expert testimony and regulatory filings, and contributes to the design and execution of infrastructure resilience and cybersecurity exercises. From 2013 to 2020, he served as the managing director of Sonecon, LLC, a security and economic advisory firm in Washington, DC. I

Activities and organizations

Dr. Stockton helped the

and

develop th
Emergency Support Function #14 – Cross-Sector Business and Infrastructure Annex
and served as contributing editor to the 4th Edition of the National Response Framework. Dr. Stockton was a member of the

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’s Task Force on Cyber Deterrence and contributed to it
2017 Final Report
Dr. Stockton has served on the Homeland Security Advisory Council since 2015, is Co-Chair of the Council’s Cybersecurity Subcommittee, and co-authored it
2016 report on cyber incident response
Dr. Stockton is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and a Senior Advisor to the

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. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Analytic Services, Inc. and the National Institute for Hometown Security, and on advisory boards for the

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, the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security Studies at the

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, and other organizations. Dr. Stockton also co-chaired the DoD's Independent Review of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting, released March 2014.

Publications

Defeating Coercive Information Operations in Future Crises (Laurel, MD: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, August 2021), https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/documents/DefeatingCoerciveIOs.pdf Blackstart Power Restoration: Resilience Against Cyber Threats (Arlington, VA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, forthcoming January 2021) Securing the Grid from Supply-Chain Based Attacks (Idaho Falls: Idaho National Laboratory, September 2020), https://inl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/StocktonEOReport.pdf Strengthening the Cyber Resilience of North American Energy Systems (Washington, DC: The Wilson Center, September 2020), https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/strengthening-cyber-resilience-north-american-energy-systems “Strengthening Mission Assurance Against Emerging Threats: Critical Gaps and Opportunities for Progress” Joint Forces Quarterly (Issue 95, 4th Quarter 2019), pp. 22–31, with John Paczkoski, https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/2018819/strengthening-mission-assurance-against-emerging-threats-critical-gaps-and-oppo/ In August 2018, Dr. Stockton authore
"Resilience for Grid Security Emergencies: Opportunities for Industry-Government Collaboration,"
published by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory(APL). This follows Dr. Stockton’s 201
"Super Storm Sandy: Implications for Designing a Post Cyber Attack Power Restoration System"
report for APL. Dr. Stockton is also the Principal Author and Editor in Chief of the Electric Infrastructure Security Council’s Electric Grid Protection Handbook series. The most recent Handbook (III)
“Cross-Sector Coordination and Communications in Black Sky Events,”
was published in June 2018. In 2014, Dr. Stockton authore
"Responding to a Cyber Attack on the North American Electric Grid,"
Chapter 5 of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Electric Grid Cybersecurity Initiative. Dr. Stockton also authore
"Resilience for Black Sky Days: Supplementing Reliability Metrics for Extraordinary and Hazardous Events,"
a study published by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. The report proposes criteria for strengthening resilience against "black sky days": i.e., extraordinary and hazardous catastrophes utterly unlike the blue sky days during which utilities typically operate. Dr. Stockton co-authored DoD's �
Independent Review of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting” published in November 2013
Dr. Stockton was also the lead co-author of �
Prosecuting Cyberterrorists: Applying Traditional Jurisdictional Frameworks to a Modern Threat
” ''Stanford Law & Policy Review'', and �
Curbing the Market for Cyber Weapons
” published by ''Yale Law and Policy Review'', and has published in ''

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, Political Science Quarterly, Homeland Security Affairs'' (which he helped found in 2005), and other

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journals and edited volumes.

References

External links

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Resilience for Grid Security Emergencies: Opportunities for Industry-Government Collaboration

Electric Grid Protection Handbook III: Cross-Sector Coordination and Communications in Black Sky Events

Defense Science Board Task Force on Cyber Deterrence: 2017 Final Report

Final Report of the Cybersecurity Subcommittee: Incident Response

Super Storm Sandy: Implications for Designing a Post Cyber Attack Power Restoration System

Department of Defense Independent Review of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting

Resilience For Black Sky Days

"Ten Years After 9/11: Challenges for the Decade to Come:"

Sonecon LLC
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