Stephen Rodriguez is a senior advisor with the Forward Defense program at
the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the
Founder of One Defense, a technology-enabled consulting firm that
leverages machine learning to identify advanced software and hardware
commercial capabilities and accelerate their transition into the defense
industrial base.
He was a senior leader at an artificial intelligence growth-stage company and
a global defense corporation. He has also been in and out of the US
government throughout his career, including operational service in Colombia,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Afghanistan. Rodriguez serves on the Boards of
fourteen venture-backed companies, including Applied Intuition, Chariot
Defense, Firestorm, Kela Systems, Smack Technologies, Ursa Major
Technologies, and ZeroMark. He is also a Commission Director at the Atlantic
Council, Chairman of Blue Forge Alliance, and a Life Member at the Council
on Foreign Relations.
Rodriguez received his BBA from Texas A&M University and an MA from
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He has been published in
the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, WarOnTheRocks, and National Review.