The Frontier Security Institute has appointed five executive advisers and six fellows to support its work at the intersection of frontier artificial intelligence and U.S. national security.
The additions bring experience from the National Security Council, Defense Innovation Unit, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Homeland Security, RAND, and Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
The executive advisers will counsel the institute’s leadership on its research agenda and relationships with defense, intelligence, and other national security organizations. The fellows will contribute to analysis, wargames, and convenings produced for the Pentagon, intelligence agencies, government offices, and Congress.
The five executive advisers are Shield Capital partner and former Defense Innovation Unit Director Michael Brown; retired Navy Rear Admiral and former Cyberspace Solarium Commission Executive Director Mark Montgomery; Steptoe partner and former Defense Department attorney Michel Paradis; former RAND National Security Research Division Director Barry Pavel; and former National Security Council and National Economic Council official Pavneet Singh.
Brown previously helped the military adopt 50 mission-critical capabilities. Montgomery now serves as senior director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. Paradis is a national security lawyer whose doctoral research examined large language models.
Pavel previously led the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center and served as a National Security Council senior director under two presidents. Singh advises organizations on emerging technology and co-authored the Defense Innovation Unit’s report on U.S.-China technology competition.
The institute’s new technology fellows are Raymond P. Gobberg III and Microsoft economist Justin Grana. Its security fellows are former CIA executive Rachel Grunspan, former Defense Intelligence Agency executive Bradley Knopp, Triantha founder Nick Reese, and former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant John P. Sullivan.
Their work will support three institute programs: Defend, which addresses the theft and adversarial targeting of U.S. AI; Adopt, which evaluates whether government AI systems are secure and reliable; and Advance, which works with allies on international AI governance.
KEY QUOTE:
“The answers to the hardest questions about AI’s use in national security will need to have the operators and the engineers working together. The people who’ve been in the room when the decision had to be made and the people deployed executing those decisions. That’s who we asked to join us.”
Isaac “Ike” Harris, Founder and Executive Director of the Frontier Security Institute
