The Graham Plaster Podcast Joe Billingsley, on Founding the Military Cyber Professionals Association
Joe Billingsley serves as the Director of Strategic Engagement at the National Defense University (NDU) College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC), where he focuses on forging and sustaining relationships with a diverse array of critical stakeholders to support the organization's educational mission. He is also the creator of the National Service Panel at the DEF CON hacker conference, founder of the nonprofit Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA), an Adjunct Professor and Cyber Intelligence Advisor at the Institute of World Politics (IWP), Special Advisor of the peer-reviewed journal Military Cyber Affairs (MCA), and creator of the Cyber Embassy Night event series in Washington, DC. He has been Adjunct Faculty at the George Washington University, Advisor of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI), and Fellow at the Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation (CENETIX). He is a former U.S. Army Strategist (Functional Area 59), Signal Corps Officer, and Cyber Operations Officer. In uniform, he had served in various executive and staff positions at each echelon from Platoon to General Staff. His expeditionary activities included a 15 month Surge deployment to Iraq as part of the 1st Armored Division (Multi-National Division - North), engagement activities in the former Warsaw Pact, being underway on the Mediterranean Sea aboard the USS Mount Whitney during the Arab Spring, and earning the highest level of the Military Proficiency Badge from the Bundeswehr. He is a graduate of programs at the Naval War College, Army War College, Military Intelligence School, and Army School of Information Technology. He holds a BA in History from the University of Connecticut, where he founded the History Club. Selected as the first Army Cyber Scholar, he was one of the first graduates of the Naval Postgraduate School's MS in Cyber Systems and Operations. He also has a graduate certificate in Cyber Wargaming and is pursuing a PhD.
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