Kenneth Rapuano

Rapuano is the son of Al and Catherine Rapuano, and is a native of Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1980.[3] Following high school, he graduated with a B.S. in political science from Middlebury College and an M.S. in national security studies from Georgetown University.[4]

Rapuano served 21 years in the United States Marines Corps as an infantryman and intelligence officer with deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He deployed to Iraq in 2003, where he commanded the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center of the Iraq Survey Group established to conduct the mission of surveying and exploiting possible weapons of mass destruction activities throughout Iraq.[5] In 2006, he left his position as Deputy Homeland Security Advisor in the George W. Bush administration in order to volunteer for deployment to Afghanistan. He deployed to Afghanistan as an Marine Corps intelligence officer with a Joint Special Operations Task Force, establishing and directing a targeting infusion center tracking high-value terrorists and insurgents.[6]

Rapuano has previously worked for the think tanks ANSER and the Mitre Corporation. At ANSER, he simultaneously served as a Senior Vice President while also acting as the Executive Director of the Studies & Analysis Group.[7] Prior to working for ANSER, he was the President of Homeland Security at ICx Technologies.[8] Rapuano has previously served as the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor in the George W. Bush administration, the Deputy Undersecretary for Counter-Terrorism at the United States Department of Energy, and as a Special Assistant in International Security Policy for the Pentagon.[9][10]