Daniel Fata is President of Fata Advisory, LLC, a strategic consulting firm based in Virginia. He serves as a board director and strategic advisor to numerous public and privately held firms. He has nearly three decades of experience working at the highest levels in Washington, D.C. as a Congressional leadership staffer in both the House and the Senate, a senior Pentagon official responsible for Europe/Russia/NATO, as a VP at a global strategic consulting firm, and as an executive with Lockheed Martin. His expertise focuses on aerospace and defense, transatlantic security, emerging technologies, and renewable energy. He is also a Commissioner on the congressionally-mandated Afghan War Commission as well as a Senior Advisor (Non-Resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).