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Donald J. Reed specializes in strategic planning for United States Northern Command. His career spans twenty years as a United States Army military police officer, and more than six years as a civilian homeland defense plans officer. He helped to plan and execute the Department of Defense operational responses to both the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a member of Consequence Management Task Force East, as well as to Hurricane Katrina as a member of Joint Task Force Katrina. He holds a master’s degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, where he is also a recipient of the Curtis H. “Butch” Straub Award for homeland security leadership and academic excellence.