Lance Robinson is the Battelle Homeland Security Education program lead under contract to NORAD and USNORTHCOM to administer the Homeland Security and Defense Education Consortium (HSDEC). In that position, he has led the effort to implement the homeland security education vision of NORAD and USNORTHCOM through a series of regional and curriculum workshops, the two HSDEC annual symposia, the HSDEC internship program and the HSDEC funded research program. Dr. Robinson is a retired U.S. Air Force officer with over twenty-three years of service, including aviation operations, weapon system acquisitions, and five years teaching experience in political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Claremont Graduate School in 1997. His published and presented work focuses on executive power and American political thought, in particular on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and the political thought of the progressive era.