Richard M. Harrison is the Vice President of Operations and Director of the Defense Technology Program at AFPC, where he co-directs the AFPC Space Policy Initiative (SPI). He currently serves as managing editor of AFPC’s Defense Dossier e-journal and as editor of the Defense Technology Monitor e-bulletin. Harrison also directs a briefing series on Capitol Hill to educate congressional staff on defense technology issues affecting U.S. national security. He has published numerous articles and is co-author of The Next Space Race: A Blueprint for American Primacy (Praeger, 2023) and co-editor of Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next Information Age (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Prior to his work at AFPC, Harrison spent several years as a systems engineer in the aerospace sector for Lockheed Martin. He completed his master’s degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and earned a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State University.