Kenneth A. Huffman

Kenneth A. Huffman is currently a senior advisor at CNA and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. Previously he was a member of the Senior Executive Service with over nineteen years of experience in political-military matters at senior levels of the U.S. Government. During this period, he represented the U.S. in NATO negotiations on security and operational issues, including Central Asia and the Balkans, development of a European Security and Defense Policy, establishment of a verification regime for the Conventional Forces Europe Treaty, and adaptation of NATO crisis management procedures after the end of the Cold War. He was also responsible for all operational and policy aspects of NATO matters relating to U.S. and NATO forces, intelligence, exercises, and crisis management. Huffman has an additional seven years of hands-on operational experience in command, control, and communications planning, analysis, and project management, as well as twenty years in operational billets as a U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officer. Huffman received a B.A. in Mathematics from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1963, and a M.S. degree in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1968.