Interdisciplinary Design Team members:

Dusty Miller

A former Senior Vice President and retired British Army Major, this accomplished leader brings extensive experience in corporate business management, strategic planning, and military intelligence operations. He has extensive experience in Joint and Coalition Intelligence, Counter-Intelligence (CI), Counter-Terrorism (CT), and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) intelligence. Utilizing the systems-based approach to training and operational design, he has made significant contributions to both the military and civilian sectors, to include scenario development, training strategies, and new systems integration for the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE) under the HTASC contract.

Renowned for instructional excellence and innovation, he led the development of a best-practice training exercise recognized by TRADOC and consistently earned top instructor ratings at the Military Intelligence Captains Career Course (MICCC). His leadership roles include managing the All-Source Fusion Cell during NATO’s first Rapid Reaction Corps certification in Germany and playing a pivotal role in the largest Joint Coalition Special Forces operation of the 2003 Gulf War. He also oversaw a development team enhancing the user experience for the Distributed Common Ground System – Army (DCGS-A), further demonstrating a unique blend of operational insight and technical acumen.

David Nelson-Fischer

A military and OIF veteran with over 25 years of proven service and contract support to the United States Army, with deep expertise in intelligence operations, training development, scenario design, and advanced technological integration. A former enlisted Armor soldier and Intelligence Officer, Dave currently serves as a Site Lead and Scenario Designer, leading a team of 18 personnel in delivering purpose-built training solutions that reflect current and future geopolitical and military trends. They apply the ADDIE model to design and evaluate learning platforms, conduct comprehensive reviews of scenario and policy documents, and engage with COCOM staffs to ensure relevance and accuracy in scenario design. Their efforts include the development of a cutting-edge INDOPACOM scenario for use across all U.S. Army Centers of Excellence.

Dave supports the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE) Directorate of Training Plans and Exercise-Threat Integration Team in delivering immersive, multi-domain Operational Environment scenarios spanning Europe, the Middle East, CONUS, and beyond. These scenarios were crafted to support over 53 courses, including SIGINT, HUMINT, CI, GEOINT, MASINT, All-Source disciplines, and specialized programs such as the DIA FVEY and International Intelligence Officers Course. His work ensures integration of real-world National Defense Strategy threats and challenges into training environments, resulting in tactically and technically proficient intelligence professionals. Dave also conducts strategic research on emergent technologies and global trends, providing expert briefings to senior leaders across multiple U.S. and allied agencies.

As the former Chief of the Prototyping and Special Projects Division, G9/CIG at USAICoE, David evaluated hundreds of technology proposals, coordinated with top DoD research labs, and led major projects such as the Empire Challenge Cellular Working Group and multiple ISR-to-the-Edge demonstrations. His leadership drove the development of Kolabo, an innovative peer-to-peer Lessons Learned platform, and he was regularly selected to represent USAICoE at premier industry events, including Google I/O, BlackHat, and DEFCON. An accomplished analyst and scenario developer, Dave has designed environments for over 50 courses, consistently earning recognition for excellence and professionalism.

Rick Rodriguez

Rick Rodriguez is the Chief of the Training Support Branch at U.S. Army TRADOC G-2, where he leads scenario development, operational environment integration, and professional military education support. A retired Army Intelligence Officer with over 25 years of service, he brings deep expertise in training management, curriculum design, and scenario-based instruction. Rick holds Masters’ degrees in Education and Military History and currently focuses on Indo-Pacific exercise design and scenario development within the DATE framework. His work has influenced key programs such as the Common Scenario Exercise Program (CSEP), the Military Intelligence Training Strategy (MITS), and has supported the expansion of the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) for USARPAC. With combat deployments spanning Desert Storm, Desert Thunder, Desert Fox, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Rick’s operational background enhances his ability to build realistic, relevant, and complex training environments. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a unique ability to blend strategic foresight, operational realism, and instructional best practices to shape the future of Army intelligence education and readiness.

Mac McNaughton

Mac is a former British Army Military Intelligence Sergeant Major with over 22 years of distinguished military service and an additional 17 years as a senior contractor at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE), Fort Huachuca, Arizona. He has extensive experience in intelligence and counterintelligence training and development, HUMINT operations, risk analysis, and project management.

Currently, he provides senior-level expertise to USAICoE’s Exercise and Threat Integration (PLEX-TI) program, designing and delivering immersive, multi-domain training scenarios for over 53 courses across the intelligence spectrum—SIGINT, HUMINT, CI, GEOINT, MASINT, and All-Source—plus joint and international programs. These span EUCOM, AFRICOM, INDOPACOM, NORTHCOM, and SOUTHCOM. These scenarios span strategic to tactical levels and encompass kinetic and non-kinetic domains, including cyber warfare, deception operations, logistical planning, and internally displaced personnel management. He creates a plausible and globally contextualized "Road to War" event series using PMESII-PT analysis. Mac produces critical exercise products such as Operational Environment Assessments, Irregular Threat Assessments, and enemy operational timelines. His role also includes direct support to course cadres, doctrinal briefings, and coordination with Combatant Command (COCOM) staffs to ensure scenario relevance to the evolving operational environment.

Earlier in his military career, he led UK counterintelligence operations in Iraq and Kosovo, interfacing with Five Eyes (FVEY) and NATO partners. He developed interrogation and tactical questioning training for global deployment and liaised with UK law enforcement and national intelligence agencies. As Commander of the Military Intelligence Training Branch in Germany, he produced RED force wargaming scenarios and supported HQ 1st (UK) Armoured Division during pre-deployment for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 Paul W. Vebber

Currently semi-retired working part-time for the Center for Naval Analyses (supporting their wargaming efforts), McLaughlin Research Corp (to specifically support Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport) and teaching wargaming classes for the Military Operations Research Society (as well as co-chair of their Working Group 30 – Wargaming). Focus of effort is on enhancing analytic support to wargame adjudication, using AI in wargaming, and wargaming future multi-domain operations at the operational level of war.

Previously, as Assistant Director, Wargaming and Future Warfare Research, on the Headquarters staff of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Mr. Vebber focuses on developing and using wargames as a tool for concept exploration, development and experimentation. He has been involved in wargame execution, design and development for customers ranging from the Department of Defense Office of Net Assessment  to COMPACTFLT, the Naval War College, and the NATO Systems Analysis and Studies (SAS) panel on Analytical War Gaming – Innovative Approaches for Data Capture, Analysis, and Exploitation. He is on the organizing committees for the Connections international wargame conference series, MORS Working Group 30 – Wargaming, and a leader in the DoD wargaming community of practice.

Mr. Vebber has extensive experience in the commercial wargaming filed as well, contributing the design and development of over 30 commercial wargames. The computer wargame company he co-founded (www.matrixgames.com) is currently one of the most prolific publishers of computer wargames. He is one of 7 instructors who teach the MORS certificate course on wargaming. His recent design contributions include games for training, planning and exploratory investigation of how to employ new technologies in ways that enhance overall combat power in a warfight.

He is a retired Commander, USNR, with a Surface Warfare background in Joint Operational Command and Control, Mine Warfare,  Anti-Submarine Warfare and has extensive operations analysis, training systems, and command and control of naval operations experience in both the government and private sectors. His publications include principal or contributing author of a wide range of concept documents including the Joint Force Maritime Component Commander Command and Control TACMEMO, the Undersea Domain Operating Concept, Leveraging the Undersea Environment, and several volumes in the Mine Warfare portion of the Naval Warfare Library, including authorship of the Test Publication on Organic MCM.

Kevin Baker

A seasoned Master-level Instructor and retired U.S. Army veteran with over 36 years of distinguished service in artillery and military intelligence, this expert brings deep operational insight and instructional acumen to the development of complex training scenarios. With five deployments and two years supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, they possess an exceptional command of Geospatial (GEOINT), Measurement and Signature (MASINT), and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) disciplines. Their military career included roles as a JSTARS system operator, instructor, ISR planner, and military advisor, delivering intelligence briefings and reports to leadership from small unit teams to senior commanders in theater. Their efforts have consistently been recognized for outstanding organization, leadership, and performance, leading teams of up to 70 personnel with a calm and confident demeanor.

Currently active as a scenario developer and intelligence trainer, they design, write, and produce comprehensive theater-level training modules for divisions and below. These include full-spectrum military operations from both friendly and enemy perspectives, with robust elements such as orders of battle, movement timelines, intelligence reporting, logistics, fires, and operational and scenario graphics modeled after NGA and Army Geospatial Center standards. With expertise in ArcGIS, Analyst Notebook, and various military intelligence tools and platforms, they continue to shape future military leaders through immersive, realistic, and tactically relevant exercises.

Brian Hogan

Brian Hogan is a Senior Training Developer for the US Army Intelligence Center and independent consultant on matters of tactical intelligence, threat integration, and small unit leadership and tactics with over twenty years of experience. He previously served as a U.S. Army Infantryman with the 101st Airborne prior to moving to private military contracting work, serving in various tactical positions around the world. He provides subject matter expertise in the implementation of Maneuver Warfare, Paramilitary Operations, as well as Special Operations Strategy and Tactics to alternative future DoD scenarios. Brian has a B.A. in Intelligence Operations from the American Military University, as well as advanced training and experience in close quarters combat, tactical tracking, reconnaissance, counter-threat finance, geospatial intelligence, Joint Intelligence, and Joint Operations.

Kris Alstatt

Kristoffer Alstatt has more than 25-years of experience across national security and academia. He currently lives in Virginia where he leads counterterrorism training initiatives. His previous work includes helping modernize geospatial tools and processes, developing intelligence training scenarios in support of the U.S. Army at Fort Huachuca, providing strategic analysis for U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) as a behavioral scientist, and as an Afghanistan analyst at Fort Leavenworth, KS. Prior to his work in national security, he conducted funded social science research in Central America and Southeast Asia and was a Senior Teaching Fellow at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He received his BA and MA from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and PhD from SMU.