Rick White
Associate Director for Curriculum Development and Technology
Center for Homeland Security, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Rick has a BS in History from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and an MS in Computer Science from Old Dominion University in Virginia. Rick retired from the United States Air Force in January 2004. During his twenty-year career as a communications officer, Rick maintained software for the joint cruise missile program, supported interoperability testing of the AWACS airborne radar, designed and built computer networks for the Air Warfare Center, developed and maintained NATO air tasking software, directed communications for Operation PROVIDE COMFORT in northern Iraq, maintained missile warning, space surveillance, and air defense systems in Cheyenne Mountain, and taught senior cadet military courses at the United States Air Force Academy. Upon retiring, Rick formed a defense education and consulting company to help civilian intelligence agencies better understand their military customer. During the course of this work Rick became interested in homeland security and founded a new company specializing in homeland security education and training. Rick wrote the first definitive book on the Department of Homeland Security (Pearson 2006), and followed with a comprehensive textbook on Homeland Defense (Pearson 2007). Since 2005 he has developed and taught national-level programs in homeland security, consulted on homeland security training for the State of Colorado, and presented at homeland security conferences across the country. Rick joined CHS in July 2007 to promote innovative education and training programs enhancing federal, state, and local homeland security.
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