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Bruce P. Jackson

Bruce P. Jackson is vice president, Strategy and Planning, Corporate Strategic Development for the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

From 1979 to 1990, Bruce Jackson served in the United States Army as a Military Intelligence Officer. From 1986 to 1990, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in a variety of policy positions pertaining to nuclear forces, strategic defenses and arm control negotiations.

Upon leaving the Department of Defense in 1990, Mr. Jackson joined Lehman Brothers, an investment bank in New York, where he was the chief strategist for the firm's proprietary trade operations. In 1993, he moved to Martin Marietta Corporation where he was Director for Strategic Planning and subsequently Director for Corporate Development Projects. In these positions, Mr. Jackson played a significant role in the execution of the Corporation's mergers and acquisitions strategy.

Upon Martin Marietta's merger with Lockheed Corporation in March 1995, he became the Director, Defense Planning and Analysis on the Corporate staff. His responsibilities included the analysis of advanced technology markets worldwide and the development of Corporate strategy for defense and aerospace markets. In 1997, he became Director, Global Development for Lockheed Martin Corporation with the responsibility for developing the Corporation in international markets. In 1999, he became vice president, Strategy and Planning in the office of Corporate Strategic Development.

During 1995 and 1996, Mr. Jackson was Co-Chair of the Dole for President National Finance Committee. In 1996 and again in 2000, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention where he served on the Platform Committee and the Platform's subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy, serving as Chairman for the subcommittee in 2000.

Mr. Jackson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy. He is the President of the U.S. Committee on NATO, a non-profit bi-partisan organization formed to promote the expansion of the NATO alliance.