LTG(R) Darsie Rogers currently serves as a Professor of Practice at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) at the University of Maryland. His focus is Cognitive Security (CS) - a socio-technical approach that integrates a number of disciplines including social/behavioral analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, models, and advanced computing to translate malign network methods into elements that can be addressed collaboratively by government, industry, and academia. CS enables intelligence technologies patterned on human thought processes to detect and address threats.

LTG(R) Rogers has an extensive background in irregular warfare, countering enemy threat networks, deterring weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and countering emerging or improvised threats through innovative and agile problem-solving methods. As Deputy Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), LTG(R) Rogers managed a 2000+ person organization tasked with countering WMD, malign dual-use technology, improvised explosive devices, and asymmetric threat networks. This included oversight of the establishment of the Russia Network Analysis Team that forged relationships between DTRA and the Joint Special Operations Command, European Combatant Command, law enforcement, sanctions, diplomatic, and intelligence community experts to defeat specific threats posed by the transregional nation-state, criminal, and terrorist networks.

As Commanding General of Special Operations Command – US Central Command, he led US Special Operations and coalition partners in the Middle East utilizing intelligence and innovative threat analysis to counter enemy threat networks. In the U.S. and NATO civilian-military interagency, he leveraged a whole of government approach to maximize economic impact on those targets to protect domestic national security interests and warfighters abroad through the collaborative course of action development.

LTG(R) Rogers also:

• Has led and transformed elite organizations - including US Army Special Forces and Navy SEALs in peer military competition and the pursuit of violent extremists
• Has directed multifaceted organizations ranging from small, specialized tactical units in combat to leading more than 24,000 people
• Serves as a Senior Fellow with the Association of the US Army where he is a thought leader on critical issues related to national security
• Consults for the Defense Department, other government agencies, and commercial industry on a range of topics that include special operations forces and technology, intelligence-driven network defeat, and cyber security

Education:

• MS, Strategic Studies, U.S. Air Force War College
• MS, Louisiana State University; BS, Auburn University