Bronius Cikotas has over 38 years of government leadership experience, and served as a member of the Senior Executive Service at the U.S. Department of Defense.  From 1963 through 1981 he was responsible for the Air Force EMP ground-based and missile test assessment and hardening programs.  From 1982 through 1992, he was a regular Armed Forces Staff College guest lecturer on EMP threat and survivability issues.  He briefed selected members of Congress on the implications of EMP attack and testified on electromagnetic threat implications to infrastructures to the House Terrorism Panel.

Mr. Cikotas served as a consultant to the U.S. EMP Commission, and has presented numerous papers on threats, vulnerabilities, infrastructure interdependencies, and options to deal with these issues, including two Jane’s conference presentations on security and terrorism, a presentation at the Sandia Strategic Indirect Warfare Conference and a presentation to the Nuclear Strategy Forum on Post-EMP Commission Issues.