Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ted Anderson has over twenty years of Government Relations experience following a decorated career as an Army combat arms officer.  Ted has extensive experience in worldwide joint contingency planning and operations, legislative programs, and Department of Defense policy. After serving nineteen years on parachute status at FT Bragg, NC in various elite airborne units, he completed his twenty-three-year career at the Pentagon. Since retiring in 2003, Mr. Anderson has provided strategic planning and marketing, business development and government consulting services to a wide variety of defense companies and contractors.