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 Providing clients with unique insight into national security and defense policies, programs, and processes
Shortwaver Consulting
provides clients with national security and defense policy advice and expertise. The consultancy is a limited
liability company in Burke, Virginia owned and operated by David J. Trachtenberg.
With more than
30 years of national security experience in both government and the private sector, Mr. Trachtenberg has served as a government
contractor, a legislative staffer for the U.S. Congress, and a senior Department of Defense official. He has been a
Vice President and Senior Vice President for large and small companies working in partnership with the U.S. Government to
improve American security in the areas of homeland defense and international security policy.
Shortwaver Consulting
currently provides consulting services to elements of the U.S. Department of Defense and to corporate entities, including
small businesses and large industrial customers. The company's focus is on policy and planning -- to give clients an
in-depth appreciation and understanding of how government works and to help them translate that understanding into actions
that ensure their success.
Click below for David Trachtenberg's bio.
Bio Long Version
Bio Short Version
Areas of Expertise: -
- National Security Policy and Strategy
- Missile Defense
- Nuclear Weapons
- Arms Control
- Proliferation and Counterproliferation
- WMD Threat Reduction
- Defense Budget Issues
- Counter-terrorism
- Russian Military Policy
- Export Controls
- Technology Transfer
- Non-Lethal Weapons
- Homeland Security
- Executive and Legislative Processes
- Strategic Planning
You may contact Shortwaver Consulting
at the following e-mail address: dtrachtenberg@shortwaver.net
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Selected commentaries posted by the American Enterprise
Institute's Center for Defense Studies
"Czeching Out on Missile Defense," 16 June 2011
"New START Facts," 10 June 2011
"Dollars and Sense on Defense," 6 December 2010
"No Sale on New START," 22 November 2010
"Moving Missile Defense Forward," 18 October 2010
"Stopping New START," 8 September 2010
"An Opportunity Missed," 30 August 2010
"Red Menace or Red Herring?," 17 August 2010
"Nuclear Wake-Up Call," 21 July 2010
"The Season of Our Nuclear Discontent," 24 May 2010
"Assessing the Nuclear Posture Review: A Closer Look," 20 April 2010
"Six Myths About the 'New START' Treaty," 8 April 2010
"How to Lose Friends and Amuse Your Enemies," 28 September 2009
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"Shortwaver" at sea
Boating on the Potomac
The "maritime
mobile" Shortwaver is a Bayliner Ciera 2651 Sunbridge cabin cruiser. It is an excellent way to relax while cruising
the waters around our nation's capital. And, of course, it is provisioned with its own shortwave radio receivers
to stay in touch with world events while at sea.
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Shortwaver Consulting's President
and CEO developed an interest in national security affairs through exposure to international events and information broadcast
on shortwave radio. What started as a hobby 40 years ago sparked a passion for public service and for helping to
shape the role of the United States in world affairs.
Shortwave is a strategically-targeted
means of global high-frequency information and radio communications that offers:
- Worldwide
perspectives
- Global reach
- International impact
Shortwaver Consulting strives to provide its clients
with an in-depth understanding of U.S. national security policy as they develop their own strategic communications plans and strategies.
The company's offices are co-located with amateur radio station N4WWL, licensed by the Federal
Communications Commission.
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Book Chapters and Reports: "U.S. Extended
Deterrence: How Much Strategic Force Is Too Little?" in Tailored Deterrence: Influencing States and Groups of
Concern, published by the USAF Counterproliferation Center, Maxwell AFB, AL, May 2011. Click here to read "Toward a New 'New
Look': U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Forces for the Third Atomic Age" (with Thomas Donnelly), AEI Center for Defense Studies,
March 2010
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Links to articles
on national security affairs
"Nuclear Fallback," National Review Online, 10 October 2011
"New Days, Old Ways," (Book review of "The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy
of the KGB,") National Security Policy Proceedings, Winter 2010.
"Going Nuclear," Defense News, 8 February 2010
"Disconnected Dots Between Strategy and Means," Defense News, 27 April 2009
"Non-lethal Weapons: The Right Tools for the Job," Jane's Defence Weekly, 11 February 2009
"Death Knell for Nuclear Deterrence?," Defense News, 14 July 2008
"Rethink Arms Control," Defense News, 29 October 2007
"How to Spice Up Voice of America's Dull Broadcasts," Christian Science Monitor, 23 August 2007
"Off the Radar: What Happened to Missile Defense?," Armed Forces Journal International, January 2006
"Understanding American Nuclear Weapons Policy and Strategy: A Citizen's Guide to the Nuclear Posture Review and the Role
of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century," 2005
"Connecting the Dots," Defense News, 13 September 2004
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Proud member of the U.S. Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System
Click here to read an article about the role of MARS in
emergency communications preparedness, published
in the February 2009 issue of Signal Connections, the electronic newsletter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).
Click here to read an article about the role of MARS
operators in assisting humanitarian relief efforts in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, published in the May 2010 issue of Monitoring Times.
Click here to read an article highlighting DoD’s reaffirmation of the strengthened civilian-military communications partnership
that MARS represents, published on AFCEA’s Signal Scape web site in September 2010.
Homeland Security Live Alert
Shortwaver Consulting, LLC * 9233 Byron Terrace * Suite 100 * Burke, Virginia * USA * 22015
Phone: 703.981.5051
* Fax: 888.745.0460
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