Retired Vice President & Senior Executive Advisor

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Don Vincent is a retired vice president who serves as a senior executive advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton.  He has three decades of experience in survivability and security services.

Mr. Vincent began his career at Booz Allen in 1985 providing nuclear survivability and lethality/target-hardening experience for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Over the years, he developed the firm’s capabilities in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) effects counter-terrorism, and was a pioneer in the homeland security initiatives.

As a leader in the growth of the DoD Information Analysis Centers, he provided a broad range of technology-related services including:

• Chemical, biological, and radiological target design, test, and evaluation
• Continuity of operations planning
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Cyber security
• Homeland security planning for prevention, preparedness, and response
• Human systems interface technology and evaluation
• Information assurance and network operations technology
• Live fire and operational testing and evaluation
• Survivability, lethality, and safety

He later led the firm’s homeland security, infrastructure assurance, and enterprise resilience market development campaigns.

Mr. Vincent holds a master’s degree in nuclear physics and administrative sciences and a bachelor’s in nuclear physics from Purdue University, where he won a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship.

profile updated May 2008