Daniel R. Little
Dan Little has lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to include the Black Sea Region. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he served as Program Manager at the Pentagon where he was Curriculum Developer and Lead Instructor for all Modeling & Simulation instruction throughout the United States Army, including all courseware, training support plans and instruction given worldwide.
In 2003/2004 he was at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, where he co-founded a cell devoted to the research of strategic-thinking technologies in Artificial Intelligence (AI), computer simulations, software, web-based e-learning and data-mining. This cell facilitated coordination throughout the U.S. Federal Government, academia, and corporations concerning matters related to Homeland Security and the Global War on Terror.
From 1999 to 2003, he served as Head of NATO Planning at the "Warrior Preparation Center," U.S. Forces Europe, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he headed US, NATO and Partnership for Peace bilateral and coalition interoperability training and mission rehearsal exercise planning. Additionally, he lectured extensively on interoperability, Modeling and Simulation and planning to numerous agencies and military commands. Prior to 1999, he served as a Rapid Deployment Company Commander of an Armor Battalion within the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia as well as the Middle East. Prior to command, Dan served as Chief of the Battle Simulation Center.
Little, currently a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, studied International Relations at Saint Catherine's College, University of Cambridge, and received his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, which includes joint study at the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule fuer Unternehmensfuehrung, Vallendar, Germany.