Mr. Todd Harrison

Todd Harrison is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on defense strategy, defense budgeting, and space policy. He has published widely on issues such as the future of US Space Force, trade-offs in defense spending, and military personnel and readiness reform. His work has appeared in outlets including Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Defense One, and Breaking Defense. He has testified before Congress on defense budgeting, space security, and military personnel issues.

Previously, Mr. Harrison served in senior research positions at leading think tanks, including as director of the Defense Budget Analysis program and the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and as senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He has also been a senior vice president and head of research in the defense industry, served as a captain in the US Air Force Reserves, and taught graduate courses on space security and defense budgeting at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Mr. Harrison received a BS and MS in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.