Faculty and Advisors
Dr. Middleton became the Director of the Strategic Intelligence Program at Patrick Henry College, Purcellville, VA, in June 2004. Dr. Middleton teaches upper division PHC courses on US Intelligence History; Intelligence Research and Analysis; Advanced Technology and Ethics in Intelligence and National Security; and Strategic Intelligence Special Projects. He previously taught undergraduate leadership for at the undergraduate level. His most recent publications include: War gaming. Encyclopedia of U.S. Intelligence, 2012; Cyber Assurance: Technical Developments and Cognitive Issues, presented at the National Defense University’s First, Cognitive-Cyber Conference, August 2011; "Avatars or Robots? The Human Factor in Overcoming Information Overload." He presented at the Military Operations Research Symposium (MORS), June 2010; "A Maturity Model for Intelligence Education." American Intelligence Journal, Winter 2007/2008. He also authored, “Religion in Russian Geo-Political Strategy,” published in Providence Journal, Winter 2017.
Dr. Middleton retired in the rank of Colonel from the U.S. Air Force in 1997. During his time in the U.S. military, he served in various positions in research and development, systems acquisition, and space operations in the continental U.S. and overseas locations. Dr. Middleton graduated in the top ten percent of his class at the United States Air Force Academy in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. Dr. Middleton is a military veteran with 28 years of commissioned service. Dr. Middleton holds numerous Air Force and Joint military decorations, and is certified as a Department of Defense Level III Program Manager. His Doctorate in Strategic Leadership is from Regent University.
Edward L. Waltz is a former Distinguished member of the Technical Staff, Virginia Tech, and an author of numerous technical publications, including: Quantitative Intelligence Analysis; Information Warfare: Principles and Operations; Multisensor Data Fusion; Quantitative Intelligence Analysis: Applied Analytic Models; Counterdeception Principles and Applications for National Security; and Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise. Prior to joining the Virginia Tech staff, he was the Chief Scientist for Intelligence at BAE Systems Advanced Information Technology, and before coming to BAE was Technical Director for Intelligence Systems at General Dynamics. He also served as a Manager for Information Understanding Programs at ERIM International.
Mary Habeck is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Previously, she taught American and European military history at Yale University and taught courses on military history and strategic thought at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 2008 to 2009, she was the special advisor for strategic planning on the National Security Council staff.
In addition to books and articles on World War I and the Spanish Civil War, Habeck’s publications include “Managing Savagery: Al-Qa’ida’s Military and Political Strategies” (2016), “Fighting the Enemy: The US and Its War against al-Qa’ida” (2017), and “Reforming Intelligence: A Proposal for Reorganizing the Intelligence Community and Improving Analysis” (2016).
She received her Ph.D. in history and M.A. in international relations from Yale University and a B.A. in international studies, Russian, and Spanish from Ohio State University.
Tim Waltz is the Vice President for Sensors and Systems at Riverside Research where he leads over $64M a year portfolio of R&D and technical support to the Defense and Intelligence Communities. Additionally, he serves as a founding partner of Applied Technology Solutions, a startup that develops cutting edge technical solutions for analysis. Mr. Waltz has over 25 years of leadership, engineering, and management experience across a broad range of customers and technical domains in support of national defense.
Mr. Waltz has worked onsite contractor leadership roles within the IC at NGA, DIA, and NRO AS&T. In addition, he has led research efforts at DARPA, AFRL, and across the intelligence community. His contractor experience includes roles at ERIM, Applied Systems Research, CACI, BAE Systems, SRI International, and Riverside Research. He has a background in a wide range of intelligence disciplines such as imagery-derived MASINT/Advanced Geospatial Intelligence, MASINT, SIGINT, Identity Intelligence, and All-Source Intelligence. He also served in the United States Navy where he flew multiple types of aircraft, including single-engine turboprop, multi-engine turboprop, and single-engine jet aircraft.
Ms. Mirriam-Grace MacIntyre is the Executive Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) where she oversees the daily operations of a national center dedicated to protecting America from foreign intelligence threats.
From 2021-2023, Ms. MacIntyre served as the Director for Counterintelligence at the National Security Council where she led the development of counterintelligence policy under the Biden-Harris Administration.
Ms. MacIntyre joined ODNI cadre in 2016 first as the National Counterintelligence Officer for Russia, Europe and Eurasia and lateras the Deputy National Intelligence Manager for Counterintelligence and was responsible for leading the development of strategies, plans, and initiatives to advance the Intelligence Community’s (IC) counterintelligence mission and address the needs of U.S. Government decision makers. Under her leadership, ODNI was instrumental in driving significant CI and security advancements at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. She also led numerous high-impact initiatives, including NCSC’s support to Operation Warp Speed’s COVID-19 vaccine development effort which enhanced threat awareness for the state, local, andprivate sector.
Prior to joining ODNI, Ms. MacIntyre served for eleven years as an intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) where she held numerous senior analytic and management positions across the counterterrorism, CI, and counterespionage portfolios. In 2007, she led a team of linguists, analysts, and investigators at the Combined Media Processing Center – Qatar responsible for supporting ongoing military operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Prior to that, Ms. MacIntyre held several analytic positions working hard targets and spent two years as an analyst and briefer in support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where she produced current intelligence products on foreign intelligence threats to the Department of Defense.
Awards and honors include DIA’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award, DoD’s Civilian Combat Support Award, DoD’s Civilian Expeditionary Award, and the NationalSecurity Award for CI Analysis.
Ms. MacIntyre holds degrees and certificates from Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Institutdes Etudes Sciences Politiques de Paris.
John Bauer recently retired as the Senior Analyst for Russia and Eurasia for Headquarters, Department of the Army. He also worked as an advanced future threat analyst supporting army future warfare concepts. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve, he served in multiple tours as a defense economist for the Defense Intelligence Agency and a strategic futures analyst for the US European Command. Prior to government and military service, he worked for Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation in Sunnyvale, CA and Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto, CA. He holds an MA in International and Strategic Studies from Yale University, a BA in International Relations from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Executive Certification in Strategy and Innovation from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.
Professor Heiland is currently a Cyber Defense Analyst with a global critical manufacturing firm where he provides first-contact incident response to cyber threats to the enterprise. Prior to that, he served as a contract intelligence analyst in the USIC with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for approximately 5 years, first in Counterterrorism Division and later with Cyber Division. While with the FBI, he briefed a range of audiences including senior division leadership, international law enforcement partners, standards bodies, regulators, and private sector audiences of up to 1500 people on the strategic cyber threat to the US financial sector; including emerging issues like cloud services and open banking. He holds an M.S. from Western Governor’s University (Nov 2023 anticipated, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance) and a B.A. from Patrick Henry College (2015, Government: Strategic Intelligence)
At Patrick Henry College, Professor Heiland assists in managing the SI special projects and is looking forward to being a part of a growing cybersecurity element at the college.
Mr. William Osborne teaches classes on data science tools, big data analytics, and the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to data science. Before joining Patrick Henry, Mr. Osborne taught cybersecurity, network protection, and penetration testing techniques at Mercer University in Macon, GA.
Mr. Osborne currently serves as a Director of Health Information Technology for FEDITC, LLC, a government contractor providing information technology and cybersecurity services. He provides oversight for software development programs, manages a program testing software applications for the Defense Health Agency, and works extensively in business development. Before joining FEDITC in 2019, Mr. Osborne worked for Mercer Engineering Research Center, an educational non-profit government contractor, for 24 years. During that time, he served as a Scientist, a Senior Division Manager, and a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer. He developed real-time operational software for the radar warning receiver on the F-15 fighter aircraft, served on several electronic warfare programs, led and managed numerous enterprise software development programs for the US Air Force and other customers, and performed cybersecurity analyses and system hardening. Before that, Mr. Osborne spent almost eight years on active duty with the US Marine Corps as an F/A-18 pilot, including service in Japan, Korea, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988 and a Master of Science in Cybersecurity, University of Delaware, 2018
Mr. Osborne is a homeschooling father of six, including two Patrick Henry alumni.
Professor Miller graduated from Patrick Henry College in 2018 with a B.A. in Strategic Intelligence in National Security, went on to study Library Science at the University of North Texas, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science with a concentration in Information Quality at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Chris currently works in the U.S. Intelligence Community.
