Photo courtesy of Edward Badolato

Badolato to receive

Doctor of Humane Letters

Homeland security expert will be honored at

spring Commencement  

by Stuart Zang

Edward V. Badolato, a TU alumnus recognized as one of the world’s foremost homeland security experts, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the College of Education Commencement Exercises, held May 21 at the Towson Center.

For more than three decades, Badolato has been involved in numerous international high-profile programs dealing with security, protection of energy infrastructure and counterterrorism operations. He often appears on national television as a homeland security, military and terrorism expert, and his articles and commentary have been published in major newspapers and magazines.

A proud alumnus and ardent supporter of the university, in 2004 he endowed the Edward V. Badolato Distinguished Speaker Series in Homeland Security. Through his initiative, the series has brought to campus top professionals and opinion leaders who influence national security decisions, including former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, III and Maryland Congressman C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger.

Since 2005, Badolato has served as president and CEO of Integrated Infrastructure Analytics, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based provider of specialized power, water and homeland security products, support services and training.

Badolato is a retired colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps who served three combat tours in Vietnam. He has also served in nearly every country in the Middle East and Persian Gulf, including tours as military attaché in Beirut, Lebanon, Damascus, Syria and Nicosia, Cyprus.

From 1985 to 1989, Badolato served under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush as a deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Energy, where he focused on security, energy contingency planning and international energy security activities.

Badolato was the principal architect of the U.S. government’s current nuclear weapons security program while he was at the Department of Energy. As the senior member of the agency’s National Response Team, he headed the department’s cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and led a national-level task force in the Carolinas after Hurricane Hugo.

In 1989, after several decades of public service, Badolato launched Contingency Management Services, Inc. (CMS), an international energy security consulting firm. There he led efforts, on behalf of Texaco and Getty Oil companies, to clean up the bombs and explosives left in Kuwait’s Umm Ghadir and Wafra oil fields after Operation Desert Storm. He was appointed executive vice president for homeland security at the Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 company, when it acquired CMS in 2002.

In 2005, Badolato received the Patriotism Award for Homeland Security Services from President George W. Bush.

TU recognized Badolato as its Distinguished Alumnus for 2003, and currently he serves on TU’s Board of Visitors. Badolato is a resident of Falls Church, Va.

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