Integrated Homeland Security Management

Faculty Biography

Dr. David Ward

Instructor

Office:      YR 216
Phone:    (410) 704-2078
Fax:         (410) 704-3434
Email:     dward@towson.edu
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Adjunct Professor of Information Science, Towson University; Senior Legal Advisor (GS-15), Industry Analysis and Technology Division, Federal Communications Commission. Develop and implement network interconnection policies and requirements so that all types of telecommunications companies can pass traffic between each other. Subject areas include: national security and emergency preparedness standards, emergency network restoration, interconnection requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the North American Numbering Plan, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, customer premises equipment standards and waivers, telephone relay services for persons with disabilities, satellite earth station licensing and next generation network development (i.e., broadband and soft switching).

Formerly Lieutenant Colonel, USMCR (ret.); communications-electronics and command and control systems officer (7 years regular, 17 years reserve). Combat veteran of Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. Formerly Assistant Attorney General for New York State; prosecuted antitrust cases related mostly to the telecommunications markets (4 1/2 years). Formerly with the New York Telephone Company, AT&T and later NYNEX, starting out in a management development program as an installer-repairman, and later serving in the operating and complex network planning departments (12 years).