Experience

BT Consulting LLC

• United States
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  Lee Slusher is an independent consultant providing services through his firm, BT Consulting LLC. Lee is an intelligence and geopolitical risk expert with twenty-five years of analytical and operational experience supporting the U.S. intelligence community and special operations, as well as the private sector. He has worked with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the National Ground Intelligence Center, and the Department of Defense’s cryptologic community. In addition, Lee is currently a geopolitical intelligence and national security expert with the international consulting platform, Poligage. Lee is a published author at the national level, accomplished at analytical research, writing, and briefing. He is skilled in a range of analytical, geospatial, and data mining applications. Lee holds a strategic security master’s degree from The George Washington University, and is a three-time alumnus of the Defense Language Institute, achieving fluency in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Farsi. His professional education includes numerous courses at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Joint Military Intelligence Training Center. In addition, Lee is a graduate of the Counterinsurgency Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He completed five deployments to combat zones, and provided on-the-ground analytical and advisory support to numerous NATO nations, as well as Ukraine and Taiwan. Show less


Wikistrat
• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Member of Expert Network (Geopolitical Risk and Intelligence)

  • Jan 2023 - Present

Poligage
• United States
• Government Relations Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Member of Expert Network (Geopolitics and National Security)

  • Dec 2020 - Present


Red Six Solutions, LLC

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • May 2016 - Present

  Lee Slusher provides the following services through his firm, BT Consulting: • Weekly social media scrapping related to worldwide UAV/drone activity. • Facilitated threat-focused collaborative analysis events and war games involving government officials, academic experts, and private sector stakeholders. Iterations include: a 2018 red team exercise for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Task Force to Eradicate Human Trafficking; and a 2016 vulnerability discovery exercise for the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to examine potential future technological gaps the US may face in competition with Russia. Show less



The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Subcontractor

  • Aug 2014 - May 2021

  Lee Slusher provides the following services through his firm, BT Consulting: • Author of studies and handbooks on Russia’s strategic intentions, capabilities, and limitations. Topics included private military companies, electronic and cyber warfare, the invasion of Crimea, and Russia’s aggression toward the Baltic States and other regional actors. • Conducted primary source research and interviews in Ukraine to produce assessments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which served as foundational documents for U.S./Ukraine security cooperation. • Chief analytical architect of a two-year, bilateral effort to improve Taiwan’s defenses. • Co-author of a U.S. Army handbook on Chinese warfare and strategic competition. • Author of studies and handbooks on Iranian influence and non-state militant activity throughout the Middle East. • Author of open-source study of the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. • Designed and executed collaborative analysis events and war games to support senior-level decision-making. Participants included government officials, academic experts, and private sector stakeholders. Show less



Asymmetric Warfare Group

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contractor

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

  Intelligence Specialist with The Wexford Group, a CACI Company: • Analyzed a diverse set of regional and topical asymmetric problem sets to produce all-source intelligence products. Performed quality control of other analysts’ assessments and briefings. • Served as an AWG liaison to the inter-agency community and Combatant Commands by coordinating intelligence exchanges and representing AWG during joint operations and conferences. • Provided advisory assistance to deployed US forces, primarily focused on best practices from special operations and the intelligence community. Topics included targeting methodologies, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) synchronization, operations and intelligence fusion, and analytical methodologies. Show less



National Ground Intelligence Center

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intelligence Specialist (GS-13)

  • Aug 2011 - Jan 2013

  • Produced national-level intelligence assessments for senior civilian executives of the Department of Defense, ambassadors and embassy staffs, and the U.S. Army Chief of Staff. • Analyzed foreign military forces, operations, capabilities, and trends by applying comprehensive knowledge of intelligence, threat analysis, forecasting, and other analytical methodologies. • Maintained close liaison with counterparts in other government agencies to identify intelligence gaps and assisted in the development of intelligence collection programs. • Ensured products fulfilled Department of the Army, Department of Defense, and other national-level intelligence requirements. • Worked on a tiger team to assess the integration of new analytical applications into NGIC’s operations. Show less

• Contractor

  • Aug 2008 - Aug 2011

  Intelligence Specialist with The Wexford Group, a CACI Company: • Analyzed a diverse set of regional and topical asymmetric problem sets to produce all-source intelligence products. Performed quality control of other analysts’ assessments and briefings. • Served as an AWG liaison to the inter-agency community and Combatant Commands by coordinating intelligence exchanges and representing AWG during joint operations and conferences. • Provided advisory assistance to deployed US forces, primarily focused on best practices from special operations and the intelligence community. Topics included targeting methodologies, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) synchronization, operations and intelligence fusion, and analytical methodologies. • Developed and instructed an intelligence training curriculum. Show less

• Contractor

  • Mar 2005 - Aug 2008

  Intelligence Specialist: • Irregular Warfare Network Analysis Program: produced national-level intelligence assessments on irregular warfare threats. • Counter-IED Targeting Program: targeting analyst, including a one-year deployment to Afghanistan in support of U.S. and allied special operations forces (SOF). • Harmony Document Exploitation Program: quality control of data from worldwide collection centers, translations, and research. Intelligence Specialist: • Irregular Warfare Network Analysis Program: produced national-level intelligence assessments on irregular warfare threats. • Counter-IED Targeting Program: targeting analyst, including a one-year deployment to Afghanistan in support of U.S. and allied special operations forces (SOF). • Harmony Document Exploitation Program: quality control of data from worldwide collection centers, translations, and research.



US Army

• United States
• Law Enforcement
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Soldier

  • Feb 1998 - Mar 2004

  Cryptologic Linguist/Signals Intelligence Specialist with the U.S. Army and Intelligence Specialist with the Maryland Army National Guard. Cryptologic Linguist/Signals Intelligence Specialist with the U.S. Army and Intelligence Specialist with the Maryland Army National Guard.