Jennifer McArdle

Jennifer McArdle is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. Her research focuses on military innovation, synthetic training, and disruptive technologies. She currently serves on Congressman James Langevin's Cyber Rhode Island Advisory Committee and is an expert member of a NATO technical working group that is developing cyber effects for the military alliance's mission and campaign simulations. Her work has been featured in Real Clear World, The Cyber Defense Review, National Defense Magazine, and War on the Rocks, among others.

Jennifer previously served as an Assistant Professor of Cyber Defense at Salve Regina University where she lectured on the relationship between national security and disruptive technologies. She has also held positions at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the U.S. National Defense University, in addition to working in New Delhi, India as a Visiting Fellow at two defense research institutions. Jennifer is a PhD candidate at King’s College London in War Studies. She holds a MPhil in Politics from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Political Science, summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.