Jacob L. Graham
Professor of Practice
College of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
814-238-4932
[email protected]
Education
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Masters Public Administration (University of Oklahoma, 2001)
B.A. Architecture (Iowa State University, 1981)
Qualifications
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Colonel, United Stated Marine Corps, (Ret), Pilot, Squadron & Air Base Commander
Assistant Inspector General, IGMC, conducted operational readiness assessments of USMC units worldwide.
Conventional & Strategic Command and Control (C2): Have conducted C2 functions and training at all
levels of operations, strategic, operational and tactical. Nuclear C2: Mission Commander Airborne
Nuclear Command Post, Europe, Nuclear Force Advisor to Commander U.S. Forces Europe, responsible
for all theater nuclear C2 planning and execution. Responsible for training all Flag officer theater nuclear
force advisory staff.
Political-Military Affairs Analyst, HQMC, conducted high-level negotiations and coordination to support
U.S. military basing and operations.
Military Planner: conducted, facilitated strategic planning, operational and tactical planning.
Graduate of the following military schools: Intelligence Officers Course, Electronic Warfare Course,
Command and Control Warfare Course, Air Command and Control Staff Course and USAF Air War
College, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Course,
Tactical Air Control Party Course, Aviation Maintenance Officers School, U.S. Navy Base Commanders
Course, Fire Support Coordination Course
Experience
Professor of Practice, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
Director, Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF)
October 2007 to Present
As a Professor of Practice in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), my primary teaching and
course development focus is in the area of intelligence analytics, decision theory and scenario & case study
development to promote and teach Security and Risk Analysis (SRA) in the College of IST SRA program.
The primary research focus is in the area of human-centered hard and soft information fusion research. My role as
NC2IF Center Director includes the leadership and management of a permanent research & support staff and the
hiring and mentoring of graduate and undergraduate researchers that support Center activities. This effort
requires the continuous interaction with internal and external research partners to seek out research
opportunities, develop proposals, and when awarded, ensure compliance with sponsor research goals and
deliverables.
Primary Tasks Include:
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Teaching and course development for Security and Risk Analysis major, College of IST
Academic Committee include: Chair, Academic Integrity Committee; Member, SRA Curricular
Committee; Member, IST Assessment Planning Committee, Member, Multi-Year Fixed Term-Task Force
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Academic Outreach to Intelligence Community and Homeland Security Academic Partners
Development and execution of NC2IF strategic plan and budget
Serve as Principle Investigator (PI) for NC2IF research awards, when assigned
Management of NC2IF research center support staff
Hiring and management of graduate and undergraduate NC2IF researchers
Management and outfitting of Extreme Events Laboratory & Red Cell Analytics Lab (research labs for
NC2IF)
Seek and gain funding for research, including proposal development and outreach
Primary Research Focus Areas Include:
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Human-centric hard and soft information fusion
Understanding social networks for adversary groups (terrorists, counterinsurgents, criminal or military)
Military command and control (C2) and improved situational awareness
Analytic methods and visualization tools for intelligence analysis
Red Cell analytics and alternate futures planning
The digitization of structured analytics for intelligence analysis
Bias detection and mitigation in intelligence analysis
Social media analytics for threat analysis and intelligence forecasting
Colonel, United States Marine Corps
Washington, DC
July 2004 – July 2007
President, Naval Discharge Review Board, Office of the Secretary of the Navy – Responsible for staff functions
and administrative law processes to determine whether a service member's discharge was granted in a proper
manner and was fair and equitable considering regulations in effect at the time of the discharge. Conducted over
1000 Navy/Marine Corps discharge reviews annually.
Director of Investigations and Director of Inspections, Office of the Naval Inspector General for Marine Corps
Matters. Duties involved the oversight and management of IGMC senior-officer investigations and the
assessment of programs of interest for the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Secretary of the Navy as
directed. Conducted IGMC Readiness Inspections and Assessments for all major USMC commands world-wide
focusing on both unit and combat readiness.
Colonel, United States Marine Corps
U.S. European Command Stuttgart, Germany
August 2001 – June 2004
Non-strategic Nuclear Force Advisor to Commander, U.S. European Command; Director, Nuclear Command and
Control (NC2), J-36; Mission Commander, EUCOM Airborne Nuclear Command Post. Responsible for command
operations that comprised the European Command’s theater NC2 system and Shared Early Warning programs.
Joint Operations Officer (J-3), Joint Task Force North, U.S. EUCOM/U.S. Central Command for Operation Iraqi
Freedom-1. Established and directed JTF-North Command Post for OIF-1 to facilitate onward movement of U.S.
military forces across Turkey for combat operations in northern Iraq during Phase I of OIF-01.
Lt Colonel, United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps Air Facility, Quantico, VA
July 1999 – July 2001
Commanding Officer, responsible for all facilities, personnel, budgeting and operations (including Air Traffic
Control services) for Marine air base that provides direct support the Presidential Executive Lift Operations and
tactical Marine Corps ground/flight operations.
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2nd Lt - Colonel, United States Marine Corps (Retired 1 July 2007)
World-wide
Aug 1981 – July 2007
Additional highlights:
 Clearance held: Top Secret (current)
 Primary Military Occupational Specialty (MOS): 7565 – AH-1 Cobra Pilot
 Secondary MOS: 7262 – CH-46 Pilot
 Secondary MOS: 0202 – Intelligence Officer
 Secondary MOS: 7577 - Weapons and Tactics Instructor, AH-1 Cobra
 Secondary MOS: 7202 – Air Command and Control Officer
 Secondary MOS: 6002 – Aircraft Maintenance Office
 Squadron Commander, MWHS-1, Okinawa Japan,
 Pentagon staff tour, Plans, Policy and Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps
 Headquarters Marine Corps tour, Inspector General of the Marine Corps
 Presidential Pilot for Presidents G.H.W. Bush and W.J. Clinton
Publications
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D. Kretz, B. Simpson and J. Graham, “A Game-Based Experimental Protocol for Identifying and Overcoming
Judgment Biases in Forensic Decision Analysis”, accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Technologies
for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA, 13-15 November, 2012
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J. Graham and D. Hall, “The use of Analytic Decision Game (ADG) methods for test and evaluation of hard and
soft data fusion systems and education of a new generation of data fusion analysts,”, accepted for the Proceedings of
the National Symposium on Sensor Data Fusion (NSSDF), Washington, DC, 22-16 October, 2012
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J. Rimland, D. Hall and J. Graham , “Human cognitive and perceptual factors on JDL level-4 hard/soft fusion”,
Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms,
and Applications 2012, vol. 8407, Baltimore, MD, April 23-27, 2012
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J. Rimland, D. Coughlin, D. Hall and J. Graham, “Advances in data representation for hard/soft information fusion”,
Proceedings of SPIE 2012, Baltimore, MD
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Rimland, Iyer, Agumamidi, Pisupati & Graham. (2011). JDL level 0 and 1 algorithms for processing and
fusion of hard sensor data. In SPIE proceedings. Fl, USA.
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Graham, Hall, & Rimland. (2011). A synthetic dataset for evaluating soft and hard fusion algorithms. In
SPIE proceedings. Fl, USA.
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J. Graham, J. Rimland and D. Hall, “A COIN-inspired synthetic data set for qualitative evaluation of hard and soft
fusion systems”, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, IL, July, 2011
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Hall, Graham, More, & Rimland. (2010). Test and evaluation of soft/hard information fusion systems: A
test environment, methodology and initial data sets. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference
on information fusion. Edinburgh, UK.
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D. Hall and J. Graham. (2010), chapter 8 in Human-Centered Information Fusion, by D. Hall and J. Jordan,
Artech House. Norwood, MA.
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J. Graham, Colonel, USMC and R. Tolomeo, LtCol, USMC. (2006), Inspector General of the Marine Corps
Report to the Secretary of the Navy: Private Motor Vehicle Safety Performance Study.
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J. Graham, Colonel, USMC and P. Shelby, Major, USMC. (2006), Inspector General of the Marine Corps
Report to the Commandant of the Marine Corps: Readiness Assessment of the Marine Corps Combat
Water Survival Training.
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Graham, LtCol, USMC. (1998). Promoting Confidence Building Measures in the Asia-Pacific Region. In
Proceeding of the 5th National Institute for Defense Studies. Tokyo, Japan.
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Graham, LtCol, USMC. (1998). Defense Policy of the United States in the Asia-Pacific Region. In
Proceeding of the 5th National Institute for Defense Studies. Tokyo, Japan.