Biography - Richard L Holden

Professor Rich Holden has been teaching for the School of Security and Global Studies' Intelligence Studies Program since 2009. He is also a training developer for Army collective training at the battalion, brigade, division, corps and theater army echelons for the Mission Command Division of the Collective Training Directorate, part of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for Northrop Grumman’s Technical Services group.

Rich holds a BS in Computer Science from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, a MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California via their satellite program in Hawaii, and a MS in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC) in Washington, D.C. He is also a graduate of the NDIC’s Post-Graduate Intelligence Program, as well as Fort Leavenworth's US Army Combined Arms Staff and Service School, and the US Army Command and General Staff College.

After commissioning through Army ROTC in 1983, he served 21 years in the Army as a career intelligence analyst, leader, operator, and trainer at the tactical and operational levels. He has had tours, deployments, or travels to all of United States and its territories, as well as Eastern Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and Southwest Asia. He served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the Implementation and Stabilization Forces (IFOR/SFOR) in Bosnia, and finished his career as a Staff Officer in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army in the Pentagon.

After retirement from the Army in 2004, Rich managed and developed commercial real estate in the Lansing and Leavenworth, Kansas areas. He was responsible for over 100 commercial tenants on 20 different properties with over 350K sq. ft. of office, retail, and business park space. He designed and had built over 100K sq. ft. of commercial space to include various office and retail spaces, a bank data center, a gymnastics school, and a special education school.

Rich has been on AMU's Industry Advisory Council (IAC) since 2004. The IAC has helped AMU focus the curriculum of the undergraduate and graduate Intelligence Studies programs on the expectations from the US Intelligence Community for new graduates.

He is married with two children in middle school, and has two dogs (Westies) and two cats.