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Sam Horton
Associate

Mr. Horton brings a unique blend of technical, federal acquisition and policy making expertise to the SMI team after spending over 25 years in the area of federal and Navy technology development.

As a licensed Professional Engineer, Sam spent the first 15 years of his federal career in the field as a developmental test engineer for one of the Navy's premier research and development laboratories and then translated that experience into the Navy acquisition arena by first serving as the expeditionary warfare program manager in the Navy's Science and Technology Requirements Directorate and then as the Director for Science and Technology programs in the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Mine and Undersea Warfare. In these positions, Sam was responsible for requirements definition, resource programming and technology transition from expeditionary, undersea, anti-submarine and mine warfare Functional Naval Capability technology areas to related acquisition programs.

Finally, Sam spent six and a half years on Capitol Hill developing a keen understanding of the national policy making and appropriations process. As the senior aide to Senator Olympia Snowe for national security and veterans' affairs for the past five years, he was able to work with constituent firms to identify federal funding opportunities focused on the transition of innovative solutions to national and homeland security challenges with an emphasis on the passage of legislation designed to strengthen and enhance the nation's technology and industrial base.

Mr. Horton earned a Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. As a life-long learner, he then earned a Masters of Art in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College some twenty years later.

sam@strategicmi.com

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