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rmy AL&T talked with MG William C. Hix, ARCIC deputy director and chief of staff, who came to TRADOC and ARCIC after serving in Afghanistan as the director, Future Operations,


International Security Assistance Force Joint Command. He has also served in a variety of strategy and planning positions, including director for operational plans and joint force develop- ment, Joint Staff J-7; and Strategy Division chief, Joint Staff J-5. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA) in 1981. He holds a Master of Military Art and Science, was a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.


Joining MG Hix were COL Christopher G. Cross, chief of ARCIC’s Science and Technology (S&T) Division, and COL Kevin M. Felix, chief of ARCIC’s Future Warfare Division. Cross earned a Ph.D. in physics from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Army War College. He has served as a Defense Treat Reduction Agency


Stockpile associate to the Lawrence Livermore National Labora- tory (LLNL) and has taught physics at USMA. LLNL sponsored his doctoral research on modeling of the spatial distribution and temporal decay of geomagnetically trapped charged particles fol- lowing a nuclear detonation in space.


Felix, an Army field artillery and foreign area officer, is a gradu- ate of the Defense Language Institute’s Greek and French courses and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He also graduated from the International Training Course in Secu- rity Policy of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva in Switzerland. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from USMA and a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Geneva. He recently completed studies as a National Security Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He came to ARCIC from a brigade command with the 4th Battlefield Coordination Detachment, Shaw AFB, SC. He served in the 101st Airborne Division and deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving as the division’s fires coordinator during the invasion of Iraq.


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