David Firester
Morristown, New Jersey, United States
David Firester is founder and CEO of TRAC Intelligence, LLC (Threat Reporting and Analysis Consultants - www.tracintelligence.com). He also teaches American Government at Baruch College, as a Graduate Teaching Fellow, while completing a Ph.D. in Political Science.
Recently, David consulted as a Policy Analyst and Intelligence Analyst at the State of New Jersey's Regional Operations Intelligence Center (NJ ROIC, or Fusion Center); a collaboration run by the Department of Homeland Security, New Jersey State Police and a variety of federal, state and local law enforcement and intelligence entities.
Broad areas of academic specialty include American Politics, Public Policy, COIN (Counterinsurgency)/Insurgency, counter-terrorism, and the regional Arab-Israeli conflict. He has harnessed his expertise as a former member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, to write an award-winning MA Thesis (2011).
He is presently fielding new offers, accepting new clients and looking forward to new opportunities.