William B. Adkins
President
Bill Adkins is
president of Adkins Strategies, LLC which he founded to provide a full range of
consulting services to government and industry customers in the space and
defense business. Adkins Strategies specializes in providing both
strategic and tactical assistance in the planning and implementation of program
development and marketing activities in the civil and national security space
arenas.
Mr. Adkins has more
than 20 years of experience encompassing key aspects of various national
security and civil space programs of the U.S. Government, including hands-on
technical and management experience in developing scientific and defense
research spacecraft at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), strategic planning
and technology program management experience with the National Reconnaissance
Office (NRO), and senior policymaking experience with the U.S. Senate and U.S.
House of Representatives.
Prior to forming Adkins Strategies, he was the Staff Director for the Space and
Aeronautics Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives where he led the
subcommittee’s legislative and oversight activities of NASA and space-related
activities within the Departments of Transportation and Commerce. In this capacity, Mr. Adkins served as the
principal advisor to the Chairman of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee on
funding and policy issues.
Before joining the staff of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Mr. Adkins was a Legislative Assistant and National Security
Fellow in the U.S. Senate for Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) where he handled
national security, military, and space policy issues
Prior to working on
Capitol Hill, Mr. Adkins worked at the NRO for eight years where he managed various
technology development projects and led the Director’s Innovation Initiative—a
$25 million/year applied research and development program in the Advanced
Systems and Technology Directorate. Mr.
Adkins also served as the spacecraft mechanical systems engineer and launch
vehicle integration manager for an operational satellite reconnaissance system.
From 1986 to 1990, Mr.
Adkins served as a spacecraft systems engineer at the Naval Center
for Space Technology at the Naval Research Laboratory. There, he served as the spacecraft mechanical
systems engineer for the Low-Power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (LACE),
launched in 1990 for the then-Strategic Defense Initiative Office. He also served as the mechanical systems
engineer for the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) which has flown
on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
Born in Washington, D.C.,
Mr. Adkins earned a B.S. Mechanical Engineering from George
Washington University
in 1986 and has completed graduate courses in Electrical Engineering from George Washington
University. He has also completed the Senior Managers in
Government executive development course at Harvard University and the Congress and U.S. National Foreign
Policy course at Johns Hopkins University.