Colonel Nathaniel R. Huston is Director of Innovation and Partnerships in the Office of the USCENTCOM Chief Technology Officer. As Director, Colonel Huston organizes innovation efforts across the organization’s headquarters, components, and subordinate units, and leads capability integration with and in support of partners in academia, across the Department of Defense, and with international partners throughout the CENTCOM theater.

Colonel Huston was commissioned in 1999 upon graduation from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. His career spans a variety of information and Cyber Operations mission sets, to include support to the ICBM force, intelligence collection and dissemination, and tactical communications. He has deployed in support of flying operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Baghdad, Iraq, where he oversaw communications operations for the country’s second busiest aerial port.

He is a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College and School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. Prior to his current position, Colonel Huston was a Professor and the Dean of Students at the DoD’s premiere strategy school, the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.