Naval Flight Officer
Commander Jim Feldkamp, USN Ret. He was a US Naval Flight Officer, Counter-Measures Officer (ECMO), and Navigator for the EA-6B, the U.S. Navy's electronic attack aircraft for aircraft carriers. In 1991, he flew from the USS Midway during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
As a member of the U.S. Naval Reserves, he joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Norfolk, Virginia as a Special Agent. He was a founding member of the Joint Counter Terrorism Task Force and one of three pilots in the Norfolk office who conducted airborne physical surveillance of individuals in criminal and terrorist cases as a secondary job. In 2004, he resigned from the FBI in order to run as the Republican candidate for Oregon's 4th Congressional District in the 2004 and 2006 election cycles.
In 2007, he was recalled to active Navy reserve duty to help establish the precursor office of NMIO. He was responsible for coordinating all domestic and international information-sharing of non-classified information among U.S. federal government agencies, foreign governments, and the international maritime shipping industry in order to increase maritime security and maritime domain awareness.
He is now preparing a course on "Terrorism and Unconventional Threats" as a Subject Matter Expert at Georgetown University. Previously, he taught undergraduate courses in domestic and international terrorism as an adjunct professor at George Mason University and George Washington University. Feldkamp authored or edited "Theory and Politics of Terrorism," a college textbook published by Cognella Academic Publishing.