As Defense Fellow of The Coalition for Common Sense in Government Procurement, Moshe Schwartz focuses on defense acquisition and procurement reform, the expansion of America’s defense industrial base, defense management challenges, and policies that drive innovation and technology development.
Moshe is the President of Etherton and Associates. Previously, Moshe served as Executive Director of the congressionally mandated Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulations (section 809 Panel), senior advisor to the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, advisor at ISAF headquarters in Afghanistan, and spent 15 years providing analysis and legislative support to Congress on acquisition policy and industrial base issues, including as a specialist at the Congressional Research Service and senior analyst at GAO. He has testified before Congress and written extensively on a wide range of acquisition and industrial base issues.
Academically, Moshe was an adjunct instructor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy, and at National Defense University’s Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy. He holds an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, a Master of Science in Public Policy Management from Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, and a J.D. from Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law.