Robert W. Helm

Robert W. Helm was born August 19, 1951, in La Crosse, WI.

Education
 * graduated from the University of Wisconsin (B.S., 1973)
 * Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (M.A., 1975)

Career
 * 1975-1978: professional staff member at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
 * 1978: member of the U.S. comprehensive test ban negotiating delegation in Geneva, Switzerland, representing the Defense Nuclear Agency and supporting the Joint Chiefs of Staff representative
 * 1979: joined the minority staff of the Senate Budget Committee as the senior analyst for defense and international affairs
 * 1980-1982: senior defense analyst on the majority staff of the Senate Budget Committee
 * 1982-1984: Director of Defense Programs and National Security Telecommunications Policy for the National Security Council
 * 1984-1989: Assistant Secretary of Defense (comptroller)
 * 1989-: Corporate Vice President Northrop Grumman and since 1993 also responsible for maintaining effective relations between Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Government.

Other Positions
 * Director in 1996 at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI)
 * Board of Directors at National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)

SourceWatch Resources

 * AdTI-Funding
 * Northrop Grumman