We are excited to welcome RDML (Ret) Josh Jackson to the Touchstone Futures Team. Josh is a national security and expeditionary warfare executive with more than 33 years of U.S. Navy leadership experience spanning Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Naval Special Warfare, counter-weapons of mass destruction, force development, and enterprise resource management.
Throughout his career, Josh commanded at multiple levels within the Navy EOD community, including EOD Mobile Unit 2, EOD Group 2, and Task Force 56 supporting U.S. 5th Fleet. He deployed EODMU 2 to Iraq as a battalion-equivalent Joint Task Force leading counter-improvised explosive device operations and later commanded more than 1,200 personnel across EOD, diving, unmanned systems, and expeditionary capabilities. He completed six shipboard deployments and four combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
At Naval Special Warfare Development Group, Josh held progressive operational leadership positions and became the command’s first non-SEAL Chief Staff Officer. As a flag officer, he served in senior roles at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and as Acting Director of Expeditionary Warfare on the Navy Staff, prioritizing an approximately $11 billion portfolio spanning amphibious shipbuilding, mine warfare, Naval Special Warfare, expeditionary, and unmanned systems. Josh is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval War College.
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