Fran Landolf

Fran Landolf

Advisory Board Member | Principal, Core Consulting, LLC

Fran Landolf is the founder and an independent consultant of Core Consulting, LLC., which provides him a vehicle to match private sector solutions with public sector problems. Through his board and networking activities, Landolf becomes aware of private-sector innovations by start-ups and attempts to make these innovations visible to the IC and Defense establishments' missions.

Landolf has performed executive coaching and leadership development for both private and public sector executives and teams. He is currently an advisor to several small innovative product companies with the potential to address both government and commercial applications. Before creating his consulting practice, Landolf led public sector organizations at the National Security Agency; he was responsible for delivering time-critical services essential for informed military and National level decisions. Landolf created organizations that managed the performed analysis of cryptographic systems, unknown signals, communications systems, and computer networks. They also developed and deployed the processing solutions that transformed network and communications data into a form consumable by intelligence analysts.

Landolf currently serves on the Hume Center's board at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Cyber Incubator at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is a member of the Board of Regents and a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He has previously served on the Technical Advisory Group for the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science and Technology for Defense Warning, MITRE Corporation Intelligence Advisory Board, the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University, and on several panels of the National Security Agency Advisory Board.