Greg Malandrino

Greg Malandrino is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Mr. Malandrino is a retired fighter pilot with over 25 years of naval service. His last job on active duty was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), where he served as the Senior Military Advisor to the Director, producing strategic-level insights for senior DoD officials.

Mr. Malandrino’s analytic work focuses on the information aspect of warfare, competitive strategies, and future aerial and naval warfare. His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, Over the Front, and the United States Naval Institute’s Proceedings on warfare and aviation-related topics.

While on active service, Mr. Malandrino deployed 12 times aboard seven aircraft carriers in the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Super Hornet, flying combat operations in the Middle East and presence operations in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. He was the commanding officer of the Navy’s only Japan-based two-seat F/A-18 squadron. His many accolades include being the Atlantic Fleet’s Strike Aviator of the Year and receiving multiple combat decorations. Mr. Malandrino is a graduate of the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), served in the Joint Staff (J5), was the Navy’s Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, and is an alumnus of MIT Seminar XXI.