Norm Kass

National Security and Foreign Policy Fellow

Norm Kass is the Founder and President of Drywit LLC, a consulting service aimed at identifying opportunities for marketing innovative technologies on a competitive basis and ensuring their successful integration in the global marketplace. Mr. Kass also serves as Executive Secretary and Staff Director for the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs where he designed and implemented a wide range of research and investigative initiatives aimed at carrying out the goals of the Presidentially-mandated U.S. Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs. He has collaborated closely with colleagues in the National Security Council, State and Defense departments, the intelligence community, Congressional representatives and the leadership of veterans’ and family organizations to account for missing American service personnel. He has served as a lecturer at the Defense Intelligence Agency and as Deputy Director, Licensing Directorate, Defense Technology Security Administration in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as DoD Policy Representative to the multilateral Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, COCOM.