Speakers

Mr. Tucker D. Hughes is the Deputy Director for Studies and Analysis (DDSA) in the Joint Staff’s Force Structure, Resources and Assessment Directorate (J-8), the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. DDSA conducts studies, analysis, and assessments of the capability, capacity and readiness of the Joint Force, today and in the future, to support the J-8’s efforts to evaluate defense strategy, plans and programs for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The DDSA oversees development of the Department’s Global Force Management Implementation Guidance, builds the Directed Readiness Tables and Availability Tables, and conducts a variety of force management assessments. He also oversees military net assessments for the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, routine and ad hoc capability assessments of the Joint Force and Joint requirements, Senior Leader political-military wargames, and tabletop exercises for the Chairman’s Senior Seminar Series. More broadly, as one of the Department’s senior analysts he leads multiple Department-wide initiatives under the Analytic Working Group umbrella, efforts which focus on enabling better analytic support to senior leader decisions across the entire Department of Defense. A career civil servant, Mr. Hughes previously served as the Chief of the Resource Analysis Division and the Strategic Analysis and Integration Division at the U.S. Army Center for Army Analysis. He had Joint assignments as a liaison at U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command, and assignments in the Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-3, Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate, and in the Army’s Enterprise Task Force (now the Office of Business Transformation). As an analyst, he has worked extensively on problems of resources, installations, stationing, force structure, force generation, readiness, and other topics. Originally from northern New Hampshire, Mr. Hughes holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vassar College, a Master of Arts in Economics from George Mason University, and a Master of Military Studies from the Marine Corps University, Command and Staff College.