Bryan Bender

Bryan Bender is a communications executive and former award-winning national security reporter and editor who advises tech companies, nonprofits and research universities for SMI, a Washington, DC, government affairs firm, and is an adjunct professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He is former senior national correspondent and defense editor for POLITICO, where he authored the Morning Defense newsletter and edited POLITICO Space.