COL JOHN J. LOMBARDI, MBA
Director, Grants and Training
Office of Homeland Security
The George Washington University
Washington, DC
COL John J. Lombardi is the Director of Grants and Training in the Office of Homeland Security at The George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC. He is responsible for overseeing all homeland security-related grants within the GWU Office of Homeland Security.
COL Lombardi was the president and CEO of A. Marshall Consulting and a founding partner of the Diogenic Group, a homeland security consulting firm. He was previously senior vice president for Homeland Security Operations for Logistics Health, Inc. (LHI), a Wisconsin-based health services firm.
Prior to joining LHI, COL Lombardi served for 28 years with the U.S. Army, the last 5 years at the Pentagon; most recently, he served as director of Domestic Emergency Preparedness-Medical Programs (Military Assistance to Civil Authorities). COL Lombardi was also the Department of Defense project manager for and a representative to the Gilmore National Terrorism Commission (Congressional Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction). He participated in the development of contingency and remediation plans for a biological attack on the Pentagon and the National Capital Region after the 9-11 attacks. As the Defense Department’s representative to the Department of Health and Human Services Interagency Contingency Operations Planning Committee, COL Lombardi assisted in establishing policy for the use of Department of Defense medical assets in response to the activation of Emergency Support Function #8, Health and Medical Services of the Federal Response Plan.
COL Lombardi served as a subject matter expert for RAND and the Department of Defense in the conduct of numerous Emergency Operations tabletop exercises. At Department of the Army Headquarters (the Pentagon), COL Lombardi served as Deputy Division Chief, where he was responsible for the training portion of the President’s Budget as well as being a member of the Army’s Crisis Action Team at the Army Operations Center.
COL Lombardi was commissioned Infantry and then served most of his 28 years as a Medical Service Corps officer. As the Assistant Chief of Staff for Security, Plans, and Operations (332nd Medical Brigade), he was responsible for planning, organizing, and coordinating all operations for a medical headquarters (comprised of almost 60 medical units and 5,000 personnel) for the preparation of wartime missions in both the Korean and Southwest Asian theaters of operation as well as for ongoing military operations. COL Lombardi had direct supervision in the areas of medical operations, communications, medical regulating (of patients), aviation and ground evacuation assets, and Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical resources. As a medical logistician, COL Lombardi devised programs for the Army medical system that were instrumental in forging improvements in the overall medical logistics system.
COL Lombardi received a B.A. from St. John’s University and an MBA from the Citadel. He is a graduate of the Air Force Air War College and was awarded the Expert Field Medical Badge while on active duty. Prior to pursuing his military career, he was an administrator in New York City at the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn.
May 27, 2009