[5] Rapuano served 21 years in the United States Marines Corps on active duty and the reserve as an infantryman and intelligence officer with deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

[6] In 2006, he left his position as Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush to volunteer for active duty deployment to Afghanistan.

He deployed as a Marine Corps intelligence officer with the Joint Special Operations Task Force, establishing and directing a targeting fusion center tracking high-value terrorists and insurgents.

At ANSER, he simultaneously served as a Senior Vice President while also acting as the Executive Director of the Studies & Analysis Group.

[9] Rapuano has previously served as the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, the Deputy Undersecretary for Counter-Terrorism at the United States Department of Energy, and as a Special Assistant in International Security Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.