In September 2013, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel appointed Dr. Stockton to co-chair the Independent Review of the Washington Navy Yard Shootings, which recommended major changes to the department's security clearance system that are now being implemented.
[1] Dr. Stockton served as a Research Associate for the International Institute for Strategic Studies from 1982 to 1983, and was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1986 to 1989, where he was responsible for foreign relations, defense, and intelligence issues.
He also guided the Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection program, served as DoD's Domestic Crisis Manager, and helped lead the Department's response to Hurricane Sandy, Deepwater Horizon and other disasters.
[8] Dr. Stockton was responsible for DoD policy on domestic counter-terrorism, continuity of operations planning, maritime domain awareness, air sovereignty, and preparedness for chemical, biological radiological and nuclear events.
While ASD, Stockton led the teams that created the Department's first-ever Mission Assurance Strategy,[12] the Complex Catastrophe Initiative for defense support to civil authorities in extreme events,[13] and the implementation of installation and personnel security measures following the shootings at Fort Hood in 2009.
He also performs studies, prepares expert testimony and regulatory filings, and contributes to the design and execution of infrastructure resilience and cybersecurity exercises.
Dr. Stockton was a member of the Defense Science Board’s Task Force on Cyber Deterrence and contributed to its 2017 Final Report Archived 2018-08-09 at the Wayback Machine.
[16] Defeating Coercive Information Operations in Future Crises (Laurel, MD: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, August 2021), https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/documents/DefeatingCoerciveIOs.pdf Blackstart Power Restoration: Resilience Against Cyber Threats (Arlington, VA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, forthcoming January 2021) Securing the Grid from Supply-Chain Based Attacks (Idaho Falls: Idaho National Laboratory, September 2020), https://inl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/StocktonEOReport.pdf Strengthening the Cyber Resilience of North American Energy Systems (Washington, DC: The Wilson Center, September 2020), https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/strengthening-cyber-resilience-north-american-energy-systems “Strengthening Mission Assurance Against Emerging Threats: Critical Gaps and Opportunities for Progress” Joint Forces Quarterly (Issue 95, 4th Quarter 2019), pp.
Dr. Stockton also authored "Resilience for Black Sky Days: Supplementing Reliability Metrics for Extraordinary and Hazardous Events," a study published by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
Dr. Stockton was also the lead co-author of “Prosecuting Cyberterrorists: Applying Traditional Jurisdictional Frameworks to a Modern Threat,” Stanford Law & Policy Review,[17] and “Curbing the Market for Cyber Weapons,” published by Yale Law and Policy Review, and has published in International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Homeland Security Affairs (which he helped found in 2005), and other peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.