Dr. Cambone has served as Associate Vice Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System since 2017. 

Dr. Cambone sits on the Special Security Board of Elbit Systems of America and Figure Eight Federal; he chairs the Government Security Committee for each. He is a member of the board of Spirit AeroSystems, a publicly traded company. 

Prior to joining Texas A&M, Dr. Cambone worked for several years as an independent consultant. From 2007-2012 he served in senior corporate positions for QinetiQ North America (QNA), including the Senior and later Executive Vice President for Strategic Development, as well as the President of QNA’s Mission Solutions Group.

Dr. Cambone served from 2001-2006 in the Department of Defense. During that time he was twice nominated by President Bush and confirmed for senior positions in DoD, including as the first Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, responsible for the oversight of DoD’s intelligence policy, activities and budgets and its relationship with the Director of National Intelligence and the broader Intelligence Community. Dr. Cambone was awarded the DoD Distinguished Public Service Medal by the Secretary of Defense, and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal by the Director of National Intelligence, among other awards. 

Dr. Cambone has served as the Thomas W. Smith Senior Fellow at the Ryan Center of Villanova University and as an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. He was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Director of Research at the Institute for National Security Studies at the National Defense University. 

Dr. Cambone received his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Political Science from Claremont Graduate School and his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from The Catholic University of America.