Peter "Woody" Woodmansee

Peter “Woody” Woodmansee is the founder and managing director of TDC Team Strategies GmbH, an independent defense advisory firm based in Germany that focuses on transatlantic defense integration, multinational capability development, and operational decision support. His areas of expertise include integrated air and missile defense (IAMD), NATO interoperability, command and control, capability integration, operational planning, wargaming, and multinational defense cooperation. Woodmansee has more than four decades of military, government, and defense industry experience, including 19 years at U.S. European Command (USEUCOM). As program manager and division chief for IAMD at USEUCOM, he helped establish and develop the command’s IAMD enterprise and supported NATO and multinational efforts to strengthen air and missile defense planning, interoperability, command and control, and capability development across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. His work included alliance responses to evolving ballistic, cruise missile, and emerging air and missile threats. A retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and AV-8B Harrier pilot, Woodmansee commanded Marine Attack Squadron 223 during Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as U.S. military attaché at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. He later served with the U.S. security coordinator in Jerusalem. Prior to founding TDC Team Strategies, he was Northrop Grumman’s corporate lead executive for Europe, working with NATO, European ministries of defense, U.S. combatant commands, and U.S. embassies. Woodmansee holds an MBA, master’s degrees in international relations and military operational art and science, and a BS in aeronautical science.