Dr. Noor Z. Razzaq is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Institute for American Policy and Standards Innovation (APSI), a U.S. Air Force and law-enforcement veteran, and a former university professor and war college division chief with nearly three decades of experience across government, defense, higher education, and homeland security. At APSI, he leads training and advisory work across C-sUAS, cognitive warfare strategy, OSINT, cyber forensics, cybersecurity, homeland defense and security education, and emerging-threat readiness across the defense enterprise, including all domains of warfare, and across homeland defense, security, and critical-infrastructure sectors. Dr. Razzaq previously served as Chief, Faculty and Staff Development Division at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University, where he mentored and supported 100+ active and retired O5/O6/SES-level faculty and staff across JFSC’s two schools and war college.

In 2024, Dr. Razzaq founded APSI, which delivered the first-ever comprehensive C-sUAS law and planning courses on the market. Within two months, APSI convened 37 agencies from across the JIIM/SLTT enterprises to workshop shared tactical, operational, legal, and policy challenges using a common C-sUAS planning framework. Since then, Dr. Razzaq and his team have expanded, trained, and advised over 400 leaders and working groups across 75+ agencies and organizations, from tactical practitioners and operational commanders to executive and policy-level decision makers, including policy-level advisement for U.S., EU, and NATO equities at the ministerial and ASG levels. Dr. Razzaq’s previous roles include Special Deputy U.S. Marshal; SWAT commander, instructor, and operator; investigator; analyst; training director; interrogator; and U.S. Air Force service in roles ranging from police supervisor to Presidential Security and Security Forces during the invasion of Iraq. He serves on the Board and as Senior Fellow and SME for C-sUAS, Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, and Cognitive Warfare Strategy at C2SAFE, Illinois Tech’s NSA Center of Cybersecurity Excellence. His scholarly and professional work spans C-sUAS, neuropolitics, irregular warfare, information operations, cross-cultural psychology, Islamism, jihadism, and neuroscience-informed security policy.

Dr. Noor Z. Razzaq is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Institute for American Policy and Standards Innovation (APSI), a U.S. Air Force and law-enforcement veteran, and a former university professor and war college division chief with nearly three decades of experience across government, defense, higher education, and homeland security. At APSI, he leads training and advisory work across C-sUAS, cognitive warfare strategy, OSINT, cyber forensics, cybersecurity, homeland defense and security education, and emerging-threat readiness across the defense enterprise, including all domains of warfare, and across homeland defense, security, and critical-infrastructure sectors. Dr. Razzaq previously served as Chief, Faculty and Staff Development Division at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University, where he mentored and supported 100+ active and retired O5/O6/SES-level faculty and staff across JFSC’s two schools and war college.

In 2024, Dr. Razzaq founded APSI, which delivered the first-ever comprehensive C-sUAS law and planning courses on the market. Within two months, APSI convened 37 agencies from across the JIIM/SLTT enterprises to workshop shared tactical, operational, legal, and policy challenges using a common C-sUAS planning framework. Since then, Dr. Razzaq and his team have expanded, trained, and advised over 400 leaders and working groups across 75+ agencies and organizations, from tactical practitioners and operational commanders to executive and policy-level decision makers, including policy-level advisement for U.S., EU, and NATO equities at the ministerial and ASG levels. Dr. Razzaq’s previous roles include Special Deputy U.S. Marshal; SWAT commander, instructor, and operator; investigator; analyst; training director; interrogator; and U.S. Air Force service in roles ranging from police supervisor to Presidential Security and Security Forces during the invasion of Iraq. He serves on the Board and as Senior Fellow and SME for C-sUAS, Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, and Cognitive Warfare Strategy at C2SAFE, Illinois Tech’s NSA Center of Cybersecurity Excellence. His scholarly and professional work spans C-sUAS, neuropolitics, irregular warfare, information operations, cross-cultural psychology, Islamism, jihadism, and neuroscience-informed security policy.