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Nolan Sweeney

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Nolan Sweeney was a Military Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with degrees in Physics and Mathematics and later completed a PhD fellowship at the RAND Corporation. Nolan has flown both F-16s and F-35s, logging over 1,600 flight hours, including 300 combat hours over the Arabian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

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