FDD sponsors educational opportunities for mid-career U.S. national security professionals. Alumni of these
programs are not FDD employees and join FDD’s National Security Network (NSN).
National Security Network Participant
National Security Network Participant
Gerard Connolly
Second Front Systems
Biography
Last updated: Mar 25, 2025
Gerard Connolly is from Queens, New York. He served as a tank officer in the U.S. Army, leading at the platoon and company levels in garrison and in Afghanistan. Following his active-duty service, Gerard worked in information operations and machine learning classifier building for the U.S. government and Meta platforms. He now works as director of federal delivery at Second Front Systems. He has a B.S. in military history from the United States Military Academy at West Point, an MBA from the Columbia Business School, and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.