Colonel Bruce D. Caulkins currently serves as the Commandant for the Leader College for Information Technology (LCIT) at the U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence, Fort Gordon, Georgia. He previously served as Director of the School of Information Technology (SIT) at Fort Gordon, transforming the school into a premier education facility for the Signal officers, warrants and enlisted students in the area of Network Operations (NetOps). He was the leading force for the expansion of cyber defense education and training during his time as SIT director. He also oversaw the establishment of the world’s largest Microsoft and Cisco Academies at SIT to support military education worldwide. In 2009 Colonel Caulkins graduated from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, prior to his return to Fort Gordon.

Colonel Caulkins has written and presented numerous cyber-related articles and papers to various organizations, including the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He holds a Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation from the University of Central Florida, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida and a B.S. in Computer Science from Furman University. His dissertation established an anomaly-based intrusion detection system, using advanced data mining techniques for creating dynamic network models for the anomaly detectors.