Miller Canfield is expanding Miller Canfield Global Strategies, a consulting subsidiary of Miller Canfield, dedicated to the rapidly expanding defense, aerospace, and security sectors.
Miller Canfield Global Strategies offers comprehensive services ranging from the development of market entry strategies to the execution of complex defense agreements and offset programs. Miller Canfield Global Strategies provides advice on all aspects of the sale of U.S. defense goods and services to international customers. Consultants advise both U.S. industry clients and the procurement authorities of U.S. partner nations (that is, the purchasers of U.S. defense goods and services) to structure and implement the sale and purchase of U.S.-sourced defense goods and services in a timely and cost-effective manner. They have worked across the entire sale process, with particular expertise with respect to Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Direct Commercial Sales (DCS), Offset Programs, and Risk Management advice.
Pawel Chudzicki, resident director of Miller Canfield’s Washington D.C. office and member of the firm’s Managing Directors, a seasoned professional with considerable experience of counseling clients in the aerospace and defense sector in Central Europe and the Middle East and representing foreign allies on policy matters in Washington, D.C., will lead a roster of consultants who have worked in different capacities for the U.S. government and in private sector on major defense transactions and national security matters between U.S. government and industry and U.S. partners and allies.
The consultants include:
Dave “Seymour” Haworth, who served more than 20 years as a fighter pilot and commander in the U.S. Air Force, and later served as the chief of Foreign Military Sales for the U.S. Embassy Qatar where he was responsible for the United States government’s $20 billion sales program. He uses this experience and insight to support clients with FMS and DCS programs and ensure successful delivery of multi-billion-dollar programs for key U.S. partners and allies.
Joshua “Clay” Aisen, a retired U.S. Navy officer whose military specialty was facilitating the provision of defense articles to partner nations in Central Europe, including supporting U.S. efforts to aid Ukraine. His areas of expertise include Foreign Military Sales, Building Partner Capacity (BPC), Requirement Development, and Military Training Requirements. From 2020 to 2023, Aisen was the director of Navy, Space, and Rotary Wing programs at the Office of Defense Cooperation in U.S. Embassy Warsaw, managing a portfolio of programs in excess of $12 billion. Most recently he worked as a country portfolio director at the Navy International Programs Office, the Department of the Navy’s implementing agency.
Kevin Dent, who has extensive experience in advising clients on the negotiation of DCS transactions, and with structuring, negotiating and implementing offset programs in connection with both DCS and FMS transactions. Dent has provided proactive advice to grow international business in the aerospace and defense, energy, natural resource and infrastructure sectors for over 30 years. Formerly a partner at Baker Botts, Dent most recently worked with the corporate legal team at Raytheon Technologies, where he spearheaded the negotiation and implementation of a variety of commercial sales agreements and offset transactions in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. While at Raytheon, he also negotiated and implemented joint ventures and Teaming Agreements with non-U.S. defense companies.
Monika A. Wasiewicz, a recently retired FBI agent with more than 25 years of experience investigating, overseeing and directing criminal and national security matters. Her expertise is in security operations, crisis response, contingency planning, risk management, industrial espionage, insider threat, due diligence, counterintelligence, corruption and FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) compliance. She has a proven track record of navigating the challenges of highly sensitive and sophisticated matters and is experienced advising senior executives through the political and economic complexities and volatility of international operations.
Miller Canfield Global Strategies offers comprehensive services ranging from the development of market entry strategies to the execution of complex defense agreements and offset programs. Miller Canfield Global Strategies provides advice on all aspects of the sale of U.S. defense goods and services to international customers. Consultants advise both U.S. industry clients and the procurement authorities of U.S. partner nations (that is, the purchasers of U.S. defense goods and services) to structure and implement the sale and purchase of U.S.-sourced defense goods and services in a timely and cost-effective manner. They have worked across the entire sale process, with particular expertise with respect to Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Direct Commercial Sales (DCS), Offset Programs, and Risk Management advice.
Pawel Chudzicki, resident director of Miller Canfield’s Washington D.C. office and member of the firm’s Managing Directors, a seasoned professional with considerable experience of counseling clients in the aerospace and defense sector in Central Europe and the Middle East and representing foreign allies on policy matters in Washington, D.C., will lead a roster of consultants who have worked in different capacities for the U.S. government and in private sector on major defense transactions and national security matters between U.S. government and industry and U.S. partners and allies.
The consultants include:
Dave “Seymour” Haworth, who served more than 20 years as a fighter pilot and commander in the U.S. Air Force, and later served as the chief of Foreign Military Sales for the U.S. Embassy Qatar where he was responsible for the United States government’s $20 billion sales program. He uses this experience and insight to support clients with FMS and DCS programs and ensure successful delivery of multi-billion-dollar programs for key U.S. partners and allies.
Joshua “Clay” Aisen, a retired U.S. Navy officer whose military specialty was facilitating the provision of defense articles to partner nations in Central Europe, including supporting U.S. efforts to aid Ukraine. His areas of expertise include Foreign Military Sales, Building Partner Capacity (BPC), Requirement Development, and Military Training Requirements. From 2020 to 2023, Aisen was the director of Navy, Space, and Rotary Wing programs at the Office of Defense Cooperation in U.S. Embassy Warsaw, managing a portfolio of programs in excess of $12 billion. Most recently he worked as a country portfolio director at the Navy International Programs Office, the Department of the Navy’s implementing agency.
Kevin Dent, who has extensive experience in advising clients on the negotiation of DCS transactions, and with structuring, negotiating and implementing offset programs in connection with both DCS and FMS transactions. Dent has provided proactive advice to grow international business in the aerospace and defense, energy, natural resource and infrastructure sectors for over 30 years. Formerly a partner at Baker Botts, Dent most recently worked with the corporate legal team at Raytheon Technologies, where he spearheaded the negotiation and implementation of a variety of commercial sales agreements and offset transactions in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. While at Raytheon, he also negotiated and implemented joint ventures and Teaming Agreements with non-U.S. defense companies.
Monika A. Wasiewicz, a recently retired FBI agent with more than 25 years of experience investigating, overseeing and directing criminal and national security matters. Her expertise is in security operations, crisis response, contingency planning, risk management, industrial espionage, insider threat, due diligence, counterintelligence, corruption and FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) compliance. She has a proven track record of navigating the challenges of highly sensitive and sophisticated matters and is experienced advising senior executives through the political and economic complexities and volatility of international operations.
