Our twenty-fifth recipient, (Captain) John S. McAuliffe graduated from Harvard Business School in 2022 with an MBA.  “Jack” served as a Human Intelligence Officer from 2015-2020.  In 2017-2018, Jack led a team of Counterintelligence / Human Intelligence Marines supporting Operation Inherent Resolve working to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, for which he was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.  He later served as Company Commander for Battlespace Surveillance Company, First Intelligence Battalion, where he worked to modernize outdated ground sensor technology.  He graduated with merit from the United States Naval Academy in 2015 with a BS in Honors Political Science and served as Captain of the Rugby Team and head of the Honor Committee.  Jack is a Business Operations and Strategy Manager with Scape AI, a technology firm that provides training data to fuel AI applications for the public and private sectors.  He resides in northern Virginia, with his wife, Shannon.