Captain Jon Woody is currently the Director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Preparedness and Emergency Programs within the Human Foods Program’s Office of Coordinated Outbreak Response, Evaluation & Emergency Preparedness. He leads teams of subject matter experts that work to develop policies and resources aimed at preventing intentional adulteration of FDA regulated food products, traceability of human foods, as well as supply chain systems. CAPT Woody has over 18 years of experience working on food defense initiatives at FDA and he has served as one of the lead technical writers for the Food Safety Modernization Act Intentional Adulteration rule. CAPT Woody has led training courses both domestically and internationally on food defense concepts and has worked collaboratively with government and industry stakeholders in numerous countries.