Dr. Abder Rezak Benaskeur is a distinguished defence scientist and strategic advisor who has served with the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) since 2000. Holding a Ph.D. in Control and Automation paired with an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, he brings over two decades of transformative technical leadership to the evolving battlespace. Throughout his tenure, Dr. Benaskeur has been instrumental in conceptualizing, architecting,and fielding mission-critical Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems that directly support the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and coalition partner operations.

Internationally, Dr. Benaskeur represents Canada as the Principal Member on the NATO Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Information (C5I) Scientific and Technical Committee, guiding multinational interoperability, next-generation defence capabilities, and standards for collective defence. His applied research and development agenda pioneers the operationalization of advanced AI, adaptive automation, and cognitive decision
architectures within Pan-Domain Command and Control (PDC2) frameworks across joint domestic and expeditionary theatres. With an emphasis on Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD), his technical leadership bridges control theory, coordination and synchronization, human-autonomy teaming, multi-source data and information fusion, adversarial plan recognition, and dynamic threat and risk assessment.