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Ted Adair

Founder & President, The Oath & Oak LLC | Army combat veteran building community, storytelling, and career readiness for veterans: human skills and AI fluency f

Ted Adair is a fourth-generation U.S. Army veteran, former field artillery officer and accomplished strategy and growth executive who has spent more than 20 years helping defense, security and public-sector organizations navigate modern transformation. He is the Founder of The Oath & Oak, a veteran-led organization dedicated to storytelling, community and upskilling for veterans, including respons

U.S. Army Veteran · Leesburg, Virginia

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Featured Work

Video

Oaklands podcast interview with oldest living Westpoint graduate: COL (Ret) Herb Stern, USMA c/o 1941 ↗

Host, The Oak Lines

Podcast interviews with military veterans across all eras sharing their transition stories

The Oak Lines | EP4 — Colonel Herb Stern: What We Carry Forward West Point Class of 1941. 107 Years Old. The Last of His Class. Colonel (Retired) Herbert Irving Stern graduated from West Point in 1941, six months before Pearl Harbor. At 107, he is the oldest living graduate and the last surviving member of his class. His call sign is Dockyard Six. He still answers to it. In this conversation, Herb shares stories from the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of a concentration camp outside Salzwedel, a classified study for President Eisenhower, and a letter of dereliction signed by Eisenhower hi

Project

AI Mission Ready ↗

Program Executive / Founder / The Oath & Oak, LLC

A cohort-based AI readiness fellowship for veterans, military spouses and caregivers. Build real AI tools in five weeks and put them to work.

AI Mission Ready is The Oath & Oak's applied AI fellowship for veterans, military spouses and caregivers. Fellows learn by building. Over five weeks, small Fire Teams work through daily lessons, coaching from experienced faculty and live cohort calls, then present working AI tools at Demo Day. The program is platform agnostic and built around the safe, ethical use of AI. Fellows leave with tools they use in their real work, a cohort of peers, and the confidence to keep building. Cohort 2 graduated 25 Fellows in October 2026. 22 of 25 would recommend it at 10 out of 10, and 21 of 25 use what th

Mar 28, 2025 – Present

About

Ted Adair is a fourth-generation Army combat veteran and the founder of The Oath & Oak, a veteran-led company in Leesburg, Virginia. The Oath & Oak works to give veterans, military spouses, and caregivers economic agency in an AI-enabled world. Ted started the company in July 2025. The company is certifi ed as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business by the Small Business Administration, and holds Small and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned designations under Virginia's SWaM program.

The company runs three pillars. The Outpost hosts place-based programming and monthly First Friday gatherings in Leesburg. Change of Mission delivers professional development through AI Fieldcraft and The Human Edge. OakLines, produced at The Outpost, is a long-form veteran storytelling podcast with twelve episodes recorded and five released.

Ted and The Oath & Oak team created AI Mission Ready, the five-week AI Fieldcraft sprint and the first veteran cohort built to the U.S. Department of Labor AI Literacy Framework. The pilot ran twelve sessions and closed with a live Demo Day in May 2026. Thirteen veterans completed the program and twelve shipped a working AI workflow, among them an AI chief of staﬀ, a weekly business briefing agent, and a client tracker built by non-coders. Every exit-assessment respondent said they would recommend it.

Ted served as a U.S. Army Field Artillery oﬃcer with the 1st Cavalry Division. His first deployment sent him to Kuwait six weeks after the September 11 attacks. His second was a fourteen-month tour in Iraq, where he was senior advisor to a 248-man Iraqi National Guard infantry company, leading a cadre of seven senior noncommissioned oﬃcers, and served as assistant battalion operations oﬃcer.

He led more than 200 combat patrols in central Baghdad and received the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge.

Before The Oath & Oak, he spent two decades in federal consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, Hitachi Consulting, Accenture Federal Services, and Guidehouse.

At Accenture he led the pursuits that captured a $307 million IT modernization contract and a $297 million human resources contract. As Director of Growth and Strategy at Guidehouse, he built account plans identifying more than $300 million in net-new pipeline and averaged 25 percent year-over-year sales growth from 2021 through 2024.

He holds a B.A. in English from Villanova University, where he attended on an Army ROTC scholarship, and an M.S. in Applied Information Technology from George Mason University. He was a 2017 ACT-IAC Partners Program Fellow and serves as a Board Advisor to The Navigator Foundation, Inc. and Octant Advisory, LLC. He lives in Leesburg with his wife, who teaches high school history in Loudoun County, and their three children.

Founder & President · The Oath & Oak, LLC2025–present

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