Tim Wood is a retired Navy SEAL who served for 22 years during the Global War on Terror, with deployments across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Since leaving military service, he has focused on military readiness, developing AI-enabled readiness management platforms and distributed manufacturing systems that improve force preparedness while reducing administrative burden. His current research examines how military organizations generate and sustain combat capability, with a particular focus on generative capacity and adaptation velocity.