Matthew Hoey

Matthew Hoey is Director of the Military Space Transparency Project. He is a former senior research associate at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS), a United Nations Non-Governmental research organization that was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At IDDS, he worked under the guidance of renowned arms control expert Dr. Randall Forsberg. From 2003 to 2006, Matthew also served IDDS as a contributing editor to the Arms Control Reporter, for which he wrote on international security issues such as nuclear forces, missile defense, military space systems, and dual-use technologies.
 
Matthew’s research has been featured by the Council on Foreign Relations, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Policy in Focus, The Space Review, The Nuclear Threat Initiative, The Center for Defense Information, The Business Standard of India, the WEU Interparliamentary European Security and Defense Assembly, Foreign Policy magazine, and The Institute for Policy Studies among others. He has also lectured at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the MIT Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group. Prior to his work in arms control research, he provided political consulting services to candidates for local, county, state and national elected offices in Massachusetts.
 
In 2008 he was employed as a contract consultant to the US Government. That same year, he founded The Military Space Transparency Project (MSTP) with the mission to reveal the efforts, policies and innovations that could culminate in the research, development and deployment of space warfare technologies. MSTP aims to promote international dialogue and the resulting development of international treaty regimes that would address these dual-use and emerging technologies before they are able to undermine peaceful international space collaborations and ultimately our national security.
 
More recently, Matthew provided military technology forecasting and international security analysis to Kurzweil Technologies Inc. (KTI) and KTI’s founder Ray Kurzweil. In 2010 he was named an advisor to the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Also in 2010, he was one of just 80 selectees out of over 2,000 applicants worldwide to the Singularity University 2010 Graduate Studies Program hosted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ames Research Center located in Silicon Valley. He is currently attending Harvard University.
 
His current research is focused on the South Asian security environment and India’s efforts to acquire sensitive emerging military technologies from the United States. Additional focus is placed US defense contractors and their efforts to profit from this emerging market.
 
Matthew authored The proliferation of space warfare technology. Military Space Systems: The Road Ahead, Global Space Warfare Technologies: Influences, Trends, and the Road Ahead, The Contributions of Nanotechnology, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence to Military Space Systems Development 2015–2025, and The United States-India Strategic Partnership: A Case for Reassessment Chronology of Events and Analysis.
 
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