Ms Hoeber is President of AMH Consulting, a Potomac, Maryland company. Since 1991 she has provided consulting on a wide range of defense and environmental matters – including program planning and independent assessments for the Federal government and participation in projects, studies, management reviews, market and budget analyses, and business development activities for a wide variety of private industry clients. Technical and programmatic specialties include chemical and biological defense, chemical weapons demilitarization, Cooperative Threat Reduction Program nuclear weapons security and demilitarization, defense against terrorism, force protection, military preparedness, nuclear weapons complex cleanup, and ballistic missile defense.
Consulting projects have included assisting in planning for chemical demilitarization operations in Libya; assisting in preparations to perform post-conflict disposition operations in Iraq for any uncovered WMD; assisting in managing the Vozrezhdeniya Island anthrax cleanup; orchestrating a multi-study analysis on the vulnerabilities of U.S. forces in CONUS to chemical and biological attacks (the “CB 2010, Pope-Bragg, and Port” studies); chairing a multi-year "Overarching Issues Assessment" of the U.S. chemical demilitarization program for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Chemical Demilitarization); performing detailed management and safety reviews of U.S. chemical demilitarization facilities; providing market assessments and penetration assistance to several clients for U.S. and Former Soviet Union nuclear and chemical demilitarization projects; developing specific company-oriented DOE and DoD business plans; and managing several major proposals.
Prior to founding her consulting company, Ms. Hoeber held several senior management positions at TRW’s Federal Systems Group in Fairfax, VA.
Before joining industry in 1986, Ms. Hoeber served for over five years as a Presidential appointee in the Department of the Army, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Development), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition) and Deputy Under Secretary of the Army.
Prior to her government service, Ms. Hoeber was Deputy to the Director, Policy and Strategy Analysis Division, System Planning Corporation. Earlier positions included Director, Department of Military Policy Analysis, General Research Corporation; three years with the Wohlstetter consulting group; and several years as a member of the technical staffs of the Rand Corporation, Analytic Services, Inc., and the Strategic Studies Center of the Stanford Research Institute.
Ms. Hoeber has been and is active in several professional groups. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been an occasional speaker on defense matters to Council chapters. She has also been active in the Center for Security Policy, the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, and is on the Advisory Board of Women in International Security. She is also a founder and Past Chairman of the NBC Industry Group.
Ms. Hoeber is a member of the Board of Directors of Versar Corporation, and was Chairman of the Board of EAI Corporation for three years prior to its sale to SAIC. She is also on the Board of the House of Ruth of Maryland.
Ms. Hoeber has authored or co-authored numerous monographs, articles and books including The Chemistry of Defeat, Conventional War and Escalation, Soviet Strategy for Nuclear War, “The Soviet View of Deterrence,” “The Neglected Threat of Chemical Warfare,” “Reality and SALT,” and “The Case Against the Case Against Counterforce.”