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DIANA’s legal strategy and managing the organisation’s legal risk. He partners with DIANA’s
commercial, challenge programme, and accelerator delivery teams to ensure cohesion in
DIANA’s efforts between innovative start-ups, scale-ups, and non-traditional defense
suppliers, and the processes and structures of public sector and defense organisations. Mr.
McSorley also oversees the organisation’s security function and collaborates cross-functionally
in setting DIANA’s approach to IT systems and services.
Prior to DIANA, Mr. McSorley spent his legal career in both private practice and in house. He
was previously a senior associate in the global law firm of Arnold & Porter in the Government
Contracts and National Security practice, Counsel at SpaceX, and most recently Deputy
General Counsel of Rebellion Defense, a defense software startup.
Mr. McSorley is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a fellow
in the law center’s Center on National Security. He holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard
University, an M.A. in Education from American University, and a J.D. from Georgetown