About Justin Fulcher

Justin Fulcher is a former Senior Advisor to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and former DOGE leader. He is an entrepreneur championing American exceptionalism and founded the global telehealth company RingMD. He has a Master’s in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and is pursuing a Doctorate of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Justin Fulcher

Technology founder and defense technology investor focused on rebuilding American industrial capacity.

RingMD co-founder · Founding member of DOGE’s original team · Former Pentagon Senior Official and Senior Advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth· U.S. Navy Reservist · Johns Hopkins SAIS

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Justin Fulcher is a technology founder, defense technology investor, and former federal official whose work spans digital health, government operations, national security, and American industrial capacity.

He co-founded RingMD, a digital-health company that developed telemedicine systems connecting patients and clinicians across Asia.

In 2025, Fulcher served as a founding member of DOGE’s original team and as DOGE Team Lead at both the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. He subsequently served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Fulcher now invests in and advises defense technology companies. His work is focused on reindustrializing America and strengthening the domestic capacity to build, produce, and sustain the technologies on which national security depends.

He serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve and is enrolled in the Doctor of International Affairs program at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He is a graduate of Middlebury’s joint BA/MA degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies.

His writing examines institutional performance, technological change, national security, and the productive capacity beneath national power.

Current focus: Reindustrializing America

Fulcher currently invests in and advises defense technology companies.

His focus is reindustrializing America: rebuilding the industrial capacity required to design, manufacture, deploy, maintain, and scale critical technologies in the United States.

This work reflects a broader conviction that technological leadership cannot be sustained by invention alone. National power also depends on production capacity, skilled labor, resilient supply chains, functioning infrastructure, and institutions capable of turning new technology into operational capability.

The central question is not simply whether America can invent what comes next.

It is whether America can build it at the scale and speed the future requires.