Katherine Welch is a strategic integrator with extensive experience across the national security enterprise. She is Founder and Principal of Cavaness, LLC, an independent practice focused on problem framing, strategic integration, wargaming, and decision support in complex and contested environments.

Her work centers on challenges that cross organizational and functional boundaries, drawing on extensive overseas and multinational experience working across national lines, missions, and perspectives. She brings together strategy, operations, and diverse expertise to frame complex problems, expose critical connections, and help translate complexity into action.

Katherine publishes and contributes to professional discourse across a range of national security and professional outlets, exploring contested environments, strategic logistics, resilience, and the challenges that emerge where organizations, sectors, and interests intersect