Sean Zehtab

Sean Zehtab is a director, government contracts counsel at Hermeus, a defense tech aerospace company building unmanned high-Mach planes. His portfolio includes government contracts, commercial contracts, AI, national security law, and cybersecurity. Prior to Hermeus, he served most of his 20-year career as an Army judge advocate and most recently served in the Contract Litigation and Intellectual Property Division. Previously, Zehtab served as the chief contracts law counsel at United States Central Command, where he advised on the standup of Space Central Command. He is a 2022 graduate of the Government Procurement Law LLM program at George Washington University Law School, where he also worked as a law clerk for NASA. Previous military assignments include deputy legal counsel and litigation fellow, Office of the Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; contracts trial attorney, U.S. Army Legal Services Agency; battalion judge advocate, 5th Special Forces Group; command judge advocate, 101st Airborne Division; and chief of client services for Combined Joint Task Force 101 while deployed to Afghanistan.

Other military assignments include positions at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Fort Polk, Louisiana; and military service as an enlisted armor crewman in Germany and Iraq. His previous higher education includes an LLM in military law from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, a JD from the Nebraska College of Law, and a BS in developmental biology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.