Republican · Virginia's 10th District · 2026
Dave Beckwith
Beckwith and his wife, Sally, homeschooled their three children through the moves of an Air Force career.
Biography
Dave Beckwith and his wife, Sally, homeschooled their three children as Air Force assignments took the family around the country.1 They have lived in Sterling since 2009, and he is also a cancer survivor.1 His church involvement has included mission work in Malawi focused on education, water and infrastructure.1
An Air Force ROTC scholarship took Beckwith to Notre Dame for aerospace engineering, followed by a mechanical engineering master's at Dayton.1 He retired as a colonel in 2017 after thirty years in the Air Force.1 His assignments included the Air Force Research Laboratory and National Reconnaissance Office.1
His civilian work includes systems engineering, mission architecture and program management at Orbital ATK and SAIC.1 He also served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense, overseeing national security acquisition programs involving space, nuclear defense, missile defense and intelligence.1
Beckwith proposes federal spending caps, school choice, vocational training, healthcare price transparency and expanded health savings accounts.2 He supports nuclear investment and making the higher state and local tax deduction permanent.2 Beckwith faces Democratic incumbent Suhas Subramanyam and independent Ahsen Malik on the November ballot.2