Caton is president of Kepler Strategies LLC, a veteran-owned small business specializing in national security, cyberspace theory, and aerospace technology. An intermittent professor of program management with Defense Acquisition University, Caton served on the US Army War College faculty from 2007–12, including as associate professor of cyberspace operations and defense transformation chair. Over the past decade, he has lectured on cyberspace and space issues related to international security in the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Kazakhstan, and the Czech Republic, supporting programs such as the Partnership for Peace Consortium and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence.

Caton, a retired colonel, served 28 years in the US Air Force, working in engineering, joint operations, and foreign military sales, as well as space and nuclear operations. He commanded at the squadron and group level. Caton holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia, a master’s in aeronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the Air War College.