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Roster Malcolm R. O’Neill,
Chair, LTG, USA, retired; Chief Technical Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation, retired Staff Biographies After retiring as a Lieutenant General from the U.S. Army, Dr. O’Neill joined Lockheed Martin in September 1996 to serve as Vice President, Mission Success, Operations and Best Practices in Space Systems. From 1996-1999, he was responsible for providing leadership and functional direction of operational matters for Space Systems as they concerned mission success, program management, procurement, manufacturing, materiel management and product assurance. He was also responsible for Space Systems activities in support of a major corporate initiative to increase productivity and improve performance by adopting best practices from both within and outside the corporation. During his 34 years of distinguished military service, Dr. O’Neill held numerous prominent positions, including: Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization; Deputy Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization; and Director, Army Acquisition Corps. Dr. O’Neill has a B.S. in Physics from DePaul University; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Rice University. Dr. Epstein is currently Vice President, Technology and Environment at Pratt & Whitney. Prior to joining Pratt & Whitney, he was the R.C. Maclaurin Professor and Director of the Gas Turbine Laboratory in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his responsibilities included teaching and research in aerospace propulsion and fluid mechanics, power production, and micro electric and mechanic systems (MEMS). He has been an active consultant to industry and government for over 25 years where his activities have included gas turbine design and operation, system testing and advanced instrumentation, and vehicle observable technology. He was a member of the NRC Air Force Science and Technology Board from 1996-2003 and has served on many NRC committees. He is a member of the DARPA Defense Science Research Council. Dr. Epstein is the winner of several best paper awards, the ASME Gas Turbine Award, and was the 2003 International Gas Turbine Institute Gas Turbine Scholar. Dr. Epstein is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Aggarwal is Vice President, Global Technology and Special Projects, at Rockwell Collins. He is a former Vice President, Advanced Technology Center at Rockwell Collins, Senior Director, Strategic Planning and Technology at Computing Devices International; Director of Research and Technology at Alliant Techsystems, Inc., and a Director of advanced programs for Honeywell, Inc. Dr. Aggarwal received a B.S. degree in physics (with honors) from Delhi University in Delhi, India; a B.S. degree in electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and an M.S. degree in electrical and communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He also received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Aggarwal is currently a member of a number of university advisory boards and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Science and Engineering Technology Committee. Dr. Bonder is currently president of The Bonder Group. Previously, he was the founder and former chairman/CEO of Vector Research, Incorporated until 2001. He has an international reputation in the field of systems, policy, and operations analysis, both for his development of new procedures and their application to defense and healthcare enterprises. Prior to this position, Dr. Bonder was a full-time faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan until December 1972. He is currently an adjunct professor in that department and an advisor to engineering schools, business schools, and mathematical departments in major universities. In recent years, Dr. Bonder has focused some of his efforts on improving the planning and operations of healthcare delivery enterprises from its current retrospective, trial and error approach. Over the past two years, he has contributed to a number of NAE/IOM and National Science Foundation committees to explore effective ways of changing healthcare delivery enterprises in the U.S. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Army Science Board, a consultant to the Defense Science Board, and is a past president of the Military Operations Research Society. Dr. Carafano is a Senior Research Fellow, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Prior to this position, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Dr. Carafano has served 25 years in the Army retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the head speechwriter for the Army Chief of Staff and was the executive director of the Defense Department’s military journal, Joint Force Quarterly. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York where he obtain a B.S. in national security and public affairs; an M.A. in British and early modern European history from Georgetown University, Washington, DC; an M.S. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; and a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Georgetown University. Dr. Collier received his BS in physics from Arkansas State College and his MS and Ph.D in physics from the University of Arkansas. Dr. Collier is currently a self-employed consultant, specializing in the application of technology through concept development and evaluation and planning for technology maturation and transition with emphasis on the utility of missile defense, high energy lasers, and space-based applications in military operations. His experience spans over 30 years in various U.S. Army programs, to include a five-year stint as Director of the U.S. Army TRADOC Analysis Command at White Sands Missile Range and an 11-year stint as Scientific Advisor at the U.S. Army TRADOC Combined Arms Test Activity in Fort Hood, Texas. At Fort Hood he led the program of identifying and developing instrumentation for field tests. During his tenure as chief scientist with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Dr. Collier was instrumental in establishing the Army tactical high energy laser and space control programs. Dr. Davis is a strategic and scientific consultant. He retired in July 2002 from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he served as the first National Security Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research. For the three years prior to rejoining Livermore in July of 2001, Dr. Davis served as the founding Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the United States Department of Defense. He has been a scientific advisor to the UN Secretariat, and has served on advisory committees for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, the Institute for Nuclear and Geologic Sciences of New Zealand, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Central Intelligence Agency and on the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Davis’ research areas include application of isotopic and ion beam techniques to biomedical, geoscience, materials and industrial research and national security problems, technologies for assessment of ecological and human risk, and environmental remediation from both unanticipated and intentional human actions. He has over eighty publications on research in nuclear physics, nuclear instrumentation, plasma physics, accelerator design and technology, nuclear analytical techniques and analytical methods, and treaty verification technologies. He holds patents on spectrometer technologies and methods for low-level dosimetry of carcinogens and mutagens and for the study of metabolic processes. Dr. Falcone is a Senior Manager for Systems Analysis and Engineering at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. Dr. Falcone provides leadership and group management of systems analysis, enterprise modeling, and exploratory engineering in support of diverse national security customers. Her current work also includes analyses, simulations, and prototype technology deployments to support enhanced understanding and more capable technology for defense against biological, nuclear, chemical, and radiological terrorism for homeland security; analysis and supporting simulations that address changing requirements for the nation's nuclear force and infrastructure; and other strategy development and technology roadmapping efforts. Prior to her current position as Senior Manager, Dr. Falcone was the Manager of the Systems Studies Department, Program Development Office, Energy Systems Program Office and the Government Relations Office at Sandia. Her work primarily focused on staff and program management of national security studies, advanced detection technologies and technical management of the Department of Energy Integrated Energy Storage Program including battery, thermal, and superconducting magnetic energy storage. Dr. Falcone is a member of the Nuclear Deterrent Transformation Panel of the DoD Threat Reduction Advisory Committee and an advisory committee of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University. She is also the author of A Handbook for Solar Central Receiver Design. In 1974, Dr. Falcone received her B.S. in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University; and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1975 and 1981 respectively. Dr. Fuchs is currently the director for modeling and simulation at the Boeing Company. Dr. Fuchs leads a group which is responsible for developing, maintaining, and coordinating Boeing government and defense modeling and simulation efforts for ~2500 people. His additional responsibilities for Boeing include identifying, prioritizing, and allocating funding to M&S technology needs; developing and operating the collaboration environment for Boeing’s M&S community; developing Boeing’s Simulation Based Acquisition program; and managing Boeing’s M&S technology development group. Prior to his current position, Dr. Fuchs was the director for system of systems architecture development at Boeing where he led a Phantom Works group that was responsible for defining and analyzing SOS architectures with emphasis on C2 systems. Dr. Fuchs received a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.S. in control systems engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and a Ph.D. in nonparametric statistics from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Dr. Green is Professor and Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the 2005 President-elect of the Materials Research Society. Dr. Green is currently a member of the National Academies Board on Physics and Astronomy and is the vice chair of the NRC Solid State Sciences Committee. He served on the NRC committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science. He serves on the Council of Gordon Research Conferences and on the editorial boards of the scientific journals Macromolecules and Journal of Polymer Science Polymer Physics. He is also a divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Ceramic Society. His research is in the field of soft materials. He is author of the textbook Kinetics Transport and Structure in Hard and Soft Materials, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis. Prior to his new position, he was Professor of Chemical Engineering and a B.F. Goodrich Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Green was also the Manager for Glass and Electronic Ceramics Research, a senior member of technical staff and a Post Doctorate Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Green received a B.A. and M.A. in physics from Hunter College, City College of New York, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University. Mr. Guerreri is President and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc. (EWA). He founded EWA in 1977 and since then has been responsible for establishment of its business objectives, policies, and general management. EWA is an Information Technology company whose products are mainly technical services but include both hardware and software. Prior to founding EWA, Mr. Guerreri held numerous positions, both management and technical, all related to the fields of intelligence, radar, electronic warfare and communications, command and control. Mr. Guerreri received his BSEE from Norwich University in 1962 and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School OPM program. He is a senior member of The Conference Board, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Potomac Council of the American Electronics Association. He has appeared as an expert witness before the House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology and the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. Guerreri is a member of the Board of Trustees of Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont and is listed in Who’s Who in America. He is a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a life member of the Association of Old Crows and is a registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Hawthorne is currently the Director of the International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Previously, he was a university professor of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to his arrival at UCLA, he was a senior research chemist and laboratory head at Rohm and Haas Company at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL, and the Corporate Research Laboratory, Bridesburg in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Hawthorne received his B.A. in chemistry from Pomona College in Claremont, CA in 1949; and a Ph.D. from UCLA in chemistry in 1953. He also received his post-Ph.D. in physical-organic chemistry from Iowa State University in Ames, IA in 1954. Dr. Hawthorne is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Mary Jane Irwin (NAE) is the Evan Pugh Professor and A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Prior to coming to Penn State, Dr. Irwin was on the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analysis in Bowie, MD, and has held positions as a graduate teaching and research assistant in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her research interests include computer architecture (power constrained, application specific) and computer arithmetic, power and energy in design, reliable systems design, embedded and mobile systems designs, VLSI systems design and EDA tools. Dr. Irwin is a recipient of many awards and honors including Penn State’s Computer Science Club’s Outstanding Teacher Award (1981), and the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Research Award (1995). She has also received an honorary doctorate from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden (1997). Dr. Irwin became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. She has served as chair of the NAE’s Computer and Engineering Peer Committee as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee to Study the Future of Supercomputing; the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board and its Panel on Digitization and Communications Science. Dr. Irwin is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Computer Society, and is a distinguished lecturer and an author of many publications Dr. Irwin received a B.S. in mathematics from Memphis State University in 1971; an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from UIUC in 1975 and 1977 respectively. Dr. Kieff is currently the Albee Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Channing Laboratory at Harvard University. Dr. Kieff has also held many distinguished, academic positions at Harvard and the University of Chicago. He is the Director of Infectious Diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the recipient of many honors from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds several patents including a vaccine against the Epstein-Barr virus. Dr. Kieff received his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania; a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Chicago, and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Major General Lehowicz (USA, ret.) is currently Sector Manager, Experimentation, Test and Training Sector Group at Quantum Research International. Prior to that, he was the Corporate Vice President for Business Development; Engineering, Logistics and Strategic Solutions Sector at Science Applications International Corporation. Previously, he was Vice President of Quantum Research International. He retired from the U.S. Army as a major general and commander of the U.S. Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command, an organization dedicated to ensuring that warfighting systems, information management systems, and other military equipment are prepared for combat use. Gen. Lehowicz served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Combat Development at the Army Training and Doctrine Command, and he was Assistant Division Commander of the Tenth Mountain Division. He has a B.S. in geology from Kent State University and an M.B.A. from Syracuse University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army War College. General Lehowicz was the chair of the National Research Council’s Committee on Assessment of Test Infrastructure Requirements to Support Testing of Defense Directed Energy Systems. He served previously as the vice-chair of the Committee on Army Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology, and was a member of the Committee on Alternative Technologies for Anti-Personnel Landmines. Dr. Reedy is the former Vice President of Georgia Tech and Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). GTRI conducts applied research for government, industrial, and commercial sponsors. As Director, Dr. Reedy is responsible for a staff of over 1,200 and a research program of approximately $120 million yearly, which represents approximately one-half of the total research programs conducted at Georgia Tech. Dr. Reedy is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is a member of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Science and Technology Advisory Panel and the Alabama A&M University Research Institute’s Advisory Board. Additionally, he served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Improving Fuel Efficiency of Weapons Platforms. Dr. Reedy received BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee. His research expertise is in the area of radar system development and electromagnetic scattering. He completed 21 years of reserve service in the U.S. Army, including serving as an active duty Signal Corps Officer assigned to the Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, NJ. General Reimer is currently the President of the Government Services Company of DFI International. Prior to this position, he was the Director of the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City. The institute is dedicated to preventing, reducing, and mitigating the effects of terrorism with particular emphasis on the role of first responders. A retired U.S. Army general, he was most recently the 33rd Chief of Staff of the Army. Prior to his term as Chief of Staff, General Reimer commanded all Army forces (excepting Special Forces) assigned to the continental United States. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a M.S. from Shippensburg State College. Dr. Smith is the Michael J. and Katherine R. Birk Professor and head of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. Previously, he was a professor and executive assistant to the president of Georgia Institute of Technology. His research involves speech and image processing, filter banks and wavelets, and object detection and recognition. He is the co-author of numerous books, journal and conference publications, and holds several patents including the “Video Coding System and Method for Noisy Signals”. He is also the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Dr. Smith received his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Stroscio is currently the Richard and Loan Hill Professor and co-director of the Nanoengineering Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois – Chicago. Previously, he was the principal scientist and scientific officer in electronics at the Office of the Director of the Army Research Office. Dr. Stroscio received his B.S. in physics from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill; and a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Harry Diamond Award. He is also the co-author of many books and publications. Dr. Swain is currently the executive director of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and adjunct professor at the University of California – San Diego. Dr. Swain was formerly the George E. Becker and the Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Swain has served in a number of national leadership roles, including president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Director of the U.S./Russia Cardiovascular Biology Program at the National Institutes of Health. She has also served as a member of the NRC Committee on Space Biology and Medicine of the Space Studies Board, and the Technology Summer Study Panel of the Defense Science Board, and currently serves as a member of the Defense Science Research Council of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as well as several international advisory committees. Dr. Swain is also a member of the Institute of Medicine. She is a cardiovascular medicine specialist with particular expertise in cellular and developmental biology. A current interest is in extreme human performance and performance in extreme environments. Dr. Swain received her B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1970, and an M.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1974. Dr. Swartout is currently the Director of Technology and Associate Research Professor of Computer Science for the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). He was responsible for the overall technical direction of the Institute, oversight of technical projects, and recruitment of technical staff. At the ICT, Dr. Swartout started and led the Mission Rehearsal Exercise project which brings together graphics, sound, story and artificial intelligence-based virtual humans to create compelling simulations for training. Prior to that, Dr. Swartout was the University’s Director of Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) for the Information Sciences Institute. While at ISD, he grew the division from approximately 25 members in 1989 to around 80 at the time of his departure to the ICT in 1999. The division works on a broad range of projects concerned with knowledge based systems, knowledge representation, natural language processing, human computer interfaces, machine learning, intelligent agents, AI architectures and advanced AI applications, and advanced research and development in technologies for education and training. Dr. Swartout was co-principal investigator on the EXPECT project, a knowledge acquisition framework designed to allow domain experts to modify a knowledge based system, while freeing them from the need to understand the implementation, and was personally involved in the development of numerous AI systems. Dr. Swartout received a B.S. in mathematical sciences with distinction from Stanford University; an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Thomas’ research interests include polymer physics and engineering of the mechanical and optical properties of block copolymers, liquid crystalline polymers, and hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites. Currently he serves as the Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering and as Founding Director, Strategic Planning for the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT. He and others from MIT co-founded OmniGuide Inc., in Cambridge. Before coming to MIT, he founded and served as co-director of the Institute for Interface Science and was head of the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. Thomas is the recipient of the 1991 High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society and the 1985 American Chemical Society Creative Polymer Chemist Award. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He has written the undergraduate textbook The Structure of Materials, has coauthored over 350 papers and holds twelve patents. Dr. Williams (NAS) is a Distinguished University Professor, in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and the Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Williams is an experimentalist who works on the applications of statistical mechanics to problems of nanostructure formation, stability and functional behavior. She has extensive experience in technical analysis of defense-related programs. Professor Williams has received the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award and the Adler Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society, and the David Turnbull Award from the Materials Research Society. In 1995, she founded the NSF-sponsored Materials Research and Engineering Center at the University of Maryland, and continues to serve as director of the Center. She is a member of the American Association of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. She has served on numerous committees and editorial board, including (at present) the University of California National Security Panel, the APS Physics Policy Committee, the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society, the board of reviewing editors for Science Magazine and the editorial boards for Nanoletters. Dr. Williams received a B.S. in chemistry from Michigan State University in 1976; and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1981.
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