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Committee Member Biographies

GENERAL LESTER L. LYLES (USAF, Ret.), NAE,¹ Co-Chair, is an independent consultant. He retired as Commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

ALEX MILLER, Co-Chair, is the William B. Stokely Chair of Management in the University of Tennessee’s College of Business Administration. Dr. Miller was the founding director of the Aerospace-Defense Executive MBA program and the former associate dean of executive education at the University of Tennessee.

LT. GEN. TED BOWLDS (USAF, Ret.) is a consultant, CEO, board member, and retired U.S. Air Force (USAF) General with more than three decades of experience leading strategy, planning, organizational development, and administration for high-profile, complex commercial and military organizations.

LT. GEN. CHARLES R. “CR” DAVIS (USAF, Ret.) is chief operating officer at Seabury Group. Prior to retiring from the USAF, General Davis was military deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He also led USAF Acquisition for more than a year, while the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) position was vacant.

BLAISE J. DURANTE is the director of Blaise J. Durante & Associates, Inc. He is a retired member of the Senior Executive Service and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Integration, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Washington, D.C.

ANTONIO L. ELIAS, NAE, is executive vice president and chief technical officer of Orbital ATK. In 2012, Dr. Elias was named executive vice president and chief technical officer of Orbital Sciences.

IVY ESTABROOKE was appointed as the executive director of the Utah Science, Technology and Research Agency in May 2014. Prior to moving to Utah, Dr. Estabrooke served as a program officer for 8 years at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). She managed a high-risk/high-payoff research portfolio, including innovative

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¹ NAE, National Academy of Engineering.

neuroscience programs and cutting-edge social and computational science programs, and developed and implemented a strategy for examining emerging technology areas.

DAVID E. HAMILTON is CEO at Eagle Aerie, Inc., and is president of Guardtime Federal, LLC. Mr. Hamilton served 29 years in uniform for the Air Force, retiring in 2003 at the rank of Colonel. After a short stint in the private sector, he then returned to the Department of Defense as a member of the Senior Executive Service as the director of the Rapid Capabilities Office, serving for 11 years until retirement in August 2014.

BERNADETTE JOHNSON is chief technology officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory. Her responsibilities include the development of the laboratory’s long-term technology strategy and the coordination of collaborative research with MIT campus. Prior to this position, Dr. Johnson was assistant head of the Homeland Protection and Tactical Systems Division.

WILLIAM JOHNSON graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. and an M.E.E. in electrical engineering. He is an independent consultant and sole proprietor of WMJ Associates, LLC, which he established in July 2007. In this capacity, Mr. Johnson has advised government and industry leaders on management and leadership matters involving the acquisition of complex systems.

JOSEPH LAWRENCE is a distinguished research fellow at the National Defense University (NDU) Center for Technology and National Security Policy and is a senior research associate in the Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University (PSU ARL). Prior to his 2012 Intergovernmental Personnel Act appointment from PSU ARL to the NDU faculty, Dr. Lawrence was the director of transition for ONR.

ROBERT ANDREW KIRK MITCHELL, NAE, is a consultant. He served as vice president for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems from 1999 to 2009. Prior to its acquisition in 1999 by Northrop Grumman, Mr. Mitchell served as president of Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical. Under his leadership, Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical captured and developed the Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aircraft system.

BEN RILEY is senior research associate at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He previously served as the principal deputy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Emerging Capability and Prototyping, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering. Prior to assuming his position in September 2009, Mr. Riley served as the director of the Rapid Reaction Technology Office sponsored by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and as chairman of the Combating Terrorism Technology Task Force.

JOEL SERCEL is president, chief engineer, and founder of both ICS Associates, Inc., and Trans Astronautica Corporation (TransAstra) with more than 30 years of technical experience. Dr. Sercel spent 14 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and 2 years as a senior program manager for the Air Force, where he ran a team of more than 120 systems engineers architecting a $20 billion-class classified satellite network.

DANIEL WARD is consultant with Dan Ward Consulting, LLC. Prior to launching Dan Ward Consulting, he served for more than 20 years as an acquisition officer in the Air Force, where he specialized in leading high-speed, low-cost technology development programs, and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. While on active duty, he helped establish the Air Force Research Laboratory’s rapid innovation process.