Paul G. Kaminski is Chairman and CEO of Technovation, Inc., a small consulting company dedicated to fostering innovation, and to the development of business and investment strategies related to the application of advanced technology in the aerospace and defense sectors. He served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from 1994 to 1997; and was responsible for all DOD R&D and acquisition programs, logistics, the defense industrial base, and military construction. The annual budget for these entities exceeded $100 billion.His previous government experience includes a 20-year career as an officer in the USAF. During 1981-1984, he served as Director for Low Observables Technology, with responsibility for overseeing the development, production and fielding of major “stealth” systems (e.g., F-117, B-2). He also led the initial development of a National Reconnaissance Office space system and related sensor technology. Early in his career, he was responsible for test and evaluation of inertial guidance components for the Minuteman missile and terminal guidance systems for our first precision guided munitions.Dr. Kaminski is a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, Chairs of the Defense Science Board, and serves as a member of the DNI’s Senior Advisory Board, FBI Director’s Advisory Board, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Technical Advisory Board, the National Academies Air Force Studies Board, and the Atlantic Council. He Chairs the Boards of the RAND Corporation, Exostar and HRL (former Hughes Research Labs); and is a Director of General Dynamics, Bay Microsystems, CoVant Technologies, and the USAF Academy Endowment. He serves as an advisor to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He has authored publications dealing with inertial and terminal guidance system performance, simulation techniques, Kalman filtering and numerical techniques applied to estimation problems.Specialties: He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics.