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Dr. Mark Lewis is executive director of NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute (NDIA ETI), a non-partisan think-tank focused on technologies that are critical to the future of national defense. ETI provides research and analyses to inform the development and integration of emerging technologies into the defense industrial base. We will discuss the Emerging Technologies Institute’s Vital Signs report, which is an evaluation of the readiness and health of the defense industrial base.
Prior to his role at the Emerging Technologies Institute, he was the Director of Defense Research & Engineering in the Department of Defense, overseeing technology modernization for all military services and DoD Agencies, as well as the acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering. In this role he was the Pentagon’s senior-most scientist, providing management oversight and leadership for DARPA, the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Innovation Unit, the Space Development Agency, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, and the DoD’s basic and applied research portfolio.
At the Department of Defense, Lewis worked closely with Mike Griffin, who appeared on episodes 23 and 134 of STEM-Talk. In this interview, we discuss hypersonics and other emerging technologies and modernization priorities that are critical to our national defense. Lewis also is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he spent 25 years on the faculty, conducting basic and applied research in hypersonic aerodynamics, advanced propulsion, and space-vehicle design.
Full shownotes: ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-138
Dr. Mark Lewis is executive director of NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute (NDIA ETI), a non-partisan think-tank focused on technologies that are critical to the future of national defense. ETI provides research and analyses to inform the development and integration of emerging technologies into the defense industrial base. We will discuss the Emerging Technologies Institute’s Vital Signs report, which is an evaluation of the readiness and health of the defense industrial base.
Prior to his role at the Emerging Technologies Institute, he was the Director of Defense Research & Engineering in the Department of Defense, overseeing technology modernization for all military services and DoD Agencies, as well as the acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering. In this role he was the Pentagon’s senior-most scientist, providing management oversight and leadership for DARPA, the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Innovation Unit, the Space Development Agency, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, and the DoD’s basic and applied research portfolio.
At the Department of Defense, Lewis worked closely with Mike Griffin, who appeared on episodes 23 and 134 of STEM-Talk. In this interview, we discuss hypersonics and other emerging technologies and modernization priorities that are critical to our national defense. Lewis also is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he spent 25 years on the faculty, conducting basic and applied research in hypersonic aerodynamics, advanced propulsion, and space-vehicle design.
