DE Advisory Board, Dr. Charles Johnson-Bey

Bio: Dr. John W. Luginsland is a Principal General Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, where he serves as the Collaboration Director and AFRL Lead for AFRL’s MidAtlantic Regional Network, an innovation acceleration unit for dual-use technology. He has served in multiple technical and leadership roles for the Department of the Air Force including running programs at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, serving as the program element monitor for Air Force basic research in the Office in the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions (SAF/AQR), and working as a staff member at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate in the late 1990s, having first joined Phillips Laboratory as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr. Luginsland has industrial experience at Confluent Sciences, LLC, NumerEx, LLC, and Science Applications International Corporation as well as academic experience as a professor at Michigan State University. Additionally, he was an elected Chair of the IEEE’s Plasma Science and Applications Committee, a past member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG), and served as co-chair on a National Academy consensus study “Powering the Army of the Future.” Dr. Luginsland is a fellow of the IEEE and the Air Force Research Laboratory.