Aryeh Feder

Dr. Aryeh Feder is an assistant head of the Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology (AMMDT) Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He helps lead a team performing assessments, developing advanced technologies, and conducting laboratory and field testing for the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Navy, and other services and agencies. In particular, Feder focuses on advanced sensor technologies, electronic warfare, and advanced missile defense discrimination and defense against hypersonics and other advanced threats.

Previously, Feder led the AMMDT Division's Systems and Architectures Group, where he oversaw high-impact studies to define future defense architectures to counter advanced threats and to motivate the development of enabling advanced technologies.

From 2009 to 2011, Feder served as chief scientist for the Special Programs Office, Under Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisitions). In that role, he assessed the technical feasibility of current and proposed Air Force special programs, identified critical capability gaps, and defined road maps for technology development to close those gaps. Before taking on that position, Feder served in roles from technical staff to group leader in the Systems and Architectures Group of the ISR and Tactical Systems Division at Lincoln Laboratory. In this group, he led and conducted analyses in support of the Air Force Red Team on a wide range of topics, including advanced air vehicle survivability and electronic warfare.

Feder received a BA degree in physics from Yeshiva University and a PhD in physics from Harvard University.