Air & Missile Defense technology
Dennis J. Keane - Biography
Dennis Keane is Assistant Head of the Air and Missile Defense Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His current responsibilities include oversight of the Laboratory's participation in national-level studies for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), as well as technical support to the MDA Missile Defense National Team and to the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program Office and its components.
Previously, he served in Washington, D.C., in the OSD as director of Missile Warfare and was director of the POET consortium of federally funded research and development centers that provided independent technical support to MDA. Prior to 1995, Mr. Keane was leader of the Laboratory's Advanced Air Defense Techniques group and contributed to a number of programs involving low-observable and counter-low-observable technologies over a period of 15 years. He has also worked in industry, where he was chief of the Cruise Missile Survivability group at General Dynamics Convair, and he served as an officer in the U.S. Army in Washington, D.C., and the Republic of Viet Nam.
Mr. Keane is the recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from the University of Southern California.
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