Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is composed of academic, government, and industrial leaders who assist Lincoln Laboratory and MIT leadership in evaluating and guiding the operation of the Laboratory. This committee meets annually with Laboratory directors and MIT's Provost and Vice President of Research to review and discuss the strategic direction of the Laboratory.
Mr. Kent Kresa – Chairman
Former Chairman and CEO, Northrop Grumman
Mr. Denis A. Bovin
Senior Advisor, Evercore Partners;
Life member, MIT Corporation;
Former member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Dr. Reginald Brothers
Chief Executive Officer, NuWave Solutions;
former Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security
Dr. Mark Epstein
Senior Vice President for Development, Qualcomm Inc.;
Life member, MIT Corporation
VADM David E. Frost, USN (Ret)
President, Frost & Associates, Inc.;
Former Deputy Commander, U.S. Space Command
Dr. Arthur Gelb
President, Four Sigma Corporation;
Former Chairman and CEO, The Analytic Sciences Corporation
ADM Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr., USN (Ret)
Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Prof. Daniel E. Hastings
Aeronautics and Astronautics Department Head, MIT;
Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor, MIT;
Former Chief Scientist, Air Force
Deborah Lee James
Board of Directors, Textron;
Board of Directors, Unisys;
Former Secretary of the Air Force
Dr. Miriam E. John
Vice President Emeritus, Sandia National Laboratories
Prof. Anita K. Jones
Professor Emerita, University of Virginia;
Former Director, Defense Research and Engineering
Dr. Paul G. Kaminski
Chairman and CEO, Technovation, Inc.;
Former Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition and Technology
Dr. Donald M. Kerr
Board of Trustees, MITRE Corporation;
Former Principal Deputy Director, National Intelligence;
Former Director, National Reconnaissance Office
General Lester L. Lyles, USAF (Ret)
Board of Directors, General Dynamics Corporation;
Former Vice Chief of Staff, Air Force;
Former Commander, Air Force Materiel Command
Prof. Jeffrey Shapiro
Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT
Mr. John P. Stenbit
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I);
Former Executive Vice President, TRW
General Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret)
President of the Association, U.S. Army;
Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
Prof. Ian A. Waitz
Vice Chancellor, MIT;
Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT