Jeffrey C. Gottschalk

Jeffrey C. Gottschalk is the assistant head of the Cyber Security and Information Sciences Division. In this role, he advances strategic directions and innovations in cyber operations technology and architectures, “beyond zero trust” cyber technology, resilient cyber-physical systems, advanced artificial intelligence (AI), and supercomputing. He leads several engagement activities across the U.S. Government, academia, and industry.

Gottschalk joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1996 as technical staff and, over eight years, served on multiple technical projects from atmospheric propagation and remote sensing, to microwave-photonic antenna technology, to developing techniques and digital and electro-optic hardware that supported advanced laser communications systems. In 2004, he was selected as an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignee to the U.S. Air Force where he served as the chief engineer for a space program. He returned to Lincoln Laboratory in 2007 to lead various research groups covering a spectrum of responsibilities from managing the test and evaluation of advanced infrared air defense systems and countermeasures via airborne test beds to leading large software engineering and signal processing projects in multidomain situational awareness and command and control.

In 2012, he co-founded the Laboratory’s Cyber Systems and Operations Group. He founded the Lincoln Laboratory field site at Ft. George G. Meade, MD. In 2019, he founded the Cyber-Physical Systems Group.

Gottschalk is a senior member of the IEEE. He holds a BS in physics and astronomy from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MS in astronomy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.