Kevin Tangen

Dr. Kevin M. Tangen is an assistant leader of the Counter–Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Systems Group, which focuses on WMD threat understanding, forecasting, detection, response, mitigation, medical countermeasures, and remediation. The group focuses on pragmatic and cost-effective WMD defense architectures for the Department of War, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, intelligence agencies, first responders, and critical stakeholders across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Tangen joined Lincoln Laboratory in 2018 and has been working in the counter-WMD mission space on topics such as systems analysis — including evaluating chemical/biological sensor concept of operations — threat characterization and forecasting of emerging threats, and test and evaluation of developing systems to assess operational capability.

He received his BS degree in biomedical engineering from the University of South Carolina and his PhD in bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.