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Dr. Robert J. Hermann

Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project

Contact:
Telephone: (617) 495-1412 (Associate Director, PDP); Limited Media Availability
Fax: (617)-495-9250

Experience

Dr. Hermann is a Senior Advisor to the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project.

Dr. Hermann is currently a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC, specializing in investments in technology, defense, aerospace and related businesses worldwide.  Global Technology Partners is a Boston based consulting firm.
 
In 1998, Dr. Hermann retired from United Technologies Corporation where he was senior vice president, science and technology. Prior to joining UTC in 1982, Dr. Hermann served 20 years with the National Security Agency with assignments in research and development, operations and NATO.  In 1977, he was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications, Command, Control and Intelligence.  In 1979, he was named Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for research, development and logistics and in parallel was Director of the National Reconnaissance Office.

He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.

Other activities in the past several years include:

Member of the Defense Science Board from 1985-present
Member, National Academy of Engineering 1989-present
Member, National Society of Professional Engineers Industry Advisory Group 1989-1995
Member, Chair, Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 1992-1998
Member, Board of Trustees for the Hartford Graduate Center 1994-1997
Member, Chair, Co-Chair, National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications, 1992-1998
Member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1993-2001
Member, Commission on the Roles and Missions of the U.S. Intelligence Activities 1994-1995
Chairman Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute 1998-2000
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Draper Laboratory 1995-2001
Member, Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack 2002-2004
Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group for the National Reconnaissance Office 2002-Present
Member, Board of Directors, Orbital Sciences Corporation, 2002-present