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Mr. Robert F. Nesbit

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems
DoD C3I Federally Funded Research and Development Center

Mr. Robert F. NesbitMr. Robert Nesbit is the senior vice president and general manager of The MITRE Corporation's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. He is responsible for the direction of MITRE research, development, and system acquisition support of advanced intelligence and information systems. These programs support numerous Department of Defense and Intelligence Agency sponsors. The technologies include image processing, signal processing, data mining, surveillance, countermeasures, cyber security, and special collection systems.

Prior to this, Mr. Nesbit led MITRE's work supporting on-site inspection and verification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Arms Control Treaty with the USSR. He held project leader and management positions on work dealing with the analysis of foreign command, control, and communication systems and the development of countermeasures to exploit vulnerabilities in those systems.

Prior to joining MITRE, Mr. Nesbit held technical staff positions with RCA Aerospace Systems and General Electric in circuit design and test for guidance and control systems.

He is a member of the Defense Science Board (DSB) and a past member of the Defense Intelligence Agency's Scientific Advisory Board. He has also participated on task forces for the National Research Council's Naval Studies Board and the Intelligence Science Board examining future sensor investment strategies. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Defense Technology Initiative.

Mr. Nesbit has been a member of the DSB for 10 years. He directed the 1999 DSB Summer Study on Information Technology and the 2000 DSB Task Force on Software and co-chaired the 2001 DSB Summer Study on Precision Targeting and the 2004 Task Force on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles. He co-chaired the 2005 Summer Study on Defense Against Terrorist Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction and is currently co-chair of a Task Force on the National Nuclear Security Administration's Strategic Plan for Advanced Computing.

Mr. Nesbit received a master's degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1973 and a bachelor's degree in physics magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1969.

 

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