Greg K. Crawford, Ph.D.

Gregory K. Crawford is the vice president for mission-driven integration and deputy general manager for the MITRE National Security Sector (MNS). MNS apply resources from across MITRE to offer innovative, technically robust, and timely solutions for the Defense Department’s and Intelligence Community’s most pressing challenges.

As VP, Crawford leads an MNS team in addressing sponsor mission challenges by harnessing MITRE’s comprehensive technical expertise, domain knowledge, and advanced research. The team collaborates with warfighters and across multiple government agencies, international allies, and industry partners. As Deputy GM, he directs strategy execution, cross-sector integration, capability enhancement, and talent development.

Previously, Crawford headed MITRE’s Joint and Services Center, supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Chief Information Officer, the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, the Army, the Navy, the Missile Defense Agency, and the Defense Information Systems Agency.

He is an internationally recognized expert in space physics, solar-terrestrial physics, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensing and exploitation.

Crawford chaired The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Naval Studies Board. Earlier, he was VP of MNS Programs and Technology and led the Electronic Systems and Technologies Technical Center. He led MITRE’s research program in integrated sensing, processing, and exploitation. Crawford also served as chief engineer for Air Force Space Radar Battle Management, and deputy program manager and technical contributor for the Navy’s Littoral Surveillance and Reconnaissance System (LSRS) program, where his team developed advanced exploitation methods for LSRS data and innovative enterprise systems engineering processes.

Crawford holds bachelor's degrees in physics and chemistry with a minor in mathematics from California State University, Fresno. He earned a master’s degree in geophysics and space physics and a doctoral degree in space plasma physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.