Douglas S. Wood

Douglas S. Wood brings to PAL thirty five years of engineering, acquisition and management responsibility with both government and industry. He has proven success in planning, marketing, directing and applying information/electronic warfare, signals intelligence, night vision, and infrared imaging technology to user needs. This extensive experience also includes business development, organizational development, and reengineering an organization during expanding, downsizing and merger and acquisition environments.

As a Senior Vice President & General Manager at CACI Technology Inc., Doug was responsible for executive direction of CTI’s Technology Sector. He successfully directed the evolution from an offensive information warfare focus to an expanded group providing information assurance and information warfare solutions and services across the company’s business areas. Doug was instrumental in developing strategic and tactical plans that led to customer base diversification from DOD to federal non-DOD and commercial clients and continued company growth in excess of 10% per year. This successfully expanded the company’s information warfare and information assurance client base.

Provided Senior Executive Service leadership to a 300 person organization executing $120M a year research, development and production program in signals intelligence, electronic attack, information warfare, intelligence fusion and dissemination, and counter drug technologies. Developed strategic alliances with industry, international partners and other government agencies to exploit emerging technology for application to customer needs. Army leader on the National Security Agency, Technology Review Panel, which directs a yearly $20M joint tactical SIGINT program. Army National Leader (1993-1997) on the five-nation “The Technical Cooperative Program (TTCP)” panel for electronic warfare.

Provided senior technical and management leadership to the Army’s night vision and electro-optics program ($130M research and development and $100M production per year) through seven Divisions employing approximately 550 people. Working with partners from industry and other DOD elements, effectively expanded the organization’s role in Army’s aviation programs and established a Division to execute prototype target acquisition, pilotage and target recognition programs. Working with the Army’s PEO/PM system, defined, planned and directed the execution of electro-optics applications for the Apache TADS/PNVS, AHIP Mast Mounted Sight and Aviator’s Night Vision Imaging System (ANVIS). Served as the US Army Representative on the Infrared and Electro-Optics panel of “The Technical Cooperative Program” (US, UK, CA, AU, NZ).

Mr. Wood has MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia. He is a certified Senior Executive Service level III member of the Army Acquisition Corps in "Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering". He also served for 5 years on the Industrial Advisory Board, University of Virginia Electrical Engineering Department.

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