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Chairman and CEO of Technovation Inc., a consulting company dedicated to fostering innovation and the development and application of advanced technology, Dr. Kaminski is also a senior partner in Global Technology Partners, an exclusive affiliate of Rothschild North America, formed to make acquisitions of and investments in technology, defense and aerospace-related companies. He has also served as chairman and chief executive officer of Technology Strategies and Alliances, a technology-oriented investment banking and consulting firm.
During his 20-year career with the Air Force, Dr. Kaminski served as director for Low Observables Technology, responsible for directing the development and fielding of stealth systems and special assistant to the under secretary of defense for research and engineering. He managed the development of advanced space systems and new sensor technology, and was responsible for development of inertial guidance components for the Minuteman missile and terminal guidance systems for the first precision-guided munitions.
As under secretary of defense for acquisition and technology (1994-1997), Dr. Kaminski was responsible for research and development, procurement, acquisition reform, environmental security, international programs, dual-use technology, logistics, the defense technology, and industrial base and military construction. He also served as chairman of the Defense Science Board and was a member of the Defense Policy Board.
Dr. Kaminski is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Technical Advisory Board, the Procurement Roundtable and Atlantic Council. He is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He is a director of Anteon Corporation, Condor Systems Inc., DynCorp, General Dynamics, In-Q-Tel Inc., IntegriNautics, Software Engineering Institute and Veridian. He is on the Board of Visitors of the National Defense University and an advisor to LynuxWorks Inc., MILCOM Technologies, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Theseus Logic Inc.
Dr. Kaminski is chairman of the National Reconnaissance Office Technology Advisory Group, a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and Sigma Gamma Tau. He has authored numerous publications dealing with inertial and terminal guidance system performance, simulation techniques, and Kalman filtering and numerical techniques applied to estimation problems | 