SPACE AND NATIONAL SECURITY

DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL GRIFFIN

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:

Michael D. Griffin is the Co-Founder and Co-President of LogiQ, Inc., a company providing high-end management, scientific and technical consulting services. He was previously the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and in that role shared responsibility with the Deputy Under Secretary for research, development and prototyping activities within the Department of Defense. 

In prior roles Griffin was the Chairman and CEO of Schafer Corporation, the King-MacDonald Professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville, the Administrator of NASA, Space Department Head at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, President of In-Q-Tel, CEO of Magellan Systems and EVP and General Manager of Orbital ATK’s Space Systems Group. 

Griffin is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics, an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the AIAA Space Systems Medal and Goddard Astronautics Award, the National Space Club’s Goddard Trophy, the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement, the Missile Defense Agency’s Ronald Reagan Award and has twice been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal. 

He holds seven earned degrees, including a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, and has been recognized with honorary doctoral degrees from Florida Southern College and the University of Notre Dame. Griffin is a Certified Flight Instructor with instrument and multi-engine ratings, a Registered Professional Engineer in Maryland and California and the lead author of two dozen technical papers and the textbook Space Vehicle Design.