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Mr. Robert Nesbit is the senior vice president and general manager of MITRE'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 sponsors, including the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, and classified agencies. The technologies include image processing, signal processing, data mining, surveillance, countermeasures, information security, and special communication systems. He directed a special study in intelligence aspects of chemical and biological warfare.
Prior to this, Mr. Nesbit led MITRE's work supporting on-site inspection in the USSR for verification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Arms Control Treaty at Votkinsk, USSR. He held project leader and management positions on work dealing with the analysis of foreign command, control, and communication (C3) systems and the development of countermeasures to exploit vulnerabilities in those systems. As part of this work, he led projects for the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and MITRE-sponsored Independent Research and Development. He has been with MITRE since 1973.
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 the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Scientific Advisory Board. He has also participated as a member of the National Research Council's Naval Studies Board on Technology for Future Naval Forces and is currently serving on an Intelligence Science Board examining future sensor investment strategies.
Mr. Nesbit has been a member of numerous DSB task forces during the past ten years on: C3 countermeasures; tactical deception; artillery fire support; non-cooperative identification; technology support to Desert Shield; Desert Storm lessons learned; risk assessment of new tactical aircraft programs; global surveillance; command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) for the battlefield; and information warfare. He directed the 1999 DSB Summer Study on Information Technology and the 2000 DSB Task Force on Software, and he co-chaired the 2001 DSB Summer Study on Precision Targeting and the 2004 Task Force on UAVs and UCAVs. He is currently co-chairing a DSB Task Force on Indirect Fire Support and will co-chair the 2005 Summer Study on WMD Defense.
For the DIA Advisory Board, he is leading their efforts on critical database issues and a panel on metrics.
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. | 