Dr. Scott Goldstein Joins Dynetics as Chief Technologist and Head of Advanced Missions Solutions

Jan. 8, 2013 - PRLog -- Dynetics has named Dr. Scott Goldstein Chief Technologist for the company and manager of the Advanced Missions Solutions Group in Chantilly, Va. He comes to Dynetics from QinetiQ North America, where he was Senior Vice President and general manager of the National Systems Business Unit within the company’s Mission Solutions Group.

In his role at Dynetics, Goldstein will develop new and innovative mission solutions for Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community (IC) customers that take advantage of the company’s ability to rapidly develop hardware solutions matched to those missions. He is also on the team responsible for developing Dynetics’ corporate technology roadmap.

Prior to joining QinetiQ North America, Goldstein served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of the Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology Group for ManTech International Corp. and also spent 10 years at Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), leading and managing technical contracts for the DoD and the IC, as well as providing corporate technical leadership, direction and oversight as the chair of the SAIC Technical Fellows. Prior to that, he was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.  

Goldstein is a colonel in the Air Force Reserve assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He spent the last 18 months as the Senior Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) to the A3 at 14th Air Force. Before that, he was assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) at the Pentagon as the JCS Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and SATCOM special access program manager. Prior to that, at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), his appointments included NRO chief of flight safety, director of special access programs and watch commander at the NRO Operations Center (NROC), and service in NRO Advanced Systems and Technology (AS&T). He also held assignments earlier at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Air Staff. His military career began in the U.S. Army.

Goldstein holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Washington Academy of Sciences, a member of the IEEE Radar Systems Panel and an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Virginia Tech. In addition, he has authored or co-authored more than 100 refereed technical publications and four U.S. patents on spread spectrum communications and adaptive processing for signal detection.

“Dr. Scott Goldstein brings an impressive amount of experience and expertise to our company,” said Dynetics President Tom Baumbach. “He has a successful history of using technology to solve problems for our government. He has assisted national agencies in the management of their technology portfolios to identify strategic gaps and develop new capabilities for the nation.”

Dr. Marc Bendickson, Dynetics CEO, added, “Scott will be a tremendous asset to Dynetics, particularly as we continue to grow our presence in the cyber and intelligence spaces. He has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of signals intelligence (SIGINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), cyber, radar, sonar, communications and navigation.”