Dr. Paul McManamon

Paul F. McManamon (S’67–M’77–SM’95–F’09) received the Ph.D. degree in physics from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1977.,He is an independent consultant and works part-time as the Technical Director of the Ladar and Optical Communications Institute, LOCI, at the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. He worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, from 1968 to 2008. His primary work with the Air Force Research Laboratory was in electrooptical sensors. He was Chief Scientist for the Avionics Directorate, Wright Lab, for more than two-and-a-half years. He was a Senior Scientist for infrared sensors for five years. He was Chief Scientist of the Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, from June 2005 to May 2008.,Dr. McManamon was on the SPIE Board of Directors for seven years and on the SPIE Executive Committee from 2003 through 2007. He was the President of SPIE in 2006. He was primary author of “Optical Phased Array Technology,” which received the IEEE W. R. J. Baker Award for the best paper in any IEEE refereed journal or Transactions. He is a Fellow of SPIE, OSA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Military Sensing Symposia, MSS.