Abstract
President George W. Bush has named Charles E. McQueary to be undersecretary for science and technology in the Department of Homeland Security. McQueary retired as president of General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems(ATS) in 2002. ATS—originally part of LucentTechnologies but purchased by General Dynamics in 1997—specializes in electro-optic undersea systems, networking and decision support systems, and signal processing and software solutions. When Lucent was part of AT&T's Bell Labs, McQueary was vice president of AT&T's Federal Systems Advanced Technology Division from 1987 to 1993. He became president of Lucent's ATS in 1994. He joined the Bell Labs technical staff in 1966 after earning a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from the University of Texas, Austin. In 1971, he became head of the labs' missile operations department, managing the Pentagon's Safeguard antiballistic missile test program, and two years later was selected to direct the labs' field operations department, which supported a Navy oc...
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