Biography

General John D. Wakelin (U.S. Army, Retired) has served as a director since May 2009. For the last 24 years he has worked in senior executive and business development roles at SAIC, a scientific, engineering, and technology applications company. In September 2013, a new company, Leidos, Inc., was crated and spun off from SAIC. General Wakelin transferred to Leidos, Inc., at that time. At SAIC and Leidos, Inc., General Wakelin has overseen numerous programs in large scale computing, telecommunications systems, and complex enterprise software systems for the public and private sector. He retired as Brigadier General for the Army where he served for 30 years in a number of roles, culminating in the Joint Staff as Deputy Director for Command Control and Communications for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Reagan and Bush and as Deputy Commander for Research and Development for the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth, N.J. General Wakelin holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of San Francisco and he completed all graduate level course work in Social Psychology for the Army's Foreign Area Officer Program at San Diego State University. General Wakelin also attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and National War College. He is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the Association of the United States Army.