Dr. McQueary to speak at annual AEDC Fellows banquet

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  • By Janaé Daniels
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Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. --  Dr. Charles McQueary, director of operational test and evaluation for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, will be this year's Arnold Engineering Development Center Fellows Banquet speaker scheduled for June 25 at the Arnold Lakeside Club. 
Dr. McQueary, confirmed by the United States Senate in July 2006, serves as the senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense on testing Department of Defense weapon systems, prescribing policies and procedures for the conduct of operational and live fire test and evaluation. 
Prior to his current position, he was confirmed by the Senate in 2003 as the first Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security. In this position, he led the research and development arm of the department, utilizing the nation's scientific and technological resources to provide federal, state and local officials with the technology and capabilities to protect the homeland. 
Dr. McQueary is former president of General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems in Greensboro, N.C. He has also been president and vice president of business units for AT&T, Lucent Technologies and a director for AT&T Bell Laboratories. 
At AT&T Bell Laboratories, he served as head of the Missile Operations Department for the SAFEGUARD Antiballistic Missile Test Program. He later headed Bell Laboratories' Field Operations Department in Great Britain in support of a Navy oceanographic research station. He also served as the director of Undersea Systems Development Lab. 
He is a former executive board member of the National Security Industrial Association (NSIA) and the American Defense Preparedness Association (ADPA). He is a past chairman of the Undersea Warfare Systems Division of ADPA and a former member of the Navy League Industrial Executive Board, the Navy Submarine League, the Electronics Industries Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also the recipient of the NSIA Homeland Security Leadership award. 
A Texas native, he is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering, a master of science in mechanical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering mechanics as a NASA scholar and a member of five academic societies. The university has named him a distinguished engineering graduate.