Jill Wittels

• Member, FRA Board of Directors for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Vice President, Business Development, L-3 Communications

Jill Wittels joined L-3 in February 2001 as Corporate Vice President, Business Development. L-3 Communications, the sixth largest defense contractor in the US, is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR systems, government services, as well as a merchant supplier of high technology products, systems and subsystems.

Dr. Wittels has nearly 30 years of management, engineering and leadership experience. Prior to L-3 Communications, Dr. Wittels worked for 21 years with BAE Systems and its predecessor companies, including Lockheed Martin, Loral and Honeywell. Most recently, she served as Vice President and General Manager of BAE Systems' Information and Electronic Warfare Systems/Infrared and Imaging Systems Division. Dr. Wittels began her industrial career at Honeywell as a systems engineer. Prior to industry, she served as a Congressional Fellow for the American Physical Society, a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a senior visiting scientist for the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Wittels received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from MIT in 1970 and received a PhD in Physics from MIT in 1975. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is a member of the American Physical Society and a member of the American Astronomical Society. Dr. Wittels presently serves on the Board of Directors of Innovative Micro Technology Inc.