Tom Fagan

IEEE Life Fellow

Tom Fagan

IEEE Life Fellow

Biography

Mr. Fagan has many years of experience in the Defense & Aerospace Field. He is currently CEO of TLF Associates, a Defense and Aerospace Consulting Firm. He served for three years as Manager Congressional Relations for the General Electric Co Aerospace Group, for three and one half years as VP Government Affairs for Gould Defense, and seven and one half years as VP Government Affairs for ITT Defense (now Harris Corp.). He has also served as an Associate Research Professor and Program General Manager for Drexel University’s Applied Communications and Information Networking Project, a Center of Excellence for Network Centric Warfare. Mr. Fagan has also served as a Congressional Science & Engineering Fellow where he was a Special Assistant for Defense for Senator Strom Thurman (R-SC), and as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee. His career has spanned classified military space, hardware, software, information systems, C4ISR, and Network Centric Warfare. He has also worked on NASA’s weather satellites, earth resources satellites, ground stations, Space Shuttle payloads and science experiments.