Richard Wagner is a lab associate with the Los AlamosNational Laboratory, based in Washington, D.C. He previouslyhas served as vice president and chief scientist of Kaman SciencesCorporation and group vice president of the Kaman Corporation,has served as assistant to the secretary of defensefor atomic energy, and has held a variety of managerial positionsat the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Wagneris a member of the U.S. Strategic Command's StrategicAdvisory Group. He has twice been a member of the DefenseScience Board, a founding member of the Threat ReductionAdvisory Committee of the Office of the Secretary of Defense,and a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency's AdvisoryBoard. Dr. Wagner holds B.A. from Williams College, and aPh.D. from the University of Utah, both in physics.