Tom Rondeau
Defense Leadership
Dr. Tom Rondeau serves as principal director for FutureG for the Department of Defense, serving in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. In this role, Rondeau is in charge of leading the DOD on research, funding, and execution of programs around warfighting capabilities using future-generation wireless technologies, 5G and beyond, to advance wireless networking concepts for national security. Before taking this role, Rondeau spent more than six years as a DARPA program manager, working on numerous technology areas to improve wireless networking and communications. In the past year, the work of Rondeau and his team was visible in the negotiation between the White House and the Pentagon, namely in how the latter will share its coveted portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with users outside of the department.
