PRESS RELEASES

Reffett Associates place Dr. Howard Meyer as the AFRL Liaison to the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability

After a nationwide search, the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio has announced the selection of Dr. Howard Meyer as the AFRL Liaison to the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability.

AFRL is the Air Force’s premier research organization that leads the discovery, development, and integration of advanced warfighting technologies for our air, space and cyberspace forces.  AFWIC’s mission is to drive enterprise-wide integration and future force design that enables the Air Force to rapidly transition into a networked, multi-domain 21st century force.  Dr. Meyer will be the AFRL Commander’s senior representative to AFWIC and will serve as AFRL’s principal scientific and technical advisor to the AFWIC director, providing guidance to AFWIC on both the utility and feasibility of current and future science and technical programs.

Dr. Meyer is a subject matter expert in a number areas including Electronic Warfare and Directed Energy.  Previously, he was a subject matter expert with Strategic Analysis, Inc. where he served as the Science Advisor to the Director of Electronic Warfare and Countermeasures in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.  Dr. Meyer has served in advisory positions for the US Army as the Science Advisor and Basic Research Area Monitor for the Army Chief Scientist and in several positions focused on Weapons of Mass Destruction Counterproliferation.  Additionally, Dr. Meyer was on the Board of Directors of the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) and was the Vice President of DEPS.

ARFL was aided in this search by Reffett Associates, LLC, a retained search consulting firm based in Bellevue, Washington.  Reffett Associates specializes in highly technical, hard to find candidates for Government and commercial clients. The search was led by Dr. Eric Reffett a Managing Director with assistance from senior colleagues Thomas Young and Marshall Reffett.