Karl E. Nell

Aerospace Executive / Retired Senior Military Officer / Corporate Strategist

Benefitting from over 30-years of organizational and technology leadership in top-tier / FORTUNE 500 firms including Bell Telephone Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, TASC, CACI, and ENSCO, Karl Nell is a seasoned executive, respected thought-leader, dedicated change-agent, and accomplished multi-disciplinary engineer comfortable across multiple business models from aerospace high-end development to integrated solutions to advisory services. As consistently successful actualizing Board-directed initiatives driving profitable growth as achieving operational success within the defense, intelligence, federal-civil, and commercial sectors, Karl has variously served as Vice President & General Manager leading a national security R&D division supporting elite classified customers, deputy Chief Technology Officer for a $2-billion company, and Distinguished Fellow with the Congressionally-chartered IT Acquisition Advisory Council. An Ivy League graduate, certified-PMP®, published author, War College alumni, and fully Joint-qualified commissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Karl has been honored to command at every grade level through colonel including activation of the Army’s newest expeditionary military intelligence brigade supporting XVIII Airborne Corps and JSOC. Selected “by-name" for a nominative active-duty assignment advising the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Karl recommended technical, programmatic, and funding actions accelerating the 32 highest-priority (of 800) Army acquisitions while orchestrating the creation of the Army’s newest top priority program – the $107-million multi-year Project Convergence – focused on national-to-tactical, sensor-to-shooter integration. Culminating his military career as Army Director supporting the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), his engagements with senior leaders within the Defense Department as well as Congress directly contributed to the creation and inclusion of UAP legislation within the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2022 and 2023.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Business Positions

CACI International Inc Provides services to many branches of the US federal government

• Position

ENSCO, Inc.

• Vice President & General Manager (Corporate Officer) ('15→'16)*

Northrop Grumman Corporation

• Deputy CTO / Director, Systems Engineering & Integration ('98→'11)*

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

• Senior Systems Engineer / Lead SATCOM SRE ('96→'98)*

Bell Labs Communication research and development organization

• Member of Technical Staff (MTS) ('94→'96)*

Board Memberships

UAP Disclosure Fund Support new UAP legislation, facilitate legal representation for whistleblowers, promote scientific research and raise public awareness in an effort to better address the UAP issue.

• Board of Directors (Jun 3 '24→?)

Government Positions

US Army Futures Command United States Army Futures Command (AFC) is a United States Army command that runs modernization projects headquartered in Austin, Texas.

• Modernization Advisor to Vice Chief of Staff of the Army (Jan 1 '18→?)*

United States Africa Command One of six of the U.S. Defense Department's geographic combatant commands

• Deputy COO/Director, Special Programs (Colonel) ('16→'18)*

US Army Land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

• Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) ('13→'15)*

Defense Intelligence Agency

• TECHINT Operations Officer (C/J-2) ('01→'03)* [+1]

• Position

US Army Space Command

• Commander / Operations Officer ('90→'94)*

Schools

United States Air Force Institute of Technology Graduate Engineering and Management Program, Dayton Ohio

• Certificate, Computer Science Engineering ('90→'91)*

Boston University Private University in Boston, MA

• MS, Mechanical Engineering ('91→'93)*

United States Army War College United States Army school

• Master's Degree, Strategic Studies ('10→'12)*

University of Pennsylvania Private, Ivy League university founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1740 as one of the nine colonial colleges chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence

• BS, Electrical Engineering ('86→'90)*

Updated about 2 months ago

Types	Person, Business Person
Gender	Male
Website	https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-nell-98203510/
Region	US and Canada