John C. Carson

JOHN C. CARSON is President and CEO of Irvine Sensors Corporation. Upon
graduation from MIT with a BS in Physics and Philosophy, he joined Baird
Atomics, Inc., in Cambridge and Waltham, Massachusetts, where he became
Project Engineer and Assistant Program Manager on a space-based infrared
surveillance program. He left Baird Atomics in 1967 to form a
consulting company for sensor systems design and development, with
clients that included North American Aviation, Honeywell, Lockheed, Ford
Aeronutronics, and Grumman. Over the years, this company evolved into
Irvine Sensors Corporation of which Mr. Carson is the current President.
Mr. Carson has been responsible for the design and development of space-
based military and NASA sensor systems, commercial spectrometers,
commercial laser printers, 3-D electronics, and various sensor and
electronics systems for the military. Mr. Carson is the holder of 21
patents. In addition to his Irvine Sensors duties, he chairs the
Industry Advisory Board for the Caltech Center for Neuromorphic Systems
Engineering and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Egg
Factory, an incubation firm headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia.