Jim Wood
President & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Wood is currently serving as President (first elected President in 1988) and Chief Executive Officer of DCS Corporation, where he is responsible for all corporate activity including strategic planning and general management. As President/CEO, Mr. Wood has managed the growth of DCS from a $14M revenue company in 1987 to a $90M revenue company with more than 600 employees in 2006. Mr. Wood has extensive experience in managing business development for a wide variety of products from acquisition planning support to virtual prototyping workstations.

In addition to his work as President/CEO, Mr. Wood has directed technical programs at DCS Corporation to support the development and application of electro-optical systems to solve requirements of target acquisition, pilotage, surveillance, search and rescue, signature assessment, and target tracking for the DoD and other federal agencies. Before coming to DCS in 1978, Mr. Wood served as the manager of the image evaluation and target signature laboratories at the Army's Center for Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (CNVESD). His work has included the following:

• Designed and directed DARPA Advanced IR Imaging System Evaluation Facility at CNVESD
  
  
• Directed Army-Wide Target Signature Program whose mission was collecting multi-spectral target signatures of threat vehicles and typical background components
  
  
• Co-authored tri-service guide for writing specifications for IR sensors
  
  
• Co-authored CNVESD Handbook on realistic battlefield performance of EO Sensors in Central Europe
  
  
• Co-authored book titled Infrared Imaging Systems Analysis
  
  

Education
Graduate School at American University

BS, Physics, University of Virginia

MS, Physics, University of New Hampshire