MICHAEL STANKOSKY, D.Sc.
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Director, Cyberspace Policy Institute, School of Engineering and Applied Science
The George Washington University, Gelman 704, Washington, D.C.  20052
  (202) 994-7518

Dr. Stankosky joined The George Washington University in 1998. He is also an Executive Consultant for CACI Technology Inc. (formerly QuesTech, Inc.). Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President for Business Development at QuesTech Inc., a Systems Engineering and Integration Corporation. He spent five years at Science Applications International Corporation as Vice President for Commercial and International Business Development, specializing in Information Technology solutions. He has 26 years experience in government, encompassing many areas of research, development, and acquisition. His expertise ranges  from command, control, communications, computers, modeling and simulation to software engineering, to program management and direction activities,  to policy formulation and operational leadership positions. He also served as a diplomat at the American Embassy, Paris, brokering relationships between the U.S. and French governments and high technology businesses. He held two command positions in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Dr. Stankosky has been active for 25 years with numerous universities as an adjunct faculty member, delivering courses at the graduate-level that span over thirty different courses in systems engineering, program management, information technology, international transactions, economics, finance, marketing of technology, management of research, development and acquisition, information systems management, software management, knowledge management, information assurance/security management, and organizational effectiveness. He has experience in both curriculum and faculty development, and created a series of international transaction courses for the University of Denver's Systems Management program.  His latest efforts have been the creation of graduate-level programs in Knowledge Management at the George Washington University (GW). He is currently the lead professor at GW in Knowledge Management, Information Security Management, and Marketing of Technology.  He also lectures in Systems Engineering, Information Systems Management, and Engineering Management.

Dr. Stankosky has been active in developing Information Technology (IT) architectures that cut across many domains.  He pioneered the widely implemented Department of Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment, a technical architecture now mandated for "all" IT systems throughout the Department of Defense. He has been a principal speaker at global conferences on IT-related architectures, system requirements, information assurance, organizational effectiveness, and knowledge management.

Dr. Stankosky served the government on a variety of panels to include: the National Academy of Sciences, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Panel on Evolutionary Acquisition, and the National Correlation Working Group, recommending IT architectures for several government agencies. He was a member of the International Business Advisory Council at the Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Maryland; a member of the Board of Governors at the Marine Corps Association; a member of the Advisory Panel for The George Washington University's Continuing Engineering Education Program; and participated in the High Technology Council of Maryland. He is active with the National Task Force on Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management. He is a member of the American Society of Engineering Management, and an advisory member of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Dr. Stankosky holds a Doctor of Science  in Engineering Management from the George Washington University, majoring in Information and Process Engineering; two Master of Science degrees in Systems Management and Education from the University of Southern California; a Master of Arts in International Relations from Salve Regina University; and an LL.B. from Blackstone School of Law. He attended the National War College, the Naval War College, the Foreign Services Institute, the Defense Systems Management College, and the Senior Executive program at the  Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Dr. Stankosky's decorations include the French National Order of Merit, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, and three awards of the Navy Commendation Medal. He is a Colonel (retired), U.S. Marine Corps.

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