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Donald G. Bodnar

Vice President, New Business Development

MI Technologies

(678) 475-8317

Donald G. Bodnar is the Vice President of New Business Development for MI Technologies. He is responsible for development of new business areas, product development for these new business areas, leading high technology proposals, acquisition and teaming activities, and for expanding existing measurement products into new market areas.

Prior to joining MI Technologies, he was with the United States Air Force as Chief Scientist, Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory and prior to that as Chief Scientist, Rome Laboratory. Before joining the Air Force, Dr. Bodnar was a member of the research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His responsibilities at the Air Force Research Laboratory included leading the transition of 900 people, organized in 7 divisions, and at 3 different geographical locations from an air-to-air avionics to a space sensor organization. At Rome Laboratory he was responsible for establishing the direction of the scientific content of programs in command, control, communication and intelligence (C3I) technology. As Laboratory Director at Georgia Tech he was responsible for hiring, salaries, space, contract development, and capital equipment. As Division Chief he was responsible for developing and managing new large contracts as well as creating and running large multi-company proposal teams to win these contracts.

Dr. Bodnar is an internationally known expert in the field of antenna design and analysis, especially scanning reflector antennas and in the polarization characterization of antennas using both theoretical and experimental methods. He has performed near-field and far-field antenna and RCS measurements using compact, near-field and far-field measurement techniques. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a past President and a past Vice President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, past Chairman of the IEEE Antenna Standards Committee, and is the author or co-author of over 100 publications.

Dr. Bodnar holds a doctorate degree and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the Georgia Institute of Technology in antennas, electromagnetic theory, materials, and computer programming. He has also taught several short courses including Antenna Engineering, Principles of Modern Radar, Phased Array Antennas, Polarimetric Radar, Principals and Applications of Millimeter Wave Radar, and Scanning Antenna Design.