Dr. Charles Gustafson

Senior Vice President of the Engineering and Technology Group
The Aerospace Corporation

Chuck is senior vice president of the Engineering and Technology Group at The Aerospace Corporation, which comprises about 1,200 engineers and scientists, nearly half of the company’s technical staff. The Engineering and Technology group provides support to all national security space programs in the areas of space and launch vehicles, electronics and sensors, computers and software, communications and networking, and systems engineering and architecting. The organization also includes the corporate physical science laboratories, and manages the corporate research portfolio. Chuck was elected to this position in April 2015. Chuck earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (with high honors) from Purdue University; and his master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.