George Solhan
Deputy Chief of Naval Research, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare & Combating Terrorism Science & Technology

George Solhan currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Naval Research for Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism Science and Technology, as Department Head (ONR 30), and as the Director of Marine Corps Science and Technology. He has been a member of the Senior Executive Service since June 2004 and has served in the U.S. Government for the past 18 years. Mr. Solhan served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1968 to 1989. He is responsible for leading, managing, directing and integrating an extensive Science and Technology program which consists of basic research, applied research and advanced technology development, as well as efforts in a wide range of technical disciplines and warfare areas. These include Command and Control; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Logistics; Firepower; Maneuver; Mine Countermeasures; Human Performance Training and Survivability; Combating Terrorism; and Littoral, Urban, and Irregular Warfare in support of operational requirements of the Navy and Marine Corps. Mr. Solhan’s previous assignments include Deputy Director of Technology, Marine Corps System Command; Senior Research Scientist, Battelle Memorial Institute; and as a member of the Physics faculty at the Naval Academy Preparatory School. Solhan is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Officer with combat experience in the Republic of Vietnam and infantry and Special Operations experience through the Regimental level.

Mr. Solhan earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland; a master's degree in national resource strategy at the Industrial College of the Armed forces; and is a graduate of the Senior Acquisition Course of the Defense Acquisition University. He is a National Security Decision-Making Fellow of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and a graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Va.