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E. Michael Campbell has outstanding achievements in business development of scientific programs

E. Michael Campbell is an internationally recognized spokesperson, strategist, program builder, leader, and scientist in nuclear energy, fission and fusion, plasma physics, solid-state lasers and their applications, hydrogen production and energy strategy. He has outstanding achievements in business development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), General Atomics (GA), and Logos.

At LLNL, E. Michael Campbell developed and led the scientific, mission, and political strategy that captured the $3.5B NIF facility and the program that will utilize it. Over the 20-year lifetime of the scientific program on this facility, funding would come out to be total $3-5B. As head of the Laser Program, E. Michael Campbell developed medical photonics program (~$15M/yr), advanced laser program (~$30M/yr), and an advanced lithography program funded by an industrial consortium led by Intel that totaled $250M.

Beginning in 2001, E. Michael Campbell developed the Photonics Program at General Atomics, which in 2007 had revenue totaling $44M and a staff of approximately 200. Michael further increased the target fabrication program from $7M/yr to ~$30M/yr and established GA as a strategic partner in the National Ignition campaign. He also developed hydrogen production and advanced fission programs to the level of ~$10M/yr (they were at the level of ~$1M). E. Michael Campbell secured five-year sole source contracts for both target fabrication and nuclear fission programs from the DOE totaling $140 M and $35M respectively. Overall, the Energy Group at GA that had flat revenues for the prior decade at ~$55M grew by ~15%/yr after Michael Campbell joined with 2007 revenues reaching ~$142M and exceeded $155M in 2008, based on programs that were developed or initiated by him.

At Logos, E. Michael Campbell recently received a major $36M program in biofuels to convert cellulosic biomass into high energy density hydrocarbon fuel (JP8) and became a major participant in the $20M “Deep Burn” program, which is developing high temperature gas reactors to destroy spent nuclear fuel and this make so called Generation IV reactors a component of closing the nuclear fission fuel cycle. This program was developed by Logos employees who are part of the Energy Division of Logos Technologies.

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