Tom Rondeau
Principal Director for FutureG
FutureG, DoD
About Tom Rondeau
Tom Rondeau is the Principal Director for FutureG for the US Department of Defense, serving in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). In this role, Rondeau is responsible for guiding the Department on research, funding, and execution of programs around warfighting capabilities using future generation wireless technologies. As Principal Director, he continues to advance wireless networking concepts for national security.
Prior to this role, Rondeau spent more than six years as a DARPA program manager, working on numerous technology areas to improve wireless networking and communications. Prior to joining DARPA, Rondeau ran the GNU Radio project and consulted on wireless communications problems. He has also worked as a visiting researcher with the University of Pennsylvania and as an Adjunct with the IDA Center for Communications Research in Princeton, NJ.
Rondeau holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, and his dissertation won the Council of Graduate Schools’ 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award in math, science, and engineering. Rondeau has spoken at numerous conferences and symposia, published extensively on software radio, and written one of the first books on cognitive radio.