Retired Sandia National Labs President & Director, Robinson to Chair ICx Technologies Science & Technology Council

ICx Technologies, a developer of advanced technology solutions for homeland and military security, today announced the formation of its Science & Technology Council.

ICx has brought together leading minds in research and science to form the Science & Technology Council. As a group, the Council members will provide insight into the latest scientific discoveries in their respective fields to further ongoing and future product development. This strategic insight will help ensure that ICx continues to be a technology leader, applying the best of science and technology to keep people, facilities and infrastructures secure.

"We are pleased and honored to have these brilliant scientists and industry leaders help in our collective pursuit of a more secure world," said Mark Mills, Co-Founder and Chairman of ICx Technologies. "Threats to our security will unfortunately continue to evolve, so we will rely on the insights of these individuals to provide our company with a creative vision for the future."

"I'm looking forward to helping the impressive ICx team of scientists and engineers. There are some exciting and important opportunities to advance the state of the art in security," said Dr. Paul Robinson, Council Chairman.

A number of members of the Science & Technology Council have already been instrumental in the emergence and early success of one or more ICx solution. Council members include:

Dr. C. Paul Robinson, Chairman

C. Paul Robinson is President Emeritus and former Laboratories Director of Sandia National Laboratories, and served as Ambassador and Chief Negotiator as head of the US Delegation to the US/USSR Nuclear Testing Talks in Geneva in the late 1980s. He is a member of the Strategic Advisory Group for the Commander, US Strategic Command and serves on the NASA Advisory Council and State Department Council on International Security. Dr. Robinson earned his B.S. in Physics from Christian Brothers College and a Ph.D in Physics from Florida State University.

Dr. R. Graham Cooks

Dr. Cooks is the Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Purdue University, where he and his team are engaged in studies of tandem mass spectrometry. New types of mass spectrometers have been constructed in his laboratory, including hybrid sector/quadrupole instruments and advanced ion trap instruments. His earlier developments and research in ultra-compact technology led to the ICx Griffin portable mass spectrometers. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Natal, South Africa, and a second Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Dr. Peter W. Huber

Co-founder of ICx, Peter W. Huber is a partner in the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C. He was also a co-founding partner of Digital Power Capital. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day Oâ??Connor. Huber is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute writing on the issues of drug development, energy, technology, and the law. He earned his J.D. degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Dr. Alan J. Russell

Dr. Russell is Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and also holds Professorships in Surgery, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, and Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. Additionally, he is Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative and Director of the National Tissue Engineering Center. He worked on the enzyme-based chemistry that led to the Chemical Agent Detection Kit of ICx Agentase, a technology company he founded in December 1998 with Dr. Keith LeJeune. He earned his B.S. in Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from Imperial College, the University of London.

Dr. Timothy M. Swager

Dr. Swager is the John D. MacArthur Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He focuses his principal research on chemical sensors, molecular recognition, and electronic polymers, among several other areas of study. His discoveries led to the development of Fido, the worldâ??s most sensitive handheld explosives detector. Fido is now manufactured by ICx Nomadics, to which Dr. Swager serves as a consultant. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Montana State University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.