Cynthia Gonsalves
President
Strategies & Solutions
Mrs. Gonsalves is the Director of the Office of Technology Transition. In this position, she has oversight of the Manufacturing Technology Program, Defense Production Act Title III Program, DoD Technology Transfer Program, Technology Transition Initiative, and the North American Technology and Industrial Base Organization (NATIBO). She provides guidance and develops plans to implement and improve the DoD technology transfer and transition programs to ensure coherent, although decentralized programs. She has developed DoD-wide implementation policy and technology transfer and intellectual property information systems. Within the NATIBO, she provides guidance and develops plans with the Services, other federal agencies, and Canada.
Immediately prior to her current assignment, Mrs. Gonsalves was the Assistant Director for Transfer and Transition in the Office of Technology Transition. Prior to that, she was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Dual Use Technology Policy where she worked on a variety of dual use technology studies (i.e., Flat Panel Displays, MicroElectroMechanical Systems). Mrs. Gonsalves spent over 10 years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Production Base office where she was responsible for industrial base policy issues such as industrial preparedness planning, natural disaster planning, and materials availability. She was instrumental in Defense Production Act programs (both the Defense Priority and Allocations Systems under Title I and purchases under Title III), facilities usage, and assessments of specific materials and industries such as beryllium and kevlar. During this assignment, Mrs. Gonsalves supported NATIBO studies on Metal Matrix Composites, Batteries, Collaborative Virtual Prototyping, Ion Beam Processing Technologies, and Corrosion Detection Technologies.
Mrs. Gonsalves is the recipient of the Federal Laboratory Consortium Departmental Achievement Award in 2002 and 2004 -2010 and the DoD Exceptional Civilian Service Award in 2001.
Mrs. Gonsalves graduated from Averett University in 1996 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. She completed the Program for Developing Executives at Simmons College in 1992 and completed production and contracting courses at the Air Force Institute of Technology.
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