Milton Finger
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mr. Milton Finger recently retired as the Deputy Director of the Department of Defense Programs Office at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He is now serving as a Senior Scientist in the National Security Office at LLNL in the capacity of a Laboratory Associate. He received a B.S. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

His areas of expertise include: Defense science and technology; military operations and organization; countermine technologies; conventional weapon systems, including lethality and survivability; ordnance engineering; propellant chemistry; electronic combat; weapons effects; munitions target interactions; chemistry of explosives; hydrodynamics, intelligence assessments, and emergency response teams.

Mr. Finger has served as a member of the following advisory boards: USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Defense Science Board--Panel on Unconventional Transnational Threats; National Academy of Sciences, Board on Science and Technology for International Development; National Research Council, Naval Studies Board--Weapons Panel; Non-Lethal Weapons, Review of ONR Surface and Air Weapons; Contributor to the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group; Board of Visitors, Office of Naval Research--Special Programs Department; Board of Reviewers for the Director Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E) Technical Area Review and Assessment (TARA); U.S. Navy Insensitive Munitions Advisory Board; American Defense Preparedness Association, Executive Committee--Insensitive Munitions Division; Transient Electromagnetics Independent Technology Review Board (USAF, Phillips Lab); Contributor to the Defense Science Board Study on Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority; U.S. Army Scientific Advisory Board; Grey Beard Panels on the U.S. Army Future Combat System. Member of the Advisory Committee Center for Ballistics, Drexel University; reviewer for Journal of Chemical Physics; frequent reviewer of DoD Explosives Programs; National Science Foundation Reviewer; Journal of Energetic Materials (editorial board); International Detonation Symposium, (co-chairman); APS Shock Wave Conference (papers & organizing committee); Office of Naval Technology Review Panel; Book Reviewer, University of California Press; DARPA Tactical Warfare Summer Study; JANNAF Technical Steering Group (Propulsion Hazards); Office of Naval Research Program Review Panel.

He has received the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service and U.S. Army Award for Patriotic Service