Vishal Giare

Vishal Giare is the head of the Air and Missile Defense Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, responsible for programs advancing the ability of the nation to defend our homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners against increasingly complex adversary threats. Mr. Giare previously served as mission area executive for Theater Defense, setting direction for a mission area focused on developing advanced air, ballistic missile, and hypersonic missile defense to provide integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) solutions. For more than 25 years, Mr. Giare has contributed to developing IAMD sensors, command and control, and weapon systems and has served as a trusted agent and technical adviser to senior U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency leaders. In 2016, he was appointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve on the Naval Studies Board Committee on Defending Forward-Deployed U.S. Navy Platforms from Potential Enemy Missile and Rocket Attacks. He has also completed the Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executives in National and International Security program. Mr. Giare earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Tennessee and M.S. degrees in physics and electrical engineering systems from the University of Michigan.