Mr. William Guyton, Jr., is the former Director, Integrated Military Systems, Sandia National Laboratories having served in this role for nearly a decade. At Sandia, he designed and developed missile defense test targets, operated the Kauai Test Facility, provided modeling and simulation for missile defense system prototypes, threat lethality, and designed and developed conventional systems’ warheads/fuzes, penetrators, and hypersonic vehicles for the Department of Defense (DoD). He managed the Joint Munitions Program for DoD and Department of Energy (DoE) which develops dual-use munitions and sensor-related technologies, and he designed and developed directed energy technologies and subsystems in high power microwave, short pulse lasers, as well as electromagnetic applications and power sources.
Prior to his tenure at Sandia, Mr. Guyton had a 30-year career at Lockheed Martin where he served as Principal, Sr. and Jr. Engineer; Program Manager; Manager, Systems Engineering; Director, Advanced Programs; Manager, Systems Analysis and Simulation; and Vice President (VP) and General Manager, Applied Engineering and Development Lab. As the VP and General Manager, he led over 1,500 people in an organization that performs R&D and product/systems development for DoE, DoD, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Mr. Guyton has participated on a number of Army Science Board studies to include Human Interaction and Behavioral Enhancement, Countering Indirect Fires, Multi-Domain Battle, Multi-Domain Operations (MDB 2.0), 2019’s Army Futures Command study and 2023’s Independent Assessment of the Army’s Ability to Fight and Survive on a Limited Use Nuclear Battlefield study.
EDUCATION
Rutgers University, M.S., Electrical Engineering
Fairleigh Dickenson University, B.S., Electrical Engineering