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Gerardo J. Meléndez is a San Juan, Puerto Rico-born scientist who served as Director of the Armaments Research Development Engineering Center (ARDEC) headquartered in New Jersey from 2010 until his Civil Service retirement in May 2014.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

During his civilian career with the U.S. Army, which began in 1983 as an electronics engineer for the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command in New Jersey, Meléndez was a strong advocate of incorporating commercial technological advances in military applications, including equipment based on consumer products generated by companies such as Apple Inc.^[1]^[2]^[3] and Microsoft. He also served as chief of the Automatic Target Recognition Team for the Product Manager Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar, as well as chief of the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate’s Battle Space Identification Branch.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

He is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering in 1980, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he obtained a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1983, and he obtained his Ph.D in electrical engineering at Drexel University in 1993.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}} He subsequently earned a master's degree in strategic studies from the Army War College.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

Awards and distinctions

• Department of the Army Fellowship (1987–1993){{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

• United States Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center Director Award for Technical Excellence (1989){{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

• United States Army CECOM Leader of the Year Award (1998){{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

• Executive Excellence in the Military awarded by Maj. Gen. Nick Justice at the 2010 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (2010)^[4]

• Keynote speaker at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference, Washington, D.C. (2010)^[5]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.defencetalk.com/army-apple-discuss-handheld-solutions-for-soldiers-25185/|title=Army, Apple discuss handheld solutions for Soldiers|publisher=|accessdate=28 September 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24501/|title=US Army and Apple meet to discuss hand-held solutions for soldiers in business and battlefield ops|publisher=|accessdate=28 September 2014}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/u.s._army_visits_apple_hq_to_discuss_military_devices/|title=U.S. Army Visits Apple HQ to Discuss Military Devices|work=The Mac Observer|accessdate=28 September 2014}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/10/09/46393-army-research-director-earns-prestigious-honor/|title=Army research director earns prestigious honor|date=9 October 2010|publisher=|accessdate=28 September 2014}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/11/06/29966-cerdec-senior-leader-delivers-keynote-address-to-hispanic-engineers/|title=CERDEC senior leader delivers keynote address to Hispanic engineers|author=Mr. Matthew D Hickman (ARNEWS)|date=6 November 2009|publisher=|accessdate=28 September 2014}}