Douglas C. Blake

Dr. Douglas C. Blake currently serves as a Senior Vice President for Reliance Test and Technology (RT&T), where he leads a team of roughly 900 members providing a wide range of engineering and technical services for the Eglin Test and Training Range. He has 40 years of experience across numerous technical disciplines and functions including research and development; test and evaluation; systems integration; military intelligence; and acquisition, production, and sustainment of aerospace hardware and software systems. Prior to his employment at RT&T, Blake enjoyed a 40-year career serving his country, first in the active-duty Air Force as both enlisted and officer and then in the Federal Civil Service where he served at the Senior Executive level leading multiple organizations comprised of up to 2K+ personnel with direct oversight of up to $3B+ annual budgets. Blake received his bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla in 1989; master's and doctorate degrees in aeronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio in 1993 and 1997 respectively; and a master's degree in engineering management from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2002. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Award for Excellence, and the Air Force Science and Engineering Award.