Dana “Keoki” Jackson is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the National Security Sector at MITRE, where he is responsible for the strategic growth and execution of programs supporting the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community. He also leads the National Security Engineering Center. Jackson joined MITRE after more than two decades at Lockheed Martin, where he helped shape the design, development, deployment, and flight operations of major national security spacecraft and programs.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Jackson was a NASA research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on human adaptation to the space environment. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and currently serves as AIAA President-Elect.

Jackson earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT and completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.