
Charles Chase
Sr. Tech Fellow
Lockheed Martin
Charles Chase manages the Revolutionary Technology Programs organization for the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. The organization's charter is to create, mature, and transition a broad range of disruptive technologies with significant Lockheed Martin system impact. Technology focus areas include: power and propulsion systems; RF and optical meta-materials; cognitive and physiological human performance monitoring; new sensor modalities; adaptive and bio-inspired structures; and plasma flow control devices. He recently won the Lockheed Martin Innovate the Future contest with "Power from Low Speed Wind", and was a semifinalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge with "Bio-Inspired Morphing" to eliminate design stagnation. He presented his organization's work on compact fusion power and propulsion at the 2013 Google "Solve for " event. He was a low observable engineer on the F-117A production program and has also worked for the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company as an electromagnetics group lead. He is a co-founder of CBH Technologies, a start-up developing next generation lighting technology and holds numerous patents.