Dr. Chris Rodenbeck is an Office Head at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. He leads multiple research programs in millimeter-wave airborne radar and microwave power beaming for the Navy, Space Force and Office of Secretary of Defense. He is the Principal Investigator for the Arachne power beaming spacecraft.
From 2004 to 2014, he led a multidisciplinary advanced/exploratory technology development program for radar and sensor applications at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. The success of this work was twice the subject of Congressional testimony by Sandia’s President.
He has authored or coauthored numerous refereed journal papers, patents and patent applications, conference papers, and government reports on a wide range of topics including short- and long-range airborne millimeter wave radar systems and antennas, ultrawideband pulsed power amplifiers, CMOS radiation hardening by design, highly sensitive radar digitizers, advanced RF modules, electrooptical inspection of RF circuits, solid-state device modeling, electrically small antennas, and software-defined fusion of radar and telemetry.
Dr. Rodenbeck is an IEEE Fellow. He was the recipient of the 2016 Texas A&M University Outstanding Early Career Professional Achievement Award from among more than 100,000 engineering alumni. He received the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2015, was the Principal Investigator for an R&D program receiving the prestigious 2012 NNSA Award of Excellence, received a Sandia Innovator Award in 2013, and was awarded an internal citation for “Excellence in Radar Technology Leadership” in 2011. He was an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (New York, NY, USA: Wiley) from 2011 to 2020, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of RF & Microwave Engineering, 2nd ed. (New York, NY, USA: Wiley).
From 2004 to 2014, he led a multidisciplinary advanced/exploratory technology development program for radar and sensor applications at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. The success of this work was twice the subject of Congressional testimony by Sandia’s President.
He has authored or coauthored numerous refereed journal papers, patents and patent applications, conference papers, and government reports on a wide range of topics including short- and long-range airborne millimeter wave radar systems and antennas, ultrawideband pulsed power amplifiers, CMOS radiation hardening by design, highly sensitive radar digitizers, advanced RF modules, electrooptical inspection of RF circuits, solid-state device modeling, electrically small antennas, and software-defined fusion of radar and telemetry.
Dr. Rodenbeck is an IEEE Fellow. He was the recipient of the 2016 Texas A&M University Outstanding Early Career Professional Achievement Award from among more than 100,000 engineering alumni. He received the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2015, was the Principal Investigator for an R&D program receiving the prestigious 2012 NNSA Award of Excellence, received a Sandia Innovator Award in 2013, and was awarded an internal citation for “Excellence in Radar Technology Leadership” in 2011. He was an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (New York, NY, USA: Wiley) from 2011 to 2020, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of RF & Microwave Engineering, 2nd ed. (New York, NY, USA: Wiley).