Dr. Roy Campbell

Deputy Director for Advanced Computing and Software & High-Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Chief Strategist

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E)

Dr. Campbell currently serves as the Deputy Director for Advanced Computing in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD[R&E]). He also serves as the Chief Strategist for the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) – a $300M per year activity chartered by Congress to revolutionize warfighter support through the increased application of HPC to critical research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) initiatives. In both roles, he formulates advanced computing strategies based on carefully established organizational, financial, technological, geopolitical, scientific, and modernization trends.
As the DoD HPCMP’s Chief Scientist, he developed the science, engineering, and software strategy for the HPCMP. As the DoD HPCMP’s Chief Technology Officer, he analyzed supercomputing architectures, tracked technical trends, articulated future computational requirements, and procured supercomputing hardware and software valued at approximately $50M per year. As the DoD HPCMP’s Deputy Director, he led the daily operation of the HPCMP. Finally, as the Program Manager of the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), he delivered network and security services valued at approximately $50M per year to over 200 customer sites across 40 states and led over 140 Government employees and contractors in the innovation and sustainment of the DoD’s premiere research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) network.
Dr. Campbell has coauthored 6 journal articles, 30 conference papers, 2 government technical reports, and 3 textbook chapters. He received the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) Publications Award in 2011, was a semi-finalist for the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and Management Sciences in 2009, and was a finalist for the Service to America Award in 2009. He has served on a wide variety of evaluation and advisory boards in support of the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, the Euro-Par Conference, the Army Research Office (ARO), the Army Research Lab (ARL), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the DOE Office of Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Lincoln Labs (MIT-LL), the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Australian Department of Defence (ADOD). To date, he has influenced over $3B in Government acquisition.

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