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J. Morgan JelletZazi Fellow
While on active duty in the United States Army for 30 years he was program manager for the Airborne Optical Adjunct, which provided a large infrared detector housed in a modified Boeing 767. General Jellett was also the Army’s Anti-satellite program manager for development of a Kinetic Energy interceptor system and Directed Energy (Laser) development. His last assignment was as the Program Manager for the Joint Program Office for Tactical Ballistic Missile Defense. This program not only developed weapon systems to counter the ballistic missile threat, but also considered the civil defense issues and communications necessary to prevent wide spread casualties. He worked daily with the offices of Secretary of Defense, Congress, and Ballistic Missile Defense organization leaders, as well as coordinated programs with the Navy and Air Force to insure an overall integrated national theater missile defense program. He served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense involved in the oversight of weapon systems development. He was involved in the development of requirements for air defense weapon systems and spent many years in the test and evaluation of air defense weapons. A major focus was on the creation of test beds to test the various weapon systems to include many of the command and control systems used by the various services. As Commander of the 11th Air Defense Brigade of over 6000 soldiers, General Jellett was responsible for training and equipping HAWK, Chaparral/Vulcan and Patriot Battalions for deployment in a national emergency. Much of the planning focused on the Arabian Peninsula and was integral to the planning for Operation Desert Storm. General Jellett holds a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Nevada, and a master’s degree in Structural engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Harvard School of Business, Senior Management Course. |
