Thomas E. Bevan, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Development
Dr. Bevan joined KGS as Vice President for Research and Development from dNovus RDI in December 2008. At KGS, he develops and supervises research and development of products and services for external sponsors and internal research programs, provides technical marketing support to KGS business units and provides technical solutions to KGS and Kforce. Dr. Bevan has over 30 years experience in the conduct and management of research and development projects for DOD, the Intelligence Community and Homeland Security/Defense. He is an expert in systems engineering, human factors engineering and biopsychology.
While at dNovus, Dr. Bevan developed and managed research and development projects with AFRL, SOCOM, AFOSR, MDA and USA-RDECOM. He also provided technical marketing support to dNovus Business Units.
Prior to dNovus, Dr. Bevan was the Associate Laboratory Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Electro-optics, Environment and Materials Laboratory and was elected as a GTRI Fellow and Member of the Georgia Tech Faculty Senate. While at Georgia Tech, Tom conducted homeland security research and development projects for the US Marine Corps and lead the GT Homeland Security Initiative. He also taught Biopsychology in the Georgia Tech School of Psychology.
Dr. Bevan served in various capacities at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) during his 18 year tenure, starting as a program manager and leader of a 35-person technical section and culminating with a position of the Director of Customer Relations. ERIM was a spin-off of the University of Michigan which developed many of the modern remote sensing technologies. Tom conducted research and development projects for NRO, USAF-FTD, USAF (U2-R, B-2, B-1, ATARS), DARPA (Discoverer II) and USAID. While with ERIM, he was the founder and first President of the Ukrainian Land and Resource Management Institute which is a joint US-Ukrainian remote sensing center.
Before joining ERIM, Dr. Bevan was a program manager for Science Applications International Corporation where he conducted research and development for DARPA (Assault Breaker), CIA (SAFE-ADDIS), ONR and the US Coast Guard.
Dr. Bevan completed US Army ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate and served on active duty in the US Army Medical Service Corps at Edgewood Arsenal, MD where he conducted research on the effects of chemical and pharmacological agents.
Tom holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Princeton University with specialty in Biopsychology and a bachelor degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College.