Dr. Richard Green
Chief Program Officer
U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command
Soldier Center, Natick, Massachusetts
In November, 2020 Dr. Green was hired to serve as the DEVCOM Soldier Center Director for Research and Technology Integration. In this role, he assists the DEVCOM Soldier Center Director in developing the Center’s POM position, ensuring that the research portfolio is balanced, executable, and aligned to Army intent. Previous to that position, Dr. Green served for a month as the Deputy to the Associate Director for Soldier Protection, one of the three Directorates stood up under a reorganization. He assisted the Associate Director to stand up the new Directorate and keep essential functions running smoothly during the transition.
Prior to that role, under the previous structure of six directorates, Dr. Green served as the Director for the new Soldier Protection and Survivability Directorate (SPSD) from the time of its formation at the beginning of fiscal year 2018, until it was made part of the new Soldier Protection Directorate at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2021. The Directorate focused on protecting soldiers from an array of threats from ballistic and blast to environmental threats, and advanced threats such as directed energy and chem/bio. Dr. Green reorganized SPSD into a more efficient structure and led it into the subsequent Soldier Center reorganization. Dr. Green came to Soldier Center at the end of 2016 as the Chief of the Material Science and Engineering Branch (MSEB), which has since transformed into the Protection Materials Division, one of three constituent divisions of SPD. Dr. Green led MSEB through some reorganization to achieve better span of control and mission alignment.
Prior to returning to Massachusetts, the state of his birth, Dr. Green worked at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground (DPG). From 2012-2016, he was the Chief of the Chemical Operations Branch, where he led employees engaged in tests supporting the Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP), led efforts to track lessons learned to maintain the branch’s excellent safety record and comply with chemical surety requirements while accomplishing complex chemical testing within cost and schedule constraints to include laboratory, chamber, and field testing.
From 2005-2012, Dr. Green was Chief of the Live, Virtual, and Constructive Test Branch at DPG leading employees to conduct tests and support S&T of future test capabilities in chem/bio using modeling and simulation as a tool, as well as supporting testing of chem/bio information systems.
From 2003-2005, Dr. Green served as a scientist in the role of passive standoff detection subject matter expert for the Advanced Technology Branch at DPG. From 2001-2003, Dr. Green worked as a Project Scientist for a contractor supporting the Chemical Test Division at DPG primarily conducting tests on infrared passive standoff detection systems such as the Joint Service Lightweight Standoff Chemical Agent Detector, and platforms to which it was a component.
Dr. Green was a postdoc and faculty intern at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City) from 1997-2001. He earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Stanford University (Stanford, CA) in 1997 under the guidance of Professor Richard N. Zare. He has a Bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from St. John’s College (Santa Fe, NM and Annapolis, MD).
Dr. Green was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Cleveland, OH. He currently resides in the Framingham with his wife, school-aged son, dog, cat, and rabbit.
