Mike Noble, Colonel, USAF (Retired), Ph.D. is a Senior Technical Director at Anduril Industries. Mike provides technical leadership across a number of air dominance and strike, and research and development programs and initiatives. Prior to joining Anduril, he led the L3Harris Mission Architecture Group, delivering mission solutions to customers’ most vexing problems.

Before joining industry, Mike served 26 years as an acquisition officer in the United States Air Force, focusing largely on advanced systems and technology, and prototyping work across air, space, and cyber. He held a variety of leadership positions at the laboratory, product center, national, and headquarters Air Force levels.

Dr Noble’s academic and technical recognition includes over a dozen Air Force Research Laboratory technical achievement awards for his semiconductor device and laser research and the AFRL Charles E. Ryan award for best fundamental sensors research. Dr Noble has published in multiple IEEE journals and has presented at multiple IEEE and SPIE conferences. And, he co-holds a patent with three fellow inventors for a novel Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser.