Mr. Bradley P. Smith is the Executive Director of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) which funds the development of environmental technologies. Prior to joining SERDP, Mr. Smith spent 24 years in the Navy as an Oceanographer/Meteorologist retiring as a Captain. His military career included a tour on an oceanographic survey ship, forecasting weather at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, and as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Polar Oceanography Center.