COL Jim Raftery is the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy and is a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was commissioned into the U.S. Army Signal Corps as an ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate at Washington University in St. Louis in 1988. Following command of the 261st Signal Company in Hanau, Germany, he became a member of the Army Acquisition Corps, culminating as Product Manager Information Warfare at Ft. Meade, Maryland from 2007-2010. He earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 1996 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. He is a 2011 graduate of the Army War College and served in the Cyber National Mission Force at Ft. Meade, MD from 2015-2016. His research interests include semiconductor lasers, as well as topics in power, energy, and cyber.