2015 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition
 


Title
Chief Operating Officer
Company
Decision Sciences International Corporation (DSIC)
Bio

Rear Admiral Jay Cohen (USN, Ret.) is Chief Operating Officer of Decision Sciences International Corporation and a Director on the company’s Board. He has more than four decades of expertise in science and technology research, development, testing and evaluation as well as extensive knowledge in nuclear, explosives and chemical technologies. He has served as a Principal with The Chertoff Group since 2009. After retiring from a 38 year career in the U.S. Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral, he served as Undersecretary for Science and Technology in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T) overseeing transformational change at the agency and putting in place a high risk/high gain innovation portfolio in order to make the nation safer. Before that, Admiral Cohen held increasingly responsible positions with the U.S. Navy such as the Department of the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer reporting directly to the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. In that capacity, he was responsible for the $2B+/year Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology (S&T) Program and coordinated investments with other U.S. and international S&T providers to rapidly meet war fighter combat needs. His earlier Navy assignments included service on conventional and nuclear submarines. Admiral Cohen holds a Master of Science in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a joint Ocean Engineering degree from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He received his commission upon graduation from the Naval Academy.