American International Smart Structure
A CVSU Joint Venture Corporation with Georgia Aerospace
CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GENERAL JAMES KLUGH (U.S. ARMY, RETIRED), BOARD MEMBER. General Klugh is Vice President of Dimensions International, a computer systems company in Fairfax, Virginia. General Klugh served as Chief Operating Officer of ESET until 2000. Under his leadership, ESET achieved success across the spectrum of information technology, distance learning, syllogistics, and telecommunications. Before ESET, he served in the Pentagon as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Logistics. General Klugh is the Vice Chairman of the Veterans Development Board, where he serves alongside Donald Rumsfield, the current Secretary of Defense. General Klugh previously managed the Army’s Logistics Management College were he supervised the development of 120,000 civilian and military personnel.
DR. THOMAS MENSAH, PRESIDENT AND CEO. Dr. Mensah is a recognized leader in the development of advanced composite materials and "smart" structures. One of the original innovators of RTM technology for the F/R-22. Dr. Mensah led the team that was selected in the Mentor-Protege program by Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon. Dr. Mensah has held high-level engineering positions with Corning Glass Works, where he built the fastest fiber optics draw and coating process and AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he developed fiber optic reels used in guided missile systems. Dr. Mensah founded the Georgia firm, Supercond Technology, which assisted in the development of advanced structural materials for supersonic fighter aircraft. Dr. Mensah has worked on specialized projects for NASA (superconductors for space communications), the U.S. Army (smart munitions), and the U.S. Department of Energy (fiber optics sensors for highway traffic monitoring). Dr. Mensah holds 7 patents on fiber optics technology, including 3 on guided missile technology. Dr. Mensah has played a key role in the proliferation of cost-effective fiber optics technology in both civilian and military applications.
He has also served on the MIT advisory board in chemical engineering. Dr. Mensah holds degrees from Montpelier University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Odysseus crossed the river of Styx. He asked Achilles if it was worth trading his life to have his 'name' live forever. Achilles replies: "I would rather be the slave of a slave on earth, then to live here in Hades..." --Homer's The Illiad
