Steve Cook

Steve Cook serves as the President of Leidos Dynetics, partnering across the enterprise to bring advanced capabilities to programs of strategic national importance. An integral part of the Leidos Defense Systems Sector, Leidos Dynetics delivers mission-critical services and solutions to the hypersonics, threat systems, cyber, space and force protection markets. It rapidly delivers highly specialized end-to-end solutions, including components, subsystems, and complex end-to-end systems.

Most recently, Cook served as President of Dynetics Inc. and oversaw the integration of the subsidiary into Leidos. Prior to that he led the Leidos Innovations Center, responsible for driving R&D across the corporation, focused on developing discriminating technologies that drive mission impact from the seafloor to space. Cook originally joined Dynetics in 2009 as the director of space technologies, leading the company’s efforts in launch systems, orbital spacecraft and analysis, planetary exploration, and advanced materials research.

Before joining the company, Cook enjoyed a long and successful career at NASA. He was the manager of the Ares Projects Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL where he was responsible for overall project management and direction of the Ares I and V launch vehicles. Prior to that he served as the deputy manager of NASA's advanced space transportation technology efforts where he planned and directed research, technology, and development activities for future generations of space transportation and propulsion.

Cook serves as an AIAA Fellow and Distinguished Engineering Fellow at the University of Alabama. Cook also serves as an advocacy volunteer at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and as a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, Mercy Flight, and Operation Airdrop.

Cook holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and mechanics from the University of Minnesota and has authored over 20 papers on advanced space propulsion and launch systems.

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