Dr. David W. Peters is the manager of the Proliferation Detection Remote Sensing department at Sandia National Laboratories. He is the Sandia point of contact for the NA-221 Uranium Production, Radiation Detection, Innovation, and Remote Sensing portfolios and the university consortia. He received his Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2004 he was a Director of Central Intelligence Post-Doc at Sandia investigating 2D and 3D photonic crystals. His later technical research focused on the theory, design, and modeling of diffractive optics, plasmonic devices, metamaterials, and photonic crystals with a focus on practical applications in the infrared and other bands.