Joseph Cohn

Affiliation

Soar Technology, LLC

Biography

Dr. Joseph Cohn is SoarTech’s Director for Readiness and Medical Solutions, applying SoarTech’s human-centric AI to delivering capabilities that support the Joint medical force. A retired Navy Medical Service Corps Captain with a Neuroscience PhD, Joseph embraces high-risk research to deliver technologies that ensure the United States military maintains its technical edge over its adversaries. Throughout his career, he has developed and directed numerous biomedical and human systems-focused Research and Acquisition programs for the Navy, the Joint Force and International partnerships. As Deputy, at Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Warfighter Performance Department, he oversaw the alignment of 500 projects and a $300M/year budget to the Distributed Maritime Operations warfighting concept. He was by-name requested by Joint Staff Surgeon to revise their $2B/year Biomedical Research strategy. As Chief, Research Program Division at Defense Health Agency (DHA), Joseph oversaw a Joint team combining over $3B and 6,000+ personnel in Service medical Research, Development & Acquisition assets into a single DHA-led organization. As Deputy Director for Human, Performance and Biosystems, he co-led and managed a $20M cognitive sciences and human performance international research collaboration through the U.S.–India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative. As a Program Officer at ONR he led a Joint team in developing a capability for selecting Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Operators, leading to the establishment of the Navy’s UAS Operator Community. As ONR’s Deputy Director for Naval STEM, he coordinated SECNAV’s STEM program with projects across all 50 states, reaching 200,000 students annually. As a Program Manager at DARPA, Joseph developed AI-based approaches that reduced the time to train and acquire expertise ten-fold, establishing a Navy-approved prototype training pipeline. Joseph has co-authored over 100 publications, co-edited three textbooks and chaired numerous panels and workshops. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Military Psychologists.