{"id":210806,"date":"2026-02-06T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-join-dow-stib\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:10:32","slug":"mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-join-dow-stib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-join-dow-stib\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Nikolich, James Gosler Join DOW STIB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-apl-dow-stib\">Mitch Nikolich, James Gosler Join DOW STIB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-apl-dow-stib\">https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-apl-dow-stib<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-06 16:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.executivegov.com\">www.executivegov.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Milan \u201cMitch\u201d Nikolich and James Gosler, national security experts from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, have joined the Department of War\u2019s Science, Technology and Innovation Board, or STIB.<\/p>\n<p>APL said Thursday Nikolich will serve as the STIB\u2019s inaugural chair and Gosler will sit on the board as a member.<\/p>\n<p>APL Director Dave Van Wie said Nikolich and Gosler\u2019s expertise will support the new board\u2019s mission to connect technical researchers and industry partners and help national leaders maintain U.S. leadership in critical technologies.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Is_the_DOW_STIB\"\/>What Is the DOW STIB?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>The STIB is a new advisory panel established by Emil Michael, under secretary of war for research and engineering and a 2026 Wash100 awardee. The STIB consolidates the former Defense Science Board and Defense Innovation Board into a single entity to provide faster scientific and technical assessments and accelerate the delivery of capabilities to warfighters. It will operate with the Subcommittee on Strategic Options and the Subcommittee on National Security Innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to APL, the STIB includes 18 science and technology experts from industry, government and the research community.<\/p>\n<p>The STIB is awaiting formal establishment through publication in the Federal Register.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_Is_Mitch_Nikolich\"\/>Who Is Mitch Nikolich?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>Nikolich is a senior researcher within APL\u2019s National Security Analysis Department. He previously served as director of defense research and engineering for research and technology from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He has held senior roles at several firms, including SAIC, CACI and National Security Research. He also served in the physics division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>His career includes contributions to the Strategic Defense Initiative, the department\u2019s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction program and nuclear weapons modernization efforts.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_Is_James_Gosler\"\/>Who Is James Gosler?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>Gosler is a senior fellow at APL and has more than five decades of technical leadership experience in national security, cybersecurity,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-apl-dow-stib\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Nikolich, James Gosler Join DOW STIB https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-apl-dow-stib Publish Date: 2026-02-06 16:56:00 Source Domain: www.executivegov.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mitch-nikolich-james-gosler-johns-hopkins-apl-dow-stib.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62,65,57],"class_list":["post-210806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation","tag-nuclear","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210808,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210806\/revisions\/210808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}