Robert L. Schaefer
Vice President – Contracts, Associate General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary;
General Counsel Digital Imaging, Instrumentation, and Aerospace & Defense Electronics Segments
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

Robert L. Schaefer is the Vice President - Contracts, Associate General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (TDY); and, Vice President and General Counsel for its Digital Imaging, Instrumentation, and Aerospace & Defense Electronics Segments.

Before Joining TDY in 2000, Mr. Schaefer was the Director-Legal for Raytheon Missile Systems.

Mr. Schaefer retired as the Air Force Chief Trial Attorney, in 1990, with the rank of Colonel. He joined the Hughes Missile Systems Company as Assistant Group Counsel, where he was responsible for legal affairs at its headquarters and engineering facility. Some of his other Air Force assignments were the Director of General Law for Air Force Logistics Command and Deputy Director of the Major Claims Division for the Directorate of Contract Appeals, Staff Judge Advocate Kunsan Air Base, Korea, Associate Professor of Law and Chairman of Elective Courses at the United States Air Force Academy, and a detached assignment as the Air Force procurement attorney for Spain and Italy.

Mr. Schaefer is a Past Chair of the Section of Public Contract law and has been a Council Member in both the Section of Public Contract Law and the Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division in the American Bar Association. He has been an officer in the National Contract Management and the Federal Bar Associations, and is a past President of the Armed Services Contract Trial Lawyers Association and the Boards of Contract Appeals Bar Association; now a member of its Board of Directors. He is a member of the Arizona Bar and California Bar Associations, the Association of Corporate Counsel, and served on the Bureau on National Affairs, Inc., Federal Contracts Report Advisory Board. He is the Commodore of the Westlake Yacht Club.

Mr. Schaefer received his BA in 1967, with honors, and JD in 1970 from Arizona State University and earned an LL.M degree in Government Procurement Law from The George Washington University in 1977. He is a Certified Public Contracts Manager by the National Contract Management Association and a member of its Council of Fellows. He is admitted to practice before federal and state courts.