John P. Stenbit is an American engineer and public official who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information (NII) (2003-2004) and Assistant Secretary of Defense (Communications, Command, Control, and Intelligence) (C3I) (2001) during the Presidency of George W. Bush.

John Stenbit graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 with bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering.

[1] He was also a member of the MITRE Board of Trustees (since 2005) and has been the director of Viasat Corp since 2004 and Loral Space & Communications.

[2] He has chaired the Science and Technology Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence and served as a member of the Science Advisory Group to the directors of Naval Intelligence and the Defense Communications Agency.

[1] Stenbit is a member of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.