[2][3][4] He was the second longest serving Director of DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – during which numerous new technologies including packet and internet protocols were developed.

Other important national security technologies were smart weapons, anti-submarine warfare capabilities using long towed acoustic arrays, artificial intelligence, speech understanding, unmanned aerial vehicle, and defense aid for of U.S. allies.

[2][3][4] The Federal Communications Commission's new chairman, Charlie Ferris, brought in Lukasik to become its first chief scientist in 1979 and restructure its technical resources to form the Office of Science and Technology.

While at the FCC, he facilitated the authorization of first direct broadcast satellites and also in the initiation of the Docket 81-413 rulemaking that would ultimately lead to the 1985 adoptions of unlicensed ISM band rules that are the foundation of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and many other products.

[2][3][4][20] During Lukasik's years of public service as DARPA's director and as FCC's chief scientist, he appeared more than two dozen times before Congressional National Security and Scientific Committees.

[2][3][4] In 1992, Lukasik became assistant to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) CEO (Bob) Beyster – to help with many of the company's important civilian and defense initiatives that included Transportation Sector work on Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems, transfer of DoD modeling and simulation technology to the entertainment industry, third world nuclear deterrence strategy, and pursuing ways to interdict weapons of mass destruction carried in commercial transportation channels.

[22] During the past decade, Lukasik became a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at Georgia Tech's Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and its treatment of infrastructure protection, as well as cyberconflict and cyberdeterrence.

As recently noted by the Charles Babbage Institute, Lukasik's "career – begun in 1952 and continuing to this day – represents incredible contributions to the multifaceted field of national security.

As shown in the accompanying citation, the award was given for multiple major achievements as DARPA Director including "significantly broadening the scope of relevant activities conducted under the aegis of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency."

[26] Federal national security and scientific committees Academic institution appointments and degrees Lukasik was awarded two patents in 2012 and 2013 for his inventions related to chemical warfare sensors and increasing signal-to-noise ratio using nanotechnology.