Dale A. Force is a research engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. His research efforts have focused on computational design techniques for multistage depressed collectors and novel methods of operating traveling wave tubes.

Mr. Force earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in thermionic electronics from the University of Utah. He also served a year as a visiting assistant professor of physics at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. He has served as the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) at NASA for several programs, and published numerous papers and presentations. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society, and the Association of Old Crows. Mr. Force joined the vacuum electronics microwave amplifier research group at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983.