I'm thrilled to lead the evolution of SoarTech’s advanced AI solutions in collaboration with Forward Slope and Trive Capital, taking on the role of President at Soar Technology. This recent partnership marks an exhilarating chapter in our journey, expanding our core competencies and customer outreach to catalyze a revolution in defense and national security solutions. My focus is on crafting impactful solutions at the forefront of AI innovation across our Mission Areas and in synergy with partner organizations. I firmly believe that establishing partnerships across industry, academia, and government is pivotal in driving business growth and creating alliances that deliver successful solutions to our valued customers. At our core, we are committed to assisting the military in resolving its most intricate challenges by providing AI that can be truly trusted. This mission drives us forward. Our partnership with Forward Slope thrusts us into new dimensions of achievement. In addition to carrying forward SoarTech’s 25-year legacy of AI advancement, we are seamlessly integrating SoarTech's AI excellence with Forward Slope's software solution acumen. This integration significantly bolsters our capacity to provide comprehensive solutions to defense and national security clientele. United by our collective expertise, we are redefining the potential of AI-driven solutions. Our pioneering advancements enhance autonomy, elevate operational efficiency, and elevate decision-making across multiple sectors, including defense, and beyond. The journey ahead is exhilarating, and I'm excited to lead this transformation.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trive-backed-forward-slope-acquires-soar-technology-301909227.html

As CTO, Dr. Dylan Schmorrow serves as a technology visionary with expertise in advancing research and developing technological solutions while executing SoarTech’s vision. He is both a technology and business expert, making decisions impacting current and future operations. Dr. Schmorrow oversees SoarTech’s research and technological resources, establishes the technology vision, strategies, and growth plans in conjunction with fellow C-suite officers. An executive first and a technologist second, he looks at both the short-term and long-term needs of SoarTech and works with SoarTech’s CEO, COO, and CFO to make use of capital to make investments that will help SoarTech achieve its objectives. As CTO, he strives to ensure the proper balance between business and technology strategies, taking in information and distilling it into the important trends that show where a company needs to go next. He evangelizes SoarTech products and services and inspires people inside and outside the company and drives change where necessary. He also acts as a magnet for talent, picking the best candidates and fostering them to become leaders in the future. Dr. Schmorrow creates an environment where scientists and engineers can come together to achieve ambitious goals.

Responsible for maximizing SoarTech’s operating performance and achieving SoarTech’s corporate goals. Duties include a broad array of responsibilities ranging from communicating with the Board of Directors, to coordinating and managing actions across SoarTech’s Business Areas and Operational Support, to guiding the preparation of operating budgets and fostering strategic plan development, maintenance and execution.• Provides senior executive leadership to ensure company functions optimally by providing oversight of all corporate functions, including technical operations, execution of customer funded projects and management of business areas.• Supports business development activities and works in partnership with Area Leads by identifying core issues associated with potential funding opportunities, formulating goals, and collaborating on strategies to win funding.• Maintains awareness of the competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, and new industry developments. Strives to stay in tune with any opportunities that the organization can leverage

Leads the advancement and application of artificial intelligence technologies in order to make people more prepared, more informed and more capable.Responsible for advancing SoarTech research and technology tracks, expanding cross-collaboration among internal and external team members, and identifying transition opportunities for SoarTech science and technology.• Directs and guides research, innovation, quality, and rigor in all of SoarTech’s scientific activities. • Supports proposal generation and project execution by communicating an understanding of customer problems, identifying key scientific issues, and helping to develop the visions and plans for addressing challenges. • Provides oversight of the scientific aspects of all SoarTech projects, including working with Area Leads to implement quality assurance practices and support staff development. Serves as lead scientific representative of the company.

- Highlights on research aimed at integrating people and artificial intelligence (AI)- Merges the engineering perspective with the human and social dimension of AI-based technologies- Covers both the technological development of intelligent engineering systems and the human dimension of AI applications across all areas of modern societyHuman – Intelligent Systems Integration publishes original articles on research and development efforts intended to promote the comprehensive integration of people and intelligent engineering systems. To help foster future generations of human-cyber-physical environments inspired by embedded artificial intelligence (AI), the journal focuses on novel methodologies, design tools and solutions that advance our understanding of the nature of human collaboration with intelligent technologies and services, as well as other artificial cognitive systems.The Journal addresses all aspects of complex human systems integration, with a particular emphasis on intelligent systems in all domains of human activity, and on applications to industry, business, government, education, and everyday life. It attaches equal importance to human and artificial intelligence (AI), while also exploring key hardware, software and system interfaces in the technological and management processes for developing future engineering systems. It offers a truly multidisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners alike, discussing emerging issues in the field of integration of humans and engineering systems, with a special focus on (but not limited to) AI-based technologies.

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science aims to advance the science and philosophy of human-centered design. The journal focuses on a broad array of theoretical issues, methodology, and philosophical dialogues within the science of human factors and ergonomics, and is a highly respected forum for interdisciplinary discussion within this field, cutting across the design, engineering, technology, and management of human-compatible systems in the broadest sense. The Journal is proactive in its mission to develop a unique discipline, and seeks to define and promote theories of ergonomics as distinct and inherently valuable for the global knowledge community, including human factors scientists and engineers, ergonomists, industrial designers, industrial engineers, systems engineers, design engineers, cognitive and organizational psychologists, occupational health specialists and human-computer interaction specialists.Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science emphasizes new knowledge, publishing original, high-quality, peer-reviewed papers as well as commissioned reviews and peer-reviewed commentaries. Topics include both qualitative and quantitative methodological frameworks and theories of ergonomics. The Journal presents papers that discuss principles of the investigative process in ergonomics research, social and historical issues, and science of science perspectives on ergonomics. Papers that examine the discipline itself, including bibliographical analyses of classic papers, are also published.

The purpose of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries is to facilitate discovery, integration, and application of scientific knowledge about human aspects of manufacturing, and to provide a forum for worldwide dissemination of such knowledge for its application and benefit to manufacturing industries. The journal covers a broad spectrum of ergonomics and human factors issues with a focus on the design, operation and management of contemporary manufacturing systems, both in the shop floor and office environments, in the quest for manufacturing agility, i.e. enhancement and integration of human skills with hardware performance for improved market competitiveness, management of change, product and process quality, and human-system reliability. The inter- and cross-disciplinary nature of the journal allows for a wide scope of issues relevant to manufacturing system design and engineering, human resource management, social, organizational, safety, and health issues. Examples of specific subject areas of interest include: implementation of advanced manufacturing technology, human aspects of computer-aided design and engineering, work design, compensation and appraisal, selection training and education, labor-management relations, agile manufacturing and virtual companies, human factors in total quality management, prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, ergonomics of workplace, equipment and tool design, ergonomics programs, guides and standards for industry, automation safety and robot systems, human skills development and knowledge enhancing technologies, reliability, and safety and worker health issues.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6564/homepage/EditorialBoard.html

Serves as a reviewer for the peer-reviewed monthly journal, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine (ASEM) provides contact with physicians, life scientists, bioengineers, and medical specialists working in both basic medical research and in its clinical appli cations. It is the most used and cited journal in its field. It is distributed to more than 80 nations.http://www.asma.org/journal/asem-journal

The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction addresses the cognitive, creative, social, health, and ergonomic aspects of interactive computing. It emphasizes the human element in relation to the systems and contexts in which humans perform, operate, network, and communicate, including mobile apps, social media, online communities, and digital accessibility. The journal publishes original articles including reviews and reappraisals of the literature, empirical studies, and quantitative and qualitative contributions to the theories and applications of HCI.http://www.tandfonline.com/action/.VA3QOUs-U9U

http://www.potomacinstitute.net/about-us/fellows

http://www.ahfe2014.org/contacts.html

http://www.hcii2014.org/ac

Serves as External Advisory Board Member for Sandia National Laboratories' Hardware Acceleration of Adaptive Neural Algorithms (HAANA) Grand Challenge. The HAANA Grand Challenge External Advisory Board provides external and independent review and guidance to the Grand Challenge team and to the management at Sandia National Laboratories. The objective of HAANA is to develop and build the first versatile neural-inspired detection system that addresses Sandia National Laboratories’ missions in cybersecurity and remote sensing. A unique challenge in these two mission areas is the handling of intelligent threats that engage in evasive behaviors. Activity from such threats is highly dynamic, and traditional algorithms and hardware have difficulty processing and interpreting such data in real-time.

Providing subject matter expert advice "...to assess the military planning, shaping and operational activities that address potential threats to U.S. interests and strive to establish stability in critical regions of the world that do not rise to the level of full-scale military operations.”

The mission of Hire Our Heroes (HOH) is to empower veterans and employers with the knowledge, skills, and innovative tools necessary to optimize a national strategic workforce.Hire Our Heroes is an active, energetic, committed, and accomplished 503c focused on helping veterans obtain fulfilling employment as they transition from the military to the private sector. We do this through coaching, mentoring, financial support, and training.

The Brain Hackers Association is a non-profit organization; http://www.brainhackers.net. The primary mission of the Brain Hackers Association is to improve the well-being of its participants through activities that promote an awareness of brain science and the relevance of brain science to everyday activities. This objective is accomplished through a variety of activities targeting middle and high school-aged youth. In this respect, the organization advances national priorities concerning education and training in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). There is no area of science and technology that is advancing more quickly or will have more profound impacts on everyday life than brain science. The Brain Hackers Association provides services that will prepare today’s youth to prosper through an understanding and appreciation of brain processes and the relation between brain processes and the effectiveness, productivity, happiness and well-being of individuals, organizations and communities. This includes non-clinical applications of brain science with youth provided a familiarity with these developments and encouraged to become active contributors in exploring and shaping future applications of brain science. The Brain Hackers Association fills existing gaps in current STEM initiatives which are largely oriented around the physical sciences. Yet, while emphasizing brain science, engineering and technology, and the intersection between brain science and everyday applications of technology is a major theme extending across the activities of the organization. Furthermore, by focusing on brain science, as well as related behavioral, psychological and social phenomenon, the Brain Hackers Association has a greater potential to engage female youth than existing STEM initiatives, prompting and promoting their interests and enthusiasm for scientific pursuits.

The primary OSD principal for S&T programs in the Human Systems Technology area which includes the DoD programs in personnel selection, training and leadership, cognitive sciences, interface design, personnel protection, human systems integration and human performance. He also provides policy guidance to DoD components on HS technology programs; he monitors S&T planning and programming to facilitate applicable insertion into military acquisition programs supporting U.S. warfighters.

Serves as the Deputy Director, BioSystems in the Research Directorate of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) (Formerly DDR&E) with purview over the defense technology areas of human performance, medical, man-machine systems, training, civil engineering, environmental quality, and chemical and biological defense. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, management oversight, policy guidance, and coordination for over $2 billion in research and engineering (R&E) programs in the DoD to ensure that these areas are focused, relevant and quality efforts capable of satisfying defense needs. Provides executive and technical leadership and authoritative scientific and technical advice on the entire DoD effort in the area of purview to provide future forces the requisite knowledge, science and technology for critical warfighting capabilities. Provides program execution management for assigned R&E programs and serves as the senior DoD representative in relevant Federal interagency and International R&E forums, committees, boards and panels.

Responsible for coordinating actions between the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and tenant commands, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Chief of Naval Operations, as well as intergovernmental agencies and international science and technology (S&T) organizations. Additionally, as the Director of the ONR Warfighter Enhancement Program Office, Commander Schmorrow leads training and performance S&T programs advancing and transforming promising technologies into operational capabilities.

Serves as the Director of the Warfighter Enhancement Program Office and Human Systems S&T Program Manager directing cognitive, neural, bio-molecular, and biomedical science and technology research. Guides training and distributed simulation technology programs focused on advancing basic science and transforming promising technologies into operational capabilities and applications. Duties include the management of $200M+ of human systems research programs, and coordinating science and technology policy and budget issues to meet operational naval requirements. Conducts scientific review of research proposals and develops guidance to naval laboratories.

Served in the Information Technology Office and the Information Processing Technology Office creating information processing technology for new generations of intelligent systems to transform US national infrastructure to enhance global stability and for new human computer interaction technologies to enable leap-ahead human information processing capabilities. Duties included the management and acquisition program oversight of $200M+ of high risk basic and applied research and development programs in support of human-technology integration; this includes conceptualizing, planning, budgeting, staffing, directing, monitoring and execution.

Served as Chief Scientist for Human-Technology Integration in the Information Technology Division (Code 5500). Conducted human systems and information science and technology projects involving virtual environments, modeling and simulation, and decision analysis programs. Efforts included the development and implementation of research and development efforts that resulted in rapid transition of information technologies to operational users. Advised and evaluated Naval Science and Technology programs and served as strategy planner and program reviewer. Application areas included aerospace safety and maintainer error prevention, as well as the integration of commercial technology and military applications.

Appointed Assistant Professor and as the John G. Jenkins Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Cognitive Research “Psychotechnology”. Examined quantitative assessment techniques including stochastic processes, computational programming, optimization, mathematical modeling, and simulation. Integrated and applied advanced quantitative methods with current technologies to study human behavior and examined the relationship between people and technology. The areas of application areas encompassed information warfare, virtual environments, and national security. Served as an assistant professor teaching human factors, statistics, and computational methods graduate courses, as well as conducting and supervising graduate research. Developed Naval Aviation maintenance mishap models for the prioritization of intervention strategies and transformed traditional human-computer interface methodologies to the evaluation of complex synthetic environments.

Branch head of the biomedical support branch and acceleration research project officer in the crew systems department. Responsible for the development, execution, and presentation of human system integration acceleration research and project management. Responsible for the development, execution, and presentation of human factors, human performance, aviation safety, physiology, and human system integration research. Deployed to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in support of Operations in the Former Yugoslavia and performed field research involving the scientific collection of work, rest, stress, and fatigue data from flight deck crewmembers.

Taught graduate / undergraduate research methods, statistics and human factors courses. 1) Research Methods and Statistics (MAS 605). A study of current aviation research methods which includes techniques of problem identification, hypothesis formulation, design and use of data gathering instruments and data analysis.2) Human Factors in Aviation / Aerospace (MAS 604). An overview of the importance of the human role in all aspects of the aviation and aerospace industries. Emphasizes the issues, problems, and solutions of unsafe acts, attitudes, errors, and deliberate actions attributed to human behavior and the role supervisors and management personnel play in these actions. 3) Human Factors in Aviation Safety (SF 320). An examination of the major causative agent in aircraft accidents; the human being. Emphasis is placed on psychological and physiologic factors that enhance the accident probability.